Jon Jolly

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Entries Tagged ‘worship’

Worshipping Mr Bean

Last weekend I was at a church youth camp where I was running a seminar. During the worship service, the tech guys were putting up video clips on the screen behind the words as a visual aid to worship.
If you’ve ever been to events like Soul Survivor then you’ll have seen this kind of [...]

Worshipful Dance

I have to be honest; I just don’t get dancing in church!
That may be a strong statement to start off a blog post, so let me elaborate a little here. I do understand the medium of dance as a creative expression, and I appreciate it in things such as ballets or stage performances. I understand [...]

Values Session 5: Honour (Part 2)

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of its values:
We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith.

Session Aim: To find out how we can live [...]

Worship with Young People

I was listening to the Simply Junior High Podcast earlier today and they were talking about worship with youth groups. They were saying it was great to get young people involved as it helps to engage the group in the family service. Now I’m sure it wasn’t meant in this manner, but during the discussion [...]

Values Session 4: Honour (Part 1)

This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of its values:
We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith.

Session Aim: To look at what it means to [...]

Creative Worship: The Life Of Jesus

Last Sunday we ran a joint youth event with St Margaret’s Angmering and St Peter & St Paul’s Rustington called iWorship. The purpose was to hang out, have a meal and worship together allowing a chance for the youth to get to know young Christians from the other churches. It was a great event and [...]

Reflecting on Worship

I meant to post this on Sunday afternoon, but the internet’s been down at home! Sunday’s Thanksgiving Service was fantastic with the band sounding really great! It was Lea’s vocals and strong harmonies that really help lift the whole tone, but all real credit must go to God for inspiring us all to praise him.
If [...]

Preparing for Worship

Tomorrow is Sunday 1st October and Arun Community Church is having a thanksgiving service. It just so happens that I’m on the rota to lead worship for the meeting and have spent much of the day with a guitar in hand, trying to choose a set of songs that reflect what I believe God wants [...]

MyWorship on MySpace

Although I signed up for MySpace back in November, I’ve not really done much with my page as I post most of my thoughts up here. If I’m honest I still don’t really see the purpose of adding millions of friends and then never speaking to them, BUT I’ve now found an excellent use for [...]

Worship

It must have been about 10 years ago when I first realised my true love (Kirsty was 2 years later). Having been brought up in a Christian family I’ve always known God in my life, but I distinctly remember spending many hours as a teenager in loud, passionate worship events like Cutting Edge and coming [...]