Well hey guys this is a whole Covid-19 thing came upon us just really suddenly
that's want to let you know how it's affecting me as a church audio tech. so
it's Thursday March 19th and it was I think exactly a week ago at least where
where I live where this whole thing just completely blew up until then it was
just sort of yeah make sure you wash your hands and whatever else and then
all sudden were in the midst of a full-blown international crisis and
suddenly everything has to change it's actually interesting I was in the midst
of actually setting up a brand new mixing board and actually working really
hard on all these extra hours and sad to say because of that actually got myself
just a tiny little bit sick so hence I'm shooting this from my home office even
though I think it's of course just a little cold yeah so even though I'm
working from home I'm shower than that shaved and I remember there's a
scripture that says they found him dressed and in his right mind and they
were all amazed and I think that people think that of me just got any day so
especially at home I got to make sure I did I do what I can but I want to start
by first of all talking about the attitude we need to have towards this
and that our church has towards it I'm so glad that we do it's quite often in
the times of a major upheaval but people are actually more open to Christ more
open to the gospel sometimes people put their lives into a bit of perspective
and maybe they want to kill why do I value life so much for other people
other Minds might say they support things that don't value life now all
sudden they really value their own life and they might think of eternity might
think about what happens when they die and it might be a great opportunity I
actually think there might be one of the greatest opportunities we might even has
as a church and then there's this really interesting thing to happen with us as a
church of the rock so our operations pastor join about three weeks ago maybe
four walk into our area our production area and he had this really clear word
from God that the next move of God was gonna really heavily involve the tech
department and he told us that we thought okay that's not it's not cool
yeah sounds good and anything much of it and all of a sudden yeah three weeks
after that this whole thing blows up we all kind of
forgot about the word until one of us would wait a minute there was that word
from the way you went Wow Wow God he saw this coming and he said
it was gonna be a move of God so not that of course God caused any of this
but God's gonna move through this in a really powerful and significant way so I
think if we can keep our heart right keep our eyes right I think we can be a
major part of a major move of God I think we need to have hope joy wisdom
and faith but we don't need to have fear because what can happen to us like even
if not to be over the top but if we even if we should die we go we get to be part
of heaven with Christ but we're not we're not going to it's not even gonna
come to that so we have no reason to have any kind of fear but we can have a
way of presenting the gospel in new and interesting ways and so with us we had
our last service this last Sunday we only had about a third of the people who
normally come out we definitely had the social distancing people were sitting
quite a far apart from each other we had all kinds of excessive disinfecting
going on and then it was decided of course right after that no we need to go
fully just to online services so there's gonna be quite a bit of extra demands on
our team and I really feel bad that I'm here at home when I should be with them
really fighting the fight that's one doing whatever I can do from home and
support of them whichever way I can do I really even have a sense that we're
gonna be stuff we develop and doing this time that's gonna affect how we do
Church going forward and that's what a lot of people have that sense and then
yeah and so do life so yesterday I was part of a allstaff mean that they were
streaming online even now we're doing all about all stuff means everything
online just make sure everyone can participate you know uh Tim sent to Mars
earlier today Oh maybe we shouldn't be sharing a water
bottle anymore I said to him if that's your closest point of contact and
contact in your marriage there's other issues there
so yeah I'm picking up a personal monitor that stopped working I got fixed
at sound art and their Manitoba company that has a lot of big concerts but they
also do repairs there's some church install stuff and so I'm tiny bit sick
so still have to take all these precautions first we discuss maybe just
them throwing it in my window as I drove past but they decided instead just to
leave it on the edge of an ample walk in you're a bit walk out with the invoice
and that'll be that hey just stop picking up that mu1 and the invoice
perfect all right yeah all right thanks Alan I'll try it I'll try not to touch
anything else all right take care
so Gus is 73 nine have you ever seen that that says I was a teenager
well another place with a completely bare rack and toilet paper and another
store with an empty shelf throw the paper so I started feeling better almost
immediately so clearly I didn't have colvett and yet obviously didn't so
personally I do when I get back is sanitized all the mics and they've never
done before you know what's that experience you should really have and
it's also a favorite of food particles that comes out of it so just morning
