This Sunday (06/15/08) the lectionary called for Psalm 100. There are lots of songs I could have chosen, including “All People that on Earth Do Dwell” and “I Will Enter His Gates.” Instead, I decided to update a song that started its life as a folk rock song written on guitar sometime in the 80s. [...]

On May 18, 2008 Greg Scheer, COS minster of worship, continued a series of interviews about worship at Church of the Servant. This third and final week he spoke with Karen Saupe, Joel Navarro, Cindy Van Scoyk, Mike Huisman and Matt Plescher about COS’s growing diversity and its impact on worship. The discussion is separated [...]

May 11 was a special day at COS. Of course, Pentecost is always a special day, but this year our Spirit celebration included musical members from  Liberia and Rwanda. The former led the choir and congregation in the offertory song “We Are Coming, Lord, to the Table.” It was a wonderful collaboration of Liberian-born and [...]

On May 11, 2008 Greg Scheer, COS minster of worship, continued a series of interviews with key characters involved in the history and development of Church of the Servant’s worship. In this second week he speaks with John Witvliet, Carol Roeda, Carole Vander Pols, Hannah Maier, David Diephouse about the middle years of COS worship. [...]

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 [...]