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This past week was VBS here at OMPC.  We had almost 600 kids, and another 225+ adult volunteers helping to make the week a huge success.  It's great to see so many different staff and ministries come together to help pull the week off! This week Bob preached through Acts 12:1-17 - on mystery.  As I contemplated and planned the worship set - the idea of mystery took my thoughts to amazement, which then led me to I Stand Amazed, and from there I built the rest of the set.  I'm amazed at the mystery of God's pursuit of me despite…

It was great to be back at OMPC yesterday.  Such a great privilege to worship alongside this great congregation.  Yesterday was one our "we don't normally have this musical style" with a fiddle, acoustic guitar only, and hollow body bass along with some percussion. We opened yesterday with Here For You After the call to worship we sang Jesus, Reckless Love, What a Beautiful Name and Lord I Need You Our offering song was a new tune for OMPC called He Will Hold Me Fast from the Gettys.

I failed to do a recap for last Sunday - but hey, i took a day of vacation... For those of you curious - Jeff Sauceda led worship for me, so very talented and SO capable of stepping in and leading so well They opened with O 4 a 1000 Tongues with the Crowder chorus After the call to worship they sang Joyful, Unstoppable God and O Come to the Altar The offering song was a new tune for OMPC called Lion and the Lamb  

We heard yesterday from Micah McElveen of Vapor Ministries about his testimony and the work Vapor is doing in Haiti to restore and transform the most impoverished communities.  Yesterday was also Pentecost Sunday - the day we celebrate the sending of the Holy Spirit. We opened yesterday with All My Fountains  with an appropriate chorus for Pentecost "open the Heavens - come living water..." After the call to worship we sang Soul on Fire, Immortal Invisible God Only Wise, Never Once and Great Are You Lord Our offering song was Holy Spirit led by Carlee Green Join us this Sunday for only ONE worship service at…

Yesterday was Mother's Day and our traditional "kids lead worship" Sunday - where our Kids choir, supplemented by anyone from the gym that wants to join in, leads us in worship (taking the place of our typical praise team).  It's always so fun, and a great reminder of the child-like faith, simplicity, and abandon that we're called to in worship. We opened yesterday with a Jana Alayra song called Treasure Quest After the call to worship we sang Victory in Jesus, By Faith, Here I Am to Worship and Lay it Down Our offering song was a Mother's Day song that my wife…

Yesterday was a "show up and sing" choir Sunday - as we've done the past few years on this Sunday (*this Sunday being a late-spring sunday where we haven't had weekly choir rehearsals).  We had a great turnout - so much so that it's probably time to start bringing out another section of risers.  Always a great problem to have! We opened yesterday with Even So Come After the call to worship we sang Everlasting God, Good Good Father, Praise to the Lord the Almighty and Waiting Here for You Our offering song was the new-ish tune from Matt Maher called Your Love Defends Me

Yesterday was the final Sunday of April, and also the concluding day of our Women's Beach Retreat - so many dads were thrilled that their wives were on the way home!  Bob also continued his series in the Book of Acts with Acts 9 - Saul's conversion. We opened with Glorious Day After the call to worship we sang Your Grace is Enough, The Same Love, Come Thou Fount and Reckless Love Our offering song was Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) If you're in choir - join us this coming Sunday for "Show Up and Sing" Sunday!  We'll have a brief runthrough at 9:45 and then…

We're almost to the end of April, hard as that may be to believe.  Quite a few of our ladies are leaving this week to go on the OMPC Beach Retreat, our kids are leading in worship for Mother's day, and VBS is right around the corner during the first full week in June.  Check out our website for a full listing of all the activities planned for the next few months! We opened yesterday with Unstoppable God. After the call to worship we sang Relentless, Jesus Only Jesus, Abide with Me and You Never Let Go Our offering song was a repeat from…

We don't have our typical Monday morning recap this week as yesterday was our Kids Choir presentation of "Esther-Ordinary Faith" - our spring musical that they've been working on since August. I'll post the video here to the blog later this week if you'd like to watch it again - but allow me to encourage you to think about involving your kids in music if they're not already! I wrote this post 8 years ago, and really nothing has changed... It's unique to find a church that places an emphasis on music in children, but it's so key.  Involving your…

We were back to our sermon series on Acts yesterday as Bob continued preaching through Acts 7 - Stephen's speech.  We also celebrated the sacrament of the Lord's Supper - as we typically do on the 2nd Sunday of the month. We opened yesterday with Glorious Day - a tune we've done several times (at the 10:45 service) and also included in our "Not Really Palm Sunday" service "Forgiven."  If you'd like to worship through those songs again - you can find them here After the call to worship we sang You Lifted Me Out, How He Loves, Be Still My Soul and Great…