Thursday, February 10, 2005

When I went to the new members dinner thingy at my new church last month, they had us fill out all sorts of paperwork. On mine, I expressed an interest in the Worship Arts team. The other day I got a call from the worship leader.

We had a nice chat where he asked about my singing background and skillz and also briefly about my spiritual walk ("I assume you’re a follower of Jesus,” I think was how he put it, to which I said, “It goes without saying."). I have an appointment next week to audition as a vocalist where I’ll be required to share my testimony as well as sing about 15-20 snippets of songs - he wants to hear my voice, of course, and also to hear me attempt to pick out harmonies, which I can do, but I’m not that great at it all the time - on some songs it’s harder for me to hear a good harmony line. So I’ll be singing melody lines alone and then with him and then he’ll sing melody lines with me trying not to make our ears bleed with dreadful harmony combinations.

It’s my own American Idol moment. I’m a little nervous.