Journal Entry for 02/03/21

Service went very well! I was able to assemble our regular team of musicians with me on the
piano, Lane Webb playing Bass guitar, and Jeremy Sayu playing acoustic guitar. We started out
with the chorus of "All My Hope" and repeated this chorus a couple of times. I played a D7 chord
to transition to the song "Whom Shall I Fear (Angel Armies)" which was done in G major. After
this song, I read from Psalm 27 while playing doodle music (my first time actually doing both but
I thought it went very well). We ended with the chorus of "Lead Me Lord". After this I felt it was
appropriate to sing the chorus of "I Can Trust Jesus". Overall, a very smooth worship sequence.

02/08//21 (Monday Morning Chapel)

In this service, my goal was to try to bring the students and staff to a place where we could
freely worship and intentionally welcome God’s presence in the chapel. I chose songs based on
the theme of who God is to us personally. With Dr. Jana playing piano and Mr.s Miller on the
organ, we started with “Step by Step” and went directly into “You Are My All in All”. For the next
song, we went directly into a beautiful chorus that we hadn’t sung in chapel for a while, “Lord
You Are More Precious”. After this chorus, we ended with “O I Want to Know You More”. This
chorus really seemed to connect more than the others so I repeated this chorus. The words of
this song just flowed so perfectly together to cultivate an atmosphere of prayer and Dr. Phil later
said in his sermon that that song went right along with what he was going to preach on. To God
be the glory!

02/10/21
Prayer Meeting Cancelled

02/19/21
Choir: Pell City
Amazing service. A very large congregation. The pastor did very well leading worship from the
congregation side. The congregation seemed to be extremely engaged and the pastor did so
very well to help cultivate this by worshipping well and energizing the congregation when he
worshipped.

02/21/21
Choir AM. Outdoor service. God showed up. We got very sunburned and the wind kept blowing
music but God helped us worship.

Choir afternoon service. Very warm at this service but… God helped us and this bece probably
our best service. The congregation worshipped so well and was very engaged.

Choir PM. Light and life free methodist church. A different church that I hadn't been in for a long
time. Seemed very quiet. We did well musically but we had to intentionally worship.
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02/23/21 choir- Burlington Bible Methodist

Amazing service! The congregation didn't seemed to engage much at the beginning of service
but as we went on, God really anointed the service and we had an amazing time of worship

02/24/21
Prayer meeting cancelled

03/03/21
Prayer meeting went fairly well. I was able to assemble our normal team - Lane Webb on bass
guitar, Jeremy Sayu on acoustic guitar and me on piano. We started with Sanctuary and
repeated this a couple times and went directly into "No Longer Slaves." This went very well. I
could tell most everyone appeared tired but they were still able to worship through this. I ended
on the chorus "My Chains are Gone" and went back to the chorus of No Longer Slaves. I think
this was a very appropriate worship sequence I that it helped cultivate a spirit of worship and
helped shift the focus off our problems and situations and focus on God

03/10/21 - GBS Prayer Meeting

For this service, I decided to go with a couple of hymns, mainly because we’d been singing a lot
of newer contemporary songs for the past few weeks and this being the Wednesday before
break starts, I thought it would be beneficial to lead familiar songs. With Jeremy Sayu helping
me out on acoustic guitar, we started with “Holy is the Lord” just to start with something more
upbeat and lively. We changed keys to go into “It is Well”. I decided to have a key change going
into the last verse to make it easier to go into the key for “I Will Praise Him”. We ended the last
chorus acapella. I felt everything overall wet pretty smooth. The students worshipped andI felt
this led to prayer time very well.

04/04/21 - Evendale Easter Service

This service went fairly well. It was Easter Sunday so I led in a bunch of familiar Easter songs. I
tried a chant and response idea I had where 3 or 4 times I had the church respond to “He is
Risen Indeed” when I would say “He is Risen” This went super well and connected and gave
some variety. Below is the worship sequence I sent out to the Pastor and the musicians a few
days before the service:
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Worship Sequence for 9/20/20
Team: Daniel Brandon-leading / Daniel Shark - Piano / Josh Wina - guitar /

Welcome/Announcements/ Prayer

He Lives - 210

Because He Lives - 209

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Offeretory:
Special:
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PASTORAL PRAYER

Christ Arose -212

Jesus Messiah GM
http://www.rturner.fastmail.fm/hymnal_project/hymns/Jesus%20Messiah%20-%20Tomlin%20(chords).pdf

Chorus of “Worthy is the Lamb” GM

http://p341.com/Song-Charts/W/Worthy%20is%20the%20Lamb/Worthy-is-the-Lamb-chord-G.pdf

Sermon

04/07/21 - GBS Prayer Meeting

This service went amazingly well! I chose to have a thematic sequence for this service on the
Name of Jesus. I started with “In the Name of the Lord '' after this I changed to the key of F and
we went into “His Name is Wonderful ''. After this, I doodled while reading Philippians 2:9-11.
Immediately after, we sang “What A Beautiful Name” (Hillsong) . This song connected way more
than I expected it to. We ended with “Something About That Name”. Everything just connected
so well and it was easy for everyone to worship. This theme definitely brought everyone into a
spirit of prayer and just really helped everyone enter into the service with a proper focus

05/06/21
Led worship for Aldersgate Chapel. It was very different but I liked the atmosphere. I led in “This
is My Fathers World”, “How Great is Our God”, and Living Hope. At first, the students weren’t
very engaged. I could definitely tell it had been a rough week for them (testing was that week)
but I managed to wake them up a bit by having them raise their hand on How Great is Our God
and by doing some different activities. Again, it was a very different experience for me but it was
definitely good for me to learn how to get the kids to worship even when they didn’t feel like it.
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