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

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