Workshop in Idaho!

Hey bloggers,

Just wanted to let you guys know about a little somethin' that's coming up. On May 1-2 (Friday night through Saturday) we are hosting a workshop that you are going to want to be a part of. Carl Albrecht, his wife Leann, and Ed Kerr are going to be with us to clinic and lead worship. We don't have all of the details yet but I can tell you this...

• It will be in Southern Idaho - so you don't really have to go far!
  
• It will be less than $50 - if you sign up early!
  
• It will be awesome!
  

Seriously I've seen each of these guys teach and worship and they are amazingly gifted and humble. Please take advantage of this opportunity to learn and grow!

There will be a few more things on the agenda so check back in for updates!

If you want to receive info about the Clinic let me know, drop me an email, aaron@fbcpoky.com, or call me at the office 208-232-6305.

As I have more info I will post it here so check back often!

It's hard to blog when you don't have a computer!

If you can't figure out why it's been so long since my last post you should read the last post. I've been bouncing around from computer to computer and space to space the last few weeks. Good news though, the office space is almost finished. I get my cube back but new and improved! The insurance is going to cover the replacement cost of my laptop and I was able to get most of the data that I needed off of it!

Here is my conundrum though... I haven't really decided what kind of computer I should get so... if you have any recommends let me know...

Hopefully I can get something quickly and then I can get back to regular work. We have some big things coming and it would sure be nice to have a computer to work on them!

Let me know what you think in the comments or take the poll.

Of Drowned Laptops and Overflow

Greetings from vacation. I may be the only person on staff who blogs on vacation but you will just have to deal with that.

So you should check out what Bill had to say about Thursday, but I wanted to focus more on the overflow. In case you didn't know we did something on Thursday that, as far as I know, has never been done in the 100+ years of FBC. We had simultaneous, multi-site, service!!! It was far from perfect, but it allowed us to increase our seating capacity by another third. We had 235 people in the main worship center and 98 in the family room! We need to give a big shout out to Darwin for getting us hooked up with an awesome screen and scaller! I hope to learn a lot from him. Just you know, that this is not going to be a one time thing, soon we are going to need this every week. It is going to take some investment of both money and time but if we need it because we are out of room it is the right problem! Just a side note, if you were in the overflow I would love for you to let me know what you thought, saw, heard. We need to make it better and the only way we can do it is to hear from You!

To go along with that, I poured almost a pint of water out of my laptop on Friday after the ceiling leaked water on my desk! I'm currently posting from Janaye's laptop in Midway, UT. I tell you, a forced hiatus from all my files and projects has been good but scary! I managed to get it up enough to start a backup of the things that I need but it will never function fully again. Sad music here. The lesson in this... BACKUP YOUR DATA! Do it now. You never know when the roof is comin' down and your computer is going for a swim!