I Know the Plans I Have For You

Jeremiah 29:11-12

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Here is an anthem taken from Jeremiah. I had not encountered it before and it was a pleasure to practice.

Several different musical renditions of the passage have been produced, and I could not locate the publisher or distributor page for this particular one, and my copy of the sheet music somehow disappeared out of my choir folder, so I don’t have any composer or background information for it, but the piece speaks for itself.

I hear some interesting harmony coming from the bass section, especially near the end. The basses have been getting a fair number of Gs and Fs (bottom of and just below the bass clef) in our music of late.

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This was my week to run screens and I was in back, timing the slides and livestream captions.¹ It seemed like this one would be easy enough to do, but it wasn’t so easy and I had to very closely watch the director whose hands fortunately were visible, for once, from where I sat. Can you see the connection between his right hand and the slide turns?

I stopped the video abruptly at the end because the video director cut at that point to a shot of the next speaker coming up the steps. My video editor doesn’t do fades.

There was lots of pre-service excitement that morning, with ProPresenter² crashing, the service playlist rearranging itself, and two slide groups, the pastoral prayer and closing hymn slides, disappearing from the playlist altogether. (We recovered the hymn from the library.)

Even with all that, I went through all the hymn lyric slides beforehand and fixed all the broken livestream lyric captions. Most of the hymns had problems with those, and I think I am going to make a habit of doing that when I run screens. But I do wonder if all that editing is what led to ProPresenter crashing. There’s one way to find out.

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Recorded at Christ Community Church, Carmichael, California, February 11, 2024
Excerpted from this livestream.

1. I do manage to appear in the video, or rather my hair does, in the congregational shot starting at about the 2:30 mark, to the right of top center. Behind the two monitors. It’s actually a pretty good seat. One of the two large stage display screens is above and farther to the right.

2. ProPresenter is the presentation software that feeds the projectors, the stage displays (front-facing), and the livestream lower thirds title keys and images.