The Isaacs Five

A Great New Song from Starfield

2010-03-16T12:34:00.001-07:00

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Bedtime antics with Jack.

2010-03-08T19:03:00.001-08:00

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This Guy is Awesome

2010-02-24T10:20:00.001-08:00

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Kingsway Worship Set - February 21, 2010

2010-02-18T15:25:00.001-08:00

Happy Day
Awesome is the Lord
Awesome God
Came to My Rescue
I Offer All I Am
Before the Throne of God Above
How Can I Keep From Singing

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2010-02-16T21:35:00.001-08:00

dominion + peanut butter m&ms + popcorn + peanut butter pretzels + beer = heaven

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Untitled

2010-02-16T10:02:00.001-08:00

somebody beat me to it.

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I want one of these:

2010-02-12T16:48:00.001-08:00

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backyard fun

2010-02-08T17:58:00.001-08:00

kids don't care if its freezing cold!

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New Chord Chart Software I'm Using

2010-02-08T11:10:00.001-08:00

This is a follow up to something I posted almost exactly a year ago (Read the original post here).

For the past few months I've been searching for a web-based solution to creating and maintaining a database of chord charts and set lists for my worship ministry. I signed up for trial periods on lots of different online worship management sites (planningcenteronline.com, worshipplanning.com, etc.) but could not find a solution that was a good fit for me. Most sites focus primarily on planning worship services: providing tools for creating service orders, picking songs, communicating with musicians, etc. But I really only needed the chord chart creation and management part. Because I'm in a smaller church (with only one band and fairly unstructured service orders), I didn't need all the bells and whistles for service planning that most sites offer.

I did find sites that focus more on chord chart management, like song-manager.com, but none of them were very powerful or user-friendly.

Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I found gospelsoftware.com. They offer 3 services, but you can pick and choose which to sign up for. Their SongBook service is exactly what I've been looking for. Here are some of the features I like:

It's online! For about four years, I've been using an opensource program called Opensong, which was a simple desktop application. All my songs were stored locally on my office computer, which meant I didn't have access to them unless I was at the office! There were also a few other worship leaders in my church using the same software, meaning we all had different databases. It was a pain having to email zip files of the song folders and trying to keep our databases synced. In fact, we gave up a while ago...
It outputs nice-looking charts. Many of the other sites I explored had pretty ugly-looking chord charts.
It has a specific import function for Opensong files. This was probably the biggest selling point for me. Instead of having to reformat every single song, I can import an Opensong file and Gospelsoftware automatically formats it (including all the song metadata, like author, key, copyright info, etc.)

Here are some screenshots:

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Kingsway Worship Set - February 7, 2010

2010-02-05T16:14:00.001-08:00

Your Name High
We Shall Not Be Shaken
Blessed Be Your Name
Worthy, You are Worthy
Let Your Glory Shine (not in playlist)
Now You Are Glorified (not in playlist)

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2010-01-29T18:22:00.001-08:00

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Livi with Serenity Brown

2010-01-29T18:19:00.003-08:00

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Kingsway Worship Set - January 31, 2010

2010-01-29T15:39:00.001-08:00

*The first two songs are not on the youtube playlist.*

Be Glorified (D)
Amazing (D) - Matt Redman from the album Where Angels Fear to Tread
Glory to God Forever (Bb)
How Great is Our God (Bb)
From the Inside Out (Bb)
I'm Singing (G)
The Time Has Come (G)

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Kingsway Worship Set - January 24, 2010

2010-01-22T16:48:00.001-08:00

1. No Not One (A)

2. I'm Singing (G) - new song!

3. Famous One (G)

4. Before the Throne of God Above (C)

5. Your Love Never Fails (G)

6. High and Lifted Up (G)

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Kingsway Worship Set - January 17, 2010

2010-01-14T12:37:00.001-08:00

We Shall Not Be Shaken - Matt Redman

Enough - Chris Tomlin (Jeremy Camp version)

Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman

Good to Me (I Cry Out) - Craig Musseau

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Came to My Rescue - Marty Sampson

You Alone Can Rescue - Matt Redman

Desert Song - Brooke Fraser

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We're finally healthy!

2010-01-11T13:41:00.001-08:00

After weeks of being sick and stuck at home, we all woke up this morning feeling good! Mondays are my day off, so we all sat down for a nice breakfast of chocolate croissants, yogurt, and coffee.

