Video Venue / John Maxwell

We had a one day mini conference with John Maxwell this friday. It was great! He is always very inspiring. Most of these were principles that I have heard in some form from him before, but is was still very fresh and motivating. We had the hurricane go through Houston and so it messed up his charter company and so he wasn't able to come back for our Sunday Services. He will be back in November for the sunday services. We didn't even get remotely touched by any of the Hurricanes backlash. We didn't even get a drop of rain, in fact it was blue skies and sunny. We were supposed to get nailed. We had many evacuies in our services, and I hate hearing some of the stories of the devastation that took place on the Texas coast.

Video Venue went well. We had almost 450 this week between both services. We had some parking issues, because we are hitting capacity in our lots. But other than than it was relatively smooth.

Time is flying right now and I really wish it would just slow down! I have a feeling that it is just going to keep going the other direction. Sorry to be so short, I have to get back after it! Until later ...

Video Venue is now open ... Dreams?

As a part of the internship I am overseeing the opening of the new Video Venue. We had a live worship band and greeting and prayer then the video announcements. The offering and Sermon are piped in live in HD on a huge screen. Pastor Joe is larger than life. After a few minutes it is almost hard to tell that he isn't standing there. The Venue seats about 800 people per service. We started off with 2 services this past weekend. There were so many different individual elements that could've gone wrong and I have to admit ... I was running around like crazy, up until the last minute or so. Everything came togeher very nicely. The worship was incredible. All the transitions were smooth. The new series by Pastor Joe, "Questions", took on great issues and brought it home. We had about 210 in the first service and about 120 in the second service. Not bad at all for the first weekend. Next weekend we have none other than John Maxwell doing the welcome. How cool is that.

The funny thing is that I woke up Monday (Aug 24th) with a Dream. I was in a room and Pastor Joe walked by and then Pastor Paul. Paul turn to me and handed me his Blackberry and told me to print out a document from it. When I looked down at the phone and it was way bigger than i had ever remembered. The size was bigger, the keys were bigger, the screen, the functions .... everything. So, i said "how?". He said "Hit PT1 and print it I need it ... figure it out" and then he walked away. That is when I woke up. With this feeling of what am I doing? I don't know anything about this phone? It needs to get done and i have know idea where to start. When I got to church that morning, Pastor Paul caught me in the parking lot and told me that he had talked to Pastor Mel the night before and they were giving me the reins to the Venue. "Set up a meeting and make it happen." And that was it. I just think it is funny when that stuff happens. God gives you a heads up, but ... not to much ... just enough.

I need to catch up.

I really fell behind in the blog. I still love everyone. You can only use the " I have a new baby" card for so long before it runs out. Seriously though, life over took me for a while and I am trying to get my barings again. I am not going to try to catch up into the past, but just move forward from here ... more soon.