Less than a week til retreat! Hope you guys have some idea in mind of who's on your team and what songs you'll be playing. If you do this last minute, it'll probably create quite a lot of problems for Angelo since he's typing them up on the computer and putting them together.

 

Angelo needs your lyrics by WEDNESDAY at the LATEST. Him and I have already filled out an equipment form for all the mics and mic chords and guitars and lovely things like that. Please don't make us both worry by procrastinating and waiting until the DAY that you're actually playing to pick songs.

 

Again, I don't know if there'll be a copier at May retreat, so if you haven't even picked out your songs yet... find them online (pretty easy to do, check www.pwarchive.com or google it) and either print out as many copies as you need on your own printer (i know you're asian but get over it ;D) orrr if you can come by church sometime this week and copy it then.

 

PLEASE don't procrastinate or else we'll come to retreat and not have a worship team or worship set and that wouldn't be too pretty.

 

I'm gonna ask around for the new schedule so you can know the exact times that you're doing it, but again,

 

Tina and Shannon have the Saturday night set

Lydia and Carolyn have Sunday morning set

and the fourth will hopefully be a mix of us all. (I'll try to come up with a list)

 

MAKE SURE you all have teams together and make sure they're goin to retreat. As for your practice times, either during a bit of freetime if your worship set is after that, or tell your members to eat their meals fast and speed over so you can have a solid 45 min or hour to practice.

 

I know the bulk of you (or maybe all of you, for that matter) are new to playing for worship for May Retreat. Heck, so am I. So make up for that by being more prepared please. Keep in mind that this year's theme is Healing and Being Whole Again, so try to include a song or two reflecting that.

 

And PLEASE make sure that you all bring the guitars that you need, and that you remember the music!!

 

Hope you all have an awesome week full of SLEEPING in (the majority of you, anyways.) Perhaps use some of that extra time to work on your set? Please? =)

 

Okay. So in case you're ADD and didn't read any of that, here's a summary in nice big bold letters:

 

-HAVE YOUR WORSHIP SET PREPARED AHEAD OF TIME, AND EMAIL THE LYRICS TO ANGELO NO LATER THAN, AND PREFERABLY BEFORE, WEDNESDAY. (his email is angelo94@yahoo.com)

-THINK OF A PRACTICE TIME TO FIT IN BEFORE YOUR SET. (most worship sets are after a meal, so eat fast and hurry along to practice!)

-MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH GUITARS AND NOTIFY PEOPLE TO BRING THEM IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE.

 

Please, please, pleaseee do not procrastinate on this. Think about your set this week, contact your co-leader like tomorrow or the day after at the latest, and figure this all out. Yeah, it's kinda frustrating sometimes to actually have responsibility now during our retreats (I remember just last year, most of us didn't even know how to play guitar, let alone lead worship =P and we didn't have to do much, just sit down and soak it in. well this year is different and a lot of you guys are steppin up, growing up, maturing, and it's pretty awesome to see =D) so yeah you have more on your minds and you have more to do, but please don't hold off on this and wait til it's too late and you gotta rush through everything (we probably won't have the worship binders with us at retreat, either, so if you don't prepare this weekkkk good luck haha)

 

here's a verse that's been helping me when I feel like I'm overwhelmed with a little more responsibility than I'm used to, and I start doing things because I HAVE to do them and not because I WANT to:

 

 

Just keep that in mind while you're planning this week. And whenever you feel like you suddenly have so much responsibility on your shoulders that you're not used to. I'll be praying for you leaders.

 

See you all at retreat! Get ready for big things to happen. =)

 

Your fellow leader,

Carolyn

Just posting up the latest info from email for the worship practice this weekend, which is Mother's Day. So please remember to get up early, clean the house, and cook breakfast for your moms who have sacrificed so much to raise you into the young men and women you are today. Moms are something...they put up with you for 9 months kicking around, then go through 12 hours (estimate?) of labor (it's called LABOR for a reason) to get you out, and they still love us. =P And don't forget to thank God especially for giving us mothers to nurture us. Anyway, I know you're all pretty busy this week, so hang in there! Wish you the best on AP's, IB's, finals, whatevers...before you know it we'll all be summer lovin. =) Take care this week.

Brian

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hey everyone!

sorry, but there's going to be one last, final change-- last, i promise =) okay, so there's the finals for the GMC Tourny at CBC so... they will be done around 7:30-- at which time we're gonna start our practice ASAP, as soon as everyone's ready. I would like to say practice is from 7:30-9:30, but prepare to maybe finish at 10pm if the tourny goes overtime? Is this okay with everyone? Let me know if it's not and if rides are needed. Okay, so everyone please get here at 7:30-- if the game isn't done then we'll just watch and support the others until they are =) Practice will be in the sanctuary. I'll get you guys the song list this saturday when we practice, but it'll be 4-5 songs. To give you guys the whole picture, here's what hapenning:

Guitar/Sing: Kim
Guitar: Carolyn
Sing: Shannon
Sing: Lydia
Sing: Matt
Drums: Derek

Will, J, Alex, and Brian-- could you guys maybe swing by and help us with sound? If you guys can't make it, it's ok, but I just wanted to see if at least someone could help us out with sound/setups. It's open for whoever wants to come-- did i get brian's email right? I think he has a gmail, but I don't have it...

Please let me know if you can't make it ASAP! Thanks guys, and sorry for switching the times on you so much! Good luck with the rest of testing (if you've got any!) See you guys Friday =)