Monday, Monday, Monday.

My parents came up from Indiana this past weekend. They came up on Friday night and stayed until Sunday at about 4pm. It was a great time. We went a lot of time just hanging out and talking. On friday I got in the office at 9am and got the production computer all set for Sunday and made sure everything was cued up with the videos and audio etc. Jeff was playing drums on Sunday for adult service so we went to Guitar center to get a sound hole cut out for this Bass drum. It was a good trip. It's always good hanging out with the older brother. I really look up to him a lot and he's just a great guy, good influence. Except that one time when he did that one thing in that one time in that one place. He knows what I'm talking about. Haha, no just joking. But seriously though, I got back into the office and started to make a slide for the game on Sunday, "The Great StuCo text off!" Here's the slide . . . . .
The game went something like this . . . . We would put a phrase up on the screens like "StuCo is the most amaziest thing ever" then we'd put Brad's phone number up on the screen, so the first person to text Brad the complete phrase, with no spelling errors, one a StuCo shirt. It was pretty fun. We thought it was funny how most churches are like, "Put your phones away in Church!" and we're like, "Get 'em out and use them!" We also introduced a new Texting service where it can send out Mass Texts. We would have the students right after the game send "IAMSTUCO" to 41411 to recieve the mass text. We'd send texts like, "We're going to a movie on friday at 7:40 be there" or something like that. We plan on Sending about two texts per week. It'll be sweet. So far, the website says we have about 30 subscribers. Pretty cool.
Brighton's homecoming was this weekend so a lot of students didn't come to church on Sunday. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about that, maybe this blog isn't the place to express myself about that. I remember when no matter what happened on Saturday night my friends and I and the people in my youth group would be at church the next morning no matter what. It was like we knew that we needed eachother to be there, it was the place to be on Sunday and we would all sit on one side of the church and worship together and just be the Student community of the church. I remember coming to church on Sunday where I only got 2 hours of sleep. Some days no sleep. I remember waking my friend up because he was snoring, haha. I don't know. ANYWAYS . . . . The worship band on Sunday was only Me, Ricky on Drums (who did great!) and Adam Vance (who also did great). A lot of the regulars didn't come either. I don't know, it's just disappointing when you know no one is going to come because they of an event. Sunday is only one day a week. But on the flip side, I LOVE small worship bands. It was so intimate and I could tell the students enjoyed it, when I backed off the mic, they were singing so loud! I love that, that's why I do what I do! On Band practice on Thursday it was the same thing, just guitar, bass and drums. Oh let's talk about Thursday. So I get into the office at 10am for the staff meeting each week. I get in so late because I have to be there until about 9:30pm. I teach 2 students after work at Lakewood and then I have band practice. So after band practice Jeff wanted me to stay after and help him with a video element they were doing for adult service. They were doing W242 news, haha. They were interviewing people who were completely wrong about the future. For example, in the 50's IBM's President said, there is maybe a world market of 5 computers max. Haha, boy was he wrong. There were about 5 of these. I did an interview with President Grover Cleveland who said, "No sensible women would want to vote . . . . ." I'll get the video from Jeff and upload it here soon . . . STAY TUNED!!!
So it's really gloomy outside here in Michigan. I'm just blogging watching Cold Mountain in the Background. That movie is insane. Tonight Tara and I are going to Financial Peace University. It's the first week and it's a 13 week program. I've taken it once before, it's amazing. I'm proud to say I have absolutely no credit cards and no credit card debt. Tara has never taken it but I have given her the CDs that came with the pack. He's listened to it and so have her parents. Her parents are hooked. I'm going to get something to eat. I'll have that video uploaded here soon.