Worship Invasion
Posted on September 14th, 2008 by catalyst into the Uncategorized, Comments From Others categoryA reader writes:
Have you heard of the Worship Invasion group? They showed up out of the blue tonight at my school, Simon Fraser University near Vancouver and rocked for Jesus for 3 hours. My brother and I walked past the venue a few times over the course of a couple hours and they had a variety of styles going, people waving banners, there was even some kind of line dance going on stage, or so it seemed. It looked very goofy in that lovable goofy Pentecostal way, and very fun depending on what mood you're in. I checked out their website and it it's worth a look for giggles. It's not that I want to mock what they're doing; I think it's a great idea…it's just their presentation is, well, you'll see: Check out this page for their mission statement, especially the part about "Raw and Uncut praise." It is not a joke: http://www.worshipinvasion.com/Mission.htm I enjoy reading the blog from time to time. Keep up the good work.
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September 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
1998 called. They want their web design back.
Ow, my eyes. That link needs a warning label. “May not be suitable for people who do enjoy sticking a fork in their eye.” Sorry if I’m being critical here, but there’s a reason why web sites don’t look like that any more.
I was part of an outreach team at my college, and we had a music event outdoors on the campus event, but we called it a concert instead. We had no illusions of what people would think if we just held a church service on a very liberal campus. We served free burgers and told people where to find us if they wanted to experience more. I can’t say we were super successful, but we didn’t get booed or heckled for singing Kumbayah either.
But it reminds me of the all the crazy dudes who would come onto campus at lunch with their protest signs saying “God hates gays and everyone is going to Hell, etc.” while shouting at the top of their lungs. One day a student finally had enough and stripped down to his birthday suit and ran circles around the guy. I wasn’t there for that, but it made the local papers.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Kenny and Tracy are friends of mine who are actually talented and actually love God. They’ve been doing Worship Invasion for a long time (which might explain their graphics - sheesh!!) but having known Tracy my entire life I am hoping that the usual bashing does not ensue. And no, they don’t think God hates gays or tell people they’re going to hell, but that’s quite an assumption to make having only seen their website.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply there’s an association there. Not having seen their ministry, I can’t say anything bad about it. In fact, I’m somewhat sympathetic to your efforts, because I was involved in that same kind of ministry during my college years. Being a leader in a college-age ministry is always a struggle to get churches to pay attention to you. So many are unwilling or unable to do the things necessary to reach the college generation in their own churches and things like this become the best we have. I feel bad now because I don’t want to come across as bashing you when I’m all for your efforts.
CBC once had a rather vibrant college age ministry that met just blocks from the campus of Portland State. For more than 300 young people, those Tuesday and Friday night meetings were church for them. After a year of unparalleled success, we were called back to meeting at the domes, primarily because of funding issues but there were reasons beyond that that would take an entire post to discuss. Being a peer leader in that group, it was one of the most memorable times of my life, and “Main Street” ending was probably the beginning of the end for my tenure at CBC. When you have everything you worked for taken away due to budget & control issues, it sours you on working with that leadership forever.
God bless these guys for what they’re doing. A decade later I’m actually going to be involved in a similar college ministry soon again, so more power to them. On the other hand, it saddens me that churches are so bad at being relevant to young people, that the only attention young people get is at special events.