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Preview Service #1 First Lesson Learned

April 1st, 2008 by Carl Thomas.

Setup at your location will take you much longer than you thought regardless how knowledgeable or experienced you are.

We wanted to mop before we set up. It took almost 15 minutes to find a place to fill a bucket. We could not get the gear set up fast enough to get a sound check going. We realized that we did not pack the speaker stands (a fairly important piece of equipment).

We wanted to start at 7:30p.m. but weren’t able to start a sound check till almost 7. At 7:40 the sound died. We are still not sure why but we think because we tried a new configuration with some equipment that did not want to be configured that way.

If you are setting up the same day as your service for the first time. Give waaaaaay too much time for set up. That should almost be enough.

Stay tuned for more lessons learned.

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4 Responses to “Preview Service #1 First Lesson Learned”

  1. John Baw | 2/04/08

    Hey Carl, about the sound dying on you….all I can say is….been there, done that, got the T-shirt! We used to have a situation with the sound system - everytime we had a good turnout of visitors, the sound died. You could bet on it. After a lot of huffin’ and puffin’ I got to expect some resistance to our meetings (Duh!) - and even got to laugh at it on several ocassions. Yes I know…the laughing thing…doesn’t sound very spiritual, but at least I managed to stay with a semblance of sanity :)
    Keep on keeping Bro.!

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  2. carl | 2/04/08

    I wish this was our only sound problem. You just gotta laugh. if this service was about me then it would have been a complete failure.

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  3. Patsy | 3/04/08

    Take pictures. Lots of pictures. You guys are going to be telling stories to the newbies a few years down the road and you need the pictures to go with them. Really. It will be useful for the newbies to know that you did not start out high-powered and polished. It will give them hope for their own ministries when God starts speaking to them.

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