"Holy Hour"

(picture curtosy of "Lost" on ABC)

I was on campus yesterday evening attending a prayer session led by one of our student leaders and afterwards many of us went to attend "Holy Hour" the Catholic Student's worship service. "Holy Hour" consisted of about 50 min of psuedo-contemporary praise songs sang by a small choir and backed by 2 guitars and a djimbae and has been a fairly good way to start building bridges between the two religious communities - however I am grateful for the discussion it opened up with one of our student leaders.

What is the role of music in ministry? What is the impact of the attitude / heart of a worsihp leader on the people? What is the connection between communal worship & our beliefs / lives? How can 'joyful praise' be a mandate in the scripture? These and more great questions are hovering in students' minds and I can't wait to explore them more.

Please pray for me tomorrow (11/29) as I will be meeting with Kale Uzzle, one of our student leaders who is also a song writter and musician and has a lot of these questions on the mind. Blessings!

And now I'm back... from outer space

Hello again! If you don't get the song reference in the title than just ignore my sillyness BUT there is reason for my happyness brothers & sisters!

It may have taken a while but I'm finally getting on campus part-time 16 hrs/week starting immediately!!! What an answer to prayers especially as last week I was about to loose it. Funding is at 54% - however, the year is 1/2 as long so the budget for the remainder of the year is lower. Hopefully, I can stay on campus by next fall if fundraising continues at the rate it has been. (Don't you love these financial projections?)

Anyway - I have taken this opportunity to distill my thoughts a bit more. Now that I can spend time on campus -- how should I spend it? Over the past couple days I have been thinking / praying about how to do this and where / what God is specifically wanting from me @ SLU. I've put it all into this neat little 1 page mission outline to keep me focused =).


In other news, I recently led a team @ Covenant Seminary to develop & deploy a Worship Service that stretches the Reformed PCA traditional practices toward a more post-modern / contemporary context. I was actually quite worried about it but things went very well in the end. Here are some comments from a few emails I recieved:

Thanks for the encouragement. I really benefited from the song selection and the way that you led--your introduction was so beneficial. It was a joy to work on this project with you.
-P, Seminary Student

Thanks. I thought the worship time was well done in all its aspects. I appreciate your work and leadership for chapel today.
-Prof. Z, Seminary Professor

You wouldn't be a good steward if your current and future ministry didn't allow you to exercise your gift of leading others in worship. I would like to hear your thoughts expressed in our class on Tuesday nights more often – I feel like you have much experience and would bring a lot to our discussions. Speak up and speak out brother!
-T, Seminary Student