Revisiting the vision and revising the plan
Failed Vision?
I have to be honest and say that I’ve had a rough summer. The last 2 months have felt like a real discouragement.
Everything I had hoped would happen over the summer didn’t happen. In fact, it felt like ministry was a lot harder.
I thought that the summer time would be easier to make new connections with churches, pastors, and worship leaders. But, in reality, it was harder. In fact, I had a hard time reaching the people I had previously made connections with.
The distinction between vision and plans
Andy Stanley writes in his book Visioneering, “A vision is what could and should be. A plan is a guess as to the best way to accomplish a vision.”
Obviously, when we’re prayerfully seeking God’s face to accomplish His vision for our lives we don’t expect to fail. But you and I know that things don’t always turn out the way we expected. And that’s okay.
The good things coming out of the summer
A lot of great things did come out of the summer. I have felt for a long time that I needed to get more in-depth in my study of the scriptures. And I’m doing that with a friend from church.
Our hope is to come out of our year long study of 1 and 2 Corinthians with a bible study for the multicultural church.
Also, I had the tremendous opportunity to mentor someone on our worship team to get ready to lead at his college.
Finally, I met a wonderful pastor by the name of Jesus E. Ruiz from Peru. I was at a pastor’s meeting and when he heard that I did multicultural worship he wanted to get together.
Lesson..
Another quote from Andy Stanley’s book says “Be stubborn about the vision. Be flexible with your plan.”
When it seems like things are turning out the way you expected take some time to revisit the vision. Then be sure to prayerfully consider a new plan.
What have you done when life got hard? Did you abandon God’s vision for you or did God refuel you?
Share your story and your life…
Sincerely,
Peter Park
Blogger/Worship Leader/Speaker
peterpark@redemptionboulevard.com
(800) 453-3284
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Multicultural Worship Set for August 15th, 2010
Introduction to my multicultural worship set
I have to say that there are two things I was excited about for this multicultural worship set. These are elements in the worship service that I’ve never done before, but I’ve have been preparing for this a couple of weeks ahead of time.
Exciting multicultural worship elements…
1. The first set of songs is done in three different strumming patterns. So, we started with David Danced to the chorus of Grande es el Senor to the chorus of Awesome God. It actually made this multicultural worship set feel chaotic at first, but after we went 
through it several times the team was quite comfortable with the style changes.
One of our worship team members said it felt like a Messianic type of song melody. I wasn’t necessarily going for that, but we did have fun dancing to these set of songs during practice.
2. This is the first time we’re singing a full song in Korean. We have 1.5 people in our congregation who represent the Korean people. One is me and the other is my son, who is biracial.
It took nearly 5 years for someone on our worship team to say, “We should sing a song in Korean” to encourage me to go in that direction. I was very surprised how quickly the worship team picked up I love You Lord in Korean, especially since none of them had really spoken the language before.
One of our worship team members said she’s been watching Korean dramas a lot lately and felt this helped her with the pronunciation. I guess you never know what will prepare you for multicultural worship.
Multicultural Worship Set
Worship Team…
3 Vocalists, 2 Acoustic Guitars, 1 Piano
Service Order…
Worship in Song
David Danced
Awesome God
Grande es el Senor (Spanish)
Welcome and Announcements
Worship in the Word
Psalm 85:10-11 (Russian, English)
Worship in Song
More (Spanish, English)
I love you Lord (Korean, English)
Doxology (Hmong, English)
Worship in Giving
I sing praises
Worship in Fellowship
Worship in Prayer
Worship in Proclamation
Worship in the Word
Psalm 57:9-10 (Spanish, English)
Worship in Song
I sing praises
You are worthy of my praise
Benediction
Other multicultural worship sets:
Multicultural Worship Set for July 11th, 2010
Multicultural Worship Set: June 14th, 2010