- No controversial things to do all weekend
- Reading the ordination anniversaries (Hey! I've been ordained as a pastor for 10 years!)
- Kawanna Hunter's closing sermon -- challenging all to look ahead in faith and to "GET OUT - OF THE PAST!"
- Singing the Potty Song Trilogy for everyone before we started worship.
- Leading music for the closing worship service. It totally rocked! Here's the music lineup we had
- 'Something Beautiful for God' - Bryan Sirchio
- 'Ask, Seek Knock' - Bryan Sirchio -- complete with audience motions!
- 'Hearts Full of Gratitude' - Bryan Sirchio (I don't love this one yet, but it is growing on me!)
- 'Dream God's Dream' - Bryan Sirchio (yes -- we sang lotsa Bryan!)
- 'Healing River' - Christopher Grundy
- 'Peace" - Bryan Sirchio (It sounds like a 60's song -- we waved cell phones in the air)
- 'Come to the Feast - Christopher Grundy
- 'Masithi'
- 'I am Welcomed' - Bryan Sirchio (We sang this through about 7 times as people received communion)
- T.A.M.B.O. - Christopher Grundy (We had a conga line through the worship area!)
- 'What does our God Require of Us?' - Bryan Sirchio (I gave this song the Speedwood treatment)
- Getting an email from Brett Johnson, writer for Pioneer Press, who loved our closing worship service and linked the Illinois Conference Youth Initiative on the Pioneer Press Blog.
- It was great to be able to meet and talk for a bit with our new Interim Conference Minster, Phil Hart, as well as meeting several folks from Wider Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ.
What a great weekend. We were revived, refreshed and renewed! God is still speaking!
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