We are the worship ministries (band, frontline singers and choir) of Celebration Church of Tampa, Florida and we have been chosen to change the atmosphere!!! This site is a place where the members of our team get weekly instructions about what is upcoming for services.
**I say tentative for I am still "tweaking" but this is the basic outline, subject to small changes. Please familiarize yourself with it so you have an idea of what will happen Sunday. We will have a very short amount of time to get it together before people come in the doors. Not a lot of wiggle room AT ALL. We will have to get down to business at 9 AM to ensure we're ready. Here's the plan:
Happy Birthday Jesus KidZone Kids
Welcome Pastor Deanna
Wonderful Child Medley Youth Girls
Christmas Carols PD from keyboard w/frontline & choir no band
(first verse only of each)
Joy to the World
Angels We Have Heard on High
The First Noel
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Silent Night
O Come All Ye Faithful
Gloria Choir
Scripture: Luke 2:10-14
O Rejoice Choir
Scripture: Luke 2:15-20
Silent Celebration Alex & Aida
Scripture: Isaiah 9:6-7
What Child is This? Kerry George
Little Drummer Boy Doug Rice & Band
Worship Frontline, Choir, Band
Jesus Messiah
Here I am to Worship
Worship the King
Prayer Pastor Larry
Guest Welcome Paul Fryfogle
Greeting
Announcements
Offering: Pastor Larry
Special Music: Christmas Offering Choir
Vision Offering: Pastor Larry
Special Music: Have Yourself a Merry Little Cmas PD & Savanna
Message: Pastor Larry
Colors: Your choice - stay in modesty guidelines - and dressy this Sunday
Frontline: Ashley, Minerva, Bonnie, Aida, Epi, Russell
Missions Offering special Music Pastor Deanna: The Giver & the Gift
Colors: Black and Silver/Gray/White
Many have asked me about what we are wearing Christmas Sunday and I said I'd give a decision today. (Monday) Here is the decision. (You're going to love this, I feel it in my spirit...lol) It's going to be "your choice" as far as color BUT, I am asking that we be dressy on Christmas Sunday. No jeans, capris, etc. and modesty guidelines apply.
Frontline this week:
Soprano: Naomi, Ashley Alto: Aida, Suzanne
Tenor: Epi, Russell
Once again we will go through our worship set and then do our three Christmas songs again for choir, to ensure that we are ready for Christmas week. Thanks again for a super week this past week.
Will also do verses: For He Alone Is Worthy, We’ll Give Him all the Glory
Music for Offering: PD to do Christmas song
Colors: Jeans and Christmas colors - red, green, gold or silver on top.
Frontline:
Soprano: Ashley, Naomi
Alto: Suzanne, Bonnie
Tenor: Epi, Russell
Just FYI, as I mentioned at choir practice on Sunday, we will go through our worship set and then the choir members who will be here on 12/25 will also quickly rehearse our 3 numbers for Christmas. We need some extra practice time and it's just not available right now on Sunday with other special church Christmas events going on.
It's essential to get to rehearsal on time this week, get started and get through the set so we also have choir time.
Love all of you and hope you are enjoying Christmas festivities throughout your week.
Can you believe it's December already? I love this month, and I especially going to love sharing it with you! :)
As most of you already know, my family and I are away this week having some special time...just the five of us. We've needed this and God has so graciously made a way for us to have it. However, we WILL be back with you on Sunday! We can't wait! We'll be refreshed and ready!! Thank you for praying for us this week that God will replenish, renew and restore us and draw us closer together.
Here's what we have on schedule for Sunday ~
Praise & Worship
Freedom
Deep Cries Out
You Are Good
My All/I Surrender All
Special Music for offering ~ a Christmas song by Doug Rice
Colors: Let's go with black, green, red, silver & gold ~ any or all of these in combination is fine as we embark on this December day!
Frontline:
Soprano: Minerva, Ashley
Alto: Suzanne, Bonnie
Tenor: Epi, Russell
By the way, we have choir this Sunday afternoon. This rehearsal is really important. We're going to be finalizing all of our choir songs for Christmas. Your presence is needed! Rehearsal begins at 1:30 and concludes at 3:00.
Just a tidbit of info for you ~ this week we learned our 19th song of the year for praise & worship at CC. I believe we'll cross the 20 song mark before the year's end. Thanks for a tremendous year of living and learning together.
I love and appreciate all of you more than words can say.
(You are Good - new song found in the post below.)
Special Music: I Lift My Hands
Colors: Fall colors - browns, oranges, creams, etc.
Frontline:
Soprano: Ashley, Naomi
Alto: Bonnie, Aida
Tenor: Russell, Epi
We're going to sing of God's goodness and greatness on this, the culmination of the Thanksgiving week. Let's remember all that we have to be thankful for...
