fun day

From the inception of The Journey Church, we've wanted to do things with excellence. The band has always been way above average for our size and our children's ministry is getting better every week.

However, the video component of worship has been pretty bad. OK, we stink it up. Bad, really bad. Casey (the worship dude) and I have wanted to smooth things out, but frankly we were completely ignorant of what it took to have smooth video switching.

Enter Greg of Video For Worship. Greg does the video production for Passion events, 7:22, and a bunch of other stuff as well as being on the staff of NorthPoint. He took the time with us today to give us a "Video Switching and Producing 101" class (of sorts) over lunch. We bought a few toys. Nothing over the top. Just things that will take us from quaint to relatively smooth. It won't be long before our startup church will be doing some things like the big boys. No, we won't have a 24X30 foot LED screen or a bank of screens that share a signal but we will be able to show video without looking like we're changing a DVD at home. Thanks Greg.

As soon as I got home from Alpharetta, I hopped in the van with my wife and kids and we went to get some new glasses for Emily, our youngest daughter. I must say that Lenscrafters is a pretty good place to buy glasses. They're a bit pricey, but with our insurance and wife's flex spending plan it's pretty easy to chin. They hooked her up with some way cool glasses. My girl definitely has good tastes. She got her new, cool glasses in just over an hour. Nice. I remember that I used to wait two weeks to get new glasses when I was her age. Oh yeah, Old Navy is having a great sale right now. You might want to pop by and pick up some flip-flops @ 2 for $5 or some baseball tees @ 2 for $12. Don't pay attention to the price you find at the links. The in store price is good. I got a couple of new ribbed tees 2 for $12.

After our Old Navy fix, we went home and watched Ray. Wow. Great movie. Jamie Foxx is unbelievable.

Fun day.