Where is the Pastor?

Today we had an almost scare that was saved literally 2 min before we started. It seems every time the pastor leaves things just don't go the way they should. And being portable brings on a whole new set of potential problems. Jeff went to Montana with his family to speak at a Jr. High Youth Camp, so I got to the Holiday Inn at about 8:45 to get an early start on setting stuff up for our Unplugged service. Luckily we dont have a ton of stuff to set up but the most important thing is what wasnt working today. Our projector was not getting the signal from the computer for whatever reason. So we spent till about 9:40 messing with it, trying all sorts of connections, restarting the computer and projector several times, and actually went and borrowed a projector from the holiday inn. We were desperate for something to work because it contains all our lyrics for worship and points for the message. So finally we gave up, of coarse Jeff in unreachable and he usually sets this up. (ONE MORE REASON NEVER TO OWN ANYTHING BUT A MAC)! So I actually changed the entire worship set to songs that everyone would know without having lyrics up on the wall. And then finally about 2 min before service Jeff calls and of coarse its something easy, but we get it working and we were saved. But man I hate these scares that always seem to happen when the Pastor leaves. All in all the service went great. We had new faces, God was worship, His presence was there, Grant did a great job teaching and we all ate lunch together afterwards. We are going golfing in less than 2 hours. Its a good day. We learn something new everytime we do this.

Oh by the way God is so good. I almost bought a djembe the other day and we dont even have someone to play it so we decided to wait. And no kidding this morning, Curtis, a new commer to element church said to me, "would you ever be interested in a djembe player for unplugged". HAHA how cool is that! He owns his own instrument and knows how to play, God is always looking out for us. Love doing this.

Pray for Jeff and his family this week that they would have a great time together and for energy for doing a full week of camp.

Loving Jesus and loving you,
Adam