We will be doing this in the key of G (originally in A)
Verse 1
Your kindness leads me to repentance
Your goodness draws me to Your side
Your mercy calls me to be like You
(And) Your favor is my delight
Every day I'll awaken my praise
And pour out a song from my heart
Chorus
You are good You are good
You are good and Your mercy is forever
You are good You are good
You are good and Your mercy is forever
Your kindness is forever
Your goodness is forever
Your mercy is forever forever
(REPEAT 5X)
*My All is new. Please see video and lyrics pre-posted.
Song for Communion: Lead me to the Cross
No choir or worship team song for offering this week
No altar music this week - PD will handle at keyboard (no band/frontline)
Colors: Your choice - stand within platform modesty guidelines
Frontline:
Soprano: Ashley & Naomi
Alto: Aida & Bonnie
Tenor: Epi & Russell
Just a reminder that we DO have choir on Sunday. We will be rehearsing Christmas music. Please listen again to everything I've posted here and on facebook. Thanks! Rehearsal starts at 1:30 pm and ends at 3:00 pm.
VERSE:
In the secret place of the Most High…it’s where I abide, it’s where I abide.
More and more I long to be by Your side. It’s where I hide. It’s where I hide.
PRE-CHORUS:
I desire You, in all I do. My soul thirsts for You. I give my all to you forever.
CHORUS:
All my worship, all my praise, I give my all, I give my all.
All my worship, all my praise, I give my all, I give my all.
BRIDGE:
Lord, I praise Your name, Lord I praise Your name, Lord I praise your holy name
Colors: Black and Gray (again! I know, I know, you looked amazing Sunday. I want a repeat for this week only - with or without jeans but make sure your other colors are black/gray. Thank you!)
Frontline:
Soprano: Minerva, Naomi
Alto: Suzanne, Bonnie
Tenor: Epi, Russell
Please be at rehearsal if at all possible by 5:45 pm. I have on schedule to do "We Speak to Nations" - if we can rehearse it to the point that it is workable. If it's proving to be too stressful within the time frame allotted or we just don't have it ready on time we will do "I Give Myself Away." We've done this song (We Speak to Nations) before but it's been a long time, a few years.
Listen to video above to familiarize yourself with it again. We will not do the exact arrangement and we will be doing it in the key of F.
If we don't have it down pat in time for Wed night we will be ahead on rehearsing this and can hopefully have it ready for Sunday morning.
I appreciate all of you and thank you for all you do...
Fantastic job on Sunday! Loved the new song. Can't wait to see what God will do this week, especially with our new choir song. It's gonna ROCK!!
Here's the line up:
Worship Set:
Our God Saves
Say So
I Will Exalt Thee
I Exalt Thee
First special music for offering: Desert Song
Second special music for offering: Faithful is Our God (Choir Song)
Colors: Jeans and blacks/grays on top - either black or gray or mixture of black and gray colors
Frontline:
Soprano: Minerva, Ashley
Alto: Aida, Suzanne
Tenor: Epi, Russell
All choir members PLEASE familiarize yourself with FAITHFUL IS OUR GOD that was posted earlier. It's not the same exact arrangement as we are doing however you need to have a basic knowledge of this for Sunday if you were not at practice this past week, and be ready for Sunday AM rehearsal. We are gonna blow the roof off with this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God
Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God
Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God
Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God
I'm reaping the harvest God promised me
Take back what the devil stole from me
And I rejoice today, for I shall recover it all
Yes, I rejoice today, for I shall recover it all
Holy, holy, holy is our God
Holy, holy, holy is our God
Holy, holy, holy is our God
Holy, holy, holy is our God
I'm reaping the harvest God promised me
Take back what the devil stole from me
And I rejoice today, for I shall recover it all
Yes, I rejoice today, for I shall recover it all
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is our God
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is our God
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is our God
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is our God
I'm reaping the harvest God promised me
Take back what the devil stole from me (repeat….)
Repeat line with just soprano
Repeat line with just alto
Repeat line with just tenor
Repeat all 3 parts again
Worship Set:
Our God Saves
Hosanna, Praise is Rising
Mighty to Save
Your Great Name
Offering: The Anthem
Colors: Black and White
Frontline: Soprano: Naomi and Minerva Alto: Bonnie & Suzanne Tenor: Epi and Russell
There's a new song above, please check it out in the post below. They opened the service with this when I was in NC a few weeks ago and I loved the song. Couldn't wait to do it here. I think you'll really like it.
Don't forget we have choir Sunday! Great job on learning the two songs last week. We will go over them again -- Angels We Have Heard on High and Christmas Offering. I will soon be posting music for the next two Christmas songs as well as another song we're going to learn for Sunday morning music on a regular basis. Please bring a bag lunch or prepare to get something quickly local and we'll get started at 1:30 pm.