so we were wanting to videotape kids rock and other ministries and be able to
mix the audio in her broadcast room so we have to run a bunch of extra cables
for that and of course we were meeting really far apart maybe took it further
than we had to did some audio trainings we just got the mixing board in a course
that was also church and welcome to church on so here we are coming to you
live we've got the musicians with us and they're all appropriately spaced you
probably notice that and we're greeting church right into your house
we've all got used to it now but the first time we're serving in an empty
room was really quite strange
and you file big land I realize how Pastor Mark had a bit of a hard time
preaching to an empty room he loves that response from the audience it was so
weird not having to get up at 6:00 in the morning to get ready to either mix
or lead volunteer teams that the church and it was fun to kind of be in the
house coat and just host the online services they did all of these things to
change it was like nature vomited them out and then reset the hit the reset
button and so here's what I think I don't think this is the end of the world
I don't think we should treat it like for the first week of course everything
is froze up terribly I guess we broke the internet as a church and so we
started shooting everything during the week and my tech director Chuck directed
and a bunch of staff men the cameras we were doing things from announcements to
devotionals to prayer things and classes and I started doing just a ton of
broadcast mixing because we're trying to keep the volunteers loaders low as
possible and of course in broadcast mixed has now become our more important
mix I'm even though I forget the reverb on some times and just be with us as we
worship you in Jesus name
and so we started shooting our kids programming and it's definitely a lot of
fun to shoot they do a lot of fun and extra stuff got to learn some extra
shots really happy with how this wing turned out oh hey Sheba and here's the
end result I've been training for this all morning I need to get this message
to AVI
I slightly missed the shot here but it still looks pretty good
and yeah I just did a ton of editing everything from announcements pastures
DeVos all those things you mentioned all needed to be edited had some 12 13 hour
days at bings I'm sure a lot of you have as well I'm to believe this is Sunday
morning and Easter got interrupted we had planned to Easter I am have become
somehow the photographer's and saying to use a camera a little bit we did walk
throughs and it was decided fairly early that we had to actually cancel Easter
because our whole point was to bring in thousands of people for the gospel to
reach them I just forgot this to show you how shaggy my hair got in over two
months so that was just a little snapshot of what's been going on during
this Cobin 19 crisis clear there's been a lot more than that part of it is just
been we've been just trying to keep our heads above water and getting it all
done so I don't have a chance to to shoot more footage or get more more
stuff done clearly you can see most of those shots were like from like two
months ago but I just wanted to sort of let you guys know how it's been
affecting me as a church audio tech they also want to know how how you guys are
doing I know a lot of the church audio Tech's had to figure out online Church
from scratch within like a week or two because you didn't have an online Church
all sudden you have to get it done in like a week or two and even your pastors
might have even not wanted the past and all of a sudden now they needed an
assault señal on you some of you don't even of course get paid for any of this
it's also strictly voluntary PI put in 40 60 or more out weeks of your own time
so just a god honors that God sees that that's going to be a blessing to the
kingdom even if you didn't get appreciated by people God sees you and
appreciates it this truly is I think going to still be an incredible move of
God and I think there's gonna be people who are seeking for those real things
during this hard time and it has been a hard time you know for me I've had a
couple of really hard days here in there and um and really discouraged at times
but then I really remember God is moving he's using this doesn't make it any
easier but it does make it worthwhile half purpose and mission you know we
don't know how this is all gonna go down we don't know how this is all gonna end
but God does and he sees you he knows what you're doing as a tech and so I
love for you to calm my how this is going for you do you add how you felt
about this thing not if any way I can encourage a pray for y'all I'll try you
know I've already been praying for you guys remember when this thing he broke
out as a soul praying but people weren't ready for this we already had online
church so we were able to just go with it and add to it and that was that was
great but it was still a lot of extra shooting had to get done as you have you
seen through this but anyone funny I encourage you guys to keep the faith
on this adventure going has us on to stay strong stay close to him you he is
the source he's the reason why we live and we need to just keep going after him
honor him and as we serve to make sure we're not just to serving God we're also
connecting with them individually and personally on a regular and even daily
basis so to carry you guys up to here how it's going for you that's just a
little taste how it's gone for me. God bless!