After 12-13 weeks of doing CF Homestead, we've finally gotten to the point where the technology is no stress. Video teaching has worked flawlessly for three weeks in a row. We've been using ProVideoSync by Renewed Vision. The software is not flawless, but it does operate like most propietary software I've ever worked with... once you figure out how it thinks, it'll work a lot better for you.
Rick showed up about five minutes behind schedule today. When the worship set is wrapping up and the preacher hasn't showed up yet.... that is a very LONG FIVE MINUTES. We had to throw Jorge on stage (who did a great job vamping while we got Rick set.
Summer is almost here. Other than the obvious climactic changes, you know it's coming because volunteers are starting to be out/away/gone a lot. In talking about infrastructure I wanted to share with you what happened today.
We were missing a lot of volunteers today. I'm totally okay with that. One of my volunteers went on vacation. I asked him before he left what a "vacation" was. I had heard of the word, before, but never quite experienced one before. Another volunteer has a work increase, and is stepping back from the amount he can serve. Two more just finished moving their house, and weren't available after the service for teardown. Several musicians had to leave quickly to lead worship at another venue. Others had to run quickly back to the Palmetto Bay campus because we had "Connection Classes" at that campus.
Point: we were missing a lot of media volunteers. Literally, probably six to eight. And when your crew is ten-twelve people, six to eight missing is a lot. Thankfully, we had a bunch of people come over from other areas. There were people walking up and diving into the work. "What can I do?" "Need any help?" "Where does this go?" These are some of my favorite words!
At the end of the day, I was missing two thirds of my volunteer crew... and we finished everything we were supposed to do six minutes behind schedule from what we should have (if I had a full crew). Teardown takes two hours, and we lost six minutes. Thank God for volunteers!
Rick finished up his Pursuit of Happiness [Beatitudes] series today. Another series put to bed. I think Eric is preaching this week... let's see if we can finally beat the dreaded "Curse of the Geiger." When Eric preaches, it seems we always have technical problems. We've been glitch-free for several weeks now... here's hoping I can say that after next week.
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