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 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.

It's Official

It is now official that APC is now live streaming our services to the internet. Every Sunday, you can catch us at allisonparkchurch.com/livestrem. Here's the video from last week's message by Pastor Jeff

Snow Brings Two Congregations Together

I would just like to take this time to say that yesterday (despite the snow) was an Amazing Day at Allison Park Church. One of our Church plants, Element Church in Millvale, canceled there service cause the roads were too bad. So Rich Jones, the senior pastor there, decided to have there church come to APC for the 11am service. Despite the weather, they had atleast 30 people come from Element to APC. Way to Go Element Church!!

Brian Lippert: A Man of the Camera

Let me brag about this guy for a second. Brian Lippert who is the media guy at Allison Park Church does some amazing things when it comes to his videos. He has a great talent and a great passion toward God. I love working with this guy cause he always knows how to make people including myself laugh. Plus he is always there for me. Here's a video he made over the summer for a Volunteer's Dinner at the Church.

The Latest Changes: Providing the Word Outside of Church

Most recently at Allison Park Church, we added some new materials to make worship easier both at APC and in your own home. First of all, we bought a license for a MAC based program called ProPresenter. I like it so far but I can still live with EasyWorship which is what we use at 2Twenty. Also we bought a iMac pro to use for audio recording with Adobe Soundbooth and we also bought 2 mounted cameras to in the future live stream our services, and now we're making DVD's of Pastor Jeff Leake's messages. Finally we bought a new Sony HDV camera which is mounted on a Tri Pod. Also now that I think about it, we also are using a switcher which selects are different inputs and put them either on the 2 side screens, the back screen, center stage screen, or the two TVs we have in the concourse. Technology has really changed since I started getting involved.