Volunteerism Updates
Day at the Lake!
What a great time! Special thanks to Deven and his family for hosting this event at their beautiful home!
Here are only a few pics from today! It was so great to hang out with all of you and just have some fun!
A New Week and A New Set!
First I want to brag on my team. Benjamin James (BJ), Ryan Shove, Brian Merritt and Matt Guice put in some crazy hours last week to make it happen! I’m so proud at how they handled all the work. These guys continue to make it a blast to come to work and accomplish such awesome things. Just to put it into a little perspective here are some rough specs from the set.
1200+ screws
1000 linear feet of PVC
700+ feet of painted 2×4
Let’s just say we wore out some iTunes playlists late into the evenings!
Special thanks to the other folks on SPD staff who helped as well. Tyler, Elliott and Jamie gave us a hand when they could. They also provided comic relief (i know you’re not surprised).
And, another HUGE thanks to Mickey Hamilton! First of all, this guy is a stud! You may know him as a humble helpful lighting or backstage volunteer, but we know him as an amazing servant leader. The columns in this set were provided by Mickey and some of his friends. They custom welded and shaped the aluminum and did it to perfection! What a blessing to work with such amazing volunteers. You guys just never cease to amaze!
Enjoy the pics! BJ explains on more of the logistics at his blog here: Support Creativity
How do you make a set dissapear in less than two hours?
By having some of the most amazing volunteers help! You guys killed it today! Thank you so much for all of your help. Our team cannot thank you enough for the time you have saved us this week!
Here is Before!
Here is After!
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
What would you like to do?
So it’s about that time of year when we do our Spring Volunteer Event. Last year we went bowling. It was good fun. What you like to do this year?
bowling, putt putt, movie night at the church? Any other suggestions?
Wow!
What an amazing evening! I believe that it was by far one of the most powerful moments at Browns Bridge Community Church. All glory to God! It was hard to hold back the tears at FOH when I got to see people worship like they did last night. And you all had a part in that. I am so proud of the environment you all help us create week in and week out… a place for God to touch people in ways they have never been touched before.
I want to thank all of our volunteers who helped make it happen. We can’t say it enough but what you do never ceases to amaze! Special thanks to Jackie and Chris who were brand new to the team and did an amazing job jumping in and filling the Stage Manager rolls.
Here are some pictures from the night. Thanks again for helping our church to Remember!
Chris
Sunday Shout Out 3.16.08
You guys are amazing! Really, you are! For those of you who don’t know, we decided to change things up a little at the Double B and had Steve leading by himself on acoustic. I really had no idea of what to expect from our attendees since we have never done something like this before, but it was an amazing morning! People singing loud, familiar songs stripped down, and Steve leading us and engaging the audience as only Steve can!
The shout out for this week goes to the whole video team! What beautiful execution you guys had with a completely different feel! Kerry, Ken, Chris, Joseph, and Nathan – way to kill imag! Every time Kerry took that camera 4 shot of Nathan’s I almost wet myself because it looked SO GOOD. Rich, the shading was spot on! Ken, Kristen and Paul – way to own CG/Pro/Playback/PC Live, just a perfect flow this morning!
Do you know what I loved the most this morning? Volunteers in EVERY SEAT! And you OWNED it! Chris was out of town, Ryan was shooting baptisms and I was just taking everything in (thank God nothing went wrong in video world, cause Lord knows I probably can’t fix it) – it was good to know Merritt was TD – He’s a genius. Ansley – it sounded perfect!
Another huge win for me – the second week in a row with one of my guys programming! Mickey, seriously, sometimes it is harder to learn taste with slow sets and you nailed it spot on. It was absolutely beautiful!
I/We can never say thank you enough to how much you guys pour into your roles here. Let us know if there is anything we can do for YOU!
PS – Sorry I’m a day late on this, we are gearing up for a HUGE week here with Good Friday and Easter, keep checking back every monday for the shout out of the week!
Benjamin
3D Andy
So as most of you know, Andy was live at the Browns Breezy yesterday. I really am surprised that nobody came up and told us how great the High Def looked this week. On a more serious note, I really thought that our crew this Sunday held it down. Most of them didn’t know Andy was going to be there until they walked in that morning. Everybody stepped up including Richard Wunderlich on camera 1, Keith Holland on camera 2, Kevin Sharpley on camera 3, Ken Frost on CG, Ken Fisher shading and leading the team through the morning was Kerry Rogan in the directors chair. Don’t get me wrong, everyone else did a great job, but these guys had to stay on all morning and did a great job. I know that there were a few who were nervous early in the morning. I hope that you guys now know that you CAN do it, and you did with excellence. Great job!———————–Shove
Spring Forward!
Don’t forget to set your clocks forward 1 hour this Sunday for daylight saving time. Aren’t you excited….now that 6:30 am call time will feel like 5:30! Ouch! We’ll be sure to get the coffee going early!
Sunday Shoutout
What a great day we had yesterday! Everything looked killer and ran smoothly and was made even better by the homemade the peanut butter and chocolate oatmeal cookies brought in by Susan Whitt. Susan works as a stage manager and her husband Rusty is a backstage manager and I love how pour so much into their positions and do them so well. Susan and Rusty are always on their game as our own stage crew couple, but then she has to go and make my stomach happy as well. Well done guys! You rock!
Here’s a set pic from a couple weeks ago…
-Benjamin/BJ/Whatever
Roaming Shove
So yesterday I ran roaming camera (5) for the first time in a long time. Usually I am either sitting in the directors seat or somewhere in the control, not behind a camera. I have a whole new perspective for you guys who are crawling all over the stage getting the money shots for the guitar solo or that big drum fill in All Because of Jesus. I haven’t looked at the second service, but based on the first one, I did not have a stellar performance. Somebody who I was really impressed by was Troy Kimmes. For those of you who don’t know, the video team watches the first service just minutes after coming off the deck back in the review room. We do this to fix mistakes, praise successes, and get better for the next service. After watching all of Troy’s shots, I gotta say, he gets the MVP award for this past Sunday in the Video Category. Everything was in perfect exposure, focus, and composition. He gave a variety of shots and was consistent all morning long. Great job Troy.
Shove
