playing with Big Daddy Weave

this weekend will be a great weekend up in Sheridan wy.
I am taking some of the band to the Wyoming RockStock Festival featuring Big Daddy Weave. We have been asked to play for the festival. YES! Going to be a good time. We are playing stuff off of my previous record "Nights Like These".

mid - week catch up

friends,
the staff of element and wives were able to go up to Estes Park Sunday thru Tues for a Staff Advance. Our staff advance is where we dream up our year for element church, we seek God thru worship and prayer, we plan sermon series, solutions for different areas in our church, and outreach events, and "What's Next" steps for us. It was a great time. Very intense at times and yet so refreshing. I love this team I get to surround myself with. I am so challenged when I am around them.

Looking very forward to what's next for us after this time together. ELEMENT CHURCH, GET READY, CAUSE HERE WE GO.

Our new facility stuff is coming along. Look to Jeff's Blog for more on that.

We had a great worship time sunday. About 2 weeks ago Jeff asked if I knew of any songs with the Lord's Prayer, my response "NO BUT I'LL WRITE ONE". So thats what we did. We read the Lord's Prayer as a church all together and then sang the new song. I really sensed God moving on sunday. I love worshipping thru music with you all here at Element.

Our RockBand series is going very well. 5 people committed their lives to Christ sunday, and that my friends is what its all about. We opened with "LIVIN ON A PRAYER by Bon Jovi", Good Times. This week's opening song is a tough one, but I have faith in the band. We're going to have some fun.

Back to work,
Adam

Sunday Set List,
Livin on a prayer - Bon Jovi
Spring of Life - Kristian Stanfill
Let your Kingdom Come - Adam Cruz
Center - Charlie Hall
Turn Your Eyes - NewSpring Church

sunday afterthoughts

Its good to be back. I miss when I don't get to worship with you guys. Amber and I had a blast on our vacation last week and resolved that we never want to live in NYC. WOW there is a lot of people. I know you find you nitch everywhere you are and your circle of friends, still its cauos there.

We have finally got a system down for our new theater that we are in and have finally gotten so great volunteers in place. We now have an awesome Road Crew manager who runs all the set up on sunday morning. We also have a guy picking up trailer and loading it so that Jeff doesn't have to be a part of that anymore. Great job road crew. you were on yesturday.

We launched our new series entitled Rock Band. In creative team we decided we wanted to build 2 8ft tall Les Pauls for the set design. So I contacted Mike Greenley to build them and Steve Doolin to paint them and they did an incredible job. Ill post some pictures below.

We opened the service with a group of guys that played ROCK BAND live thru our projector and sound system. They did "wanted dead or alive". It was incredible. They had a ton of fun and it looked like you all enjoyed it too. 1st service the guitar player actually landed a guitar throw over his sholder. 2nd service, well, we'll just leave it at that. HA.

The band really did a fantastic job today. I love watching people do what they do best. They seriously take the songs I bring in and make them what I want. Let it burn is a song I wrote several years ago and was an ok song for me at that time, the band is helping make it quickly one of my favorites.

alright thats it,
peace out, (yeah i just said it)

Adam


set list,
wanted dead or alive - live on rock band
happy day - tim hughes
spring of life - kristian stanfill
faithful - steve fee
let it burn - adam cruz