It’s Finally Here!

When it comes to any production, one thing I love to do with a burning passion is lighting. And since City Reach this past year, our lights haven’t worked at 2Twenty. Leaving me either to do sound (which I don’t mind), computer (which I never do but sometimes would like to do), or do nothing. And personally, I don’t like to do nothing. But finally, lights return!!!

We recently just bought an Elation DMX Operator 192 light board. This is for our Intelligent lights, which are the three old intelligent lights from APC. They are 3 American DJ AccuScan 250’s. The lights are going up the first of April. CAN’T WAIT!!!!

Fine Arts Sectionals Recap

By the way, the tech side of fine arts for me, MY GRAPHIC DESIGN IS GOING TO DISTRICTS!! AND SO IS MY SERMON!!! Take a look!

BTW, Winter Retreat is this weekend in ERIE!!

Upward Halftime Videos

Lately, I have been working on some videos for Pastor Joe Schafer for Upward Basketball. This is has been for the halftime shows. This year, the theme was based on the Fruits of the Spirit. The video below is dealing with the fruit "Peace". Take a look

1st Post of 2011: Winter Retreat Countdown Video

Software Review: Elation Elumination

Today I thought I'd start doing some software reviews. Today I'm going to start with Elation Lighting "Elumination Software". This software let's you control up to 8 groups at one time with 8 different light banks. Along with each bank, you can program up to 48 different fixtures. This software gives you the same capability as a normal light board.If you can look at the image, you can see that I have programed 2 Intelligent scanners which I can change how it moves, the gobos, color fixtures, and so much more. Also I have 8 color LED's from American DJ, and 11 LED par can lights from Elation (good for any preach or stage white lights).

Personally, I've always been the one to run lights from multiple light boards, one for intelligent lights and one for everything else (including house lights), but I like this program because I can control all that just from my laptop (and I have a small laptop [netbook]) and it's a free software. Now you maybe wondering. "Don't you need a special cord to run lights from a computer?" Yes you do, and it's cheap. All you need is a USB to DMX cable, then attach the DMX end to the other end of another DMX cable and it will work. Hope this helps! Next I'll start doing worship softwares!

Ripple Effect Part 3

This past weekend, I got to cover the tech booth as "Video Lead" for Brian again. I also got to edit the sermon video and post it on the internet. Take a look below.

Ripple Effect 3 - Obedience from Allison Park Church on Vimeo.

Also, one picture edit of mine in honor of Thanksgiving

The Search is On

A couple of month's ago, our light board at 2Twenty :'(
Anyway, time to move on. I am currently on the search for the following:

• New lights at 2Twenty
• PC Based Software
• Oh...and a new computer (Laptop or Desktop i don't care)

So, does anyone have any suggestions? Let me know asap!

The Continuation of Short Film Writting

It is October 2, 2010 at 9pm as I am writing this post. This weekend is North Allegheny's homecoming weekend/dance. Take a look at his pic from last year.

Yeah...good times. I was suppose to go this year again, but some rather personal things came up, and I decided not to go....yea I made a terrible mistake. I should have gone. As I was thinking about weather to go tonight or not last weekend during church, Pastor Jeff mention in his sermon "Focus your thought more inward to the future." Then I decided not to go...bad mistake. So I figured, what the heck, I could be doing a lot of better things on a Saturday Night. So far the only better thing I did was go to Crosstown...even if I wanted to go to both Crosstown and the Dance, I could've made both, since Crosstown is over at 7:15 and the dance was at 8:00. But this morning I got a chance to write more of my short film script. Check out the last scene I typed below.

SCENE 3—ALLISON PARK CHURCH OFFICES

(Scene starts with Ben walking down the hall by the kitchen and is pulled into the office kitchen by JoLyn, Matt, Sarah Mazza, Sage, and Garret all at the same time)

Ben – Woah! What’s going on?

Garret – Reaching out to the new girl I see? Good for you man

Ben – Uhh…thanks?

Matt – Sooo….

Ben – So what?

JoLyn – How did it go yesterday? I saw you’re montage from my car.

Ben – You were following us?

Sarah Ma – We all were. I was in my car, Garret and Matt rode together, and even Sage was in on this! He walked though

Ben – Yea I saw him. Sage why did you do that?

Sage – Dude, anything for overtime pay. Plus I always like seeing my friends reaching out to them.

Ben – Well for all your information, we had a good time.

Garret – Yea but now it’s time for the next step. Inviting her to church.

Ben – Dude we all just met her yesterday. You think she’s ready for that already?

Sage – Sure. You sometimes never realize someone is ready for something new.

JoLyn – I think for once Sage is right!

Ben – Alright I’ll give it a try.

(Ben walks out of the kitchen heading toward Sarah Mc’s cubical, everyone else just pokes their heads out of the kitchen door)

Sarah Mc – Oh hey Ben! I had a really good time yesterday.

Ben – Hey me to. And I just realized it’s Friday. Do you have any plans for Sunday morning?

Sarah Mc – Well I was going to sleep in and watch random videos on YouTube all day, but no why?

Ben – Well I was planning on going to my church this Sunday. Would you be interested in coming with me?

Sarah Mc – Well…I don’t know. What if people are doing weird things during that?

Ben – They won’t. And I’ll be there the whole time. So you want to come?

Sarah Mc - ...Sure. Why not.

Ben – Okay I’ll pick you up around 8:30?

