ANN ARBOR!

I have to say, I AM SO PUMPED! Every thursdays we have a staff meeting, in which all of the staff at 2|42 meet together and talk about everything going on in the church. It starts at 10 and normally lasts for 2 hours. Today we spent almost all of our time talking about the Ann Arbor campus launch. Dave is an amazing Vision caster and just gets you thrilled about things. We've set a date for the new launch. It's in March 2008. We haven't decided about a place and we've already established "Discovery Meetings" in Ann Arbor in which we'll meet in AA and have a worship service and just vision cast to everyone who comes. Just like we did 4 years ago with the Brighton Campus. Amazing stuff. StuCo is planning to launch 6 months after the launch date in March. If I'm not supposed to be posting this in a blog, I'm sure Brad will let me know, but Dave didn't say anything about keeping this to ourselves. Anywho, I know I haven't written in about 4 days, I have to be honest, I think blogging is stupid, but it's kind of relaxing and puts things into persepctive. Today (thursday) I got into the office at around 10pm for the start of the staff meeting, I figure since I'm going to be there all day because of StuCo band practice from 7pm to 9pm I might as well come in at 10. The staff meeting was a huge encouragement. I brought my lunch today but Brad insisted that I go out to eat with everyone, I told him no. So we went to a Chinese buffet in Howell that was pretty nasty. I'm pretty sure it was Cat and Dog that they served that was soaked, marinated and baked in MSG. The good thing is that they had pretty good ice cream. Being the lactose intolerant person that I am, I jumped on the opportunity to have some Strawberry flavored lactose. Bad idea. Anyways, after come back from Lunch, I learn more about the new planning center tutorials, the new Arts website and imported all the StuCo artists into it as well as out lined all of the StuCo Services for the next seven weeks. We've got some cool series coming up. Most everyday I send out about 10 emails at least. Today, Jeff was making a lego video for the sunday after next and I did some voices for it and made a "Angelic who Haw's" in Reason for the video. You'll see it in the next couple of weeks. Good stuff. After that, Thomas showed up and we spent about 3 hours sitting down in front of our computers. I taught him Reason and how to set up a Midi keyboard (Thomas is a very talented Sophomore that plays in the Youth Band) and use a midi keyboard. He already downloaded the Demo so the learning process was very smooth. I can't wait until he starts to make drum loops for the services and uses organs and pad with the songs. That'll add so much. We're going to try and meet up every week and nail stuff down for the services. Then for band practice. It went very well, Jay couldn't be there because of a soccer game, but it's all Good. It went smooth. We've started having practices at Lakewood in the Main sanctuary while the Adult service does it in the Back room. We use the sound system there and it works out pretty well. It'll be good. Everything was easy to hear and I didn't have cotton ear afterward! After that I took Ricky home and got here around 10:30. I was supposed to help Tara pack, she's moving to Plymouth on Saturday to be nearer to her job but I was completely exhausted. I've been at the office for 12 hours. I was starting to get sick of smelling old church. She was okay with it. So here I am, writing on a blog while my parrot looks at me with those big bird eyes. She wants to sit on my knee, but I'm not going to let her, it's too late for some parrot action. Tomorrow should be an interesting day. At 9am Brad and I are meeting at the Naz to nail down a rehearsal space and place for See You At The Pole 2008. I'm leading the youth bands for this. It'll be cool. I just re-read this and the grammar and punctuation is terrible. I really don't want to proof read this. Okay, till next time! I'll try upload more pictures each day about what went on. Where the action is happening. Okay, once again, Until next time!