Inside Today's Experiences - Gilbert Thurston

That was weird.
I was just telling someone yesterday that we do a good job of covering everything that we know to do, but occasionally the unexpected happens.
Today the unexpected happened multiple times.
It started this morning with breakers blowing in the gym.
Guessing as cold as it we were using extra juice.
Speaking of cold, I was making the long walk in from the furthest parts of the parking lot this morning and my hand froze to my water bottle…wish I was kidding.
More to come on the water bottle later.
At the end of the 1st Experience the band was singing and then all the sudden you could hear Brian singing another song…What?!
Our sound board has a USB port to plug a thumb drive into. We record everything directly to it, but it filled up and apparently the default is to automatically start playing the files on it.
So you we hearing not only Brian live but also from a few weeks back.
Memo to self: Check the space on the thumb drive each week.
The next weird thing happened after I came off the stage from doing the announcements in the 2nd Experience.
I grabbed my water bottle from backstage and was walking down the hallway so I could watch the rest of the music from the back of the gym before then heading back to the stage to preach the message.
As I was walking I took a big swig and swallow of water….one problem…it wasn’t my water bottle…in fact it wasn’t anybody’s water bottle from today.
Very rancid water that burned all the way down.
Immediately my throat was burning which made it hard to preach then…also as the sermon kept going on I felt my stomach getting more and more upset.
Needless to say I’ve spent some quality time this afternoon catching up on some reading. :)
Oh but we’re not done…one more weird thing happened.
After the bumper video in the 2nd Experience I walked out on stage and…nothing…no lights…waiting…waiting….I think it was probably no more than 20 seconds but it seemed like forever.
Our light operator accidentally hit a quick launch key that starts a DVD player on the laptop.
Apparently it’s not so quick and froze our lighting program until it opened.
In the words of the great theologian Bart Simpson….”Aye Carumba”.
Some weeks I don’t have much to report from behind the scenes…today…too much.
Other than those blips though, I was happy with both of the Experiences.
I think the chairs on stage were a cool visual.
Brian brought in a lawn chair from home that was hilarious…it was about 2 inches off the ground.
I asked him if was custom built for Vern Troyer.
Andrea kept saying she was going to sit on one for the whole Experience and I’d never know, but she chickened out.
Looking forward to next week…get to do the same message again 3 more times in the sanctuary.
Have a great week and don’t forget to invite someone to come with you!

Leave a Reply