Lyrics and Words

This week at Rockharbor, I was placed in the lyrics booth for the 7 and 9 p.m. services. This job entails anything in the service that is related to multimedia (i.e. DVD, slides, lyrics, Scriptures, etc.). For a number of weeks now my job had primarily been making audio and video archives of each week's teaching; this week I was excited to finally try something different. I had worked in the lyrics booth a few times during Rockharbor's monthly worship nights, but I had never done a full service before. Basically, my job was to put up song lyrics during worship, slides during announcements, and Scriptures during the teaching. Rockharbor uses a program called Easy Worship. This program incorporates Powerpoint, multiple translations of the Bible, and its own music library into one easy user-friendly interface.

Aside from running the computer for this night, I was also in charge of running two DVD's. The first was a video update on a church plant that had just begun and the second was the teaching for the night. I had to make sure that both DVD players were cued in the right places, I had to play and stop/pause them at the appropriate times during the service.

This job was both interesting and exciting for me because I had a lot of control over key elements of the service. It was my job to make sure that the correct song lyrics were up for people to sing to, and I always had to pay attention to the worship leader to follow him through each song's progression. Also, in this case, I had the responsibility of "giving" the message with as smooth as a transition as possible. However, I did not once feel insecure about taking on this responsibility. I am extremely impressed with how well Rockharbor designs all of their ministries to be as user-friendly as possible, and the lyrics ministry is no exception.

As far as spiritual matters are concerned, I didn't necessarily take away anything profound from this experience. I was simply reminded that there is no shame in offering my skills and talents to the best of my ability for the sake of bringing God glory; and I feel like that is exactly what I did by serving in the lyrics booth.