As I discussed with you on Sunday we are not doing the entire CD of Hillsong, "Celebrating Christmas" - just a few songs, plus a few more from other sources. The December 25 service will include adult choir, youth fine arts choir, children's choir, ensembles, instrumental solos and more. It's going to be a great reflection of our entire CC family. Again please confirm your attendance with me asap. I do understand that some of you will be traveling and going to be with family at Christmas. That is understandable, however I just need to know so that I know how to plan for that day. Let me know asap as I am still assigning solos and selecting songs and figuring out what's what for the big day.
I am so anticipating what God has for us in the coming months! There's a great feeling in my spirit as to what's to come. We need a breakthrough on some things by the end of the year to come into our new season at CC. Will you please join with me in prayer and fasting?
Chorus 1
Our God saves
Our God saves
There is hope
In Your Name
Mourning turns
To songs of praise
Our God saves
Our God saves
Verse 1
In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Son
In the Name of the Spirit
Lord we come
We're gather'd together
To lift up Your Name
To call on our Savior
To fall on Your grace
Hear the joyful sound
Of our offering
As Your saints bow down
As Your people sing
We will rise with You
Lifted on Your wings
And the world will see that
*We're going to try Marvelous Light again, and see if we can get it ready for Sunday morning. Please keep listening to it from the post a few down from this, and be ready.
Colors: Your choice, modesty guidelines apply
Frontline: Soprano: Naomi, Ashley
Alto: Bonnie, Suzanne
Tenor: Epi and Russell
Don't forget, this weekend is CHOIR PRACTICE. We will start on Christmas music. We are singing songs from the Hillsong CD, "CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS" (2006) and we will start with the song, "Angels We Have Heard on High" which is the first song on the track. If you have an IPOD or can download this song on your computer, please do so. Or, listen here:
Please bring a bag lunch on Sunday or prepare to get something quickly from around the area and be back by rehearsal at 1:30 PM.
Most of all let's be prayed up and expecting God to do something significant in people's lives in our service Sunday.
Song for Communion: In Christ Alone/The Solid Rock Chorus Only
Special Music: How He Loves
Altar Time: Moving Forward
Colors: Blacks and Browns
Frontline:
Soprano: Minerva, Ashley
Alto: Aida, Bonnie
Tenor: Epi and Russell
Well, I'm in North Carolina again! I'm preaching for the second conference this month of the North Carolina District AG Women's Ministries. Please keep me in prayer for anointing, and safe travels. I will be back for Sunday though. Flying in real late Saturday night.
I'll see all of you on Sunday morning! It's going to be a great day!
**I'm posting this a few weeks early so you can get a head start on listening and learning. Please note although this song is written/performed by Charlie Hall in the key of B we will be doing it in the key of F.
Chorus 1
Into marvelous light I'm running
Out of darkness out of shame
Through the cross You are the truth
You are the life You are the way
Verse 1
I once was fatherless
A stranger with no hope
Your kindness wakened me
Wakened me from my sleep now
Your love it beckons deeply
A call to come and die
By grace now I will come
And take this life take Your life
Verse 2
My dead heart now is beating
My deepest stains now clean
Your breath fills up my lungs
Now I'm free now I'm free
My dead heart now is beating
My deepest stains now clean
Your breath fills up my lungs
Now I'm free now I'm free
Misc 2
(SPOKEN WORDS)
There's no more shame
No more shame
And now we show the world
Christ in you
Misc 3
(BRIDGE)
Lift my hands and spin around
See the light that I have found
Oh the marvelous light marvelous light
It's Christ in you
Lift my hands and spin around
See the light that I have found
Oh the marvelous light marvelous light
Misc
Sin has lost its power
Death has lost its sting
From the grave You've risen
Victoriously
Pastor Adam enjoys the slide after all the kids went home from the Fall Connection.
Wow! What a day Sunday! Despite the rain it was a stellar day!!! Thank you for the part you played in this amazing day. You are all loved & appreciated!!
Here's what's happening this week:
Worship Set:
Hosanna, Praise is Rising
Deep Cries Out
Give Me Faith
Here in Your Presence
Please keep me in special prayer this week. I will be in North Carolina Thursday - Saturday this week and next, as the main speaker for the North Carolina District (AG) Women's Breakaway Conference. I covet your prayers, for these ladies - that they receive all that God has for them.
I'll be flying back late Saturday night when the event is over. See you Sunday morning!
Let me get the things that pertain to the actual worship set out of the way and then I'll go on to give additional instruction.
This is going to be a HUGE week.
We are not doing any new material this week -- we need to do some of our material that is our best - what I would consider our tightest stuff, and come prepared spiritually and musically with our game on. Please be ON TIME - I would like THE ENTIRE TEAM there at 8 am, to be prepped for this day. We need to go over our set, get it SUPER TIGHT and have time to pray and get ourselves fully engaged for this day.
