The Winner Of American Idol
April 30th, 2008
I am calling it. David Cook will win this season of American Idol. Great voice, nice arrangements.
An All-Time Favorite Band
April 19th, 2008
One of my favorite bands of all-time is Whiteheart. They broke up in the mid-90’s and I thought I would never hear from them again. But in my wanderings around the net I found this video. This is an excerpt from a 2006 reunion mini-concert that included some of its best players - Rick Florian, Mark Gershmel, Gordon Kennedy, Tommy Sims, John Knox, and Billy Smiley. Are you kidding me? These guys can still rock!
Whiteheart Live Reunion Concert - Freedom
Worship Confessional 4.6.08
April 7th, 2008
Kid’s Camp Video Highlights 3.18.08
March 18th, 2008
I did manage to get some video from today. During the first worship set the wifi was really weak and it kept disconnecting, so I moved a few feet and it worked. A little distorted because I am not too far away from the speakers. But the kids are so loud they distort the recording, and I have no control of that. I will try and lower the recording volume a little tomorrow. Check back tomorrow at 9:00 and 11:30am Pacific time.
Kid’s Camp Cam
March 17th, 2008
I found a wifi connection at kid’s camp and I decided to try out a little fun with ustream.tv. If I can keep this connection I will try to stream some of the worship for our camp. Check back Mon-Fri of this week at 9a and 11:30am. We will see if this works.
My Worshiping Family
March 13th, 2008
You will enjoy this!! I am doing a kid’s camp next week and I needed to create a track for this song. So…..I went a little overboard.
Everything sung and played on this was by an Eller, and recorded in our home studio. Yes that is my wife, 7 year-old daughter, and 4 year-old son on the background vocals. Too much fun.
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Easter Setlist
March 13th, 2008
I finally have our Easter setlist picked.
Happy Day (Hughes)
All Because Of Jesus (Fee)
You Are Good (Houghton)
Mighty To Save (Morgan)
Amazed (Anderson)
My Savior Lives (Egan)
And can you say confetti cannons! 
What Are You Doing For Easter?
February 28th, 2008
I know I don’t have as many worship leader/pastors visiting my blog as they used to, but I wanted to run this up the flagpole anyway.
I am curious to know what musica are you planning on using this Easter?
Tim Hughes @ Horizon CF
February 20th, 2008
Me and some from our team were able to go see Tim Hughes tonight. An awesome night of worship and encouraging teaching. Refreshment, ahhhh!!
God Of This City
February 20th, 2008
There are certain times in leading worship that you are so aware a song is being used to connect people to God in a big way. This was the case this past weekend. We introduced “God Of This City”, and wow, did it connect! We had people calling our pastor after church. That is God, not me!
I had shared with our church about how the song was written. If you haven’t heard it, it is a powerful testimony (from Bluetree) of God breathing into a song, and into a community. It was a prayer for a community in need of God. This tied in so well with our Revolution series. It is also my prayer for our church, that as we discover the change God brings about in our own lives, we might begin to pray for a revolution in our community of Chula Vista and see what God can do!
Here is an excerpt from the interview with Bluetree:
“There’s a couple from Carrickfergus, Ian and Leslie, and they moved out to Thailand to a place called Pattaya. We got asked to go and be part of an event called Pattaya Praise. Pattaya is a seaside town/resort place, and physically, it looks to be like the darkest place you’ll ever go to. And spiritually, it is THE darkest place we have ever been to. You just feel the evil. You just feel the enemy all over that place. It’s a very small place. . . But in that small area in Thailand, there are 30,000 prostitutes and that figure excludes kids and excludes anything that’s outside of the range of, say 18-30, and who are female. . .
Part of what we were asked to do was to go out and be part of an event which runs for four or five days. It had things like 24/7 worship and prayer and social action going on helping the people who clean the streets every morning. We played in a school and ministered in an orphanage and tried to get a heart for that city. As a band we were getting cold feet because we had four days in Bangkok to start, and in those four days it was great. We’d be quite hyperactive, and it was flat-out, four days; not an hour was lost to sleep in those four days. On the Sunday we managed to play in one church and it was brilliant, but we wanted more. And then when we got to Pattaya . . . we said, ‘If you can get us anywhere else to play, anywhere, we want to play. We just want to do what we do in the middle of somewhere and just go head-on into it.”
“There was a bar called The Climax Bar - on a street that’s about 10 metres wide, it’s a kilometre long and it’s filled with everything you can physically imagine. And I promise you, as a red-blooded male, to keep your head in the right place you’ve got to look down at the ground and walk down that street and pray because it is just so in your face. People hit you with menus about everything, flashing lights, just everything you can imagine goes on in that place. You see kids as young as eight, nine, 10, just selling themselves, you know?! You see 60-year-old guys walking down the street with two 13 or 14-year-old girls. Forget about the Christian thing, you just get raging! You properly get raging when you see that happening, you know?!”
. . . We got the chance to play in this bar, a two-hour worship set in this bar. I don’t think the people in the bar spoke a word of English but we basically got to go in. The deal was that we play and we bring a following of people with us; so we’re there, set up, really good gear! So we all set up and there was like 20 Christians all standing in front of us, and the deal was we play, they buy lots of drinks, alright? I don’t think the place has ever sold so much Coke in its whole life in one night!
And we got to play for two hours. And just the way the band set up, we like using loops, and at one point I just started singing out. I started singing “Greater Things”, something along those lines, almost prophesying over the city. And without going into the band dynamics, slowly this groove emerged from this thing. And long story short; we walked out of that Climax Bar with pretty much a nailed song, as strange as that sounds. Then we were on the way home.We were all. . .it was that tumbleweed silence, you know? It was like, ‘What actually just happened in that time?!’ It was one of the most powerful worship experiences we’ve ever had. I actually remember looking out, and you’re looking down a wee alleyway, into the street, and it was just 50 or 60 probably British tourists and they’re just sitting there listening going, ‘What is this all about?’ Coming from The Climax Bar which is pretty much a strip club. Just, here we are singing about Jesus in the middle of this. . . It was one of the most random experiences but it was a God thing, God was there.”
