As your new worship leader I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself.   I don’t know many of you so I hope that in the coming weeks you will    return the favor and tell me about  yourselves!  I am studying music and Spanish at OSU and will graduate sometime next year.  I have enjoyed opportunities to lead  worship both at my previous church in Albany and at Santiam Christian High School.

I have a passion for missions, and for those of you who don’t know I lived in Peru for four months last year a ways north of the villages our church has adopted.  I’m excited to return with our team in August, and I hope some of you will join us!

Please pray for me as I serve God by serving you as a church.  Let me know what you think of the worship services and suggest songs and other ideas (the blue communication cards are a great way to do that).  I will do my best to accommodate your suggestions in order to create a more worshipful  atmosphere. I pray also for you, that you may experience God more abundantly every day and be filled with the joy of salvation and of serving the King of kings.

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“Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!  Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into His presence with singing!  Know that the LORD, He is God! It is He who made us,   and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.  Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise! Give thanks to Him; bless His name! For the LORD is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.”