Worship Confessional: Photo Style – House of Joy Sunday Feb. 15, 2009

February 15, 2009 in leading worship,sunday setlists,the church,Worship with 16 Comments

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Photos courtesy of Jonathan Chick of Clarus Photography.

This is what Sunday looks like at House of Joy. We worship with a ton of energy.

1-4 The Young Americans doing a step and dance routine as a transition into our Elephant In The Room series. (Today was “Pornography”). They had a show cancel and so they were going to be in the area for a few extra days. We invited them to come and do their thing at our place. Which is pretty cool because as far as I know TYA has no religious affiliation. It was obvious when we cranked up HE REIGNS, though, that there were some believers in the mix and they worshiped headlong with us. A great group of kids overall.

From the Young American’s Website:

Budget cuts have caused the systematic removal of music programs in our nation’s schools, and with them, a chance for millions of talented students to discover ways to express themselves creatively. The International Music Outreach Tours were created by The Young Americans® in 1992 to bring music back into schools, opening doors of discovery for the musical talents of young people.

The comprehensive performance workshops cover everything from vocal techniques, dance, and comedy improvisation, to stage movement, sound, lighting, and more. Hundreds of students from 4th through 12th grade learning to work together, to respect each other’s strengths, and to discover their own potential – all through the universal language of music and dance.

After three days of intensive performance instruction it’s show time! The Young Americans perform the first act, then to the astonishment of parents, friends, teachers and administrators the participating students perform the second act with The Young Americans.

The International Outreach Tours have touched lives in nearly all 50 states and beyond including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ukraine, Gibraltar, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Japan. More than 150,000 students have participated in these exciting workshops and many more are waiting for The Young Americans to visit their cities and schools.

5-8 Our AWESOME band rocking WE SHINE. Look at the guy vocalist behind me. I have no clue what he’s doing…but at least he’s doing it passionately! From this angle you don’t see our bass player or other guitar player, but they were rocking it as well.

We do everything high energy and in your face at House of Joy. I normally don’t lead from up front like that…In the last photo you can see the empty keyboard and mic stand. That’s my normal roost. But WE SHINE was so energetic I had to get out front and jump around and really connect with out people in a different way than “normal.”

You can see up on the bg screen behind us, the words to WE SHINE. Great song!

Also part of Fred McKinnon‘s Sunday Setlist shindig!

About Russ Hutto: I live and work in the beautiful Golden Isles region of Southeast Georgia along with my beautiful wife Lydia. You can find me designing in print for WYIM Publications during the week. I'm the Editor of The Worship Community. On the weekends, I'm usually volunteering in the Worship Ministry at St. Simons Community Church or traveling to help smaller churches with Worship Ministry Development. I also help mentor and coach student musicians and singers for our middle and high school ministries. Lastly, I'm an avid CrossFitter (CrossFit Brunswick) and love all things fitness and nutrition.

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16 Responses to “Worship Confessional: Photo Style – House of Joy Sunday Feb. 15, 2009”

Fred McKinnon February 15, 2009 at 9:53 pm #

Dude, it looks RIGHT for you to be out front like that – I bet it really helped'em engage!

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russhutto February 15, 2009 at 10:12 pm #

Thanks Fred. It was definitely a spur of the moment thing. I hadn't planned on being a rock star style lead vocalist.

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Mark Thomas February 15, 2009 at 11:15 pm #

We Shine is a great song. Love the pictures. Very passionate worship!

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steff February 15, 2009 at 11:21 pm #

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

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russhutto February 16, 2009 at 9:38 am #

Thanks Mark! We have a good time doing what we do.

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russhutto February 16, 2009 at 9:38 am #

Thanks Steff.

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Mike Mahoney February 16, 2009 at 11:44 am #

The Young Americans are doing it so hard they're phasing out of existance! That looks so cool. I love having things like that add to a Sunday.

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Brian Lusky February 16, 2009 at 11:52 am #

Nice! Awesome to see the high energy with which you worship. We've done We Shine before with our youth, but I've held back from introducing it Sunday morning. hmmm…

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russhutto February 16, 2009 at 12:57 pm #

Hehe, low light + movement = some really cool (or terrible) photos! They turned out looking cool though.

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russhutto February 16, 2009 at 12:58 pm #

I think it can be done on a Sunday morning even in a more conservative place, but you vae to work it just right or else it will lose it's mojo.

Thanks for comment Brian.

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Johnny Sierra February 16, 2009 at 2:36 pm #

Great set Russ. We just introduced We Shine last week.

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danieljohn February 17, 2009 at 2:31 pm #

I really like your blog and the photos from your Sunday service look INCREDIBLE! Worship looks like it was a great time and I'm sure (based on the pics) that “We Shine” was just awesome. Anyways, I wandered over from Fred McKinnons site and wanted to say “hi”.

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russhutto February 18, 2009 at 9:04 pm #

Thanks Johnny!

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russhutto February 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm #

Thanks Daniel!

I appreciate the comment! We have a great time!

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