Worship Connect report

We had a great time at LST's Worship Connect Summer School in the beginning of September.  Ten sessions with the guys on the 'Planning and leading engaging worship' stream helped us go deep, and it was fantastic to see people grow and develop.  We also witnessed some really varied worship, including Taize, visual, simple acoustic and the uber-creative King Cave Project's jazz eucharist.

Lots of people were asking for song/resource lists, so here goes:

• We led the first session with - Sam's 'Come you thankful', the 'Blessed be intro/liturgy' and then singing 'Blessed be', and Matt Redman's new 'Bless the Lord' which became something of a theme song for the conference.
• On the tuesday evening we led a celebration session, starting with Mark Earey's 'In the beginning' liturgy.  This flowed into singing 'Immortal Invisible' with drum'n'bass-inspired music (the chords were C /// D/C /// G/B /// Em/// x3, Am /// Bm /// C/D ///) and using the Jubilate words.  Then we did 'Praise is rising', looked at some images of Jesus and sang our version of 'Meekness and Majesty' (email me for the chords).  'He's My Saviour' (free on RESOUNDworship.org) proved itself once again as a fantastic way of getting people involved as they shouted out their own ideas for verses, and then we sang 'Bless the Lord' again.  Sunil shared about his Lent Project, and then we played his 'Hear this broken cry'.  This was followed up with Matt Redman's 'Even though I walk', from which we went into a time of intercession about UK young people, involving the refrain from 'O Come, O Come Immanuel'.  We closed with 'May the Lord bless you'.
• Wednesday morning Sam led with just acoustic guitar - we started off singing 'Great is he', then did the 'Jesus is Lord' shout, followed by 'I will worship'.  As a response after the talk we sang 'Jesus lead us'.

We also sold a good number of copies of our book - 'How would Jesus lead worship'.  We got a FB message in the last week with someone saying 'I'm just reading your book at the moment for a bit of teaching we're doing. Thank you for writing it, its been very encouraging and got us thinking lots.'  If you haven't read it yet you can pick up a copy here.

Lots going on this term - check out the diary page for the lowdown.  Please keep praying for us as this ministry grows and develops.  And thanks for all your support!