Weird, but good, Worship

On Sunday morning, Emily and I had the opportunity to be a part of the worship service at Epworth Forest's Fall Youth Rally. The youth rally is a gathering of United Methodist youth from the North Indiana Conference.

It was a rather interesting morning! Emily led the praise and worship music (something she found out she'd be doing at 7am on Sunday). Of course, she did a wonderful job! She has such a beautiful voice and a sweet spirit! But, during the first song, the words somehow stopped appearing on the screens. During the second song...no words. Luckily, each of these songs were ones the students were familiar with. By the time we got to the third song, the tech guys solved whatever the problem was and got the words back on the screen. The students, even with the tech problems, were totally into the worship...singing their little hearts out!

Then, during my teaching, we again experienced some tech problems. My presentation was there, then it wasn't. One minute it would appear, then vanish, then re-appear. It was a bit frustrating! Yet, at the same time, I believe God did some great things during our worship!

I was very encouraged as several people came and talked to me after the service and shared words of encouragement. I had a couple people ask me if our church had a service like what we did on Sunday morning at the rally. At that moment, I had to be honest and say, "Not really." We did a total contemporary service on Sunday morning at the rally...and, we don't have that at Center Chapel (hopefully the updated site will be uploaded soon). So, that was a little disappointing...to realize that we don't offer what some people are looking for...

I know Emily experienced some encouraging words as well! The director of outdoor ministries really enjoyed her worship leading...commenting that she had a wonderful voice (because she does)!

Honestly, in the midst of frustrating tech problems, God moved! As Emily pointed out, we were a part of that worship service for a reason! God will use that service to bring something about in the lives of those who were there.