Rockin' Worship!

Okay, folks...prayer request for all of you:

This Sunday at 5:00 p.m., our youth praise band Eucatastrophe will be taking part in a "Battle of the Praise Bands" at Hampton Presbyterian Church in Gibsonia. Several youth praise bands in the area will be coming together for some friendly competition, in order to raise money for the North Hills Youth Ministry Counseling Center (http://www.nhymcc.org/). We will be playing some great praise songs like Let it Rise, David Crowder's No One Like You, and Fernando Ortega's Our Great God, as well as contemporary favorites like Relient K's Who I Am Hates Who I've Been and Hoobastank's The Reason (with a distinctively Christian slant on that last one).

I am so grateful for this opportunity. It will give these guys with whom I've worked so hard a chance to be seen and heard by people other than this congregation, to be a witness for Christ through their music, and to help a worthy Christian cause in this community. What more could I ask for?

I don't want you folks to pray that we win the competition (well, if you insist)...

Rather, please pray that God will reveal Himself through us, that we will worship well, and that we will be good representatives of Christ and of Bakerstown United Methodist. If you'd like to pray for specific band members, they are:

Nate Bodnar - Drums
Trevor Ditmore - Vocals
Zack Meuschke (grandson of Revs. Paul Meuschke and Ken McGowan) - Guitar
Derek Platt - Vocals
Alex Shipley (grandson of the late Rev. Ralph Shipley) - Bass Guitar
Eric Zarenko - Guitar
Jeff Kahl - Keyboard

Thanks for your prayers! I pray that all of you experience the same passion in your worship of Jesus Christ!

P.S. - If you would like to know what our band's name (Eucatastrophe) means, there's a post somewhere on my blog that describes it! Look under the heading "Inklings."