I'll start with Friday and work backwards. Friday morning I took Dan Perkins and Mario Minardi to the airport. They were heading back to San Jose to Twin Oaks Church. The two of them leave next week for Croatia. Their church will soon be expanding its missions vision and this is an integral part of the next step for them. At nine-thirty I checked out of the hotel and headed to EMI/WorshipTogether for a great Re:create add-on. Brenton Brown and Matt Maher led us in worship. Awesome. Had a couple of discussion panels with various EMI execs and some of their songwriters. Really informative. told us all about the new and improved worshiptogether.com website, including a brand new blog and a newly expanded and highly improved song section. Great resources for worship leaders and fun to explore - lots of stuff to click on - in fact, I used the song section to look up a specific topic for worship this weekend!
After lunch, we broke up into two groups for the song critiquing session. Now, I had forgotten that this was part of the Friday deal. So, I scrambled and with a little bit of help from some friends, I burned a CD of one of Jeff Bakalar's original songs - one that I wasn't involved in writing at all - I submitted My Salvation Your Redeemed for critique by Jimi Williams and Matt Ewald and several of the Re:create attendees. I was super-nervous on Jeff's behalf. The overall critique was really positive. They had a couple of suggestions for improvement to the song. I've posted this song here before, but in case you missed it, here it is!
