Category Archives: service programming / worship

Dinner in December Highlights: Part 1

Well, I’ve been slow as Christmas (hah!) when it comes to getting back in the game now that Dinner in December is over. What is DID? I’m glad you asked!
For the last 9 or 10 years, we at West Ridge have done an outreach-focused dinner theater at Christmas time. It’s evolved through the years, but [...]

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Dinner in December has taken center stage!

Dinner in December is HERE! Opening show last night went very well. I am SO proud of our amazing team. Actors, writers, musician, video geniuses, set builders, stagecrafters, stage crews, lighting designers, tables servers, table hosts…the list goes on and on. I so wish I could post pictures or clips, but there are still a [...]

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Cardboard Testimonies @ West Ridge Church

This idea isn’t necessarily new… I believe Willow Creek was the first to do this, but we first saw it when our good friend Tommy Politz over at Hillside in Amarillo, TX did it a few months back. It’s powerful when you see theirs on YouTube. They’ve had nearly 2,000,000 views already.
As powerful as it is to [...]

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The Church Fire That Wasn’t

Crazy morning at West Ridge today… It was Brian’s first Sunday in town since his trip to Africa, and he told an amazing story about a girl who was healed of Malaria after our team prayed for her. She and her sister had been “treated” by a witch doctor in their village, but the sister [...]

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Worship Confessional 2

I’m not sure who coined the phrase “Worship Confessional.” Whoever you are, I hope you don’t mind me jumping on the bandwagon.
So it appears that quite a few folks appreciated my honesty last Sunday. I don’t have any embarrassing stories to tell this go round. (Unless you count my breaking my own rule [...]

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Sunday in review

So I had a blast leading worship this morning. Steve is taking a couple of weeks off, and I took this morning for him and will also be on stage next week. Here are some highlights from today…
We added some singers to the band this morning. We usually just have 3 or 4…today we had [...]

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Don’t waste a word

Annette and I are sitting in a waiting room waiting to see a new OB as we begin our third pregnancy journey. We’ve been here for two-and-a- half hours already. Blah. Lots of sitting. Lots of waiting. Lots of ‘interesting’ people. And LOTS of magazines.
I picked this one up, and [...]

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Knocked my socks off

I just want to go on record as saying that West Ridge has the absolute best band and production team of any church I know of. They tend to slide under the radar when it comes to recognition outside of our walls, but I assure you they are a cut above.
The entire team did [...]

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New blogging pals!

Two of my dear friends (one is my boss, one is a coworker) have jumped on the blog-train… Check them out!
Brian Bloye – brianbloye.com – Lead Pastor at West Ridge
Tim Grandstaff – thetogetherway.com – Genesis Pastor at West Ridge

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Mucho Chaos

The last 8 days in a nutshell… This is long and high drama. Sorry… But it might make you feel better about YOUR week.
Saturday:

Kenni throws a humiliating fit as we leave a birthday party. (was that voicemail from DFACS?)
At mother’s day dinner, Caia screams like a pterodactyl every 9 seconds. Happy Mother’s Day, my [...]

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