Growth night and other ramblings

Well we survived another Growth Night service, with somewhere north of 100 people attending. I hope everyone is enjoying and getting at least something out of their small groups (leaders having a Sundae bar this week probably helped), and it sure sounds like things are going well with our adult groups. I'm honestly glad we don't have a December Growth Night. They take a ton of work, and it will be good to take a step back and really see what we want to do with this (don't worry, it's not going anywhere). I am totally open to suggestions and tweaking things. Our #1 goal in starting this was to provide students (as well as a segment of the adult population) a worship service that was geared towards them in a meaningful way. While we're not going to be moving away from doing worship as a part of our ministry, as it's something really important (not to mention central in the Bible) ,we want to make sure we're doing the type of music and other elements (videos, skits, mini-messages, etc.) that helps our students worship and grow. The feedback I've been getting and seeing is that we've made a nice start considering roughly a year ago most of our students knew little about contemporary worship. It was awesome tonight having people singing back at us loudly (we as a band could barely hear ourselves and we had it pretty cranked), which it pretty cool. I also see many more people opening themselves to worship in new ways (clapping, prayerfully singing, waving arms, etc.), which is also sweet. I hope to spend the next few months really talking to students and getting as best an idea as possible as to what specifically you want us to be doing. This is your worship service, so you're gonna start getting some real ownership as to what goes on.
Tonight's set list
Not to Us: Chris Tomlin
Blessed Be Your Name: Matt Redman
Holy is the Lord: Chris Tomlin
Mighty to Save: Hillsong United
No One Like You: David Crowder
Every Move I Make: Fusebox

Scripture: Judges 7:1-3