Fairview Tech Arts Ministry blog
Posted on May 7, 2008
I have been holding off on this, waiting for something, although I’m not sure what. Probably just waiting to get it more established. In the process of building a tech team and figuring out the best way to communicate with the team, I tried several different things. The only thing that stuck has been a blog. It has turned into a way for me to communicate with my team and they can either reply by email or comment. Imagine that, me latching onto a blog as a way to get things done!
Lately, Daniel and I talked and he is stepping up to take on more of a leadership role in many ways and we talked about other ways to use the blog, as well. One thing we will definitely try to do is document processes via the blog and categorize them in some way. That way we can refer back to it when necessary.
I also like to write about what we, as a team, are doing via this blog. Daniel agreed to begin writing on there and he did just that for the first time a few days ago. I was out of town last weekend and asked Daniel to take the lead on everything Sunday morning, basically, he had to be me. I had no worries, he is very willing and very capable and he did a great job.
To top it off, he wrote a great post about Sunday morning and it is here. Check it out! It is very well written and he articulates many details, from his perspective. He got a first hand experience on knowing what it’s like to be the guy calling the shots. It won’t be his last time, for sure. Thanks again, Daniel! I appreciate your willingness and I’m looking forward to how things are shaping up.
To introduce Daniel, I’ll let him do it:
I’m 18 years old, and I’ve been with the tech team for 6 years now, I guess. Yeah, when it was really bad. But that was before Jim! With Jim, you can get your shower twice as clean with half the scrubbing!
What a great quote! Daniel has been the one hanging around more than anyone else has. Yes, he started when he as about 12 years old. He goes on to say:
“Heading up the sound booth for Sunday Morning services” sounds big, but I really don’t think it was. Jim and I work pretty much side-by-side up there, so the title of “in charge” doesn’t have as much impact as it would at, say, a nuclear power plant. Biggest difference was, we were down one man.
He sums it up this way:
It’s kind of weird to have a problem and not have Jim to turn around to to “Buy this this week” or “Quick! Fix that!” As important as the team is to our success, it’s also important to have a degree of self-sufficiency because people are going to be gone from time to time. Never would I say we’re going to give Jim the boot, but I think I can do it when I need to.
I guess I can’t get out of this gig that easily.
The blog is Fairview Tech Arts Ministry. I would encourage you to subscribe via e-mail or RSS, so you will get our updates regularly, especially for when Daniel writes.
There is also a resources site that I created and it is here. It’s primarily resources for the PC Workshop but I want to continue to add to it.
Check us out and learn what we are up to at Fairview, there is a lot of cool stuff happening. We are doing some neat things to help enhance the message of Jesus.
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