- Two words….Brilliantly Atrocious.
- For those who weren’t able to be with us, the whole day was called No Show Sunday. (pics below to help you get a feel)
- Basically we allowed people to experience what it would be like if no volunteers showed up and everything was just dependent on Brian and I.
- So we had no greeters, ushers, band, lighting, projection, etc.
- We set up a tiny stage on the gym floor, Brian played a few songs on acoustic guitar, while I ran back and forth between putting the lyrics up on an old overhead projector and handing out “bulletins” in the back.
- It was nice being able to sleep in this morning because there wasn’t anything to do.
- The look on people’s faces when they came to the door and Brian and I were greeting and they noticed no chairs were set-up was awesome!
- All week long we had wondered where people would put chairs. The 9:15 was just a blob of chairs everywhere…it was incredibly hard for me to take the offering. The 10:45 was a bit more organized.
- We have no real idea of how many were in attendance today because it’s hard to count when people are all over the place and there is no rhyme nor reason for it.
- The funniest thing might have been me doing the countdown with my fingers as shadows on the overhead projector.
- Brian and I were obviously exaggerating some things to make them worse than they needed to be but it was funny during the 2nd Experience when my mic did start to feedback and he was no where to be found. I had to go into the back room and fix it myself. I’m guessing people thought it was part of the plan but it wasn’t.
- I talked to quite a few first time guests who were impressed by the creativity of doing something like this and understood that what they saw is not how things usually are.
- As I had hoped, the Experience was so bad that it actually turned out to be good because it so beautifully made the point of how important our volunteers are.
- If you get a chance to listen to the message on the web-site, I left in me taking the offering by myself…funny stuff.
- The best part of the day was the dozens of new volunteers that signed up at the end of each Experience to serve in some way.
- Guess all that hard work making things bad was worth it!
- Getting ready to leave with the rest of the staff for a couple day get-away where we’ll brainstorm ideas for 2010. Should be fun!
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I wish you could have worked it out somehow that there was no childcare for those going to United! Interesting way to get children’s ministry volunteers :)