Rob World Worship

Young drummers

Romania: Found this on youtube. This Daniel Olariu, Genu & Ramona's son playing drums. I think he's 4, maybe 5.  Also, at Metanoia church there's another kid 10 years old who is phenomenal on drums.

A New Anointing - Drumfest video w/ Decean

"Aceasta e" is well known in Romania.

So I'm out in the audience blown away by Decean's set (maybe the best rock band in Romania?) and I hear Nick say in Romanian "bla bla bla Rob Still .... Rob are you here?"   And the kids next to me say, "he's asking you to join them". Then Nick says, "come up here man, all those times you called me up front at Sozo ..." (which is true, but I forgot all about).  A lot of fun and a nice gesture from a great group of guys. They are really impacting Romania for Christ, especially among university students.

The Jesus La La Song @ Romania

Level 1 2009Class Picture

What a great group of young worship leaders! They endured my teaching for a week of Practical Theology of Worship in the mornings, then music practicums, then my Songwriting /Worship Leading seminar in the afternoons.

 

Sunday Worship - a wedding!

Holy matrimony is one of the sacraments (along with communion, baptism, anointing with oil, & ordination). This Sunday Aug 9 09 at Casa Inchinarii (House of Worship) the Sunday service was a wedding, with worship music by the team and special music from yours truly.     I sang "A Reason To Believe" and "Unity" (which actually is a wedding song).  The whole thing was about 4 hours long which was quite short by Romanian standards.  A lovely couple, blessings on Joji and Ingrid!

Midnight worship, dancing @ Metanoia church, Timisoara

 

Sozo 09 Photos

Here's a pic from Sozo 09. There's more in the photo album at the upper right hand side of the blog. Below is my co-leader, Oliver Ellis, a hard-working young worship leader at Red Hills.  It was awesome teaming up with him.

  A lot of good seed was sown in this area for spiritual renewal. Over 20 nations represented. Powerful experience.Maybe I'll write more about it later.

Video from first day, Romania Scoala de Inchinare

Romania School of Worship pic

From Monday afternoon's songwriting class.

 

                                                                                                                     

This is from Tuesday's session.

Alexa, Georgiana,(students) moi, Christine (Translator) Genu Olariu (Director)

Sozo Conference Begins

What an incredible day. I’m exhausted so I’ll just hit the bullet point here and post pics with a little more detail later. Red Hills is located a short walk from the village of Snitterfield.  We walked the 15 minutes there this morning and held our worship time in St James the Great Cathedral, “The villagers who established this Church more than 900 years ago built it in the faith that it would stand through the succeeding centuries as a witness to the unchanging truths of Christian belief.” Some of the parishioners joined us, They were very welcoming and seemed hungry for the presence of the Lord. We had an incredible time of ancient –future worship and intercessory prayer. Truly one of the highlights of my worship leading experiences. Can’t wait to see the pics.

 

After lunch my co-leader, Ollie and I assembled the worship team folks and progressed through over three hours of rehearsal and set-up.  Multi-national, multi-cultural, and multi-generational. Did I mention it rained? It rained all day (this is an outdoor event). It rained before, it rained during, it rained afterwards. Fortunately our positive attitudes, as well as the marquee (tent in American) held up pretty good and the stage stayed mostly dry, just a few drips here and there.

 

The opening ceremony began at 7pm with the loudest downpour of the entire time. Yet the tent was full, our hearts were overflowing and we had an incredible evening as this gathering of nations poured their hearts out to God in praise, adoration and intercession. We then heard testimonies from many people of how God had touched their lives. The highlight for me was Levi’s story  (our drummer from Romania). He shared how he became a Christian after missionaries showed him the love of Jesus and how Sozo (and Randall) had impacted his life. “Sozo teaches you how to be sensitive to people who are not like you.” God has not given up on Europe and He is raising up good people with a passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

The two oldest of Levi & Lili’s children played with us on the worship team, Anna (13) played violin. David (9) is very talented on the piano and played hand drums with us tonight, What a joy, they are the next generation of Sozo nation.

 

After this amazing time (all outdoors in the pouring rain) we had Café Sozo in “The Barn”. The Blackham family band (from England) performed  as did Nashvillian Tammy Rochele who just happened to be in England. We ended at 11. A very long but glorious day, even if the weather was foul, there was sunshine in our hearts and it shined very bright.

 

With any luck I’ll post pics later. Appreciate your prayers.