Weekend over view

So heres the good, the bad, and the scary. Great teaching by pastor Troy. I love it, he has no shame in saying things, and knows just how to say it. No sugar coating. Here are some good lessons that I got from the weekend, both tech and teaching:
- Haze machines are very unreliable, even if you have back ups.
- There will always be last minuet changes. Deal with it, BE PATIENT, work through it.
- What the skin wants, the skin will get, IF you let it. You have to stay strong and healthy.
- No mater what happens you have to stay calm, especially if your working in a team, NO MATER WHAT HAPPENS. Its no help to any one if your freaking out and loosing control. Take a deep breath, view the situation and think through what your about to do.

The weekend started off great, with a flawless first service. Half way through the teaching of the second service enters trouble. One of the computers in the video room crashes, crippling us from providing teaching notes on screen. Its was rebooted and back in working order before the end of service. Now comes Sunday morning. Good over all. Compared to the night before, it was flawless. Enter the last service on Sunday. Once again everything was running perfect and smooth. But just when all is calm trouble appears. In the form of a power failure. I believe there were two quick dips. First one, I was in the video room, everything continued running ok after the first. I run out to the auditorium to make sure lighting was till good, everything good. Then the second one, this one really did it. Video was completely crippled, audio was also completely lost, returning with the most loudest and scariest distorting noise I have ever heard come out of an audio system. Props to our sound man, he quickly regained control. Lighting had a weird and scary, but quick, blackout and then back to normal. But four of the moving lights running on 120V turned off.
After rebooting everything in the video room (a good five to seven minuets, that seemed like for ever), we had video back on the screens again.
I believe that we only lost half of the power to the campus. Some parts of the campus never lost power. It could of been the power lines that were being worked on a little further down on Flamingo Road, but who knows.

So there you have it. The most scariest service so far for me. Over all the service was not stopped. The message was delivered. Lives were touched. We are still standing strong. The enemy really tried to stop us, but he keeps forgetting who hes messing with. Glory to God. And a big thank you to all the volunteers that helped get everything back and running.

Heres a little collage of the weekend: