Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Boiler Room Needs a Sound System!

God is moving at the Boiler Room... and He's using guitars, amps, speakers and microphones as His instruments. Don't believe me? Read Christian's testimony from a few weeks ago or a Ronald and Jenny's stories from December. But we need some help to keep providing an atmosphere of worship for God to change people's lives.

If you were in attendance at the Burn last Friday then you heard that the Boiler Room is in need of a sound system. Our sound guy Daniel Phelps has been letting us use some of his personal equipment since we moved in (last June), but it is now time for us to get some of our equipment. A generous donor lent us $2400 to order what we needed, with the stipulation that we will pay him back by the end of the year.

Broken down over 2010 we need $200/month. We took up an offering last Friday and got 10% of what we needed. This covers January. Would you consider partnering with us monthly through 2010 to cover these costs? I am asking for ten people to give $20/month in 2010. $20 a month! This is easy for most people. Please pray about it!

Commit to $20 / month:
Commit to $200 / month:
Give a one-time gift:

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Video: Caymen's Song (Acoustic)

Caymen's Song (acoustic) from 6:22 Ministries on Vimeo.

Labels: music

Christian's 6:22 Experience

Here is how I came to 6:22 tonight. Desperate, feeling unloved, with no purpose, just another guy on another road trying to make it through life. Life sucked. I've felt like the youth group and my family and my church have gotten too caught up in what's right, wrong, or traditional and has lost sight of what I believe God is all about: LOVE.

We get to 6:22. The music starts, and it takes me a couple songs to get into it. But for some reason, as I was thinking about life and the day, the question "Should I go to this college?" pops into my head. I was like, "Haha, maybe its from God. (yeah right...)". So I tried to answer it. And I heard "No". I asked myself the question again about 6 more times and tried to say yes in my head but it felt so unnatural compared to NO. So then I get into the music, and I love their lyrics. Every single word on every single song was exactly what I was feeling. I just finally started crying a little, and then I put my hands up just to worship. But then it felt like God was saying "Here, hold my hand." and I got this crazy notion to grab onto this invisible hand. So I did, and it was almost like I could feel it, but it still was nothing there. I can't describe it really. It felt like the picture of the Surgeon holding the hand of the tiny newborn Baby. I was holding the pinky finger of God. I just held on until I couldn't keep my arm up anymore. But then it was just, indescribable. It felt like I was in God's hands, cupped around me. That rest of the night, I didn't put my hands up because I didn't need to reach out to God, he was right there.

It was just amazing.

Finally, at the end of the night, I just felt so fulfilled and with purpose again. I feel like all these annoyances and aggravating things now are insignificant. Who cares. Not me anymore. And then right as Mathew closed the last song, I heard the question "Should I go to this college?" again. And this time I heard "Yes, you're ready now."

Thank You for this ministry, I've been looking for real love and real faith and not the stale Sunday School mold and here you have it in a cramped room across from a bar atop a rickety skate shop. Love is happening there. Thank you.

-Christian

Labels: testimony

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Leading Worship From the Secret Place

I had the privilege to spend a few hours with the worship band of Victory Campus Ministries (at East Carolina University). I broke our time into two teaching parts. The second part I addressed how to lead others in worship, we must spend time in the secret place with God. Here are notes.

Leading Worship From the Secret Place (PDF)

Labels: articles, notes, teachings, worship

Worship As a Response to God's Love

I had the privilege to spend a few hours with the worship band of Victory Campus Ministries (at East Carolina University). I broke our time into two teaching parts. The first was discussing the importance of being grounded in God's love for us, so that our worship is a response to what He has already done. Here are notes.

Worship As a Response to God's Love (PDF)