Here is a picture of Amanda and I with Charlie Hall and band which was taken in 2006 when we offered to give them a ride from our church to another church a couple of hours away where they were having their next concert. I’m standing next to Charlie Hall …

One of the many things I like about our church is its Outreach Ministry. There offer lots of opportunities to invite friends and family to church. On Father’s Day they hosted their 2nd annual car show which included a “burn out” this year. It was TOO loud for Nathan (LOL). …

Emily belongs to a small group of about a dozen young people who are working their way through The Truth Project this year under the guidance of a a mom & dad who have an amazing heart for young people. We’re so thankful that Emily was asked to be part …

“…. baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” ~~Matthew 28:19 Our church held its annual baptism at the lake on September 9th. This year Emily was baptized! I suppose one always pushes the weather envelope this time of the year up in …

The AVIOM is the in ear monitor system that our ear phones plug into so we can control 16 different channels. There are 3 drum settings, bass, guitars, lead voice, background singers, computers, keyboards, piano, the pastor, the guys in the sound booth, etc. We can set each channel to …

Iforgot my ear phones on Thursday so today I had to get them out and make sure they were all ready for church. Emily took that opportunity to photograph me trying them on. I had to put new ends on and I wanted to make sure they fit right before …

My ear phones sitting on the keyboard waiting for me. Sometimes I put them in before we go on the stage and other times I leave them on the keyboard and put them in after we get out there. These are SHURE E something or others… 2 or 3, but …

This picture is nothing fancy, for sure. This is the door that the musicians use when entering and exiting the stage. It was pretty straight forward until they added the black curtains before Christmas. That wasn’t so bad until they dropped the white part which was previously suspended… see previous …

This is my little corner of the stage. You can see the mess of tangled cords and boxes. That is *NOT* my normal style. I’m not the only one who plays the keyboard. I could spend LOTS of time organizing it all each week, but the next week it would …

Here is a picture of the buttons for the computer part of the keyboard I play at church. The green part is the screen that shows all of the settings. I’ll describe that more in another post about worship team practice later in the week.