Be still my heart.......I just about had a stroke.

So I prepared Sunday's service early. I am the one who puts all of the graphics on the computer that get projected on Sunday morning. I had it all done yesterday except one picture that didn't work out (someone sent it to me and it was a thumbnail and that won't work well up on a large screen) and I figured I'd do that today. I prepped early because we had a memorial service today and I didn't want to get to the wire and have to pull a late night so I was a good girl!! Usually I'm working on this at 10pm Saturday night and I'm trying to be better than that.

Well, I just finally went on the computer to find that one more picture and I got it then went to open the program. It opened as the new version and there was nothing loaded - no service, no graphics, no songs, NOTHING!!!! I panicked because when we first tried to upload the new version it tried to overwrite the old version and we had a problem putting both versions on the computer - so I figured that the old one was toast ALONG WITH MY SERVICE!!! GASP!!! I screamed and hubby came running in the room wondering what it was and when I told him almost in tears, he laughed and said that he loaded the new version and renamed the old one so I could run either one. Seems the logo in the dock was the new version instead of the old.

Oh my stars!! There was a LOT of stuff I had to do for tomorrow and I'd have HATED to have had to do that all over again!!!

GASP, PANT.... be still my heart!!

But now I can work on learning the new version, so that's a plus!!

 

LOL Steven. I was SOOOO sick!! All I could think of was "the video!! the graphics I found!!! the songs I need to reload and reconfigure!!" :tonofbricks: Hubby didn't realize that I'd be opening the new version and he was as scared at first when I started screaming. Yes, I really did scream and I don't scream easily!! Last time I screamed was when the dead rat in the garage suddenly resurrected! That was like 6 years ago!

Hubby and daughter are practicing worship right now and I'm going through the songs to be sure I have the words set up right. It's lovely. I'm calming down now.

Ahhh - Jesus Paid it All :saint:

 

Is it that you guys just sing songs you know? How do you introduce new songs?


The graphics go with the songs. Let me see if I can find a photo....Here's one from VBS and while it's hard to see, it will give you an idea. It's the words over a graphic of a campsite with a tent and a fire in front. This was actually a video because the fire was "live" - with it crackling and burning.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._110001344068_735924068_2221477_5819682_n.jpg


I also make announcement slides to go with the announcements so the men's breakfast has a checkered tablecloth and a breakfast plate on it. The slide for the coat drive had 3 kids in warm coats. That sort of thing.

Finally, I'll add graphics to the sermon if the pastor wants it. In our "mother church", we don't usually do that but in our new church we've been tending to use some graphics. Not a lot but about 3-4 through the sermon to illustrate a point. This week was the Prodigal Son so I had some old paintings of the parable and I also always put the Scripture reference on the screen since we have some new people who have never even felt a Bible. I have a pretty slide with an open old Bible at the bottom and the background is black. I put the reference (like this week was Luke 15:11-32) and then the page numbero of the passage in the Bibles we give out to the new people. I don't put the passage up but just the reference.

So that's what the graphics are for.

Oh - since I do the graphics, here's a pic of my "office" in the sound booth. This is where I am every Friday. http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e110/annsni/MyDesk.jpg

 

I know when hubby does the worship, he'll ask the preaching pastor what the message is about and will make the closing song work with the message.

However, worship is worship no matter what the message is. We use worship to praise God for who He is and if the message is being preached from the Word (which it is), the worship will always go with the message.