my days off

To sum up what I have been enjoying lately - please see the craziness of the following pictures.

Youth guy locked keys in car - staff to the rescue!

Strange binoculars indeed!

Ahhh - the Ashland County Fair - ole stompin' grounds! Bellville Street Fair - new stompin' grounds!

Back to work today - it's been a really fun few days!

meet my team

I have the privilege to work with 4 of the most talented guys I know! Steve, Milo, Dan and Bryan make up our Magnification staff.




We had our Christmas dinner tonight and I gave them their gifts.





It's hard to believe we have just ended another year together! We are excited about 2010 and what God has in store for Crossroads!





Here is a picture of Steve sent by his wife just minutes after he arrived home!







I have a blast working and creating with these guys! Best job in the world!

Rick arrives early tomorrow

We are all very excited that Rick Muchow will be flying in tomorrow morning from the Saddleback church in California! Pastor Rick Warren will have to lead services out there without him this weekend because he will be with us at Crossroads instead! What a privilege to bring him once again to Crossroads!

I am so thankful for Rick's desire to serve the local church! He will lead us in worship all weekend and then have lunch with the Magnification Department! He blesses our teams so much.

Please plan now to join us this weekend at Crossroads! 1188 Park Avenue West - Mansfield, Ohio. Saturday at 7:00 or Sunday 9:30 or 11:00. All three services are identical!

lunch time with staff

Today was our monthly staff meeting. We always enjoy a mixture of fun, food and work! We all work so many different hours, it is great to set time aside monthly to just ALL be together.

Everyone brought too much food as usual, but, you hate to insult anyone so you have to try everything! Next we did a fun mixer to keep the conversation lively and ended with a short information meeting and discussion of upcoming events.

I love this staff and they all are fully dedicated to serving using their amazing talents and gifts! It was such a great day together doing God's work and planning ahead for the coming weeks.

Christmas Eve rocked!!

I have never, never had so many people tell me that our Christmas Eve service was the best ever, as I have this year.

I have to give credit, where credit is due - the picture shows our Magnification Staff. What an amazingly talented group! From the left is Jonathan Pierce, the most brilliant human being I know in the areas of IT and all things technical, next to him is Milo Sgambellone - band recruiter and worship leader extraordinaire, that's me on the piano, to my right is Dan Fleming worship leader - scoring genius and vocal coach of America! and next to Dan is Sr. Pastor Tim Armstrong, not a teaching goes by that someone doesn't tell me they have never learned as much as they have at Crossroads due to Tim's teaching, very, very gifted, very, very ornery! Last but certainly not least, in the front is Steve Browning everyone's right hand man - creative genius with everything video related, also oversees sound, lighting, roadie team and everything else no one else knows how to do or wants to be responsible for. The most exciting thing about this team is that they are my friends as well as co-workers! Cool!!

This team can take any wacko idea that Pastor Tim or I come up with and make it happen. They can shoot it, edit it, write the music for, score for any instrument known to man - anything it takes to support Tim's teaching and the mission of Crossroads!! You can watch the Christmas Eve service here.

This picture was taken immediately after the final Christmas Eve service at Crossroads - we were exhausted but oh so thankful for the amazing attendance and God's goodness!

The Christmas Eve drama was out of control good!!! Maureen Browning and Jeff Fellure were AMAZING and brought the house down with their performance of the Skit Guys drama "Innkeeper's Dilemma". Click on the title to watch it on God Tube!

The music was fabulous, the artistic video support was top notch, we tapped into all the senses to bring everything toward, A Baby Changes Everything the theme of the night supported with the new song by the same title from Faith Hill and performed by Michelle Armstrong who rocked the walls out! Amazing performances also by Cody, Melissa and Penny and Milo and Dan!! Magnificant!! I couldn't be more thankful!!