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Beach Camp ’09 – Sunday

micah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:48 +0000

Beach camp has begun and day 1 is done. Driving from from Laurens to Garden City was long, but not too bad. We only had one unexpected detour, but it didn’t offset our schedule too much. Upon arrival, load in was a piece of cake! The only hitch we had was an ant nest we discovered in one of our loudspeakers. That was messy, but Philip got it cleaned up pretty well. This was probably the most problem and glitch free set up I’ve had in a while, so praise God for that!

After load in, we went to get a bite to eat before running through the night’s set. Well, it turns out there are approximately zero fast food places in Garden City. After driving a while, we did find a Wendy’s and had our dinner there. We have some really good food to look forward to this week, but we were on our on for Sunday.

When we returned at about 7:15, we started practicing for the night. The meeting starting at 8:30, so we thought we would have until about 8:10-8:15 to warm up and rehearse the songs. Turns out we were wrong. We actually had until about 7:45 before campers began to stream into the building and we had to clear the stage. This made us a little apprehensive since we were trying a lot of new things that night.

All credit to God, we ended up being reasonably well prepared for the night and God was good in allowing us to give acceptable praise to Him. The first couple of songs went a little south musically due to tuning issues, but that was only a big deal in the bands eyes. Overall the first worship meeting was a great success! Great music, great drama, and a great message straight from the Word

After the meeting we added a sub to the sound system(Sweet!) and had a rehearsal time for Monday morning(which you’ll hear about later, but went really well).

Please keep the band and me in your prayers as we continue to learn how to lead these students in worship to our King. Also be in prayer for Tony as he teaches us this week.

In the Business of World Rocking

micah — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:24:47 +0000

World rocking is what God is all about, and he did just that to mine yesterday. The last couple of weeks have been full of the frustrations of seeing Carrie go off to Russia, out of contact, and seeing guitar players commit to playing at Beach Camp, getting my hopes up, only to have them have to back out again due to various circumstances. It’s been an awesome learning and growing experience, but it’s also been hard and incredibly frustrating

Yesterday, though, God decided to pour out several special blessing on me. The first was getting a voicemail from Carrie bright and early in the morning. I hate that I missed the actual phone call, but it gave me a big ‘ole dimple smile knowing that I would get to talk to her later that day. It was simple incredible to hear her voice again, and to be able to communicate in realtime again. That won’t be a gift easily forgotten after this summer.

The day wasn’t without its adventures. After going camping last weekend with some of the guys on the team going to Ethiopia this summer, one of my legs had become very irritated and swollen from bug bites and stings. I had to go to the doctor to get a shot in my rear, along with a bunch of drugs to try and keep it from becoming too bad. It also gave me an opportunity to fill my Malaria prescription for Ethiopia. I ended up leaving the store with will over 100 pills for only $2.50!

Only God could have ended the day like he did. I had a great time of worship through song with a bunch of students who are in Laurens to work on people’s houses for the week. I get to do that again tonight and Friday, and I’m really looking forward to it. I learned that there are over 40 of these camps that will take place this summer all over South Carolina. That is just awesome! Praise be to God!

I praise God and give Him thanks for delivering a lead guitar player as well. I know God only has great plans for that week, and I’m so excited to be a part of it!

Crunchtime

micah — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:44:12 +0000

Back from the beach and back to work. Too much to do, too little time.

1 more week of work.

3 days until another great night of worship @ FBC Laurens.

9 days until I move into my apartment.

11 days until Clemson Campus Crusade kicks off.

23 days until Clemson Football!! GO TIGERS!

FBC Laurens Contemporary Service

micah — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:12:17 +0000

Whew… I am worn out. I just finished up a long weekend of preparation and execution of the first contemporary worship service(in a long time) at my home church, First Baptist of Laurens, SC. Overall, I think things went really well and I believe that God was glorified. It is always such an honor and privilege to lead God’s people in worship. Matt Reeves gave the message about how we need to get out of our good lives and move to the great life that can only be discovered when your striving to be like Jesus everyday. I know I need to apply this to my life. I know I have it pretty good. I’m not so sure I have it great, yet. It was also neat to learn that Matt was a former Clemson football player, and now runs an a great after-school center in Greenville, SC for impoverished kids in the Greenville area.

The music side of the night turned out really great as well. Matt, Philip and I had been working pretty hard over the past month or so to get things ready, and it definitely paid off. We were also joined by the incredible Layne Madden on electric guitar and mandolin. He is simply amazing. There’s really nothing else you can say about him. I’m glad he decided to come out of his way to join us.

Now it’s time to start gearing up for a second service on August 10. After tonight, I’m pretty excited about this next service and for what God has planned for the church in the upcoming future. If you happen to be in the Laurens area on that Sunday, you should definitely stop by.

If anyone is interested, here is the set list from tonight. I’m also hoping to get video of the service online soon.

Jesus Paid It All - Kristian Stanfill
Holy is the Lord - Chris Tomlin
You Never Let Go - Matt Redman
Rejoice – Chris Tomlin
Come Thou Fount – Micah Lee Band Arrangement
Your Grace Is Enough – Chris Tomlin

UNITE Set List

micah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:11:37 +0000

Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman
Unashamed Love – Lamont Hiebert

You Said – Reuben Morgan