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I know this is a little late (Usually Sunday wrap-ups are supposed to hit the Internet by Monday morning the latest, I know, I know) but time is just slipping from me and my humongous To-Do list does not seem to spare me any mercy viz. the tick tock of my watch. Anyways for you reader who are thirsting and hungering for my updates here goes:

1. Sunday meeting.
Sunday meeting saw us without a worship leader as our awesome Angel is in the UK at a Todd Bentley conference. When we are without a worship leader we get creative. We hooked up an iPod through the sound system and played worship songs (In our characteristic bi-lingual English/Spanish combinations of songs). The worship was actually really good! I was taken aback by this as one would expect a pretty flat praise service. On the contrary it was a very refreshing time for me, and by the looks of it for those who were there as well.

2. Presentation softare
I am playing more and more with OpenSong, the worship software that we use for presentations. I introduced announcements etc with different backgrounds which was cool, although openSong has some limitations that make want to switch. The main limitations are that although it comes with installable bible modules, you can only display one at a time. this does not particularly work for us as we would love to have a program were we could project the scriptures in English and in Spanish together. Another huge limitation is that you cannot edit slide background on the fly - you have to presrt a particular background for each song (not good enough for me).

3. Sermon: Sustaining Passion for the Lord.
I shared on a couple of points related to sustaining passion for the Lord! The new wine is bring poured out and we cannot receive it into old wineskins. I touched on joy and rejoicing and how this is key for us. The friends of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them - and the bridegroom is with and IN us! It is time for joy, even as the Kingdom is 1/3 JOY! (See: Rom 14:17). There is a shift going on in our church - some will not like it. You can get my teaching notes here.

4.  Bulletin.
You can now access our weekly church bulletin here.  This is a tool that I have begun to use (Even though we are a very small group) in roder to facilitate communication of dates and events, and also in order to help visitors get a grasp on what is going on and how we can better serve them.

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