Just a personal note from our hearts to yours. September 7 ”Kingdom Come” is releasing! Get yours on iTunes that day. And we’ll give away 100% of the album sales to provide clean water for families in Uganda. It’s a Win/Win. Thanks for your support!
Aug
31
31
Live Stream With Carlos Whittaker
Tonight we will be live streaming with Carlos Whittaker at 9PM. Carlos is a great friend to us in ministry, and is king of online community. He’s also currently traveling around the country leading others in worship with some rad new songs from his album, Ragamuffin Soul. We’d love to have you join us in the conversation as we’re going to be talking about our “Kingdom Come” album release in one week, and having a “kingdom” mindset….we’re all in this together. See you tonight!
Join us tonight at 9PM at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/elevationworship1
Aug
30
30
Set List – 8.28/29.10
THE INVITATION – Week 2
Matthews – Mack, Brad
Providence – Chris, London
Uptown – Wade
Canon In D – Remix by Aaron Robertson
We Rejoice - Elevation Worship
Revival’s Fire – Andy Cherry
Mercy Reigns – Elevation Worship
I’ll Always Love You – Phil Wickham
By far the best part about our weekend at Elevation Church – 581 people surrendered their lives to the Lord! Accepted his love and chose to begin living for him. Wow! We’re blessed to be a part of a move like this that isn’t slowing down. Charlotte is becoming known for Christ’s love one changed life after another!
Aug
26
26
Faith Confessions
One of the most inspiring things about Pastor Steven’s leadership is how seriously he takes preaching the word of God, no matter the event or venue. When he stands on stage, he has saturated his heart and focused his mind on some key Scriptures that prepare him for what God has called him to do in that moment. He talks about that in the new Sun Stand Still short film called FAITH CONFESSIONS. If your role in ministry requires you to stand on a stage and preach or lead worship, you should stop what you are doing and watch it now.
His example has really challenged us as worship leaders to do the same. One of the Scriptures that I meditate on going into the weekend is John 3:30 – He must become greater; I must become less.
It is such an important reminder for me that my role as a worship leader is to draw people’s attention to Jesus, not my skill or performance. I should definitely bring my best because God deserves excellence, but the goal in that is to make the name of Jesus great and not my own.
So what are some of the Scriptures that mean the most to you as you prepare your heart for worship? How do you align your heart with God’s heart?
-Wade
Aug
25
25
The Invitation
This past week we kicked off our series, “Invitation.” And once again our video team amazes us all with the most creative, quality storytelling to accompany the Great Banquet parable from Luke 14 that Pastor Steven preached from in this week’s sermon. Enjoy.
“The Invitation” Short 1 from Elevation Church on Vimeo.
“The Invitation” Short 2 from Elevation Church on Vimeo.
“The Invitation” Life Change Story from Elevation Church on Vimeo.
-Chris
Aug
24
24
Live Streaming with John Mark Mc
Tonight we will be live streaming with John Mark McMillan at 9PM. There’s something unique about what’s happening in the city of Charlotte and what’s to come is going to be even greater. And it’s pretty rad to partner with and support other worship leaders in our own city that are all about seeing God’s kingdom come. So we thought we’d have a lil get-together, chat it up about what the Lord’s doing here in the Queen city, our ministries, talk about our new album “Kingdom Come,” maybe play a song or so from it.
Join us tonight at 9PM at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/elevationworship1
- Chris
Aug
23
23
Set List – 8.21/22.10
INVITATION SERIES – Week 1
Matthews – Mack, London
Providence – Wade, Chris, Carlos Whitaker
Uptown – Brad
For Your Name – Hillsong
You Are Enough – Elevation Worship
Kingdom Come – Elevation Worship
With Everything (Full Band Remix) – Hillsong
The Church – Elevation Worship
Your Love Never Fails *(6PM Sat & Sun only) – Jesus Culture
Aug
18
18
Compact Discs
Our physical copies of the “Kingdom Come” CDs arrived today. So much fun stuffed into a little neatly packaged 5″ x 5 1/2″ case. So here’s the heads up – if you’re not content unless you own a physical copy of an album, then on September 7, you can order your very own copy of “Kingdom Come” from our online store that will be launching on this here website that day. Or you could just always come and visit us on a weekend at Elevation!
MUCHO PRAISE to Ryan Hollingsworth, Elevation’s lead graphic designer, for slaying the artwork for yet another album. Ryan spends his spare time as the second baseman for the mediocre (at best) Waxhaw A’s softball team, as well as caring for our department’s pet hamster, Lucille. Then occasionally you can find him posting over here at his blog.
Aug
16
16
Set List – 8.14/15.10
CHRIST ALONE SERIES – Week 4
Matthews – Wade
Providence – Mack, London
Uptown – Chris
More Than Anything – Hillsong
Glorious – Newspring
Mercy Reigns – Elevation Worship
Hosanna – Sidney Mohede
Our God – Chris Tomlin
Aug
12
12
Growing Through Evaluation
This month we are setting aside time to meet with each player and vocalist on our team individually for a one on one evaluation. We really believe in this process and feel it’s a great way to continue moving forward in excellence. We want to be good stewards of the gifts God has blessed us with, so we feel that a process of evaluating performance, attitude, and growth holds tremendous value as worship leaders and worship musicians.
The process is pretty basic and simple but so effective! We email each person on our team a blank eval document for them to fill out and send back by a particular date. Also, using the same eval document, we as the worship leaders spend time evaluating each person individually. Finally, we meet one on one with each particular person. These meetings are a great way for us to challenge and pour into the guys and girls on our team. Whether it’s your team, your relationship with your spouse, or yourself, taking the time to evaluate growth on any and every level always proves fruitful. And in our ministry, we have seen amazing results from this process!
Here’s a copy of the eval document we use for you to view. Just click to download it, if you so desire.
-London