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August 24, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Because of being out of town yesterday I had to get to the church early this morning…
  • Really early…6:30 early…uhh watched the sun rising early.
  • I hate early.
  • Everything went smoothly with set-up and the band had a good practice after Thursday night’s debacle.
  • About 2 minutes before we were to start the 9:15 Experience, Dirk taps me on the shoulder and says, “Uh Andy needs to see you.”
  • Go back to the tech area to find Andy in a bit of a panic.
  • What’s wrong?   “We’ve lost all of our files for this morning.”
  • Somehow when they went to start the countdown, the computer crashed and when the program was re-opened all the files were missing.
  • I ran around to let the worship team know we’d be in a bit of a delay.
  • That didn’t feel good on a sore ankle.
  • Ran back to the tech area and watched as Andy started trying to get things working.
  • Not sure anyone really knew we were in a delay but we were 7 minutes late in getting started.
  • Never did get all the files back, but we made due.
  • Miraculously we were able to make up the time…although I felt like I was flying through the message.
  • During the 1/2 hour break in between Experiences Andy was able to get some more things back so the 10:45 went off without a hitch.
  • Attendance was down today, but I had expected that after looking at last years numbers the week before school started.
  • On a positive note, I thought Jack’s movie medley that he put together was excellent.
  • I also thought that the band really pulled the whole thing together.  We had substitutes in 3 areas but yet they blended well.
  • I was able to avoid last week’s mistake and keep my adrenaline pumping the whole time and so I felt much better about the 10:45 message.
  • Next week is going to be intense…the Dark Knight is an incredible movie and the buzz created by it makes for an easy invite.
  • As I said…I will be giving a clear presentation of the Gospel….do whatever you need to do to make sure you have people with you.
  • It was great to be able to finally announce our new Creative Arts Pastor hire.  Aaron Schwindt is talented in many ways that we need, but more importantly is a great man of God.
  • I’ll give more details about him later in the week.
  • For now, it’s nap time then dinner with friends tonight.
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