Greeters, Parkers, and Kiosks, Oh My!

HOLY COW! Are you kidding me?
As part of the initiative to get more people involved as we launch our 3rd service on Sept 14th, Pastor Danny asked people to become a part of the “Dream Team” – and wow did they ever….
78 Greeters. Yep, 78 – up from 20 people 3 months ago [...]

Position for Promotion

As time passes, it seems like our purpose for being at Oasis in this season becomes more clear. Pastor Danny has asked us to take on some things we’re absolutely passionate about. I’m not sure what it will look like in 6 months – but I know it’s all about one thing – [...]

You could lose your job for this…

I’ve heard stories recently of MySpace Pics and Facebook info causing people to lose their jobs. A simple search for my name can give you a lot of info on somebody.
I write a lot on this blog, but I’d like to think it’s not something I don’t vocalize with my superiors. [...]

Association of Related Church (ARC)

I’m going to tag onto the Swerve posting today about the Association of Related Churches. I’ve talked to a couple of church planters in recent months and have STRONGLY suggested that they consider ARC before moving forward with church planting. I learned about ARC before we left FC. Dad went to one [...]

New Year, New Season

It feels like a lot is converging on us at one time. I’m not too hip on resolutions since I suck at following through with them, so I decided to make some “life changes” in the weeks before New Years – and they’ve actually stuck around for a little bit now.
We started [...]

Church Hunt: Week 2

We may have found it. We’re going to visit at least one more, but we may have found the church we were looking for. We got our socks challenged off during the message, and the first two songs from worship were To Deserve and My God (both songs we did at either FC [...]

Winds of Change

As I’m sure some of you have noticed, blog postings have become much more sparse in recent weeks. Sometimes there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes that can’t be shared in such a public forum, but here they are.
When we moved to Nashville to help launch UC, we knew that [...]

Mic Issues

Can anybody tell me why I would get better sound out of a 10-yr old wired $100 sm-58 than I would out of a $500 wireless shure or $500 senheisser mic? Anybody with similar problems? It is just a matter of eq-ing it?
mjd

How we do it: Lighting

We keep it simple:
For lights, we use a 12 channel light board (Lightronics) with 2 banks of 12 memory slots, 12 chase settings, and adjustable fade rate. We use two 4-channel dimmer packs (Lightroincs) powering 12 x 300-watt par cans and 2 x 750-watt ellipsoidal lights.
We use a 5-pin DMX cable between the dimmer [...]

How we do it: Staging

We use a portable staging system by Stage Right. We use their Z-80/800 supports. We wanted some versatility in the height we could put the stage, so we purchased supports that can adjust in 2″ increments from 18″ – 24″. We purchased 10 of the 4′ x 8′ sections for a total [...]