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What Makes Me Tick

Friday, December 19th, 2008

 

3108104464_fb230300c0If there is one thing in this world that I love, it is lights. 

Lights, lights, lights.

Theater, presentation, around the streets, in houses, anywhere.

I love seeing a display of lights that takes my breath away. This year for St. Paul’s Collegiate Church, I have the privilege of being the Technical Designer for the IMAGINE Christmas service. It has been one of the most amazing experiences I have been asked to do and tomorrow (actually tonight since it’s past midnight ;) ), the first service begins.

I can’t even begin to say how excited I am. Like I said before, lights make me tick. Let me tell you right now – the lights this year are going to be unbelievable. The special effects – breathtaking… If you are not planning on attending IMAGINE Christmas or are still unsure, do it. Come see the Christmas story, the birth of Jesus, told in a different way. In a way that will blow you away.

I have, obviously, been to all the rehearsals. I have put in hundreds of hours on this service. Each and every time, there has been an overwhelming presence of the Holy Spirit, so much the other night that I broke down, others broke down. I cannot believe how much God has moved in this church, working His magic to pull off the impossible, using us. Wow!

God is working miracles in Storrs, CT and we all better be prepared because He is coming!

Check out more IMAGINE Christmas rehearsal and show pictures here this weekend!!!

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Live Recording Help!!!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

My church runs live video recording software during three services in hopes of getting a good recording of the sermon for our night service. Aside from a couple minor glitches in learning how to tape a sermon and use the cameras, there has been no problems or issues in producing quality videos.

However, ONE MAJOR PROBLEM has come up.

Bad DVDs.

We live record and edit the sermon and immediately burn it to a DVD. Currently we use Imation DVDs but we are wondering if maybe there is a higher end DVD or another option for burning the video file that we should look into so that we can avoid these hiccups.

I’m kind of at a loss here and since this is very new to St. Paul’s Collegiate Church, we are having brain farts in fixing this issue.

On that note, I need your help fellow readers. Here’s my thinking.

You read here. Some of you comment. If you do either and blog yourself, please post a quick blurb about my issue and tell people to comment here with suggestions or to email me (evan@evanrummel.com).

This isn’t a huge pressing issue however the last three weeks we have had multiple bad DVD’s that failed to finalize and retain the sermon. I would like to fix this ASAP so go! Linkback and post to your blog community to get the word out.

Thanks!!!

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Sunday Reflections

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

A little late yes, but with school starting and work continuing, my time has been limited towards personal reflection time. I’m actually on my dinner break right now posting!

Sunday, for those that read the previous entry, you’ll know that I had a big day lined up for myself and the Atmosphere team as a whole. Needless to say, it was a HUGE day for myself and the other coordinator on the team. We were at church from 7:30am until 9:00pm…

Yeah… long day anyone?

But you know what?? (more…)

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The Day That Starts It All

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Tomorrow.

Sunday.

The day that will start madness. And craziness. And struggle. And complete and utter joy.

Tomorrow, St. Paul’s Collegiate Church will, after only 3 years, start a 4th service on Sunday. Services times and feels are as follows:

9:00AM – Traditions/Matins — Hymnal type music with basic piano/vocal driven feel.

11:15AM – Jazz — Led by critically acclaimed musicians Earl McDonald and Kris Allen, the service is heavily jazz-based and is surprisingly fun and engaging.

4:00PM – Evensong — Full band with drums, this service rocks out hard and big.

6:00 – Vespers/Unplugged — More meditative and responsive, the music has an acoustic feel and leads people to worship more deeply and spend time in prayer.

What does this mean for me? (more…)

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Calling All Techs!! Help!!

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Alright – I’m in need of lots of feedback, lots of help on this one. I know there is only about 30 people who read this blog on a day to day basis but if you do and you read other blogs, linking back to me is key right now.

Currently, I am one of only three techs that will be staying on the Atmosphere team come January. We are losing people to new jobs in new states, new babies, etc. In place of the techs going forth with their other callings, we are gaining three video cameras and a live editing system, one of which I know nothing about.

