Interesting

If you've been following Pastor Jeff's blog, you know that occasionally he will have a nightmare about an upcoming service or event. Among all of the many leadership "skills" of his that have rubbed off on me, this one has also.

It went something like this---It's Sunday, it's one of our preview services, it's the time of the service when I'm doing the announcements and the welcoming and we have a audio-visual meltdown. Nothings working right, no audio and no video, except for my mic and Jeff's mic. Ben and Adam are drastically trying to fix everything, or anything. Ben keeps pushing the "fire" button on the laptop to show the welcoming video and Adam is checking connections and cables. Nothing is working. So.... Jeff and I improvise. He joins me on stage and we engage in small talk. It went something like---"How you doing?", "Good", "You", "Good", "How's the wife and kids?", "Good", "Yours", "Good" "How'd your team do?" "Yours?"...... you get the picture. Most of our core people were kind of chuckling because they knew this wasn't normal. Our first time guests were just kind of looking at each other and thinking "OK, this is interesting". (remember it's a dream so I know what people are thinking) Then, as soon as Jeff and I wrap up our "engaging" conversation and start to walk off the stage, the video starts playing. Then everybody lost it.

Well I'm reporting this post-preview and I'm happy to say that none of this actually happened. In fact, everything went very smooth last Sunday.

Props to my Peeps

Ok, I'm too old or not near cool enough to talk that way. But it's all that I could think of to type to say this....

I really want to publicaly compliment and thank my teamates for their hard work and diligence.

Jeff and Adam and Keenan have all put in MANY hours the last couple of weeks (most of it in their "spare" time) to get a video done for our launch. I know this because I was involved in just a small portion of it.

Their passion and vision and diligence as they worked on this project has been inspiring to watch. It's awesome to watch someone take their gifts and use them for the Kingdom. Isn't that what we're here for---to take our God-given gifts and abilities and give them away so other people can be blessed.

And let me not forget to give props to Terri Lynn, who held down the fort while the guys were out filming.

Let me say again, I love our team.

Let me also say, thank you to Sabrina and Amber and Katrina for your patience and support of your husbands!