Monday Soup

Monday soup this week is going to have to be written vicariously through my staff, because I wasn't at church this weekend.  I was at home with my newly born son, Jude.  He's pretty great.

Anyways, Pastor Carl was actually scheduled to preach, but was unable to due to the pneumonia that he's been fighting for the past couple of weeks.  He thought he'd be better in time for this weekend, but as it turns out, he wasn't.  So, on Saturday morning, I received a call from Carl saying that he wasn't going to be able to go.  John was out of town this past weekend; I had just gotten through my first night with a newborn.  Awesome.

So what do I do?  I send one text message to Chris Rygh, our Executive Pastor, and he takes over.  Just takes over.  I am so grateful for him, for stepping in at the last minute (Saturday morning!) and doing a fantastic job with zero anxiety.  Although we had a few hiccups on Saturday night at Cedar Falls (including a CG computer that decided to lock up during the service), we got through it just fine.

I understand that a motorcycle made it on stage this weekend.  Heard good things about that.

Jon said that the worship set went well in Waterloo... but that they found out the hard way this weekend that the gymnasium at Hoover doesn't have air conditioning.  Why is that a problem?  It's where all of the kids are.  Don't know what our solution there is going to be... but you can bet it'll be a creative one.

It was great to have Larry Ravn back at the lighting board this weekend.  Welcome back, Larry!

Also: thanks to Chris John for stepping in and leading from the stage at Cedar Falls.  Like many of you, we've been relying on Chris more than just once every 3 weeks, and he always does a fantastic job.

That's it for the soup this week.  Hope you all are enjoying the early summer heat!