Then we decided to get dressed and go to the park. The kids ran into the playground as if it had been years since they'd been set free! We played for a while, then went to the mall to walk around and eat lunch.

Now we're home for naps. Thank you Lord for restoring us!

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Woot! - a cool one-item-for-sale-per-day website

2010-01-11T10:28:00.001-08:00

http://www.woot.com/

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bubble bath for the middle

2010-01-09T18:35:00.001-08:00

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Jacky Boy playing "drums" like...

2010-01-01T17:51:00.001-08:00

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this guy always reminded me of Chris

2009-12-27T17:56:00.001-08:00

Christmas in the park

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New Kingsway Bulletin Design for the New Year

2009-12-24T11:29:00.001-08:00

Download now or preview on posterous

2010-01-03Trifold.pdf (519 KB)

Starting in 2010, the bulletins will be in a tri-fold layout design!

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Roxorloops: my favorite beatboxer from Belgium. Craziness.

2009-12-24T09:25:00.001-08:00

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quite possibly the best website ever...

2009-12-22T21:28:00.001-08:00

I think "Rudolph" is my favorite!

http://www.sundog.net/carolofthechins/flash/card.swf

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2009-12-21T21:19:00.001-08:00

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Bethlehem AD pictures

2009-12-21T21:17:00.001-08:00

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in line for Bethlehem ad in redwood city

2009-12-21T19:27:00.001-08:00

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should I keep this mustache for Christmas?

2009-12-21T10:58:00.001-08:00

vote yes or no on Facebook

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beautiful stache

2009-12-20T15:42:00.001-08:00

for our Christmas sweater and mustache party tonight

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More Family Photos

2009-12-17T17:01:00.001-08:00

More photos from our family photo shoot a couple of weeks ago with Shanni.

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Jojo or Santa?

2009-12-16T12:48:00.001-08:00

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Jojo sings Old MacDonald

2009-12-15T18:01:00.001-08:00

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the sickies

2009-12-15T17:50:00.001-08:00

Jojo and I have been quarantined

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Resurrection Injection

2009-12-15T15:23:00.001-08:00

Andrew Isaacs gave an awesome sermon about what it means to have the power of Christ's resurrection at work in our daily lives. It was inspired by this video:

Check it out!

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Tubby time.

2009-12-13T18:20:00.001-08:00

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Notes from my sermon this morning

2009-12-13T14:44:00.001-08:00

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SermonNotes_Experiencing_God_in_Worship.pdf (110 KB)

This sermon is part of a series we're doing at Kingsway Community Church called Pursuing Intimacy with God.

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At the Park

2009-01-19T20:34:00.001-08:00

We've been really enjoying the great January in California weather over the last couple of days. This morning we went to the beach, and it was beautiful and sunny! Yesterday we went to the park and dad took a few pictures.

Here are some of our favorites:

Check out the rest here

drawing, bouncing, and dancing

2009-01-18T20:25:00.000-08:00

Hey friends,

It's been a wild year so far! We kids are all growing and changing and getting crazier by the second. Big news right now is that we're gonna move. Jacky Boy and I are really excited to move into the new house. We keep asking constantly, every day, if we're going to the new house yet.

I hope you're all doing well.
Love,
Olivia

PS. Here are some videos for your enjoyment...

Stubborn

2008-12-29T14:30:00.000-08:00

Our kids go through the weirdest eating phases. One day they'll love something, and the next they won't touch it. This can become a nuisance as you might imagine. I swear, Jack has gone a full day with hardly a bite of food. Threats don't really work. Rewards don't really work.

Aren't kids fun?

A glimpse into dinner time with the Isaacs family:

Post-Christmas Interviews

2008-12-26T13:13:00.000-08:00

Isaacs5 Photo Shoot

2008-12-22T09:47:00.000-08:00

Santa's Little Helper

2008-12-09T08:24:00.001-08:00

My family and I had a great time at this year's Christmas Soup Potluck. I was definitely the star of the show! Mom dressed me up so I would look just like Santa - it was awesome.

Check out this picture of me and Santa sitting together:

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hooray for Weddings!

2008-09-30T09:08:00.000-07:00

We all had a great time in the Central Coast a couple of weekends ago for Brett (Briana's brother) and Vicki's wedding! We drove down to Paso Robles on Friday, got settled into our hotel room (yes, all five of us in one room), walked through the wedding rehearsal, then went to the rehearsal dinner. It was a very long day, and we had some very tired children on our hands, so it was actually no problem getting them all to sleep.