Sarah Mc – Okay sweet.

(Ben looks back at every one and gives them a thumbs up. Everyone starts silently cheering and getting excited.)

August 29 Sermon--Filling in for Brian

For those of you who didn't know, I filled in for Brian being the producer at Allison Park Church this past weekend. One of my objectives was to edit and post the sermon video onto Vimeo. You can check out the video HERE!

God Empowers Me--This Changes Everything Part 3 from Allison Park Church on Vimeo.

Greg Hubbard Intro Video

Greg Hubbard Intro from Brian Lippert on Vimeo.

Worship...just what you need in Stressful times

I know this has nothing to do with 2Twenty media, but I felt like I had to post this....The past couple of days, I guess I wouldn't call them my best. Just because of some relationship issues and wondering as summer comes to a close, who can I help and become really really close to this year. Well an attempt last night (Tuesday), as we teenagers say, epically failed. But then I started to reflect on an APC Minute we had in December that Brad Harvey was in........



So what can I take from that in my personal life....

1. Worship reminds us that God provides for those in need. If you're having a stressful time, just pray to God for guidance that he will lead you down the right path and point you in the right direction.
2. Worship puts our current situations in to proper perspective. Once a situtation hits, you think that the world is coming to an end. After worship, everything comes into reason
3. Worship Fills our spirits with strength. God gives strength and a new hope for the future.

So now I'm heading over to 2Twenty for some awesome worship.

Crosstown Video...Armor of God

Today I took the chance to work on another video for Pastor Joe Schafer for Crosstown. Their next series coming up September 2010 is on the Armor of God. Here's how the video came out.

City Reach Prep Time!!

We'll, it's finally time. Time to plan for City Reach 2010. Above is the Countdown video I created for this event. City Reach is the event where we reach out to our church plant communities. Unfortunately, for the first time in 2 years, I will not be able to attend because of a school commitment. :-(

But I will be there the first couple nights for service and possibly staying over night at Allison Park Church. I'll keep you updated.

Kidz Kaboom Countdown Video

Kidz Kaboom 2010 Countdown from Mike Fowler on Vimeo.

A Huge Success!!!

As you can tell by this weeks APC Minute, Kidz Kaboom was a huge success. We had over 300 Kids on the Campus over the week and over 1oo youth and adult volunteers this week. I had the chance to work with some amazing people along with my producer Brian Lippert. He is an amazing man of God and loves doing what he does. I love him with a passion and he will continue to do great things. But every year we do something called a penny weigh. If the Girls win, Joe Schafer gets a pie in his face. If the boys win, his wife Rachael gets a pie in the face. Here was the out come.

It Finally Happens this Week!

Finally! One of my favorite productions of the year here at Allison Park Church is happening this week. That one is also known as Kidz Kaboom. Close or over 400 elementary and pre-school kids will be on the APC Campus during the week, and over 100 teen helpers will be on site to assist them. What happens during Kidz Kaboom is in the morning there are camps that the kids attend (art, basketball, martial arts, cooking, dance, cheerleading, and obviously the pre-school camp for the pre-schoolers). Then in the afternoon, there is a high energy service that takes place featuring worship, games, story, scripture memorization, multi-media, and soooooo...much more! That's where tech ministries comes into play. In order to make it high energy, we want to bring in equipment that will make the service (rally) look both good, inspirational, and freakin awesome all at the same time. Sunday afternoon till the wee hours of Monday morning (if it takes us till 2am, we'll be there) is the set up in the sanctuary. I will try to update from there at some point with some pics of what's happening so far.

Ignite 2010 Tech

This past Thursday (before you ask, yes I am out of school) I had a great opportunity to really go out on my tech ministries. I helped with the Tech Booth for Ignite 2010 Round table. This was held by Allison Park Church and the MCM Network and we had atleast 100 different pastors and leaders from all over the country and in Pittsburgh. I saw some great friends like Rich Jones, Greg Krowits, Brian Bolt, and so many more. It was a fun day and there was extremely good Chinese Food :). Okay, so now that I talked about that, here's the latest Worship Videos for Crosstown I've been working on.

Another Crosstown Worship Song---Take it All

Today, I began again to start the Crosstown Worship Songs. By re-editing them and such in Sony Vegas. Take at look at Take it All by Hillsong Kids

Take it All from Mike Fowler on Vimeo.

Yes I know this is Late

Yes I know this is just a little bit late, but in March (see told you it was just a little late :D) I filmed the first service at the new Sharpsburg Family Worship Center. My friend Tim leads worship there so I thought that I should be there. SFWC is one of the original Church Plants from Allison Park Church. My friend from Sweden Johannes Amrizter was preaching that evening. Here is the recap video that so many people were asking for. Click here or look below.

Latest Update from Tanzania

For the next couple of weeks, Pastor Cullen (high school pastor) and the MCM Ministry School Students will be in the Nation of Tanzania for the Signs and Wonders Festival. Others are joining them including Gilbert Ackerman, Debbie Lynch, and many more. So far, almost over 500 people recieved Jesus into their lives. Great things are happening there and god is going to bless Tanzania greatly. The Festival is held by Mission SOS lead by a Good Friend to Allison Park Church, Johannes Amrizter. He will be speaking at Allison Park Church for the Ministry School Graduation coming up at the beginning of Next Month. You can take a look at the Latest update from Mission SOS on Vimeo below.

TZ: #3 from Mission SOS on Vimeo.