Much Needed…
Got this in the mail today. I can’t tell you how much I needed it…
To the person who followed the prompting of the Holy Spirit to pray for me and even write me a card and snail mail it….I say thank YOU!
Here’s what it said:
“you were prayed for today. The Lord prompted me to intercede for you because He loves you. He sees your hard work even if others don’t. He sees your frustrations but other don’t. He knows you’re tired when others don’t. He hears your wondering heart and says “stop wondering”; I am the way the truth and the light. Psalm 119:147- I rise early before the sun is up; I cry out for help and put my hope in Your word. Be encouraged!! Rock it out and keep bringin’ it on Sunday mornings. Your church loves you-good days and bad”
That last line put me in tears. Person, because of your card I worshipped the Lord….thank you thank you thank you!!
-nate
To Pay or Not to Pay…
Let’s keep this simple…
“Do you or do you not pay musicians at your church?” If you do or don’t…give the WHY
I’d love to get some great dialogue going on this..so everybody chime in!
-nate
Portable Church….oh the joys
So over the Christmas holiday we were able to leave our whole set up. It was amazing…so nice to be able to walk in, set up our gear, and start. Then after service just pack up, mingle in the foyer, and leave. Seriously…if you aren’t a portable church don’t take that time for granted. Anyway…
Yesterday was our first weekend of the New Year and we had to set everything up again. Not a big deal but when we arrived, the school had started building a set for their new musical this semester (I believe they are doing “High School Musical”). That’s fine, we knew this type of stuff was going to happen, but we had NO IDEA…it was a total surprise. You may think…what’s the big deal…well, I’m gonna tell you. See the problem is we rear project, have a huge screen, and we need about 16 feet from the projector to the screen. As you can imagine, the new set the school was building took up about 12 feet of that 16 we usually use…yikes! With limited time in the morning this really threw us for a loop. After a small moment of panic, we adjusted, moved everything forward (thank God for a big stage), and had the whole band in a very small space. It made for a very eventful morning but more than that a morning that gave me some great perspective…
God doesn’t need everything that WE think we need to do church. He doesn’t need a big stage, great lighting, big screens, or us being comfortable with our NORMAL thing. He needs TOTAL reliance on Him and HIS power and presence to make the morning slammin. Because let’s face it. When you put the big guy in control of your life…it can be a roller coaster at times. I look at it like this: the things we have are a blessing and I’m grateful to have these tools to minister to Charlotte and to be honest there are more things I WANT. What I realized though, is all I NEED is Jesus’ power and presence. As long as I have that, I’ll lead worship from the High School Musical set any day!
Happy 2009….it’s gonna be an amazing year for the kingdom of Christ!
Nate
Friends
Had a meeting today with Chris and Mack from Elevation. Since our offices are like 45 minutes away from eachother we had an ichat meeting…I love technology. Here are few screenshots from the meeting:
As you can see the meeting started well…a lot of interest
about 30 minutes in silliness started to grab hold, plus I told them I was taking a picture
by the time 45 minutes passed, Chris and I found our ichat effects, Mack realized he didn’t have Leopard and had no ichat effects and started calling Chris and I lame (just jealous it’s fine), and the meeting was officially over.
C’mon we’re “creative types”. Everyone knows we don’t last longer than 45 minutes in a meeting!!
I love the relationship the Lord is allowing our 2 churches to have in Charlotte, even more than that our Worship Depts, and WAY more than that our friendships!!
Kingdom minded baby!!
nate
Why?
I was talking through with my wife the other night about the song “Healer” and all the craziness that now goes along with it. Here is what really bothered me…
Satan has completely succeeded in the battle of pornography. He has everyone who struggles with it fooled to think they can’t tell anyone because of the repercussions. In the case of Mike G., fooled to the point that he would make up a lie like CANCER! to cover up the addiction!!!!! Think about it. If Mike Guglielmucci was interviewed saying, “yeah I really battle with porn and I came home one night, sat down, and wrote this song believing that God could heal me from this nightmare addiction” everyone would have cringed. I know porn is bad, I know it’s shameful, but Jesus is bigger than that crap and if you’ll be brave enough to fess up you’ll defeat the enemy and you’ll feel freedom like you never have!!! We need to start bringing this stuff into the light NOW Church so Satan won’t take down another one of our leaders with it.
join with me in the prayer,
nate
Update on Mike Guglielmucci
If you’ve been following the story and haven’t heard here are a few updates:
Church, let’s keep praying for Mike G. and his family. They need it now more than ever…
nate
Boom
I got a text this morning from my friend Lee. He asked if I’d heard the news about the guy who wrote the song that’s been sweeping the world “Healer”. I hadn’t so he directed me Carlos’ Blog…I was speechless…honestly my stomach hurt. The guy that wrote the song had given testimony that he wrote it after being diagnosed with cancer and even went as far as to perform the song with an oxygen tube in his nose. Come to find out…he faked it all.
Here’s the truth…that song is TRUE and we need to pray that the writer Mike will know it more than ever in his life right now.
Pray for Hillsong, pray for the Church, and pray for Mike
nate
Let the marathon begin
Ok…here is the next week and a half of my life:
Today: start packing for move to Charlotte
Wed: continue packing, 7 hour video shoot for Seacoast
Thurs: drive to Charlotte to find a house
Fri: hopefully we found a house and we are firming up the details
Sat: back in Charleston to help my sister move into her first home
Sun: hopefully load truck to move to Charlotte
Mon: drive truck to Charlotte and move in
Tues: unpack, unpack, unpac
WOW…I’m tired just typing that. There might not be a lot of blogging in the next week or so but I’ll do my best!!
nate
What’s the word bird?
If you are in my immediate circle you might already know this news I’m about to share. For those of you who are not, I wanted to fill you in…
The past 6 years of my life I’ve been on staff at Seacoast Church. In those six years I have:
-had great successes
-had really great failures
-been molded by great leaders
-met my wife
-met my best friends
-shared stages with, what I consider, some of the best
-found my calling
This list could go on for many blogs but I’ll keep it to this one. God is moving my family and I out of Charleston and Seacoast and we are joining up with Naeem Fazal at Mosaic Church in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be taking the Worship Pastor position there and I am SO excited about what God is going to do through that body of believers. To any of my Seacoast family…we love you. We’ll miss you more than you’ll ever know.
My last service with Seacoast will be First Wednesday on June 4th. Make sure you are there, I’d love to worship with you all one last time.
Please keep up with all the updates at ORP (one red pilot) of our move and transition to Charlotte.
favor to you,
nate
What gets ya?
My Pastor talked not long ago about what’s your Popeye moment? For Popeye himself, something would get him boiling and he’d say, “I’ve had all I can stands and I can’t stands it no more!” Then he’d pull out his can of spinach and literally open up a can of whoop a$$.
So I ask you. In the local church, what’s your Popeye moment? What gets you to the boiling point and how do you think we change it?
nate
Who Am I?
I’m a 30 year old:
- Christ Follower
- Husband
- Father
There is a lot of life tied into that and I hope to share it with you in some way.
~Nate
*This site contains my personal views and ideas, and in no way does it represent the views or ideas of Mosaic Church.
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