The Harvest Church Worship Ministry exits to help people experience God and develop a life of worship.  Our calling is to facilitate true worship that is a response to our revelation of who God is.

Our Worship Ministry team, led by Charlie Ortega, consists of a full band including drums; acoustic, electric and bass guitars; keys; vocalists; and other instruments.

At Harvest Church our worship is based on sound Biblical principles. Worship is our individual and corporate response of love and adoration toward God. While it can be a personal expression to Him, it can be expressed in a corporate setting such as a worship service or home group. It can be an emotional expression, but it is also a willful demonstration of our acknowledgement and adoration of the character of our Mighty and Holy God.

Singing choruses as well as hymns

Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.    Ephesians 5:19-20 (NKJV)

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.    Colossians 3:16 (NKJV)

Lifting Our Hands

Behold, bless the Lord, All you servants of the Lord, Who by night stand in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.    Psalm 134:1-2 (NKJV)

Because Your loving kindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.    Psalm 63:3-4 (NKJV)

I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.  Timothy 2:8 (NKJV)

Clapping our hands

Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!    Psalm 47:1 (NKJV)

Bowing/Kneeling

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.  Psalm 95:6 (NKJV)

Dancing

Praise Him with the timbrel and dance.  Psalm 150:4 (NKJV)

Then David danced before the Lord with all his might.  2 Samuel 6:14 (NKJV)

Singing in the spirit

…be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.    Ephesians 5:18-19 (NKJV)

What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.  1 Corinthians 14:15 (NKJV)

Playing instruments

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.       Psalm 150:3-5 (NIV)

Shouting

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.  Psalm 100:1-2 (NIV)

Other references related to worship:

Psalm 66:1-4, 96:9, 138:1-2, 150:1-6