The Leaf-Chronicle

In case you missed the article in Saturday's Leaf-Chronicle about Bow the Knee Hilldale's Passion Play 2008 you can see it here http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080308/LIFESTYLE/803080311

It's a very nice article. They accidentally left off Friday's performance in the article itself, but it is sort of there on a performance time summary.

We had a lot of good rehearsals today: The angels rehearsed this afternoon, the choir learned verses this evening, and the soldiers and thieves worked on their part right after all of the evening activities.

The soldiers suggested that I look for skinnier thieves next year. Ha! Apparently it's a lot of work getting heavy thieves off of the crosses!

I even got away from church before 9:00!

We're now in performance week. The excitement is building to a fever pitch as singers and actors review and polish their notes and lines. (At least that's what their director thinks/pretends they are doing. lol)

We have a rehearsal Monday night for all who can attend and then two dress rehearsals: Wednesday at 6:00 is an unofficial dress rehearsal (we do want to do it in costume) and then Thursday is the official dress rehearsal - also at 6:00. We'll have a photographer at both dress rehearsals for some good pictures.

See you then!

And since there's no place to go...

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!




Don't forget to set your clocks AHEAD tonight.

Tomorrow's anthem - I Will Arise

10,000

Wowzers! We're getting close to 10,000 hits on our worship blog! How fun is that? If you notice that you are the 10,000th visitor leave your name in the comment section. I'll look for a cool prize for our 10,000th visitor!

Speaking of 10,000. Here's something you might need.

That is if you don't have your own drummer. We happen to have a great drummer at Hilldale. Let Ryan know how much you appreciate his drumming when you see him Sunday.

A Note from Papa Lyndel

We all know this blog is for sharing information from the music/worship ministry of Hilldale Baptist Church. And if you stop by here very often you know we've been posting non-stop about Bow the Knee Hilldale's Passion Play 2008.



But being the Worship Pastor at Hilldale is just part of who I am. More importantly (I don't mean that in a bad way toward Hilldale) I am first a husband then a father and grandfather. My grandbabies call me "Papa". I think it is the most beautiful word in the world!



Well, Papa has a secret. You'll have to do a few clicks to find it 'cause it's really someone else's secret for now. Clicking here http://papalyndel.blogspot.com/2008/03/beatles-song.html or here http://papalyndel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cats-out-of-bag.html will get you to a link to find out Papa's exciting secret.

Learn a Verse Night

Here we are on day 6 of our countdown to the dress rehearsal of Bow the Knee Hilldale's Passion Play 2008.

"I Will Arise, I will arise, like the sun at dawn's first light I will arise..."

We know that part and it sounds great. But how does that second verse go? Hmmm, I can't even think of the first word. (I don't think I'm the only one.)

So... we're having a "learn the verses" night. We'll sing verses and no choruses. I think of some fun ways to remember some of the words and we'll get all caught up from the rehearsals we've been snowed out of.

"Learn the verses" night will be THIS Sunday a little after 5:00 in the choir room. If you are not a teacher in AWANA or other Bible study group then I'd love to see you then.

Don't forget to set your clocks AHEAD this Saturday night when you go to bed.

Time in a Bottle

A beautiful love song from the 70s by Jim Croce -

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
...
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
...


You can fill in the rest of the story.

But I also want to remind you that this weekend is Daylight Savings time. When y ou go to bed Saturday night you need to set your clock AHEAD one hour.

Here's a site with some fun DST trivia.
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/k.html

The World Visits Hilldaleworship

Bem-vindo! Willkommen! Aloha mai! Bienvenidos! Üdvözöljük! Bienvenida!

In case you don't read this whole post, let me say right here that I'll be looking for singers and actors at 6:00 tonight!

What a fun surprise. I added a widget to our HIlldale Worship blog a week or so ago.

The widget was from Feedjit. Now for those of you who think I'm speaking a foreign language, I am! Widget was a derivative of gadget that has been adapted to mean a cool plug-in type of thing you put on a web page. (From Wikipedia: The web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. )

Well, I guess that clears that up. Ha! (or I guess I shoul say, "lol")

So this widget from Feedjit shows the last few places of people who have been on the blog. And if you click on "options" then you can click on "map" and see a map of the world that looks like this.

See all the little flags? They show all the hits from around the world. How fun is that?

So welcome! Glad you stopped by.

Oh, by the way. It is day 7 of our countdown to the final dress rehearsal for Bow the Knee Hilldale's Passion Play 2008.