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
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