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Design Concepts for House of Joy’s new identity/branding for 09. The focal point is the text, the background and swirly stuff is collateral and can and will be changed from time to time.

This is my first real design work in my new Adobe CS4. I love it.

Web banner:

Tee Shirt “Preview:”

Me wearing a newly printed tee. It didn’t quite turn out exactly as I had envisioned it, but it was pretty close.

On “forcing” religion on your kids and allowing them to “find out for themselves” my dad says…

“Looking back I’m glad we didn’t let our 4 children find out for themselves that playing on the interstate was not conducive to a long and healthy life.”

I’m glad too.

Don’t forget to SPRING FORWARD this weekend!

This month’s free wallpaper design comes from Romans 5:8. Feel free to plaster it everywhere and let me know if you use it! In fact, it would be cool to see a pic of a freebie wallpaper on your lappie or desktop!

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FRIDAY SETLIST:

We opened up for the Fireproof Your Marriage weekend conference with Michael & Amy Smalley here in Valdosta. Four churches came together and hosted this event. I really enjoyed leading worship in a different venue with totally different people. In fact, because of the  multi-church factor, I decided to put together a setlist that was made up of more older and recognizable tunes for the most part. We also, scaled back to a small acoustic set with 2 vocals instead of our normal rockin’ set.

1. Your Love is Beautiful (Hillsong): Key Cm. Even as an acoustic arrangement this song rocks. In fact, I played the “house” piano there (keep in mind it’s a huge church with only a piano and/or pipe organ).
2. Friend of God (Houghton): Key D (capo 2 played in C with some nice major sevenths and minor add nines thrown in for color). I’m not really fond of this song. It’s just gotten kind of stale for me…but we definitely included it because of it’s repetitive nature and easy to sing along factor.
3. Blessed Be Your Name (Redman): Key G. Don’t think this one will ever get old for me. I love it. Awesome as an acoustic arrangement.
4. You Are So Good To Me (Pasley/Chaffer): Key G. An oldie but a goodie. Third Day has a pseudo new arrangement of this that we hear on the radio over and over so it was a good one to include.
5. How Great is Our God/How Great Thou Art (Tomlin): Key G. Had to include this one. I can’t believe this song is almost half a decade old. It still rocks. And technically, this is the FIRST time I’ve ever led it. Weird I know. Anyways, when we hit the How Great Thou Art ending, everyone jumped to their feet and I actually thought we had a full SATB choir in the house. SWEET! I wish I had thought to incorporate another hymn or 2! It was beautiful.

SUNDAY SETLIST:

We used some of the same music. Kind of killing 2 birds with 1 stone mentality for our Sunday morning gathering, so that we could rehearse on the same night.

1. Friend of God (Houghton): Key D.
2. Blessed Be Your Name (Redman): Key G.
3. God of this City (Tomlin Hello Love Arr.): Key A. We love this song, but typically don’t get to use it a lot since we do mainly upbeat music for our Sunday morning gatherings.

Part of Sunday Setlists: a delicious buffet serving up plate after plate of tasty blog posts about what’s going on in worship services all around the world!