Saturday was another long day: getting ready for the wedding, attending/participating in the wedding, then partying "all" night long.

Here are some pictures of our adventures!

getting ready for the wedding...

2008-09-01T20:19:00.000-07:00

Briana's brother (Uncle Brett) is getting married in a few weeks, and Olivia and Jack have the wonderful privilege of being the flower girl and ring bearer! They're really excited - especially since we already picked out their wedding outfits. Here they are modeling their new threads...

...at the park...

2008-08-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

(Posted by Jack)

We had lots of fun yesterday at the park. Daddy let us bring our tricycles this time. Sissy la-la has a princess bike. I have a Thomas bike. For some reason Sissy always tries to ride my Thomas bike; even though she has a perfectly pink princess bike. What the heck?!

Anyway, we went to our new favorite park which is just down the street from our new house. It's called George Paige Park and it's really cool - except I heard Mommy say, "It's great but it has no swings and no bathroom."

But I can't figure out why a park would need a bathroom?

Okay, here are some pictures of us playing (plus some bonus shots of Josiah sleeping in his sling)...

Strike a Pose

2008-08-23T09:03:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, it's me, Livi. Since dad created this new family blog, I decided to not waste any time in putting together a slideshow of all my favorite modeling pose pictures. I figured this blog was pretty boring without ME ALL OVER IT.

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

Kitchen Baths and Dodgy Nookies

2008-08-20T21:42:00.000-07:00

Posted by Josiah:

It's not easy being five days old. You think we five-day-olds just lie around sleeping, eating, and crying - you think this must be the life. You think, "I wish I could lie around sleeping and eating all day." But trust me -- it's not easy.

Try not having any control over your arms and legs and neck; try having people poke you and prod you all the time. Try having to rely on other people (who you can hardly see) for everything you need. You'd be crying too.

I can't wait until I'm like, two months old or something like that. Ah, that'll be nice -- enhanced motor skills, better vision, chubbier thighs.

Okay, enough complaining. Here are some videos of my first couple of days at home...

This is Scotty trying to give me my pacifier. Okay Uncle Scott, here's how it works: I open my mouth and you stick it in. Easy. Right?

Here is my first sponge bath on the kitchen counter (one of the few perks of being five days old).

The Isaacs 5

2008-08-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

It's 12:01pm and all is quiet (except for the neighbor kids playing Rock Band at an obscene volume level, the airplanes descending overhead, and the phone constantly ringing with sales calls). Olivia and Jack both woke up this morning (6am) having thrown up in their beds... literally. Then it was tag team vomiting for the next couple of hours: Livi throws up, we clean her up, Jack throws up, we clean him up, repeat, repeat. The 6am "mommy!" cries did not wake us up, however, since we were tending to our 4-day old baby boy, Josiah. Brini was up throughout the night feeding Josiah every couple of hours.

Back to Livi and Jack: by 9am, after multiple vomits and clean-ups (lots of towels, bedding, 3 loads of laundry, etc.) they were both "starving" and ate huge breakfasts. Throughout their breakfast time, I sat on the couch holding Josiah while Brini rushed around making beds with clean sheets, doing laundry, keeping sippy cups filled with milk, refreshing cereal bowls, etc. After breakfast, we promptly sent them upstairs for a rare morning nap. They conked out instantly. Once the two sickies were asleep, I took Josiah on a walk (his first walk, by the way) to the local coffee shop for two large coffees. Brini went straight to bed.

When I got home, everyone was still asleep (and they still are); so I figured I'd write the first post on our new family blog: the Isaacs 5. If you were a fan of Livi and Jack's blogs, bookmark this blog. All of their future blog posts will be here.

In the two days since Josiah came home from the hospital, we've already had some extremely challenging episodes. Livi and Jack are adjusting to a new attention-stealer, ahem, baby. They are more whiny, clingy, pouty, and naughty than usual. Brini and I are both on edge because of lack of sleep and the kids' shenanigans. But we've also has some wonderful moments together as a 5some. Lots of hugs and love and cuddling (and praying!).
The next few years (heck, decades) will be full of challenges; but I know we're gonna get through it.

We love our BIG family and we're looking forward to many years of laughter and tears and craziness.