HOSTAGE Series

This week is "set-change week" at New Vintage church. We've just ended a series called Tribes based off of Seth Godin's book and now we're using the graphics from LifeChurch.tv's Hostage series to do our own HOSTAGE series. This series is seven weeks long and ends on Easter Sunday. I'm so excited about what's happening here. Here's a peak into the set build.

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NVC Production Team Wins // 2.21.09-2.22.09

Wins are where we scored, hit the bullseye and something went right.

Yesterday was my first day leading the Production Team at New Vintage Church. I've been learning a lot from Dan Fisher over the past month of what the Multi-Media Team does at NVC.

Here's the weekend run-down:

• We were severely short-staffed this past weekend, so most of our volunteers stepped up to the plate on Thursday or Friday of last week. Thanks guys! Incredible!
• Saturday: John (Lights), Sy (ProPresentor) and Tom (Sound)
  
• John was cross-trained in ProPresentor before service and can now fill another position in rotation for us!
• Tom and Sy hadn't been on in the rotation for a few months and I'm so happy that they were there helping us out on Saturday night. Let's continue to build the team so that the rotation is large and not a drain on any one person.
• Sunday: Wes & Riley (Stage Hands), Jerome (ProPresentor), Allen (Sound) Gary & Wes (Stage Set Up) and the Wells Fargo Guys too. We were set up in record time, way before the musicians where ready to practice. That's huge guys! Keep it up.
• The dancers were "stunning," especially on Sunday with the spots only! It really was the graceful illsutration Andy was looking for.
  
• Lighting overall was "A-W-E-S-O-M-E" according to Julie McIntosh. 
• Many of our normal volunteers were able to take the weekend off, going out of town or spending time with their families. I'm glad you guys got some rest.
  
  

This next series, HOSTAGE, is going to be awesome. It starts next week. Check out the video invitation below:



What are some WINS you noticed? I'd like to hear.

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Living Room Events

Foyer-Living Room-Kitchen (want to know more, click here and watch the "next" video)

That's the strategy of New Vintage Church. We want to move people through steps to end up in the Kitchen (Small Groups).

In a couple of weeks we're having three different Living Room events:

MarriedLife Live
SingleLife Live
20-Somethings Night Out



I'm speaking at the 20-Somethings Night Out.

If you were speaking, what would be your topic? If you were attending, what would you want me to talk about?

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Monday Madness

This weekend has been great and crazy! Why you ask?

Friday

• We celebrated Valentin'es Day early
• I took Erica to The Villa
• She liked my gift

Saturday

• We cleaned our place
  
• Our old boss, Donna Cooper, and her family came to visit us
• I worked at our Saturday night worship service
• We went out to eat with the Cooper's to a place called Carmen's Burger Bar (thank you Amy for the suggestion)

Sunday

• The Coopers had to leave early for something at Angel Island
• I worked at our Sunday morning worship service (I made an announcement too)
  
• Erica worked all morning at the Amgen Tour of California (it was raining hard and cold)
  
• I picked her up, we at at Baja Fresh
  
• We went home, she napped and I worked some more
• I went to INVERT (NVC's High School Ministry)
• During our service I got a call from Erica, her sister was stuck at the SFO airport on her way back from Eugene, OR
• We left Santa Rosa around 6:35pm to pick her up, we returned home at 10:30pm (long drive - raining really hard the entire way!)

Monday

• Got up at 4:30am to take Kelly back to SFO
• Took a detour on the way home to Sausalito for Starbucks (turns out the Tour of California started there today on their next leg)
• Got a hot Green Tea
• Read some YouVersion
  
• Got hom around 8:30am
• Slept
• Made two videos
• Twittered
• Facebooked
• Emailed
• Now I'm going to the store to make dinner
• Our friends are coming for dinner
  

What did you do?

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NVC Blooper Reel

Yesterday Any VomSteeg,  the Pastor of New Vintage Church, called me and asked me to come to the productvideocast.com studio to film some videocasts with him. Here's the blooper reel.

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Here's Lookin' At You Kid

Yesterday we went to the Dr. for our best ultrasound yet.

Details: (All of these details are subject to change without notice)
Name: Baby Foster
Due Date: 9/12/09
Size: Tiny
Hair Color: No hair yet
Looks Like: A Gummy Bear

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"I Have Found" a Great Song

Erica found this song on Casey Darnell's blog a while back. Last night I finally broke down and spent $0.99 on the song, I Have Found by Kim Walker. It would be worth your change to purchase this song from her CD Here is My Song.

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Bodega Bay

Today, Erica's grandparents came to visit us from Fresno. We were really excited to see them. They also brought the cash from Paul selling our washer and dryer (thank you) and some items we had left in Fresno. But we were more excited to see them. We drove out to Bodega Bay (Yeah, that's right...where The Birds was filmed) and had lunch at The Tides. Below are some pictures from our day.



Here's the linke to a picture from Erica's phone http://twitpic.com/1dpj3.
I bet you want to come visit us now, huh?

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Customizing My Twitter Look

I came across this great post about how to customize your twitter page and it inspired me.

Check it out for yourself: http://twitter.com/micahfoster

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New Vintage Church // Clay Scroggins Speaks

This past weekend we had the pleasure of hosting Clay Scroggins from North Point Community Church. He spoke while Andy VomSteeg (our Pastor) visited Athens Church and North Point over the weekend. Clay and his wife, Jenny, were great guests. Catch a glimpse of our service from Sunday here.

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