LCCWorship

Well the first LCC newsletter was published a couple of weeks ago and I was asked to write an article about how we (Keith and I) ’stumbled’ upon Patterson Elementary.

My article is called ‘God Knows His Vision’ and can be found on the second page.

This article is also being published in Brookwood Baptist Church’s June newsletter and was also published in the Northwest Baptist Convention Monthly newspaper (Northwest Witness) in May.

In the future we may have a blog posting all of the headlines for our newsletter, but right now we do not.

The Life Connections Worship Band will be leading worship at Brookwood Baptist Church on Sunday June 1st (this coming Sunday). We are excited for this opportunity to show one of our sponsor churches how God has been working in our band!

If you missed our May preview service you can catch a glimpse of the band this Sunday! Join us at Brookwood Baptist Church.

3440 E Main Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123

How time flies so fast is beyond me. I’ve been so busy lately with work (Intel), my other work (Life Connections), and my most important full time job (husband & dad) time has really seemed to just whiz by. I’ve gotten into a weekly routine and it’s hard to find time for anything else (including this blog).

This past long weekend and today have been no exception. The weekend flew by due to having several things to do each day and today has come and is nearly drawing to an end (at least for my Intel job) so I thought I ought to write a few things and post them…

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Well, our first preview service has come and gone. We were at the school for a total of about four hours that seemed to be over in a flash.

We arrived at 8:00AM to begin setting up. Our setup was a mix and match sort of thing using borrowed equipment from several different sources. Once we have our own equipment it will be much better. It took us about 1 hour to get completely setup and then we had some bugs to workout.  Here’s what the timeline looked like.

• 8:00AM - Arrive and begin setup
• 8:50AM - Begin sound check
• 9:15AM - Band rehearsal
• 9:30AM - Break
• 9:40AM - Prayer
• 9:50AM - Band starts playing
• 10:20AM - Keith begins sermon
• 10:57AM - Invitation
• 11:02AM - Offering
• 11:07AM - Dismissed

So we didn’t quick stick to our original time schedule. I took a little longer at the beginning and got us 3-4 minutes behind, then Keith preached for 7-10minutes longer getting us further behind. I ended up cutting out 2 songs at the end to make up some time.

It was a great service though and went pretty smooth for being our first one! God is doing great things at LCC!

Here’s our setlist from yesterday:

• Everlasting God
• Awesome is the Lord
• Famous One
• Kindness
• Give Us Clean Hands
• Be the Centre (Invitation)
• Awesome is the Lord (Offering and Dismissal)

Next week we have a BBQ!

Let me catch everyone up on what has happened in the last week or so. Last time I posted on this was May 5th and we were supposed to receive our first proposal that day, which did happen.

Our first proposal came in and included absolutely everything we wanted. The key word there being ‘wanted.’  Here are some of the highlights…

• Mackie Onyx 24.4 (I thought the proposal would include either the Mackie Onyx 3280 or the Allen&Heath GL2800 w/32 channels)
•  DBX Drierack PA
• Lexicon MX200
• Fuman M-8L & M-10
• 2 Mackie SA1521z Active Speakers
• 1 Mackie SW1801z Super Active Sub
• 4 Mackie SRM350s for stage monitors
• 2 Behringer DSP1124P Feedback Destroyers
• 2 Benq SP830 Projectors
• 2 62×108 Da-lite rear projection screens
• Leviton/NSI Hon4d-000 and 0056d-000 Lighting packs (8 lights, 1 control board, gels, dmx dimmers, etc)
• 4 extra lights (2 Par56 and 2 Ellipsoidal spots)
• A bunch of stuff for the children’s area
• A bunch of pipe and drape, staging, and skirting
• Trailer system and upgrades
• A whole bunch of carts to store stuff in
• CoW Training - 2 days, 2 CoW staff travel to us, Trailer delivery, etc

For the most part this was exactly what we talked about during the site visit.  Prices were pretty good for most things, but the total cost was about $20,000 more than what we had to spend at the time.

After looking over the proposal in detail, having several meetings online and in person with the rest of the core team, a bunch of calls from Keith to Eric at CoW, searching the internet for better prices on some equipment, and a total of four revisions of the proposal we finally landed on a proposal that we all agreed to. Keep in mind that this all took place in a matter of 3 or 4 days.  Here are some of the highlights of the final proposal…

• Mackie Onyx 24.4
•  DBX Drierack PX
• Lexicon MX200
• Fuman M-8L & M-10
• 2 Mackie SRM450 Active Speakers
• 2 Mackie SRM350s for stage monitors
• 2 Mackie SRM150s for stage monitors
• 2 Behringer DSP1124P Feedback Destroyers
• 1 Benq SP830 Projectors
• 1 62×108 Da-lite rear projection screens
• Elation Lighting pack (8 par56, 1 control board, lighting trees, dmx dimmers, etc)
• A bunch of stuff for the children’s area (we changed out some items for others that cost less)
• A bunch of pipe and drape, staging, and skirting (we took out a few sections of pipe and drape)
• Trailer system and upgrades
• A whole bunch of carts to store stuff in (we got rid of one or two carts that would have just been for extra storage)
• Us traveling to Madera, CA to pick up the Trailer and Equipment and receive 4 hours of training on it

In all we saved over $11,000 from the original proposal.  When we first agreed on this proposal we didn’t know where the extra $10,000 or so would come from so we had to step out in faith that God would provide. Just like always, he did provide. And actually he provided above and beyond back in March without us even knowing. The Interstate Baptist Association had received some funds in March that were designated for us that we didn’t even know about until after we had decided on our order. God is GREAT!

Well, I haven’t actually fallen of the face of the earth as it may seem since my last blog entry was over a week ago. I was just extremely busy last week and didn’t get a chance to post much and kind of fell out of the habit of posting.

I am going to post a couple of things now…

This video has been floating around and it is very funny…

Take a look!

I finished up our initial t-shirt design last night for us to wear around as we are doing community service events. Hopefully they will be very beneficial. Here’s the design…

Granted the front will only be printed in 2 colors max probably so the logo will lose some definition, but it gives you an idea.

Wow, what a busy day it has been!  I have a bunch of stuff going on today.  So far I’ve been going through the Church on Wheels proposal searching for places to cut back, had a teleconference with Keith, Brent, Chris, and Lance (from FellowshipTech), and been doing my real job (working for Intel). Here’s a summary…

The CoW proposal came in yesterday afternoon around 6. I took a quick look at it before finishing up our t-shirt graphics (more on that in another post). The proposal came in much higher than we can afford right now so we are looking at where we can cut back, and also praying that God will provide the rest of the finances we need to get the equipment he needs us to have. We’ll see what happens.

We have also been looking into implementing Fellowship One by Fellowship Technologies. Today we had a conference call with Lance from FTech for a sales demo. What a great service! We really liked what we saw. We’ll be making a decision on that soon too.

Well, the Church on Wheels (CoW) experience has progressed a little slower than originally anticipated. We were originally told that within a week after our site visit we would have a plan and then need to finalize our order within a week or so after than.

We finally received our Site Layout. We reviewed it last night at our Launch Team meeting. It looks good! It’s nice to finally be able to see some drawings and such with seats and everything. I might try to post some of the drawings up here if I get a chance to later.

This week should actually prove fairly productive as we are supposed also receive our equipment proposal from CoW today. We are going to have to make some swift decisions though as as we are supposed to have our equipment order ready by Friday so we can remain on schedule for delivery for our June preview service.

I’ll post later today or tomorrow if we get our proposal.