This weekend at Crossroads

This was a really cool weekend with fabulous worship and great teaching! It was also a weekend with some sadness and joy.

One of my long time video directors is stepping down and this was his last time on the team for us. He did a great job, even though he only had one camera operator who was on for the whole weekend! Each of the other 3 services had 4 different camera ops who filled in due to some last minute scheduling conflicts.

On the joyful side though, I had 2 new volunteers who sat in the control room observing and will be on the schedule for August and 1 other new volunteer who told me to put her on the schedule for August as well! It looks like I will be slipping back into the director's chair for a weekend or 2 while I work on training some new video directors. I'm looking forward to the exciting things the Lord has in store for our ministry as we move into fall!

Our senior pastor will begin a new series this coming weekend and our youth pastor filled in as the teaching pastor for us these last 2 weekends. Jesse did a great job! I think he secretly likes the added responsibility but don't tell him I said that. Lori Biddle, our Director of Magnification was gone this weekend as well. She attended a conference with her daughter in Minnesota and left us to fend on our own this weekend.

Here is our set list for this weekend:
1. How Great Thou Art (arrangement by Paul Baloche)
2. Glorified (New Life)
3. Rescue
4. Today
5. Special - "Waiting On the World To Change" (John Mayer)

At the end of the message, Jesse interviewed a young lady from our congregation, Alex Kuenzli. Alex has started a ministry called Soccer Kicks 4 Kids. She helps provide soccer equipment to youth leaders in Kenya, East Africa through the Global Youth Ministry Network. One of the amazing things is that Alex is only a 7th grader! Check out her blog for more information.

To be able to offer a worship service to the unchurched people of Richland County is a great privilege. In addition, to be able to work with a group of staff and volunteers that can fill in for each other is a blessing! Milo Sgambellone is one of our worship leaders. He is a bass and electric guitar player with an amazing ability. This weekend he had to fill in on drums as well! And to top it off, he plays piano too! Here is one of his original songs he composed and performed several years ago...

Many Miles from Steve Browning on Vimeo.