The Worship Arts Staff Welcomes...

Hey everyone,

Please welcome Ben Diehl to the Worship Arts staff as our part-time Production Assistant. Kelly Cheeley has decided that she would like to spend weekends with her family so we have hired Ben to fill the role when she is unavailable. Ben will begin serving this weekend and will be around for all of our production and backstage needs.

Welcome Ben!

Come out to Bay Life this weekend for an exciting time of worship as we have communion together and hear from God's word. If you can't attend, find us live on Sunday at baylife.org @ 8:30, 10 & 11:30 am.

It's not to late to join our choir - come out tonight @ 7 pm - you'll love it! Our next choir performance weekend is Oct 8-9.

Have a great week! And ... wherever you are, I hope that you'll be found attending a great church this Sunday.

Blessings,
Brad

Bring a Friend!

Hey everyone, 


It's another Thursday and I'm excited to tell you what's happening here at Bay Life Church. It's choir weekend and we have the added privilege to be in services where we'll be baptizing around 30 people! We'll be celebrating with folks that have made a decision to follow Christ with all of their hearts and to proclaim it to everyone around them. 


We're also looking forward to tonight's rehearsals as we prepare for what God is going to do at our 4 weekend services. Here's a post that I found on a choir member's (Reba's) Facebook page today -  


"Today is the day! It's here! We've been waiting all summer for it. It's "Bring a friend night at choir!" Come & join us for an ice cream social @ 7 pm & meet some pretty great people like you. We hope to see you there."


So yeah, come out tonight and join us for a great choir season and a very special weekend.


Blessings,
Brad


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Choir Starts & Worship Arts Volunteer Profile

Hey everyone,

I'm really looking forward to seeing you all at choir or band practice this evening. Invite your friends to choir, it's a great opportunity to serve God and make a difference in our community. I promise that they'll have a great time!

Here's a fun project - fill out my Worship Arts Volunteer Profile form. We want to get to know you, so answer as many questions as you want on the form and I'll post it here on the blog. I thought i'd get it started so click here for my profile.

Blessings to you!
Brad

Bay Life Worship Arts Kick-off 2011

Hey Everyone,

Happy back-to-school week! I hope it got off to a great start and that your hopes for this school year are realized. We sent Zach off to 11th grade this morning and realized that there's only 1 more back-to-school day left before ours are both off to college instead of grade school - CRAZY! Treasure these days and thank God for every opportunity that you have to be directly involved in their lives - it goes by quickly!

I'm writing to let you know that I'm expecting to see you this Thursday evening @ 7 pm. in the Worship Center. I have some exciting things to share with you and I want you to be aware of our plans for the 2011-2012 ministry year. Bay Life Worship Arts has one all-call meeting per year and this is it - here's the agenda:

• Refreshments
• Inspiration
• Information to help you prepare for your involvement in our ministry together this year
• Opportunities for you to volunteer
• Good conversation

Don't miss it!

Blessings and see you Thursday,
Brad

Happy Father's Day Dad!

Well, it's been a really great week at Kidapalooza! So many kids and a real energy that's been incredible. We've seen great work by so many volunteers including the ones on the worship arts team - way to go everyone! Special mention goes to Stephen Stough for his work with the creative teaching team.

This weekend we continue our series at Bay Life called, Real Church: Beginnings.  Don't miss the men's choir for our Father's Day services. Guys, come out and join us as we provide worship leadership this weekend - it's gonna be a great time together.

One final note, if you're around and available on Friday night at 8:30, we could sure use help getting the worship center back together for church. Our stage will need to be reset and the chairs in our room will need to be put back in place. 

Dads, here's Happy Father's Day to you and also to my Dad in Canada. I think his present came last night when his favorite team (I can't bring myself to say the name) won the Stanley Cup! Go Leafs Go!

Blessings!

Brad

Bay Life Church: Live

Well, today at Bay Life Worship Arts we're in the middle of preparations for another exciting weekend and we're ramping up for next week's Kidapalooza festivities. We're looking forward to worshipping with hundreds of kids and volunteers - it's gonna be a blast!

I hope to see you at our weekend services but if you're planning to be away or, maybe you live in Canada, I have a little assignment for you. Many of you know that we're streaming our services live on our website each Sunday. My request is that wherever you are in the world this Sunday that you'll take a few moments to check out our service and report back to me on the streaming quality of the feed from where you are. Your report could be as simple as: Brad H - Maui - all good! (I wish!)

Just go to baylife.org and click on the WATCH LIVE tab then email me at bhillier@baylife.org or message me on Facebook.

Thanks and blessings on ya,

Brad

Create Something

Like anything else, my creative side has to be fed, exercised, sometimes jolted and often waited upon to bear mature creations. Recently, I’ve been in a lull of creative thinking. It’s been a little disconcerting as I rarely find myself without a creative bent but I think I’ve been in slow-down mode. I’ve been a little worried that I might be out of ideas!

Here’s what I’m learning. To be creative, it helps to be around creativity; to be interesting it helps to be around interesting things; and to be excited about ideas, it helps for the ideas to be necessary. I guess I know these things but I’m reminded that when God created me to be a creative arts person, He didn’t expect me to do it with my eyes, ears and other creative senses stopped up. 

Likewise for you. Maybe you too need to take a look around and get practical. If you want to make something happen, get out there with people who are making things happen; if you want to be a great parent, spend time with some great parents; if you want to change the world, find some earth-shakers and get after it!

Sounds obvious but we often forget.

Here's our Creator at work - read PSALM 8. 

Blessings,

Brad