Summer Music Challenge

Yesterday, the creative team at Calvary Church met with Terry Sanderson to discuss our next series "Magnify."  The series starts this weekend.  The creative team has spent most of this week working on this eight-week series including striking the previous stage design and working on the implementation of a new one.  One of the things that excites me about this upcoming series is that we're relying on music to carry many of these services.  For a series that focuses on the character and attributes of God, it just seems to make sense.

A lot of churches put their service programming into auto-pilot for the summer thinking that the numbers will be down, better to pull out all the stops when the Fall season kicks off.  We don't believe in that philosophy at all.  Just last week we had nearly 2600 people attend our services throughout our campuses.  And we had several families try out one of our services for the very first time.  I doubt God is packing it in until the Fall.  In fact, I believe that God has incredible things planned every weekend where His people gather.  What a great opportunity and privilege we have in serving Him!

If you are on one of our worship teams at Calvary Church, I challenge you toward excellence this summer.  Our church is relying on us to deliver inspirational, Christ-centered worship.  I know, with His help, we will do just that.  So what can we do to prepare?  Below, I've listed every new worship song and special that is planned through the entire "Magnify" series.  I encourage you to start listening to each song even on weeks you're not scheduled.  You know how summer scheduling goes, you might just find yourself playing or singing after all!  In either case, it would be good for you to familiarize yourself with everything our team is being asked to accomplish.  As we get closer to the services, we'll post the charts on Planning Center Online.  Don't wait until Wednesday or Thursday to start preparing.  Our goal is to cover each of these songs as close to the original as possible.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.  Please don't hesitate to drop me a line: alatina@calvaryonline.cc


1) Psalm 13 by Shane & Shane, follows a video of personal testimonies on the Faithfulness of God, June 27
2) Like A Lion by David Crowder, new worship song, July 11
3) Shine by David Crowder, message support, July 18
4) Everything Is Different Now by Stellarkart, message support, July18
5) With Everything by Hillsong, new worship song, July 25
6) The Beauty Of The Cross by Fee, communion song, July 25
7) Show Me Your Glory by Third Day, message support, August 1
8) Micah 6:8 by Charlie Hall, new worship song, August 8
9) Only Hope by Jon Foreman, message support, August 15
10) Faithful Over Us by Casey Darnell, new worship song, August 15

Aaron