because today was a crazy day at theVine. yesterday our internet was out all day (random) so i got to church around 6:30am to double check all the lyrics and scriptures online. Ken & Laura met me at 7:30 (thanks guys!) to put together a kickin’ new wooden table and stools, arrange our fun faux candles, and change the lights to green & red gels. Nick had already gotten all the cool metal stars hung and wired (which, p.s., he made. they were originally brown, and did not contain holes, or lights… Nick rocks.)
sometime during all of that, David woke up sick. like too sick to preach. so we quickly figured out how Gregg could explain the series and topic for the day, and Jason (who made it to Braselton from Loganville in 20 minutes?!?) could explain our Christmas mission project with the Garden, a shelter for homeless women and children….and everything worked out great! you’d have thought that was the plan all along. 
during the first song of the first service the ProPresenter computer completely froze. (come on Maddox! you can’t fail me like that!) it took us the opening song + half a worship song to get the computer restarted and working, but Gregg acted like we planned it and did the whole quickly-tell-the-next-lines worship-leader thing, (thanks, GG,) and Robbie and James continued getting their rockstar tech-nerd on.
during the first worship set a large glass hurricane fell off a platform and shattered across the stage….not awesome. i used my sneaky fox skills and ganked the candle, and Jeannette helped me clean up all the glass between services. there were a million tiny shards of glass, so we resulted to trying to stick it to pieces of gaff tape…i think we got it. but i wouldn’t walk up there barefoot.
this afternoon i got a text that our website had disappeared and said the domain name was for sale. um…WHAT? yeah. eventually i got to the bottom of that one, but not before our site was down for about 4 hours…not cool.
sounds like insanity, huh? the weird thing is i love it. no seriously, i LOVE it. i mean, i don’t love that any of those negative situations occurred, but i love trying to think on my feet and fix them. that’s one of the coolest things about working at theVine…you never know what the day may hold! sometimes the “other duties as assigned” are quite unpredictable. i woke up at 4:45 am this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep because i was so excited about today….set changes and new series get me all fired up….and i just prayed that God would get people out of bed, in the rain, and bring them to theVine with receptive hearts so they could experience Him! maybe Satan didn’t like that possibility….but he didn’t win! as waited for it to be a decent time to get up, i just kept thinking how thankful i was (am!) to have the chance to get to serve in a way that’s so fun and exciting…
it’s cool with me, however, if next week’s relatively calm.
they involve the almighty pecan!