Worship Set:
Say So
My Savior Lives
Our God
Waiting Here For You
Offering #1: Choir Song - "We Lift You Up" (from Give Him the Praise) Offering #2: I Will Exalt You/I Exalt Thee
Altar Time: Moving Forward & I Lift My Hands
Dress/Colors: I would ask that the entire team wear BLUE jeans this coming week. It's a casual day with dinner on the grounds. The one thing I'd like the same is for us to have blue jeans on bottom, as far as on the top, it's your choice but MODESTY is the word of the day. No b's (boobs, butts, bellies or backs.) Ladies, we can dress up our jeans with some cute heels/shoes, and then change after service to go outside.
Note: There's a bounce house and 18 ft. water slide we've rented for the day so if you want to change to shorts or bathing suit after church you are welcome to do that. Please remember towels!
As far as frontline, Suzanne is out of town this week. That leaves us with seven frontline folks left and I'd like to use all of you this week and cord a few mics if we have to. So everyone come prepared for frontline this week only, please. Next week we'll go back to scheduling.
Now, other things to note...
When you come to church Sunday morning please park your cars in the back by the playground/trailers, etc. We are asking the entire worship ministries team and leadership team to park back there for Sunday. We believe we will need the parking and may even have to have people park cross the street at the credit union.
Also when you get ready for worship service to begin please don't put your purses and bibles, etc. on the chairs in the sanctuary to save a seat for when you are done with worship. We are fully expecting that it might be a possibility that Celebrators have to stand on Sunday morning. If so we will take the lead in doing so. In the event that we can't fit in the sanctuary overflow will be Sanctuary A and the Choir Room. Every available sanctuary chair has been taken out of storage and set up for this day. In the event that we have run out of chairs, Pastor Larry should not have to ask anyone to stand. All of our CC people should just make a move to do so without him asking.
When you come in for rehearsal please take your food that you brought for the day and put it in the kitchen. The refrigerators will be cleaned out for this purpose. If you have any question regarding food, you can see Sue Flint, coordinator of food for the day.
We are asking that once the service begins, no Celebrators leave the sanctuary UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. If you can possibly hold it after worship, please wait until service dismisses to go out. Not only is leaving a distraction but it lets the air out of the sanctuary.
Most of all, pray, pray,pray about this day! And then pray some more!
And the weeks just keep gettin' better and better! Can't wait to see what God unfolds this week.
By the way, speaking of unfolding, HOW ABOUT THE SCREEN ON THE BACK WALL??! AMAZING!!! This is much appreciated. I didn't announce Sunday as the person who did it requested to be anonymous, but we sure do appreciate it. WONDERFUL!!!
Here's what's happening this week:
Sunday Morning Set:
Great God (new song - see below)
Deep Cries Out
Waiting Here For You
I Will Exalt You
I Exalt Thee
Song for Offering: Your Great Name
Colors for this week: your choice just stay within platform guidelines
**Note: My favorite version of this song is by Free Chapel but I couldn't find it on YouTube. This will give you the basics of the song. Please note it's written in "D" but we are going to sing it one key lower in "C".
Great God
Verse 1
Great are Your ways
Great are Your works
Great are You Lord in all the earth
Great is Your power
Great is Your strength
Great are You Lord and greatly to be praised
Misc 1
(PRE-CHORUS)
Your greatness
Your famous name is exalted in all the earth
Chorus 1
Glory glory hallelujah
Glory to the God of Israel
Glory glory hallelujah
All the earth will sing that You're a great God
Misc 2
(BRIDGE)
We won't stop till the whole world knows
We won't stop till the whole world knows
We won't stop till the whole world knows
That You're a great God great God woh woh
(REPEAT 4X)
Misc 3
(ENDING)
Woh woh
Great God great God
Woh woh
This Sunday is our special 9/11 Memorial Service. Please be in prayer about all of the details coming together for this day. We are only a few days away and much is still needed to bring this together.
The worship set is shortened just a bit to have time for the other special presentations that will occur in the service. In addition to an interview with John Torres who was on the scene at 9/11 Ground Zero, we will also have some special music.
Worship Set:
Again I Say Rejoice
Our God
Waiting Here for You
Offering: I Lift My Hands to Believe Again
Frontline:
Soprano: Ashley, Naomi
Alto: Aida, Suzanne
Tenor: Epi, Russell
Special music is taken care of through people I have spoken to directly already about this day. All that the band, frontline and choir need be concerned about for this day as far as music is above.
Colors: Please wear blue jeans and a choice of red, white or blue shirt for this day.
Be in much prayer that the invitations that have gone out to police, firefighters and rescue workers will bring much fruit and that we will be able to bless many who serve our community.
