It's been a while since I wrote anything on this blog post, but worship at my University's Christian Union has been a little non-existent up until now.
Since just before Christmas, I decided to start re-learning how to play the guitar. I had lessons when I was about 8 years old, and I taught myself how to play quite a few songs when I was 15 so it was't too difficult to pick up.
Recently at Church, Debs our Worship Pastor, who will be leaving this summer sadly, has been sending me worship chord charts and encouraging me, as well as also offering to teach me earlier this week. Feeling inspired by her enthusiasm, I decided to bring my guitar over to the Christian Union this week. It was really easy to carry because I still play the nylon-stringed, 3/4 size guitar that I got for Christmas 10 years ago.
I was more-than-willing to get involved in practice before everyone arrived, and was feeling passionate about playing, which is very rare for me! However, my friend Simon, who was supposed to be leading the worship on the keyboard, gave up transposing all of my chords halfway through his task, and landed me with the job of leading the worship for this week!
At first, I was absolutely terrified because I had been landed into this unexpectedly, but I made the most of the opportunity that God had given me. The hardest part was definitely starting off, because everyone was staring at me, waiting patiently. However, with the help of my friend Andrew on the cajon, I was able to strum easily and in time with everyone else singing.
The song that we did was Here I Am To Worship, which actually went really well, and I felt so proud of myself afterwards for believing in myself to take a leap and lead in worship. And although there were only 11 people at this week's meeting, I felt that for the first time this year, people were actually singing, and were really passionate about it!
I really hope to be able to continue with worship leading, especially since I take over next week as the Vice President of the Christian Union, so I will have a lot more responsibility and be able to serve my God each week with the gifts that he has given to me.
I will definitely be posting more in the upcoming weeks and take you along with me on my journey of serving God in worship, something that I have wanted to do for many years, but just not had the confidence to do, until today!
So thank you very much for reading what feels like the first chapter in serving God through the act of worship!
Lois
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