Walkin on Water

Pastor Perry Burgess of Walk on Water World Outreach Church

Walk on Water ministries has been a faith operation from the start. I remember when the ministry was birthed and a great commissioning service at the Lighthouse in Monroe with Sam Chand and others. I was blessed to be able to lead worship on Thursday nights when the church was on Clarks Bridge road in Gainesville and the freedom we experienced there. As a matter of fact, the first original songs started right there and the beginnings of what we call "Healing Flow", the place in worship where God moves, the original praise in which our Lord inhabits, and where the lines which define worship and intercession blur.

We were there the night the Athens Mission Church began, leading worship downtown in a little church hall that filled up so quickly, and people who were hungry not only for the free food, but also for the encouragement and direction that our Pastor brings on a regular basis. We continued to come on Sunday nights with our friends and our team to join the Pastor in his groundbreaking ministry to the street people of Athens. When the call came to come to the new building for the next phase we jumped at the opportunity and continued for a year and a half. To see the Pastor's generosity and his heart for the homeless and the street people of Athens inspires you to want to do more.

So the fine people of Athens, especially the landlords in our shopping center decide that they don't like the church housing from 50-75 people an night and feeding as many as 150. The homeless church of Athens ironically homeless. What to do? Where do we go?

We are in Commerce, making the best of it at 217 Sandy Creek road in a converted garage, and God is moving. This Sunday, July 3, we will have a team from the Lighthouse church and Side Walk Sunday School, with a cookout afterwards. Free to all. Come and see what the Lord is doing and join by faith as we continue to Walk on Water!

This weeks set list:

Friend of God by Michael Gungor and Israel Houghton

Open the Eyes of My Heart (a classic)

Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) by Casting Crowns

Jesus Messiah by Chris Tomlin

Revelation Song by Jennie Riddle

This is a part of a worship leaders network led by Fred McKinnon called Sunday Set List

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in the flow.....

Jack

Father's Day

My third Fathers Day without a father. Memories....

I would have loved to share a few more Father's Days with my dad. I find myself doing things like he would have, and saying to myself, "I look like my dad". Problem is, when working with my hands, I'm not nearly as creative as he was. I would love to share my love for bowhunting with my dad, and find what he said was true, about spending time in the deer stand talking with the Lord. In fact, last year I hunted out of his last deer stand, in sight of his final resting place. I would love for my dad to have gotten the chance to meet my grandson, Myles, who lights up my life when he sees me and calls me PeePaw.

We did spend the evening with Myles and all those old folks he lives with (my son Christopher and his lovely wife Angie, who once again came through with the required banana pudding) and Angie's parents, our good friends and now family Jerry and Cathy. Good times. Myles doesn't want us to leave, and told his PeePaw and GMa "I go in your car?". After teaching for 30 years I know many high school students who can't form such a complete sentence.

Daniel made it home from his first week of med school, but spent the majority of his time studying. Highlights of his week included his first encounter with a cadaver and realizing he wasn't in Kansas anymore. Hannah is being a good sport and even helps him study. Really. The one with the biggest adjustment here is the dog. Annie doesn't quite understand.

New material for the band is going to be more of a challenge now, but we are working on the Casting Crowns tune "Glorious Day" (Living He Loved Me). It's gonna be a keeper, fo sho.

Sunday's Set List

Meet With Me....Ten Shekel Shirt

Breath of God....Healing Flow

Call My Name...Third Day

Freedom Reigns...Jason Upton

Altar call today included a hymn medley (kinda in the Lindell Cooley, Brownsville Revival Style) with What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Leave It There, When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, and How Great Thou Art. A little bit of a stretch for us, but it reassures all the older folk that come to church that hang in there with us through Third Day and Lifehouse and Casting Crowns.

This blog and many others like it are a part of the Sunday Set lists at Fred McKinnon's website. Check out what other Worship leaders are doing here

Speaking of Brownsville, 16 years since THAT Father's Day if I am counting correctly. Has it been that long?

in the flow....

jack

Time flies

We moved Daniel into an apartment in Atlanta yesterday. Frances and I are about to be empty nesters for the first time this week. Where did the time go? We enjoyed meeting Ben, his new room mate and Kevin and Lorie, Ben's parents. We seem to have an amazing amount in common, starting with the Love we all share for the Lord, and for our kids.

Walk on Water church is operating now in the big city of Commerce, Georgia, my home town, and we are having some great services. We even had a taste of camp meeting this morning as some spontaneous old school praise broke out....such as When I Think of His Goodness, Look What the Lord Has Done, Enemies Camp and such. What fun!

The rest of the worship set this morning:

Holy is the Lord by Chris Tomlin

Treasure by Healing Flow

Mighty to Save by Hillsongs

Your Love is Extravagant by Darrell Evans

Grace Flow Down by Chris Tomlin

Check out other worship teams and set lists on the Sunday Set Lists at www.theworshipcommunity.com

Here's an original about time....

Time by Jack Balthazor (ASCAP)

Copyright 2009 Healing Flow Music (ASCAP)

Time is but a vapor

Here today, gone tomorrow

Life is so fragile

breakable, changeable

Never ending, yet sudden

Eternity unstoppable

Stops by to remind us

What is man that Thou art mindful of him?

I want to be in Your Presence, Lord

I want to live in Your time and place

You know no boundaries

Your love knows no limits

A day is like a thousand years

a thousand years is like a day

Got a minute?