Archive for January, 2009

Have you ever had a weekend that’s so busy and full of stuff that you can’t wait to get back to work on Monday and rest.  That’s kinda what our service felt like this weekend.  We were talking about Celebrating 2.0.  I mean, we didn’t want to get to Monday in a bad way, the services were awesome, it was just that there was so much to get through in an hour that it went really fast.  Here’s what the cue sheet looked like.

yellow-box-cue-sheet-january-10th-and-11th

Scrambled eggs right?

This was also my first weekend in a really long time that I ran the Banmedia computers and that led to some tense moments.  That job should be left to more qualified people.  Like anyone other than me.  Here’s a list of really awesome people.

Band - Danielle DeSouza, Pam Zafiropolous, Chris Puchi, Mike Lueders, Blake Thomas, Scott Thomas, Nathan Singer

Tech - Bill Terrill, Randy Knibb, Adam Menard, Brian Theis, Rachel Winter, myself

Thanks to Bill Terrill for the pictures.

What are we singing this weekend?  Well here it is.  You can check it out and even purchase it and learn it before this weekend.  Happy listening.

Everything Glorious - David Crowder Band

Grace Like Rain - Todd Agnew

All I Need Is You - Hillsong United

Mighty To Save - Hillsong

Here Is Our King - David Crowder Band

This night is just a blur if you’re in the arts at a church.  You spend two or three months planning for this string of 60 minute services and then it’s 12:30 on Christmas morning and you’re not sure what just happened and why you can’t get to sleep.  It’s such a rush that it just blows by.  We had incredible evenings both the 23rd and 24th here at the Yellow Box.  The 23rd we had the orchestra here which was great as always.  It’s a tradition at the Yellow Box and a good one at that.  The 24th we had services in both the gym and theater.  The gym service was tailored to reflect a weekend service here.  We did pull out a few TSO songs as a prelude and then dove in to the traditional Christmas songs.  In the theater we had the first ever Carols service.  This was a pretty cool service that was based all on the traditional Christmas songs.  We had a minimalist band with keys and acoustic and a vocal ensemble to bring the carols.  It was a really cool vibe.  Thanks to all who gave up their Christmas Eve evening to come in and be a part of the arts here.  It was a memorable night, but it went too fast.  Here’s the visual evidence to prove it.  Thanks to Merlin Mathesius for the pictures.

I’m not sure about you, but Christmas absolutely slayed me this year.  After the Let It Be Christmas run and our regular weekend schedule and 6 Christmas Eve services I was done.  I think I’m just now recovering from it.

I did take the weekend after Christmas off and I hear it was pretty much awesome.  We did the first, that I can remember, Family service where there was an element in the service for every age group.  Darth Vader even showed up.  Not sure what age group that was for.  I think the 30 somethings.  We had kids on stage singing, two teaching pastors, and from what I hear this wasn’t the longest service in the history of the world.  That’s pretty impressive.  Here’s the pics to prove my ramblings.  Thanks to everyone who worked really hard so I could sleep for three days straight.

Band - Chris Puchi, Sean Lueders, Scott Thornburgh, Josh Sherman, Andrew Sutherland, Ray Simpson, Noah Ice

Tech - Bill Terrill, Ralph Cahn, Ryan Sudol, Gary Schuller