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d we had to take risks. hing we really tried to feel good about how it Love That Lasts”, is a an you tell us about it? started by one of our ed Evan John, to talk ember him bringing a riting camp, and it was alfway done. He was on the way to writing mber him talking about that song and wanting people to realize that the most joyful people on the planet, the most joy filled people that you meet, should be believers. They should be followers of Jesus. A lot of us artistic and creative temperament people have a love for melancholy. We love the dramatic, we love to sulk sometimes because it feels right for our personality. But I remember Evan saying, “I want to write a song that just emanates joy.” And that’s where that song started. [WM] River Valley Worship allows for quite a bit of “atmospheric embellishment” within its lighting and projection mapping. It looks fantastic. You’ve certainly got a great A/V team. How do you and the team guard against the constant tension between performance and ministry through worship, when surrounded by such fabulous and artful visual aesthetics? [Ryan] One of the principals of what we do, and something we say a lot is… we believe that our worship leaders don’t exist, or are not hired, or don’t have that role at our church Subscribe for Free... 37