Articles from January 2010

We found out this past Sunday that our current Choir Director was stepping down. From what I understand he was just burned out, he’d been volunteering for the position for several years and just couldn’t keep doing it. Our church has been searching for a Music Minister/Worship Leader for a full time position for some time but we haven’t found anyone yet. Brother Andy stepping down this past Sunday should definitely put a fire under the search committee to find someone. We are a growing church with 385-450 for Sunday mornings, and we need someone that can do a traditional service or contemporary service or even a blended service. Can’t seem to please everyone……

Anyhow, if you know of someone looking for a good church to grow, we need someone. I am not on the search committee but they can send resumes to the church directly, Bethel Baptist Church.  We are really blessed at Bethel to have two great pastors on staff, we have both teen and adult praise bands already.  I really believe with the right person leading worship we could easily have over 500 for our Sunday morning services.

Random Thoughts
Our Connect service has just really been awesome lately.  Man I really hate the weeks that we don’t have it, this being one.   Tracy has done a great job with his messages and the worship has really been good.  Souled Out (Teens on Wednesday) has also been going really good, we haven’t had the biggest crowds over the winter but anytime you can get 75-90 teens to church on a Wednesday night is a great night.  Tracy has turned over the song worship duties to the teens and they have really done a great job.  Jade is really coming into his own singing.  You can hear these guys on our Youtube page.

After looking at the Grammy nominee’s I can’t believe some of these nominations.  So I decided to come up with my own list for each category.  Feel free to comment, if I can figure out how to do it I will put up a web poll.

Best Gospel Performance (Again these are my picks, my winners in bold)

• Garden – Needtobreathe (The Outsiders)
• Give Me Your Eyes – Brandon Heath (What If We)
• Soon – Hillsong United (A Cross // The_Earth: Tear Down The Walls)
• Born Again – Third Day (Revelation)
• God of This City – Chris Tomlin (Hello Love)

Best Gospel Song (Songwriter Award)

• How He Loves – John Mark McMillen (Kim Walker, David Crowder)
• Born Again – Tai Anderson, David Carr, Mark Lee & Mac Powell (Third Day)
• Give Me Your Eyes – Brandon Heath & Jason Ingram (Brandon Heath)
• Love is Here – Drew Middleton, Jason Ingram, Jason Jamison, Mike Donehey, & Philip LaRue (Tenth Avenue North)
• What Do I Know of Holy – Alli Rogers & Jenny Simmons (Addison Road)

Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album

• The Outsiders – Needtobreathe
• Revelation – Third Day
• Confessions – Pillar
• Monster – Skillet
• Crash – Decyfer Down

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

• Hope Rising – Fee
• Hello Love – Chris Tomlin
• A Cross // The_Earth: Tear Down The Walls – Hillsong United
• Over and Underneath – Tenth Avenue North
• Love Is On The Move – Leeland

I can’t comment on the other categories, I am sure someone got snubbed there as well.

The Grammy’s are this Sunday night on CBS.  Here are the nominee’s for all Gospel categories:

Best Gospel Performance
(For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.)

•Free To Be Me
Francesca Battistelli

•Jesus Is Love
Heather Headley Featuring Smokie Norful
Track from: Audience Of One

•I Believe
Jonny Lang With Fisk Jubilee Singers
Track from: Oh Happy Day

•Wait On The Lord
Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard
Track from: We All Are One (Live In Detroit)

•Born Again
Third Day
Track from: Revelation
Best Gospel Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

•Born Again
Tai Anderson, David Carr, Mark Lee & Mac Powell, songwriters (Third Day)
Track from: Revelation

•City On Our Knees
Cary Barlowe, Toby McKeehan & Jaime Moore, songwriters (TobyMac)

•Every Prayer
Dayna Caddell, Israel Houghton, Aaron Lindsey & Ricardo Sanchez, songwriters (Israel Houghton & Mary Mary)
Track from: The Power Of One

•God In Me
Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary Featuring Kierra “KiKi” Sheard)
Track from: The Sound
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•The Motions
Jason Houser, Sam Mizell & Matthew West, songwriters (Matthew West)
Track from: Something To Say
Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

•The Big Picture
Da’ T.R.U.T.H.

•Crash
Decyfer Down

•Innocence & Instinct
Red

•Live Revelations
Third Day

•The Dash
John Wells-The Tonic
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

•Speaking Louder Than Before
Jeremy Camp

•The Power Of One
Israel Houghton

•The Long Fall Back To Earth
Jars Of Clay

•Love Is On The Move
Leeland

•Freedom
Mandisa
Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

•Jason Crabb
Jason Crabb

•Dream On
Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

•The Rock
Tracy Lawrence

•In God’s Time
Barry Scott & Second Wind

•Everyday
Triumphant Quartet
Best Traditional Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

•God Don’t Never Change
Ashley Cleveland

•The Law Of Confession, Part I
Donald Lawrence & Co.

•Oh Happy Day
(Various Artists)
Bill Hearn, Ken Levitan, Ken Pennell, Jack Rovner & Cedric Thompson, producers

•The Journey Continues
The Williams Brothers

•How I Got Over
Vickie Winans
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

•Audience Of One
Heather Headley

•Renewed
Sheri Jones-Moffett

•Just James
J Moss

•Smokie Norful: Live
Smokie Norful

•Bold Right Life
Kierra Sheard

This list and more on the Grammy’s can be read at Beliefnet