20th Anniversary Reunion Concert Timeline
Here's our artist, web, and album release timeline
01-01-2004
The team was born with the following founding members:
Kirk Hopkins (vocals and acoustic guitar, to later play electric guitar, bass, and drums)
Pam Hopkins (vocals)
Mike Mains (acoustic guitar)
Ed Hampton (acoustic guitar)
2005
Mike Mains' last Sunday
Ed Hampton's last Sunday
07-30-2006
Sarah Focht joined (keyboards)
2006
Spencer Ford joined (drums) (Kirk switched to guitar)
Michael Brock joined (guitar & bass)
Kenny Phillips joined (guitar)
2007
Michael Brock's last Sunday (Kirk switched to bass)
Eric Welsh joined (bass) (Kirk switched to drums)
2008
Alex Mains joined (vocals, then drums) (Kirk switched to guitar)
Kenny Phillips' last Sunday -> college
Eric Welsh's last Sunday
Spencer Ford's last Sunday
2009
Greg Mathena joined (bass) (Kirk switched to guitar)
09-06-2009
Alex Mains' last Sunday (Kirk switched to drums)
09-13-2009
Sarah Focht's last Sunday -> college
Kyle Quinlivan joined (guitar)
06-06-2010
Sam Freese joined (guitar)
02-20-2011
Greg Mathena's last Sunday -> playing with the adult worship praise team (Kyle & Sam took turns on bass)
09-04-2011
Bob Conly joined (bass and guitar) (Kyle and Sam on guitar only again)
10-02-2011
Sam Freese's last Sunday -> playing with the adult worship praise team
10-09-2011
Aaron Edwards joined (drums)
01-29-2012
Brianna Quinn joined (vocals)
08-05-2012
https://sites.google.com/site/gzuslivzmusic/ web site created
http://www.gzuslivz.com domain name purchased
08-10-2012
Our 1st album titled 'Worship from Okeana' released
08-12-2012
Kyle's last Sunday -> college
11-21-2012
web address forwarding from http://www.gzuslivz.com to https://sites.google.com/site/gzuslivzmusic/
02-14-2013
Our 2nd album titled 'What's Next' released
02-24-2013
Aaron Edwards last Sunday -> taking on a larger role in another praise team
03-03-2013
Kirk switches to drums for one week
Bob switches to guitar
03-17-2013
Kevin Quinlivan joined (drums)
Kirk back on electric guitar
03-24-2013
Josh Mains joined (bass) -> and guitar, and Uke, and banjo
03-31-2013
Brianna Quinn's last Sunday -> acting in a play (Legally Blonde) with a company in Covedale, then drum corps over the summer, then off to college
08-04-2013
Carley Wesseler joined (vocals)
08-10-2014
Kevin Quinlivan's last Sunday -> off to college for Sound Engineering
Natalie Hopkins joined (vocals)
Kirk switched to drums
08-31-2014
Our 3rd album titled 'Jesus Lives' released
12-01-2015
Our 4th album titled 'Typically Christmas' released
05-15-2016
Josh out for a little while for a mission trip to Mexico and other commitments
Kirk switched to acoustic guitar/bass drum (and later snare drum)
07-31-2016
Josh back, Kirk back on drums
08-28-2016
Josh's last Sunday -> may be serving in other music ministry areas
Kirk back on acoustic guitar/bass drum/snare drum
12-25-2016
Our 5th album titled 'Sew Many Tastes' released
12-26-2016
Web change - gzuslivz.com web forwarding moved from https://sites.google.com/site/gzuslivzmusic/ to http://www.kirkhopkins.com/gzuslivz
04-30-2017
Bob Conly's last Sunday -> worshipping with his newly retired wife
06-03-2018
Zhen Mains joined the group on keyboard (and later, vocals)
Robby Mumfrey joined the group on vocals
Seth Hopkins joined the group on bass
Ben Kugler took over on audio, video, and lighting
The gzuslivz drumset was moved over to be used in the adult worship service
08-19-2018
Natalie Hopkins' last Sunday - off to college
Carley Wesseler's last Sunday - work time conflict
03-10-2019
Zhen Mains' last Sunday - teaching/leading children's classes/small groups
Robby Mumfrey on keyboard (and continuing vocals)
10-27-2019
Ben Kugler's last Sunday running audio, video, and lighting
03-08-2020
Last Sunday to lead children's worship (COVID-19 hit hard)
08-17-2020
gzuslivz will still continue to record but announced that it will no longer be leading music for children's worship
04-16-2021
Recording for our 6th album is once again underway
04-04-2023
The website had some revisions including a new (but still kind of similar) look and the addition of the songs to the album page
01-06-2024
20th Anniversary Reunion Concert
02-14-2024
Our 6th album titled 'Life's Changes' released
Past gzuslivz Membership Expectations and Guidelines
Our goals in leading worship in song
- God is glorified
- Christ is exalted
- The Holy Spirit has the freedom to minister
- The believer is encouraged in heart and mind
- The unbeliever is drawn to Christ
Leading worship
- Worship is the acts and attitudes of wholeheartedly giving ourselves to God – spirit, soul and body (Romans 12:1 and Mark 12:30)
- The goal of leading Worship is to help the people come before God to offer pleasing sacrifices to Him
- Memorizing music makes it easier to worship God and not worry about what’s coming up next
- Worship is connecting with God. While we are learning new songs, emphasis is placed on the song, but we should strive to Worship God in song during practice as well as on Sunday morning
- We are not playing for the kids, we’re worshipping God; the kids may not require perfection and God doesn’t either. God does require respect and he requires our best (Malachi 1:6-14)
Requirements to be part of gzuslivz
- Age: 9th grade and up
- Regular attendance at Legacy Christian Church (Harrison, OH)
- Musical proficiency
- Audition with Kirk
- 4 weeks of practice and worship service attendance with the group
- 1 year commitment