An additional Sunday Setlist post today, as we hosted a multi-church worship service Sunday evening…
The Concept:
Our church is part of an affiliation of churches called Converge Worldwide; and regionally, we are part of Converge PacWest (CPW). A few months ago, I was at a local conference and thought about how cool it would be to have a worship service for the seven CPW churches in our local San Jose area.
I shared my vision with our church elders and BOOM – off I went…dreaming and planning!
A cool addition to the original concept was the taking of a love offering for a local, non-church, community need [Holy Spirit-inspired...thanks Eric!].
This past Sunday, we had our first Evening of Worship!
The Setlist:
- Everlasting God [Brown, Riley]
- Our God [Myrin, Redman, Reeves, Tomlin]
- How Great is Our God [Cash, Reeves, Tomlin]
- Mighty to Save [Fielding, Morgan]
- Nothing But the Blood [Lowrey]
- To The Cross [Baloche, Ingram]
- Revelation Song [Riddle]
- God of this City [Bleakley, Aaron, Comfort, Jordan, Kernaghan, McCann]
Planning Center Online order.
The Recap:
We pulled in people from four churches to form the worship band – it really sounded cool! Most of the songs were familiar, though Our God and To the Cross were new for some. I was curious how it would sound, given that many churches do similar songs, but in a slightly custom way – given their own “sound and culture”. The Holy Spirit simply work it – we all found our groove and it was like we’d been playing together for a while.
We met on our church lawn under a tent that had been rented for a Friday-afternoon wedding. Pretty cool to worship, pray, share Communion, and fellowship out there in a relaxed atmosphere. That morning, one of our church elders shared how, as he’d been praying for the service, he’d sensed that Jesus would be there lounging with us as we worshiped Him. I think people were able to relax, worship, and enjoy God and His people.
The 1.5 hours seemed to quickly slip away…the service really flowed. By design, the various movements were: Awesome, Holy God > DEVOTIONAL > Personal, Loving God > COMMUNION > Our Responsive Worship: Exaltation & Missional > LOVE OFFERING > SENDING OUT. We involved four pastors from the various churches in portions of the service.
As mentioned above, we took a love offering for a local Catholic charity’s “Pack-a-Back” program – which benefits low-income children in the area. Those who attended gave $420 – enough to give 14 kids a new backpack and supplies for the start of the school year. AMEN!
All in all, it was a great service! Other than a broken guitar string during during the FIRST SONG (!), I thought it went well [glad Frank brought two guitars]! I’m looking forward to doing more of these Evening of Worship events at some of the other seven churches – I think my fellow worship leaders are as well. My heart was pretty full – though my body was tired!
Our next Evening of Worship is August 22 and will be a free concert “on the green” by PAGE CXVI. I’m pretty excited to host them! If you’re reading this and are located in the San Jose area (or will happen to be here), come out on August 22, bring a lawn chair or blanket and worship with us!

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