Quick Notes:

• Thursday 11 AM – Funeral for Joe Ockleberry – Need audio tech
• Lots of little things to wrap up Wed night if you can come help.
• No PM service – we are participating at In the City, For the City.

Schedule:

Tuesday, November 10

• Joey’s Birthday – Happy Birthday

Wednesday, November 11

• 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM  Worknight – Install, monitor console computer, wall plates, finish installing monitor amps, screen, clean up cables, etc. (you notice it is still the same list?  We keep getting stuff done, just not this stuff!)

Thursday, November 12

• 11:00 AM – Funeral for Joe Ockleberry – Need audio tech

Saturday, November 14
9:30 AM – 12:30 AM – Audio Basics Workshop (Choir Room)

Sunday November 15
8:30 AM Setup / Sound check
9:00 AM Christmas Rehearsal
9:30 AM Service Rehearsal
10:15 AM Prayer (Everyone) – in media room
10:30 AM – Morning Service (Baby Dedication, Pastor Homero greeting, Pastor Juan preaching )

No PM Service – Please participate in:

In the City, For the City 4-8:30pm @ The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum,  1800 North Congress Ave

Foldback:

Quite a crazy Sunday.

It is very important that if you are scheduled, you show up for rehearsal, you rehearse, and you pray with us as a team before the service, otherwise you don’t always know what is going on, and it adds a lot of stress for the people that are there.  If you have made arrangements (such as Life Classes) it would be helpful if you can be to the church early enough to check in and let one of the directors know you are there before Classes, and DEFINITELY, LET US KNOW IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO MAKE IT.

• When we expect you to be there and find out at 10:15 you aren’t, there isn’t time to find a replacement and train them – things don’t get done and people get stressed out instead of worshiping.
• When you don’t show up till half way through rehearsal you are not available to help if things are not going well or there is extra work to do to be ready.  Then we are trying to get things setup / fixed / working during rehearsal, causing stress, distracting those who are rehearsing, including the worship team on stage.
• When you don’t show up at the scheduled call time you never learn how to prepare the systems for a service, then when you have to do it because know one else is around you don’t know how.

So what all happened?

AM: we had more to set up than normal because of the wedding, upwards and other stuff that had gone on at church this week – plus there was a bunch of media that needed finessed (assembled) laying all over the media room because John J. got called away while doing it on Friday.  About the time we got rehearsals going we had a supervisory fire alarm (meaning something was wrong with the system) that took a couple of us most of rehearsal to get corrected – the alarm was caused while trying to fix a problem with a door caused by vandalism.

PM: a good time of training turned into a very busy time getting going on the service, communication problems and mis-communication on the order of service kept us hopping.  About the time we were all settling into the sermon – the fire alarm goes off and we evacuate the building.  Turns out a pull box got pulled upstairs, but it took a while to track down exactly what it was because it is labeled wrong in the system.  About then we realize we don’t know where the key is to reset the system, and we can’t call an all clear until the system is reset.  Todd continued preaching outside, the Kids and teachers got a good firedrill practice, and we eventually got the system reset and everyone back inside.

Media system items of note:

• Don’t forget to start the DVCAM tape recording at sermon time…. it is our backup.  Because sometimes the media room coordinator will not be available to start the recordings, please everyone pay attention to the details and be ready to start it if needed.
• The sound Sunday felt very muddy, I think a lot of it was the interaction of the instruments.  Often pulling the keys down or a couple of the guitars down will help if there are just too many instruments on the platform.  Remember the whole “mix Pyramid” idea – not everything can be at the same level in the mix – otherwise it is just noise.

Thoughts? Comments?