Weekend Update

We had a great weekend at Crossroads...except for the cancellation of our Saturday service. Roads were still kind of bad this morning but I arrived with a special anticipation.

Usually, on Saturday, I meet with the tech team prior to a band rehearsal. We discuss the elements of the service and then watch the rehearsal prior to a run through. The rehearsal is the band's time. The run through is the tech team's time. This is our chance to practice transitions, sound check videos and double check lyrics and lighting.

Normally, I call cues for sound, video and lighting. But one of our volunteer video directors got a new job and is headed for Ft. Wayne so I'm filling in until I get another guy (or girl) trained. One of our lighting guys, Bryan, called cues since I was in the video control room. I direct services on First Wednesday when we do communion as well. By the way, First Wednesday is a special time for the tech team as we take communion together at the end of service!

Since we had no Saturday service, we had no tech meeting or run through. However, I have such a great team of volunteers that they all came in early for the practice and everyone was "on" for the services.

We started off with an instrumental of the Michael Jackson song, Beat It. Last weekend one of my camera ops spent some time in Town Square asking people to give us their best "Moonwalk." I put together a video that played during part of the song. You can check it out Monday afternoon when our service gets uploaded to our website.

This was followed by our youth pastor, Jesse, doing announcements. We're looking for some dancers for some upcoming services so Jesse asked for our congregation to sign up. In my usual creative manner, I came up with a graphic to support his request.

The praise team was ready to lead worship as well! Due to time constraints we only had 3 songs but it was very powerful and a great lead in to the continuation of Pastor Tim's series Deconstruction/Reconstruction of the Disciple's Life.