On May 4, 2008 Greg Scheer, COS minster of worship, interviewed a panel composed of Paul Stoub, AnnaMae Bush, Nick Wolterstorff. All three are founding members of Church of the Servant and were involved in the precursor of COS, Fellowship of the Acts. The 50 minute discussion is separated into the three MP3 files below.
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A while back, the worship committee recommended that I take a Sunday off every two months to check out what other area churches are doing. I’ve rarely taken advantage of this–it seems the only days I have no responsibilities in worship, Amy is scheduled to run sound. But on January 20, we visited Ada Bible […]

This Sunday the Joyful Noise Orchestra led worship. Most of the service’s recording is useless because the brass are so darn loud, but one song survived without distortion. “Lamb of God,” written by Lawrence Probe has been sung during Eastertide for years at COS. This Sunday we doubled the normal piano accompaniment with the strings. […]

This Sunday (4/13/08) we sang a brand new song by AnnaMae Bush called “Living and Dying in Hope.” She was inspired by the sermon passage 1 Peter 1:3-9. The song and scripture have been especially appropriate this week as we mourn the loss of Ben Fackler.

The twenty-third psalm is the nightingale of the psalms. It is small, of a homely feather, singing shyly out of obscurity; but, O, it has filled the air of the whole world with melodious joy, greater than the heart can conceive. It will go singing to your children and my children, and to their children, […]

This Sunday we sang my setting of the “Ave Verum Corpus” text made famous by Mozart. The recording does nothing to flatter the choir, but it’s certainly worth a listen. You can hear Sunday’s prelude “Jesus, Precious Jesus” at my music blog. You’ll have to wait a while to hear the two songs we recorded […]