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May 25, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • What an interesting day.
  • Much busier Sunday than usual.
  • After getting things set-up this morning, Andy and I shot some video for next week.
  • It meant changing clothes for consistency.
  • Once we got back, I noticed the hazer wasn’t putting out enough haze so we had to get that going again.
  • The crowd today was about what I expected…lots of people off visiting families out of town, while at the same time we had people from all over the country in with us…Seattle wins the award for the day for people who travelled the furthest to be with us.
  • I loved the We Shine video we played behind the song.
  • One of our debates was whether to do it as a special or not.  It was hard to follow along with if you didn’t already know the song, but yet it was too energetic for people just to sit there, so we decided to go with the former.
  • I think our team was so jazzed up to do that…technically it was very difficult…that once it was done they relaxed and we had quite a few technical mistakes from there on out.
  • I hate that.
  • It’s sort of like how more climbers die coming down a mountain than they do going up.  The problem is you relax because you’ve already met your goal….however, it’s about finishing, not about making it half-way through.
  • Oh well, we’ll learn from it and do better the next time.
  • Even I was having problems today…I was all over the place in my message, but I was able to tie it together so that you probably didn’t even realize it. 
  • In other words it still flowed alright, just not in the order I thought it was going to…in cases like that though I trust God led me to remember things in the order He wanted me to.
  • I HATE ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
  • However, this week so much was going on I had cover it all.
  • For those who missed it, let me quickly recap two big ones.
    • June 8th Vote:  Immediately following the Experience all members need to come to a brief meeting in the sanctuary to vote on hiring a Pastor of Creative Arts.  To read more, click here.
    • Also we announced that United Worship Experience t-shirts are now available in a limited quantity.  Click here to purchase one or click the t-shirt link to the left.
  • It was great having Mike Schooley in town.  He along with a few other people got United started a few years back. 
  • We took some time to sit down for a video interview after the Experience which we’ll show in the future so you can hear the full story of when United was in its infancy.
  • I’m watching the INDY 500, getting ready to eat and then of course my Sunday afternoon nap won’t be far behind….can’t wait for CAYA tongiht…the new series is going to be awesome.

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