Yeah, basically monthly for a little over a year. The assistant pastor at our church left about 3 years ago and we just managed to finally get a new seminary graduate to fill the long-open position. Up until the first assistant left, we had been doing separate traditional and contemporary Sunday services at the church (we're a Missouri Synod Lutheran church). With only a single pastor, we decided to go with traditional and blended (i.e. incorprating both traditional & contemporary elements) services on alternating Sundays. The contemporary music was handled primarily with a praise band of high school youth--unfortunately, most of them were the same age, so most of the band graduated & went off to college at the same time a year ago. So a new youth praise band is developing their repertoire, and an adult band was formed to help fill in. The youth band has been playing on the 2nd Sunday of each month and our adult band on the 4th Sunday. It's typically only two praise songs per service, so it's been pretty low stress.
That's about to change, though. With the hiring of the new assistant pastor, we'll be going back to weekly contemporary services come September, so each band will play twice a month, and the number of songs per service jumps up to five. We should be able to handle the first couple of months with our current rep list, which is about 35 songs. Gonna need to learn a bunch of new ones, though, going forward! We have four singers, two guitar players, a bassist, keyboardist (my daughter, also one of the singers) and drummer. I mostly play electric, but also some acoustic-electric on a few songs. Enjoying it immensely--if you can believe it, after playing guitar strictly for my own amusement/enjoyment since I was 15, I'm playing in my
first band now! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks??
Originally Posted by duhvoodooman
Yeah, basically monthly for a little over a year. The assistant pastor at our church left about 3 years ago and we just managed to finally get a new seminary graduate to fill the long-open position. Up until the first assistant left, we had been doing separate traditional and contemporary Sunday services at the church (we're a Missouri Synod Lutheran church). With only a single pastor, we decided to go with traditional and blended (i.e. incorprating both traditional & contemporary elements) services on alternating Sundays. The contemporary music was handled primarily with a praise band of high school youth--unfortunately, most of them were the same age, so most of the band graduated & went off to college at the same time a year ago. So a new youth praise band is developing their repertoire, and an adult band was formed to help fill in. The youth band has been playing on the 2nd Sunday of each month and our adult band on the 4th Sunday. It's typically only two praise songs per service, so it's been pretty low stress.
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