Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever stop being amazed at the awesome faithfulness of our God!  Of course I won’t!  Oh the things He does through these imperfect vessels.  So here goes a top ten list of the greatest moments from the first ever two-night Unite, in no particular order:

God moving through the crowd.  One of the most awesome sights is to see people being moved and changed at an event.  To see youth wiping tears from their faces as they worship to How He Loves after a moving dramatic presentation was just amazing.

John Regan on Girl Scout cookies.  Saturday night the rest of us in the band were “diaper babies” according to my fellow guitarist John.  I won’t tell you why he said that, but it was clearly the Girl Scout cookies he had munched about ten minutes prior which were doing the talking.

Tim’s shiny shirt.  Sorry I let you down Tim!  I still blame Mike.  He was messin’ with my head, man!  Next time it’ll be the straw hat and/or camo duds!

Guest vocalist Kate Something-Or-Other.  Our guest lead vocalist on How He Loves, Kate, was incredible.  Of course the song itself is just amazing, but especially Saturday night, it was breathtaking.  I remember a brief moment during the song that night, Kate was singing at the top of her lungs, stomping her foot, just straight out worshiping God.  I was very moved by the power and energy pouring out of her.  It was also nice of her to fill in for the ailing Belina for the entire set on Saturday.  I’m not sure what she thought about us, but I’m pretty sure she definitely hadn’t experienced quite such obnoxious stage volume before (Sorry ‘bout that)!!!

Nate.  Making it all happen, even with last minute changes like the event speaker not being able to make it, or getting the details to come together for both nights, he was calm and cool.  Obviously he has a great team in place to help him make it happen.  I think he’s got someone else on his side too….hmmmm…  Great job, Nate!

Back stage pre-set percussion jam session.  Oh that bag of toys out back was so much fun!  My new favorite instrument is that guiro shaker-thing with that scratchy afro comb-thing.  What a great stress-reliever on Saturday, and let me tell you, I needed it bad!

Entertainment by Jeff.  If any of you haven’t hung out with Jeff before, you don’t know what you’re missing.  Whether it’s showing snot-bubble pictures of his twins or pictures of the weird things he does to his dog while it sleeps, it’s a riot.

And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.  You should hear him do his different-legged horse routine!  Oh my head!  If you’re having a bad day, go see Jeff, he’s the cure.

The new effects setup.  I know I shouldn’t focus on myself, but I got this cool new effects pedal on Friday and just had to use it for Unite.  Pretty dangerous from a performance standpoint, but it turned out great.  I pretty much love the new deal and will be making that switch permanent.  Until I decide I need yet another different sound, uuugh!  Also I determined that my new baby Les Paul un-Classic is the best Paul I’ve had to date.  Maybe I can actually hold onto this one for more than a year.

Three awesome songs.  How He Loves, From the Inside Out, and Mighty to Save.  I would argue that these three songs may be the best three songs we’ve ever played.  Saturday they all just kind of blended in together into one long worship experience.

I’m not sure if I’ve been so moved by worship at an Ignition event as I was by these songs on Saturday.

God.  I guess this only needed to be a Top One list.  The other nine in this list all show  the loving and true hands of our Lord at work in them.  I could list out hundreds of top details from this event and every one of them would lead back to God taking care of it all.

I think this is my first-ever attempt at a Top Ten list, so I apologize if it’s kind of lame.  But how lame are lists of words at describing the incredibleness, awesomeness, faithfulness, trueness, lovingness, uuuum, and whatever-else-ness you could possibly come up with in your entire life to say about God?

So Ignition’s calendar is kind of open right now.  Wanna worship?  Give us a call!

UNITE went great! First in Biddeford with the great tech stuff, a great sound system for Chris, Belina, and our guest Kate,to belt out powerful worship songs, great video, and sweet lights. Then, in Lewiston, the audience was pumped. I don’t think I’ve ever seen kids so pumped and into the worship songs as I did doing sound at the Vineyard, Lewiston. Hope to see you all next UNITE in September!

I thought Unite was excellent…aside from the fact that I lost my voice so was unable to sing on day 2 of the event SO SAD! Thanks to everyone who was involved & helped set up & clean up. I think we were all blessed in meeting Kate and having the experience of her singing with us & hearing her beautiful voice. I hope all who attended Unite were touched by God in a way they’ve never felt before! *cough cough* still no voice

Playing in Camp Fair Haven with the church that Ignition was started in was a great experience.  I was so happy to be able to have the full band there in an awesome time of worship.  A lot of new songs for us as a band created a difficult situation but it came together nicely.

Looking forward to a great time of worship this Friday night in Biddeford!  (and Saturday night in Lewiston)

Three upcoming events within the next month!  Unite is on March 27 and 28 and we are playing in Brooks Maine at Camp Fair Haven this Friday night.  I’m very excited for both of these events and I’m especially excited because we’ve learned some new stuff.  “How He Loves is a powerful song written by John Mark McMillan. During rehearsal we spent some extra time on this song just for our very own personal worship and prayer time. I hope it will lead you to a time of remembrance of just how much He loves us.