Today was our first service at the movie theatre, and I absolutley love and prefer being there verses the school. 

Pros:

• Easy to find, prime location
• In place amenities: chairs, screen, and wicked awesome acoustical treatment that makes me fall in love with our subs.
• Its right smack dab in the middle of the freaking “world”

So saying that, today was the most stressful yet.

Here’s what went wrong:

- trailer was late

- storage key got jacked, and had to get the spare to get our tables out

- the projector remote went on strike and decided not to work. Yes we changed the batteries. Our attorneys will be forced to work with the “Dumb Electronics Labor Union” to come to an agreement to continue work. I’m not holding my breathe.

- I forgot the order of services and manuscript at my house. My wife is the best gopher.

- one of the speaker cables died. Josh Marhofer worked on it and brought it back to life.

- we threw a breaker right before practice.

- we threw another breaker 7 min before service. Once again Josh pulled a generator out of his back pocket and got us going with 00:30 left on the timer. I’m not kidding about the back pocket.

- we had a skeleton practice, in which we only practiced one song, did not practice one song, and only hit on a few parts of the others. Amazingly, everything was perfect. Our band is a great team of musicians who love Jesus with the best hearts.

- we had no pre-service production meeting.

- some of the channels on the sound board are dying, so we had some bad noise on the computer audio.

With all that said, I heard so many people say, “that was the most organized first run I’ve ever seen” or “there were technical difficulties?”

I’m proud of our team, and we have the best volunteers. This was a crisis day, but everyone worked as a team and no one freaked out. Everyone had a great atitude.

Josh Marhofer is an amazing worship leader who pulled of a great worship time in the midst of a slim practice, while being the man’s man that he is and fixed everything that was breaking. Our whole band is nuts.

Johnny Hauck…..need I say more? The man to have anytime anywhere. He strait up built a projector stand to solve a height problem behind the theatre.

Jered Lyndsey stepped in big to help us with sound today. He’s awesome. Enough said.

Justin Quintana saved my tail. He’s a great example of creativity meets administration meets the opposite of lazy. There’s no way we could have pulled off today without his help the whole morning. Tiffany & Co. doesn’t deserve him.

A ton of people spontaneously pitched in after service to help us get out in time. Makes my heart happy to see people eager to serve Christ.

I shouldn’t have named names, cause I can’t name everyone, but if you were there this morning before 10:30, and you had a pulse, chances are you helped us out huge. Thanks.

And all of this turned out great because we have a sweet pastor who’s attitude and courage rubs off on everybody.