This week our Next Generation Pastor, Dave MacNeill, spoke on service and showed us all why volunteers are so important.

What if Pastors did everything? from Paul Haugen on Vimeo.

This weekend, some of the band and I got to participate in the Christian Music Awards at Warnors Theatre and it was a blast!  There was a lot of chaos surrounding this whole thing, from a last minute change of venues to call times that weren’t exactly accurate, but all in all, it was a great experience.  We came in third place, which we’re all pretty happy about and got to meet a lot of really great people!

Here’s a recap of the experience, including the song we played (one of my originals) in about 8 minutes!

For those of you interested in seeing the entire event, it will be broadcast on the Gospel Music Channel at 9 pm on Saturday, September 20th.

Ever wonder what happens before the service starts on Saturday?

Well I’m gonna show you anyway!

So on Arpil 6th, we had our first ever worship night here at Clovis Hills.  It was amazing!  All of us who were there were moved in a really special way by God.  We’re doing another one on Sunday night, June 22nd.  If you missed it, you will not want to miss the next one!

 Here’s a little sample of what went down.

Thanks to Deanna Pellerin for putting this together.

This weekend was somewhat of an auspicious weekend for me, as it marked the first time I used my new electric guitar.

To say the least, I was pretty excited. The band was locked in and aside from some early adjustments to the new “axe,” I was feeling pretty good. In fact, after the 9 am service on Sunday, Kimberly said that she thought this was the best she’s felt during a set ever! Just so you know, it’s a good thing when your boss is happy with your work.

By the third service, I was getting a little cocky and even remember looking out and seeing Dana and Allen in the crowd and thinking, “yeah, look who’s rockin’ with the big boys now!” Everything was going great; that is, until “Sing to the King.” I started it as usual and Kimberly did the first verse and then as we repeated the first verse, things started to get hairy. Something just wasn’t right. I’m the music director and so it’s my job to look around and figure it out. Frank’s doing fine, Robert’s locked in on drums, Alan’s not playing because he hears it to, Mesha’s plugging away and Paul…well, I had my capo on the wrong fret. I had started the song in the wrong key and now there was nothing I could do. This all seems a bit jumbled and you may not understand what I’m saying. Let me show you:

Of course, my major disaster has to happen on the one weekend when Kevin McGill is video taping the service!

The other guitar players in the band like to give me a hard time for using a capo, but generally, I get it right. I’ll never hear the end of this one!

This weekend was amazing! Our team of staff and volunteers worked hard and saw God do some amazing things! We had a Good Friday service with nearly 300 people worship together and then three Easter services that saw over 3,000 people step on campus and over a hundred indicate decisions to receive Christ or rededicate their lives. Here are just a few of the highlights.