Closing out “He Will Be Called…” with trash cans

So Chad has been playing at Lifechurch.tv Hendersonville quite a bit. He played all 4 regular services as well as 2 Christmas Eve services this weekend! Whew, it was a long one, but such a cool ending to the “He Will Be Called…” message series! It was awesome though, some pretty rocky versions of Christmas carols (and I mean ‘rock’ in a good way). He shared the stage with another electric guitarist Cian (pronounced Shawn). It’s been cool gettin’ to know some of these folks, super talented musicians, and Pastor Craig Groeschel’s messages have been solid. It was also incredible to see about 15 people make decisions to follow Christ this weekend, and over the past weeks collecting & distributing about 2,000 LifePacks to single moms and kids all over the community- packs that contained toys, clothes and cool spa type stuff for mom! Everyone has been so generous in their giving, and over 4,000 moms were blessed this Christmas. That’s about 20,000 LifePacks for moms and families given from ALL 12 of the LifeChurch campuses around the country!

Here is the set list from the weekend:

Christ Is Come – by Big Daddy Weave

God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman – Lifechurch.tv version

O Holy Night – by MercyMe

O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Lifechurch.tv version

I’m pretty proud to say that I filmed these vids on my 3-year-old Sony Cybershot 5.0 digital camera with the video feature! I’ve got a version or 2 posted on Youtube from Monday’s Christmas Eve services that for some reason look and sound a little fuzzy. But the Sunday version look and sound pretty dang good for a little camera. You can go to Youtube or watch below. And although you see a short dark-haired girl singing, alas it is not me but Lindsey Voltz who’s vocals rock, and Brandon Frazier the worship leader is pretty cool too. Oh yeah, and there’s some involvement with big metal trash cans on O Come O Come Emmanuel!

O Holy Night

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

All things Nashville

Ok, so I haven’t blogged in a while…I think Chad has blogged much more and been here less. I know, I’m lame, I’ve got plenty of things to talk about but I just haven’t gotten to it. I know people have been buggin’ me to do it (Ahem! Jill!) not mentioning any names or anything…

Thanksgiving was great. Good times with family…probably won’t see them for a while. Chad’s parents helped us move up and move in, so that was cool time spent with them.

So I love my job. Super nice people. Super nice boss, very flexible, and good at setting clear goals (“clarifying the win”). So I feel productive and feel like I’m an asset because I’m accomplishing things within a specific guideline. I’m the Marketing Assistant for a company that provides phone systems for small to medium sized business…some actually pretty cool software and techy stuff. My boss also got me and the sales girl a gift card. I got one to a new favorite restaurant of mine, Calypso Cafe. It’s a Carribbean kind of local dive with several locations…really good jerk chicken, fresh black beans and wild rice, curry-oriented foods, and a really yummy Carribbean/BBQ sauce that they make… Yum-O as Rachel Ray says!

Got an extra day paid to take in addition to Christmas day, to take whenever I want next week, so I picked Christmas Eve obviously- long weekend. We also had a pretty fun company party with games and cool prizes and cash! Yay, we needed extra cash.

Also have a new Myspace Music page up with some song samples… already got some good traffic…over 500 hits! So thanks to all who have stopped to check it out recently. Chad’s pretty handy with his Mac and was able to edit short clips of some songs I had recorded before I moved (courtesy of Kurt Masteller of Clayton, NC) as well as a couple older live recordings from Liberty days. Hopefully a good way to get my voice out there and what I can do, which in turn will bring some opportunities about as I continue networking. Chad’s also got one now to get his playing out there a bit so go check it out- myspace.com/chadkingplays

Been to some neat little local dives around downtown. I made Chad use a free ticket to go see Daughtry (hit songs “I’m Going Home” and “It’s Not Over”) at the famous Ryman Auditorium…which was cool. I’m glad he got to go. Good musicians, good stuff. Hopefully we’ll both get to catch a good show in the near future. We look forward to doing Christmas Nashville style, and I’m sure we’ll spend it with a couple friends and some of our “surrogate family.”

I will update more soon!