Should I or shouldn't I?
Last week Pastor Hans asked me if I would be willing to take over leading the worship time at our church youth group’s weekly meetings. I think that means direct the existing band, although I’m not sure. It’s not a large commitment of time — other than arriving at church earlier than I already do on Wednesday nights.
He and Josh and I had discussed the youth praise band a few weeks before over fries and shakes from Ann’s Dari-Creme. It’s my feeling that a large band with three guitars, drums, four singers, etc. way up on the stage is overwhelming for the 20 or 30 kids who come to youth group. There they stand in pews 3 to 6 in the sanctuary, half of them hesitantly mouthing the words to the high-powered praise music, the other half cutting up in pews 5 and 6. A few kids appear to be really worshipping, but the majority aren’t getting it.
“First,” I said, “I’d get out of the sanctuary.”
“Can’t do that,” said Hans. “There are no other rooms big enough.”
“Well, how about if we start out with just a guitarist leading the music solo, standing down in front of the pews?”
It was decided to use his wife Stacy’s imminent birth-giving (when the time came) as an excuse for Hans to scale back on the music and let me try it for a month or so.
Fast forward to this week: Stacy still hasn’t produced Hans, Jr., so plans have kind of stalled. I got to praise band practice (after youth) slightly late Wednesday night; Hans was by then off the radar. He’ll probably corner me this weekend, and I don’t know what to tell him yet.
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p>The bottom line is that I don’t really want to lead a youth band, at least not until kids start participating more. I want to just play the guitar and sing, and maybe I can get Hans to do some Bible Studies about worship. Or, maybe, I could squeeze in some remarks in between the songs. Hmm … sneaky.
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p>Guess I should do some heavy-duty praying, along with praying for the future of our Young Adult Persons Sunday School Class/Small Group, of which to this point I have blogged nothing. That will have to wait.
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