Hi hello,
First Sunday of 2010. It is great. The service was really filled with energy of the Holy Spirit. This church, IHOP (visit ihop.org), is very unique to me. The way they runs the church is different and some similarities from how CBC runs. Most of the leaders here are missionaries/pastors/intercessor-prayers.
Not going into detail about how they run church.
Anyway i took some pictures of their service...
Sorry many of the pictures are blurry. i'm not really a good photographer. >.<
Any regular church service. People walking here and there. Finding sits. Late comers.
They have quite a small stage but a big auditorium. Their band always have at least 3 guitarist and one bass. Two keyboard but one play piano. Usual 4 back-up and drums.
The worship leader is the guitarist.
Closer look at the electric guitarist and back-ups.
Closer look at the keyboardist and basses and i think another electric guitarist. I like the keyboardist using a macbook for programing other sounds and mixing into the keyboard to give effect.
The drummer is the most coolest. They close the drums up with screens in front and the rest around the drums is wood. There is a door on the right to get in. And set up two mics inside and also set up another mini-PA system for the drummer for the person to set his/her settings.
Worship.
Young and Old worshiping.
Around the whole auditorium is filled with this panels to bounce or absorb sound to give good quality sound.
Media crew filming to stream it live on the internet and on tv.
During worship time. The ushers bring out the holy communion. And the people do their own time doing holy communion. There was no pastor going up to the stage and tellings the elements and what's. Just do it at your own time with God.
I like how they serve the holy communion to people. They deliver it in buckets. Inside the buckets are packets. Inside the packets are the bread and wine(ribena). Look...
The top sip is where they put the bread/biscuit.
the second sip is the wine(ribena). cool right?
The top of the packet says "this is my body which is broken for you. Take eat do this in remembrance of me"
Closer look.
Below the words is where the bread/biscuit is.
below the bread/biscuit is the wine (ribena)
The whole packet is seal up, so you have to open it up yourself.
After that, they did they announcement then a solo from one they worship team then Word.
The speaker today was a women speaker.
hardly see any women speaker on the pulpit
She was preaching about fasting. Is worth listening to it.
Actually women speakers preach more personal than men. Men tend to preach more boldly and passionately.
She looks pretty but she is married.
Anyway, before coming to church, there was a snow storm. My friend told me that this never really happen often to Kansas city. And this is one of the worse snow storms compare to other years. Before we could go to church. We had to dig a path for the car to come out of the garage to the main street. Snow is easy to shove but is the ice underneath that is a problem. The ice is hard and thick. The thickness of the ice is about 3-5 cm.
So me and my friend had to shove and pour ice melt(salt) to make a path. Hard work. Took us about 30 minutes.
Here are some pictures of of how bad it is...well i didn't take the picture of the path because my camera batteries die out.
His drive way on the right side where you cannot see a path.
The main street isn't bad compare to the drive way.
can you spot the yellow fire hydrant?
That is totally sunk it into the snow. There snow was below knee level.
That is all i did on Sunday. I came back and just took a nice hot drink and when to bed. The first Monday is tomorrow. I think i'm sleeping in. Till then nighty night.
Ash,
