“How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!  My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.  Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; they are ever praising You.  Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.”

Psalm 84

“God desires to take us deeper into Himself.  He wants to lead us on in our love for Him who first loved us.  He wants to cultivate within us the adoration and admiration of which He is worthy.  He wants to reveal to each of us the blessed element of spiritual fascination in true worship.  He wants to teach us the wonder of being filled with moral excitement in our worship, entranced with the knowledge of who God is.  He wants us to be astonished at the inconceivable elevation and magnitude and splendor of Almighty God.”  (A.W. Tozer)

Our fast-paced world and time-starved culture constantly vie for our attention and affection.  In the chaos and confusion of our world, our hearts long for home and uninterrupted communion with our Creator.  We were created to worship, to be entranced with the knowledge of who God is!  Worshipping the living God lifts our eyes and our hearts to the unseen One who holds our lives together.  Through worship, we cry out to the holy Son of God to awaken our hearts to His beauty.  We run after the One who persistently pursues us.  We spend our energy and pour out our love in extravagant worship to our worthy God.  Calvary Community Church has a rich legacy in worship ministry and worship is a core value in the life of our church.  It is our desire, through worship, to cultivate intimacy with God, live in Christian community, and extend the Kingdom of God in the earth. 

At Calvary , we unite in worship, as a family, to pray for God’s love, mercy, comfort, strength, healing, and glory to fill our lives, our church, our city, and the earth.  We value diverse expressions in our worship experience.  Two styles of worship offer our church family unique opportunities to encounter God.  Jubilation rejoices and celebrates God’s creative Spirit within us and among us.  God’s glory and goodness are declared and experienced through music, dance, and art.  Our Jubilation worship time exalts God’s majesty and enthrones Him on our praises and in our hearts.  Reflections is a time of reverencing and embracing the God who is present with us.  A quiet place of adoration, devotion, and meditation awaits those who enter.  Our Reflections worship time is an opportunity to encounter God’s mystery and experience His nearness.

Toni Ruffino has served as Calvary ’s worship leader four years.  She is assisted by Jason Womack.  Toni and Jason share the responsibility of leading both Jubilation and Reflections.  The CCC Worship Team is comprised of approximately fifty (50) volunteer musicians, vocalists, audio/visual technicians, and dancers who faithfully serve the Calvary family.  They are excellent musicians and artists who model and inspire the heart of worship.  We always welcome new additions to our team and earnestly desire to make a place for all those who feel called to be lead worshippers.  The CCC Worship Team leads worship at our main services, monthly prayer meetings, ministry leader meetings, as well as taking part in community worship and prayer events.  The worship team has a genuine love for one another and the people of Calvary ; their desire is to offer their finest and to bring lives of worship and adoration, not only great music.  We make it our sincere prayer to lead with the heart of David: “And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.”  Psalm 78:72

As a team, we are very excited about Psalm Sunday.  Psalm Sunday is two hours of pure worship, held four times a year, on Sunday nights.  The first Psalm Sunday was July 15, 2007, led by Toni and her team, with approximately 250 Calvary members and guests in attendance.  It was a night of abandoned worship and powerful praise.  Psalm Sunday is a time to unite us to one another, to draw us into the atmosphere of heaven, and to draw the atmosphere of heaven into us.  All of the members of the worship team are encouraged and given an opportunity to participate in our nights of worship.

Hope and pray with us…we are in the initial planning stages for recording Calvary ’s first live worship album!  Please pray for us as we work on this project.

We look forward with deep desire and hopeful expectation as we grow in our worship and devotion to the Lord.  May the heartbeat of Calvary continue to be the heart of worship, where there are no spectators and EVERYONE is taken by the hand into the presence of God.  The worship ministry at Calvary Community Church is committed to excellence in musicianship and a passionate pursuit of Jesus exhibited through a lifestyle of worship.  We pray you will encounter worship, in spirit and in truth, at Calvary …among our adults, our youth, and our children.

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