By HANNAH WESNER
November 9, 2007

It is Friday morning. I walk into a large dimly lit room. Most of my friends are scattered around the room talking in hushed tones.

I walk up to a group of them and join in the conversation. I see a platform at the front set up with three guitars, a bass and a grand piano. Out of the corner of my eye I can see my worship team leader making her way to the front. I quickly end my conversation and do the same. We reach the front of the room along with Travis, Sonna and August, the three other members of my team. I reach for my guitar and it begins.

In truth it began the week before when I walked into the classroom and saw Mrs. Rand sitting and waiting for her class of four to arrive. Once we were all there and had our guitars tuned to each other, she started the class.

After she prayed she began to talk about worship. “What is worship?” she asked us. It is a question that I still contemplate every time I make my way up to the stage. One thing I know for sure: Worship is not a performance.

As I sat in the classroom thinking about all the things that Mrs. Rand was talking to us about, I realized that everything we do can be worship. Worship by definition is “reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power.” It does not say that worship is some group of people getting up on a stage and singing a bunch of songs. No, worship comes from the heart. Worship is anything that I can do to tell my Creator that I love Him and He is wonderful to me.

When I first started to play the guitar I loved it, I played every day. After a while it got kind of old and I did not practice as much. But, when I saw that my school was going to start a worship team, I thought that I might be able to use my talent for something important. I could take the gift that I had been given and give it back to the God who had done so much for me.

To me, being on the Worship Team at Horizon Christian School is so much more than practicing four times a week for two weeks and then getting up on stage every other Friday. It is being able to give glory to the God that I love, the God who created me and wants His best for me, the God for whom I will live the rest of my life.

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“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is.”

—Ephesians 3:18

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