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Worship Confessional 08.17.08

18 August 2008 By Steve Eller In rancho vista, worship, worship confessional

Here is what happened this week:

We went unplugged (two acoustics, three vocals).
Attendance was flip flopped this week. We seemed to have more people in first service than second. I can’t seem to figure that one out. Not normal. It must be global warming.
I am finding that our church really connects with Your Name.
John gave a challenging message on Jonah 4. That like Jonah, God has given us a “NInevah” to reach.
Learned that no matter how hard I try, plugging my guitar into the “out” of my DI won’t give a good signal to the FOH . It only took me about two minutes to figure it out.

Here was the setlist:

Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Tomlin
You’re Worthy Of My Praise - Ruis
Enough - Tomlin
Your Name - Baloche
God Of This City - Bluetree
Amazed - Anderson

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Praise Rocks

18 August 2008 By Steve Eller In family, ministry, music

Our kids had the opportunity to go to a fine arts camp at First Assembly of God Church this last week, and last night had a performance which you know I had to share here. On the third song you will have to check out Cassandra singing (on the left) with a small group.

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D.C.B. In Vista, CA 08.18.08

17 August 2008 By Steve Eller In music

My wife and I are all over this. Are you going?

david crowder band, music

The Office And The Olympics #2

15 August 2008 By Steve Eller In culture

I think “murder checkers” could catch on

funny

To Click, Or Not To Click

13 August 2008 By Steve Eller In music, worship

So Tim started me thinking about using a click track. I am starting a preliminary look on how to do it on a regular basis. Now the easy way (or hard way depending on your perspective) would be for me to use my laptop to run the click. This would also give me the option of running a separate track for a backing keys part, loops, etc… This is the setup I have used in the past and it works pretty well. The only thing is that being a portable church this will just add to my setup, and believe me I don’t need anything else to setup on Sundays.

I am not counting this option out, especially since it won’t cost me a cent to use. But I also wanted to look for a small metronome/drum machine option. Here are my needs:

Enough presets to store tempos for a particular Sunday of songs
Foot pedal option to start/stop and/or step through presets
Aux input so that I would be able to run the drummers in-ear feed through it
Output to run back through our monitor board.
MIDI syncable (able to receive/send)

I started looking at the Boss DB-90 Dr. Beat Metronome and the Korg BTL1 BeatLab. This way I could let the drummer control what is going on.

Now here are my questions for you:

Do you use a click track on a regular basis for your worship band?
Do your drummers/band like it or hate it?
Problems? Benefits?

Your thoughts?

BTW: I do have a video commenting option if you would like. See the “Add Video Comment” link.

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Worship God With Part Of Your Heart

12 August 2008 By Steve Eller In worship

funny, worship

The Office And The Olympics

11 August 2008 By Steve Eller In culture

This made me crack up today. Enjoy. I can’t wait until the new season.

the office

Worship Confessional 8/10/08

10 August 2008 By Steve Eller In music, rancho vista, worship, worship confessional

Today John was teaching out of Jonah 3:1-10 as a part of his Jonah series. Good participation from the congregation, and we also had a few friends from a former church come visit.

This week my wife recorded all of the music so I have included it here in its entirety. Listen near the end of Everyday and you can hear my 7 year-old daughter singing. So cool!

Here was the set:
Salvation Is Here - Houston
Today Is The Day - Brewster/Baloche
How Great Is Our God - Tomlin
Facedown - Redman
Beautiful News - Redman
Everyday - Houston

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Productivity

09 August 2008 By Steve Eller In ministry, web

Being a worship leader and web/graphic designer at Rancho Vista Church, along with a side web design business and being a dad and husband has become a challenge to keep everything organized and synced. It can also be tough when I am paying for all my office expenses/software. So I have employed a few tools (mostly free) to keep me sane.

Here is what I am using:

Gmail (free) - I used to use a gmail imap account that was run through Apple Mail, but I thought “why use my computer to store my email when it is already stored on Google’s server?” Sometimes it takes me awhile to realize the more obvious, efficient solution.

I am looking forward to them enabling Google Gears on gmail so that I will be able to reference mail offline. They say it is coming soon.

Google Calendar (free) - I just started using this seriously in the last few days. Why did I wait so long? I love how it ties into gmail. It gives me a way to share calendars easily across platforms. I am also using busysync (trial, but I will buy, mac only) to sync Candace and my calendars for family stuff, and between ical and Google Calendar. GC is a great solution for event planning as well because you can invite anyone to a scheduled event/meeting on your calendar and require yes/no/maybe responses.

I am in the process of talking our pastor into using this as a master calendar for our staff.

Remember The Milk (free) - For a todo list I have always used the one that is inside of iCal, and for the most part it has worked fine until I ran across RTM. Shareable tasks, lists, RSS feeds. Ties into Gmail and Google Calendar via Firefox add-ons.

This is another tool I would like to implement for our staff to assign project tasks.

Thinkfree (free) and Google Docs (free) - Thinkfree offers a more MS Office experience, but can be a bit slower than Google. Both services have a word processor, spreadsheets, and presentation (Powerpoint-like) applications. Both services also include document sharing.

Planning Center Online (free for up to 10 users, other affordable monthly plans) - Worship planning like no other. There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING out there that can do what PCO does. Song chart, usage, worship service planning, people scheduling.

We are currently in the process of moving all of our Sunday morning ministries on PCO. It rocks!

What tools have helped you in being more productive?

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Firefox Is Catching Up

05 August 2008 By Steve Eller In culture, web

A couple of months I ago I was posting how I couldn’t believe that 60%+ of the people viewing this blog were using Internet Explorer. Well maybe people are starting to get the message that there are better browsers than IE. Check out where we are at now: