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.)

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.

Great TIme at Upward Awards

Last night was a blast at Upward Awards Night. I got the chance to once again work with Inteligent Lights with the Elation Operator 192 board once again. Not only that, I had to do video switch, and I got to take home a 2-litter thing of Coca-Cola (I seriously needed it after this past week starting day lights saving time.) But I got the chance to work with 4 other amazing people who without them, the night would not have happen. So special thanks to Gregg Jacobs, Brian Russel, Nick Karis, and Andy Eble. Joe Schafer did an awesome job also making the night happen.

What Happens at Upward Awards Night

Well honestly, I don't know what happens at Upward Awards Night. Except, well there's awards. I should get a better Idea of what happens. All I know of is that there's pics that are playing during pre-service, there's live cam involved, a guy by the name of Nel Creman will be there, and I am one of only 3 people who will be in the Tech booth. The two other people I will be working with are Andy Eble and Pastor Gregg Jacobs (I posted about him a couple of weeks ago.) Okay, off topic now, I thought I'd share last weeks APC Minute. It has some Winter Retreat testimonies. Check it out.

Upwards Award Night

I will continue to post about this for the next week or so, but my next big production is Upward Awards night.

For those of you who don't know what Upward is, it's a Christian basketball league that Allison Park Church holds that involves APC and other surrounding church's like Orchard Hill Church, North Hills Christian Community and more. I got placed in helping with the tech production with that which includes Projectors, Lights, Live Cam, and output switching. I'll be working with Gregg Jacobs and hopefully 1 other person. This should be one of those easy productions that APC has.

Gregg Jacobs: Youth Pastor and Media Mentor

Another guy to Brag about for a second. Gregg Jacbos does it all. At Allison Park Church he and his wife Kyra lead JV 2Twenty for Junior High students. Also he is a producer in the Tech booth on Sunday Mornings. This guy has been a big inspiration in my life for as long as I known him, which has been since 2007. Gregg was the one who's been there since I got started both in my walk with God and when I started in the tech booth. He has been putting me up to bigger and better tasks like programing the light board for Winter Retreat. I would Like to personally thank Gregg for being there every step that I've been through.