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Set List For May 29/30

Run - Hillsong
Freedom Is Here - Hillsong United
Revelation Song - Kim Walker/Jesus Culture Version
You Hold Me Now - Hillsong

Offering:
Believe - The Bravery

Set List for May 22/23

We're always looking to try new and creative things with our services. One of the ways we did that this weekend was musically. We stripped the stage and went with a Meck version of acousic!

Here's the band and instruments:
Acoustic Guitars: Andrew, Steven and Charlie
Ukulele: Joseph
Cajon, Shaker, Agogo: Ray
Small Kit: Taylor
Bass: Lane
Keys, Melodica, Harmonium: Rick
Vocals: Charlie, Rachel, Steven

Worship Set:
Freedom is Here - Hillsong United
Salvation Is Here - Passion/Fee
Hosanna - Hillsong United
Grace - Gompers

Offering:
Creed - our version based on that by Rich Mullins

Set List for May 15/16

Say, Say - Kristian Stanfill

Stronger - Hillsong

From the Inside Out - Hillsongs United

What If - Nichole Nordeman

Set List for May 8/9

Cannons - Phil Wickham

No One Greater/Stand - Fee

Doxology

Run - Hillsong

Offering:

I Still Believe - The Call

If they'll do this for pizza...

We just watched this video at a staff meeting this morning and asked ourselves that question: If Domino's will do this to get someone to try a pizza, what are we willing to do to get someone to 'try' Christ? To give the church a chance?

What about the "church holdouts" who we connect with daily? Maybe we can't go after everyone with billboards and airplane banners, I'm guessing that would get costly real fast.

BUT...

We can invest in the lives of the people we come in contact with every day.
And we can invite them to church.

What's even better? Each week we're striving to craft an experience that is perfect for someone who is a holdout! We have the collective forces, resources, talents and passions of the most powerful movement on the planet - the church - coming together to do one thing: make God known to a lost and dying world.

But what if we're the ones holding out? What if the 'church holdouts' are only holdouts, because the church-goers are holding out on an invitation to experience something bigger, something stronger, something deeper, something that's missing in the lives of our neighbors and friends? What if we're holding out on letting others know about the grace we've experienced, the love we've been shown?

Maybe you're thinking it won't work with your friends.
Maybe you're thinking the church and it's message wouldn't be relevant to them.

Here's a little statistic to blow up that theory:
77% of those in attendance at our last TeamLife class were unchurched prior to coming to Meck.

77%

What we're striving to do as a church isn't mythical or something we're hoping to achieve - it's happening. It's working. It's reality. We're reaching the lost with the message of Christ. Marriages are being restored. Children are learning to pray. Lives are being changed...forever.

So, again, I ask the question...If Domino's will do that for pizza, what will you do for Christ?

Set List for May 1/2

You Hold Me Now - Hillsong
Here Is Our King - DCB
All Because Of Jesus - Steve Fee

My Glorious - Passion/Chris Tomlin

and if you missed week one of the new series "Can I believe?". What were you thinking!?!? Don't miss next week!