All Church Worship

We just gathered our three morning services together into one worship celebration for the reopening of our renovated sanctuary. This includes asking folks who like to go to church at 8:30 to wait until 10:30. For contemporary folks and traditional folks to join together, oh my!
When I arrived at Spring Valley "combined" worship didn't have the best reputation with a lot of folks. In what I find to be the unfortunately typically experience with combined worship everyone compromises and no one is fulfilled. My goal has been to find 1) appropriate reasons to bring the whole church together and when not to. 2) how to combine worship where everyone feels uplifted and renewed. I think we succeeded this week in 1, and made progress in 2 but could still do better. We succeeded in goal 1 because the whole church was invested in the sanctuary renovation; because the Bishop was preaching and because everyone changed a little. The order was unique, there were songs from both and neither musical styles we're use to, the time was unique to everyone. So many people were involved in the endeavor that it really felt like our church service -no matter who you are. Woohoo!
Just as type the last line, I remember my 2nd goal. Was our all church worship really fully uplifting to everyone? Did traditional folks tolerate the praise songs or were they uplifted by them? Did contemporary folks really embrace the traditional closing hymn or where they just ready to sing it and get on to lunch? Did the anthem from neither the stylings of our choir nor our band really bring us together? (God definitely moved through it, but could it have been better?) I wonder if we should take more teaching moments in a service like this (or in all services). How many times do we assume everyone in the room knows what is going on and what is expected of them. Or if they don't they'll figure it out once they've come to worship several times, cause it is always the same. What happens if we assume there is someone completely new to worship in the room every time we gather? Is there a way to truly have occasional blended worship experiences that are uplifting to everyone and glorifying to God?
We are testing out another manner of All Church Worship during the holidays this year. We're going to have one All Church Service on Christmas morning (Christmas is a Sunday this year) in our contemporary worship venue and style. Then, the next Sunday, on New Year's Day we'll have All Church worship in the traditional style in our Sanctuary. I hope that we come out of those two weeks feeling like we achieved holistic worship experiences that honored both styles, celebrated major holydays and brought us to worship worship all together. How is your church approaching the Christmas and New Year's Day are on Sunday challenge?