David Bell
Weekly Report #8
03-20-27
Meeting with John and observing the Worship service
Today John took us into the old sanctuary and started telling us of how he began in this church and how he chose to stay with the church instead of taking another job that would have given him way better pay. John taught us the importance of "living a sacrifice" and going and doing what God is telling us.
This Sunday I sat back and observed the service (Pastor John had asked us practicum students to all observe a different service, and then we will all talk about them) So he is what I observed:
Before
Soft music
people greeting at door
announcements are projected on screen
people walking around and talking to neighbors
During
as the verbal announcements are going on the youth are chattering
people are fanning themselves with their bulletin
During the church "turn around and shake a hand" time, a majority of people greet and the rest just stand there or sit down.
During worship there was a father swaying his baby to stop it from crying
when it is time for offering, all the little kid start to leave for Sunday school. also there was soft music playing on the piano.
WOW!! that's my service pretty exciting huh? sorry you had to read this.
As a result of this observation I have learned that there are many things that go on during the service that one would not know about unless they observe it like I did... "He's brilliant"
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5 comments:
It sounds like you had an interesting time observing the service! :) That would be interesting to observe what individual people do in the congregation during the service. What was interesting for me to read was what you said about how half of the people sat down or just stood there during the "turn around and greet each other" part. I wonder why that is...?
i have never really sat in on a service with the intention of observing it...i'm glad you got something out of it
Its great that you had a chance to just look at a service in a different way and enjoy it. too often we stare at details instead of just taking the whole thing in.
TJ Swanson
this sounds ike a really insightful observation week for you. I am glad that you did this and shared with us. I think so often we can get caught up in the program and forget about the importance of meeting our people where they are at. how can we make it so that our people build bonds between one another? being the body is not just coming and sitting on sunday and then sliding out the back door! I feel burdened about this!!
Jess Manglos
that's cool that he stayed with the church to be a living sacrifice and was obedient to God's calling on his life. Some of that stuff you mentioned i would've never thought would actually happen in a service. it's cool to just sit back and observe sometimes. keep up the good work!
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