This is huge because we are starting up a new service in the fall bringing the total to four services – HUGE!!! Amen for growth!! But it’s almost expanding too quickly for us techs to catch up and I want to be on top of things like whoa so if you know about video services, use cameras at church, do video editing, I need your comments. I need your emails. Link back to me – spread the word that St. Paul’s Collegiate Church Atmosphere team is in need of some support because without it, it may be a rough road that could distract people during services.

On that note, let’s hear some thoughts – concerns, tricks, tips.

How do you do it at your church? What should I be weary of and look for?

P.S. I’ll post our new system information when I get a hold of it so that you can be aware of what I’m dealing with!

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Meeting Shane Claiborne

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Jesus for PresidentSunday night I had the opportunity and pleasure for being the sound engineer for the Jesus for President tour stop in Hartford, CT for for Shane Claiborne. Meeting Shane was definitely a cool thing. He was exactly how I thought he’d be – passive, humble, chill, and fun to be around.

The presentation that Shane and his friends put on was interesting to say the least. It was certainly not what I expected. In all honesty though, I had no idea what I was going to see Sunday night anyways. I figured it would be a Q&A on his [Shane] new book. Instead, it was a 2 1/2 hour presentation on anti-war, being soldiers for love. (more…)

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Tech Confessionals

Monday, May 19th, 2008

In response to many others doing this and a couple of my posts being similar in nature already, I figured I’d do a weekly response to the services I attend/tech for.

This week was the first time in weeks I had attended the 11am, our Jazz service. I love the music and the atmosphere that the musicians create because it is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. The musicians, Earl MacDonald and Kris Allen, are critically acclaimed and known throughout the country for their musical experience.

Later on I was able to attend the 6pm to worship, instead of teching. Always nice! Here are some thoughts.

  • I snap at people when cues don’t happen when I want them to. Thank God for the gracious people I serve with :) That’s definitely something that I need to work on. In the end, it’s all about God, not how good we look :)
  • Jazz is so unique, especially for me (I love it!), but it draws me in and allows me to reflect much more rather than look showy like I expected it to.
  • 6pm service seemed to be kind of quiet but it lacked the beefy sound of our bassist so that might have been why. Liked the mix though!
  • Beth our new worship leader as of this summer rocked! Great job leading the sets and making people feel comfortable to worship as they please!!
  • Cues were spot on with MediaShout! Kelly, one of our newest members picked it up quick and has a knack for hitting the right cues!

How was your Sunday worship??

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Heart Attack in Tech

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Yesterday (Sunday) was supposed to be easy.

Things were supposed to go relatively smoothly.

I assumed I’d have to do mostly nothing to pull off a successful Sunday. I spent the better half of the afternoon re-designing the lighting set-up for our guest speaker/actor Hunter Barnes. I was excited and ready to go.

But you know sometimes when you get that strange feeling that something was going to happen?? I had that yesterday for most of the day which I simply brushed off thinking nothing of it. (more…)

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Coolest Thing Since Llamas Were Invented

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

So the coolest thing that I’ve been introduced to lately is video chat. I’ve done it with people through AIM but don’t really enjoy that because AIM isn’t too fun and I don’t use it (I use GAIM or gchat). But when I was overseas, my family and friends would use Skype to contact me when I would run out of minutes on phone cards. Only recently have I started remembering how fun it is to use and especially video chat!!

Randomly I get invites to video chat with people (so far only 2…but who’s counting haha) and it is actually a lot of fun. Instead of a quick cell phone chat or mindless instant message conversation, there is actual interaction between two, three, or maybe more people at once, and with visual connection too.

So for those techies out there, hit me up sometime (SN = thedesertfox03) for a video chat if you are into that sort of stuff. Say hey, tell me a joke, give me the weather report, whatever. If it’s awkward, there’s always the “mute call” button to save us :) I don’t bite and certainly won’t ignore a call or two :)

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April 27 Worship Set @ St. Paul's

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Once again, another amazing night of worship. Things were simply spot on and it was an absolute pleasure to create the sound of worship. I love my job and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Below you’ll find the links for the worship songs that came out well from the recordings. The other songs unfortunately were too distorted or didn’t come out well enough to post here. So for now, enjoy these tunes :) Once I get better at recording, there will be full services :)

Evensong Set

Vespers Set

Let me know what you think or if there are any problems :) Any skilled recorders out there, leave me some helpful tips please!!

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