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I love this church. This has to be some kind of goal. I can’t prove it, but that has to be one of the largest crowds on a Sunday morning of any protestant church in our community. It’s not a contest, but that is 802 people that got to see God in perhaps a way they’ve never seen him presented and hopefully it made them think.
I’ve finally had the chance to catch up on some projects lately. The server is in place and slightly working. Samba is a pain when you have no idea what you’re doing. But I’m getting better. The only thing that needs tweaking is adding all the users. Everything else seems to be in order. All we needed was a fileserver, sometimes I wonder if I didn’t make it harder than it needed to be. Sure the security is nice, but man it’s a pain to maintain. Active Directory is much easier. I’ve learned a lot, but it just seems like it should be easier.
I sliced a huge chunk out of my finger yesterday. I was doing some chord control and was cutting off some excess from a wire tie. I should have gotten stitches but being a man I refused to go to the emergency room. I can’t remember ever bleeding so much in my life. Blood sweat and tears are just part of the job.
I had 3 teenagers help out with the media for the first time this morning. One just watched during the first service, the other two actually ran the media the second service. I’ve always liked teens. Teens are fearless and compliant. They will do what you tell them and their natural tendency is to stretch their boundaries. Adults have this natural hesitancy to avoid what they don’t know. Teens have less inhabitation. They will explore and discover what things do, how they work, and — here’s the good part–they always come up with a creative way to use what they learn.
Not only was it awesome to share ministry with 3 new volunteers, but I felt successful in making ministry as easy as possible.
When two 13 year olds with about a 10 minute tutorial can run the media for the first time on the biggest Sunday of the year and execute those video and lighting cues flawlessly and professionally, I’d say I’ve done about as good as I can to make this ministry accessible to anyone. Sure, they were very nervous. I had to constantly reassure them I wouldn’t let them fail. They had to take a huge leap of faith everything would work like it should.
They had a lot of fun but they sure took offence to being called geeks. I guess it hasn’t filtered down to their generation yet that being a geek isn’t a bad thing anymore.
It’s good to be working on all these projects again. I’ve missed not having the time.
Finally, for those of you curious, I haven’t bought a house yet…but I’m still looking.
