Thursday, February 26, 2009

New Tech Teams in Rotation

Well it's been a little over a month since my last post. Sorry for the delay. However, a lot of work has been done since then, and I'm happy with the progress.

We are now well into the launch of our satellite church, Hillcrest Covenant Church Blue Valley. Our initial teams volunteering to help with set-up, tear-down, video and audio have really provided us a great resource to meet all of our technical needs. We appreciate your commitment!

Now it's time at the Prairie Village site to rotate our new teams into that experience as well. Team C, D and E will need to take advantage of the 6:30pm Thursday night Praise Band rehearsal to practice and get a feel for their teams. I will be available to offer training and assistance each Thursday from 6:30 to 8pm.

At the end of March, each team should be at the same experience level. At that time we will begin to try new things, one of which is projecting the worship band during the service and keying lower third song lyrics over the praise band. This adds a level of difficulty and coordination, but is awfully fun to produce for both our teams and the congregation in worship.

Also, starting in April, since we will have 5 teams will be up and running, I am going to ask each team to only commit to one week a month. However, your commitment level will require the work for all three services. Owen and his team provide this commitment, and I think we can provide this as well. This also gives Mark the opportunity to record each service and choose the sermon he feels best for distributing on the web, CD and DVD venues.

In the near future, I plan to bring the teams together to review and critique their work. I will provide lunch or dinner at the occasion and hopefully keep the time short and relaxing. But this will give each of you a chance to see where we make mistakes both technically and stylistically and hope to eliminate those in the future. More details on that later.

Thanks again for everyone's participation! Without your help, none of this could happen!