weekend report

This weekend is a milestone in Crossroads history as our 2nd Pastor, Dave Vance and his family join us to begin Chapter 2 of Crossroads!  You can feel the excitement in the air - last night sitting up front it almost seemed I could feel the Holy Spirit sweep through this place - the experience of opening our hearts to a new pastor has been very emotional - and the more I get to know him the more the Lord confirms this is the man our pulpit needs.

As we sang The Stand - I've NEVER in the history of Crossroad seen more hands raised high in the air to our Lord.  Just one more action of submission as we all surrender any desire that may be our own agenda to fully embrace the Lord's leading under Pastor Dave.

Thank you Crossroads for continued faithfulness during this time of transition.

Our Setlist:
Angie Mahek, one of House Church pastor's wives and praise team member, is my hero for stepping in to do the announcements last minute when the announcement guy was not available to do them.  Thanks Angie!

Man of Sorrows
A Mighty Fortress is our God
Prayer for our Guatemala Missions team that leaves next Saturday
The Stand
Message:  Renew - Wendell Anderson
Prayer of confirmation for Pastor Dave and family - Mike Sloan - Chairman of the Elder board
A few words from our new pastor and closing prayer - Dave Vance
Exit Song: A Mighty Fortress

To watch our entire service on line go to www.crossroadswired.com

To see what other ministries used in their worship services go to www.theworshipcommunity.com

looking good on the outside

You may think by my title I am referring to something that physically looked good, not at all!

Tonight at Crossroads  we had a service that looked good, but for those of us involved behind the scenes it was anything but!

Don't get me wrong the Spirit was there as Pastor Tim presented a tremendous message and as people moved forward for prayer at the end of the service- it was a blessing.  But a wild scramble was happening backstage!

Our worship leader added a song earlier today that Pastor didn't know about, so he came up a song early which caused the band to leave the stage earlier than planned and the tech to scramble to get Pastor's sound up, EP screen changes and recordings started.  Our team ROCKS!!

And the way it went down was WAY better than what we had planned.

God is sovereign and in charge and amazing!  He knew how it needed to be and exactly how it would be, whether we planned it that way or not!

So blessed to be part of this team!

crazy weekend

Wow, what a weekend!

We were so excited to have our Senior Pastor back with us this weekend from his study leave! Things, however didn't go quite as planned. When Tim arrived to teach Saturday evening, he told us his back was really bothering him. He said he didn't think he could get through the night!

I knew this meant two things, we needed to get another teaching pastor wired up and I had to make really, really sure that we taped the service successfully. This would allow us on Sunday to run the message off DVD if Pastor Tim couldn't teach and if the pastor's decided to run the DVD of the teaching vs. another pastor trying to teach.

Our worst fears came true Sunday morning as we got the call that Pastor Tim was on his way to the ER! The team went into high gear! You may ask, what is the big deal you had a DVD? Yes, but there were many other details to attend to.

• I met with our Executive Pastor, Mark Pierce to discuss his entrance and how he would introduce the message DVD
• I then explained to the band and vocalists that we would begin the service 2 minutes early to allow for the introduction. I asked the worship leader to dismiss the audience if they didn't leave when the DVD's dissmissal came up.
• I then talked to our Technical Director asking for additional lighting cues to be added. We needed to light the introduction and to add a lower light setting for the house to make the DVD easy to see while allowing people to fill in the blanks on the teaching notes.
• I then communicated with the video production area also explaining that we were going to begin 2 minutes early and that the DVD would run after the introduction. They also had to watch the DVD carefully and be prepared to go to a second playback source if anything went wrong.

Our worship was of course live and truly amazing, you can watch the service at http://www.crossroadswired.com/.

If anyone thought it was easier just to run a DVD think again!