GuyMelton.com: What Were You Thinking?: God Far Exceeds our Expectations....Worship Team update

3 months ago at the beginning of the Summer, Oasis Church had a transition in its Worship Pastor leaving. With 13 services, 3 campuses, 7 Nights a week, it would have sent chills up any one's spine. As you can imagine, it takes a lot of people with lots of commitment to prepare and bring a meaningful worship experience to services in all different venues, sizes and locations -- 365 nights a year, and 52 weekends a year.

But God always seems to show up when you need Him most. It has been an amazing summer! God has not just met our needs, He has far exceeded our expectations. I'm not sure the average Oasis attender even thinks about all it takes to make it happen each weekend and each week night of the year. But our Worship teams and individuals have stepped up in ways we could have never imagined. Believe it or not, we have had to say at times, we have more Leaders than we have a need for. We have folks right now ready to serve and lead and we are having to pray and ask for God's leadership as to even having a space for them. It's incredible, and beyond anything I could have ever expected or even imagined.

Much of the credit and thanks from a human perspective goes to Ben Windle, Campus Pastor of downtown Hollywood campus, as he assumed the Worship Arts Director's role. Along with Ben is Mallika Windle who is the most incredible Coordinator ever, Chris Hughes, who left a stable of wonderful musicians behind at his leaving, and all the different people mentioned below.

The Post below was part of Ben Windle's Worship update to our Ministry Leaders last week and I just had to share it with you, the Oasis Family. Continue to pray for and cheer these guys/gals on, they are awesome and love the Lord so much.

"It's amazing just to sit back and watch what God is doing in Worship Arts. We got to see it all come together Sunday night. (Beach Baptism, and Concert)

You would have thought with all the transitions of the last couple months that we would be gasping for air, (I edited that line, from his original in house wording) but God isn't limited by our expectations.

Jhael Hakimian has stepped up in an interim worship leader role in NoMi. They did an awesome job in our beach baptism concert!

John Adams and the Hollywood team are simply amazing! They have a great heart for Jesus, worship, Hollywood, excellence, and each other! They are family!

Dante and Clive have been amazing and have gone over and beyond in not just leading a band but in growing, mentoring, and releasing. Love those guys!

Julie Anne is a bottle rocket and up for anything! She is a major team player with lots of talent and the desire to see others step up and lead.

Luke, Bryan, Zach, Brian and Kinshiro...where did they come from!? They're amazing!!!

We have THE BEST worship teams in all of South FL! How is that possible? How can it be that we are still progressively getting better, even better than we were last year in the midst of a whole department turning over?? It's GOD!! He's up to something!

We sent 4 worship leaders to Hillsong's Encounter conference in Miami. They had times of worship and break outs with worship leaders. Man! Was it worth the money! That group came back FIRED UP! Hillsong is a very successful touring worship team, we do a lot of their songs. The unique thing about them is that they don't have 1 leader. They all share the spot light. 1 person isn't limiting the whole group to their expectations. Sound familiar? It's what we've arrived at almost by accident! He's up to something!"

Ben Windle, Worship Arts Director/ Hollywood Oasis Campus Pastor