3rd Sunday's

At Crossroads our amplify tech team has over 100 people on it. Training has always been an interesting and growing process. We don't have our own building so there are times it can be fun trying to balance the best use of everyone's time verse the best training we can give them. What we do is a combination of mentoring type training, midweek and specialized training and what we call 3rd Sunday's. On the 3rd Sunday of every month each subset of our technology team has training geared specifically towards there area of expertise. It's led by myself and the leaders of that area. This allows every team, training time in the building a couple times a year to augment the mentor and other training we do. Yesterday was May's 3rd Sunday so our sound guys got to spend time with their area Leader Mark Garcia
( pictured on far right) to go over vision and signal flow in the main auditorium. Mark is an awesome man and sound engineer and we are truly blessed to have him! He has been around the country planting church's and has run sound and worked with some truly cool bands such as the Katina's and engineered events  for  such people as Randy Travis and Kurt Warner ( of the St Louis Ram's). Mark  is a GREAT leader who has a true passion for sound and the guys on his team. Our sound guy's are  just as amazing, all of them hungry to serve and change this world. Anyone who has ever run sound knows what a challenge it can be to balance the logistics of the craft and create a mix that translates and keeps everyone happy. These guys come in on Saturday night/Sunday mornings and start from scratch/zero every week and they put there hearts into doing the best job they can for the people in our community. THEY ROCK. If you see em around, say thanks to  Mark, Kevin Clark, Ken Peters, Rich Behnke, Brandon Thomas, Ben Johnnosn, Kyle Brooks,Chris Wood and Mike Slovak (Mike is missing from the photo  but rocks none the less !) Thanks you guys, your dedication inspires me and I am grateful to serve alongside you and call you friends!!!

Comments

[Jim Walton]

I love the idea of the 3rd Sunday training. That sounds like it helps to keep training and mentoring in the forefront.

I have total respect for any church that has to set up and tear down every week. I used to be active in a church that met in a middle school and every Sunday, very early, we were there pulling out everything, running cables, and setting everything up. It takes a tremendous amount of dedication, as well as some expertise. I certainly was not the expert at it but our resident expert was good at leading us and teaching us, even down to the minute details.

That church still does that every Sunday and Wednesday, unfortunately, I had to move away, so I'm not part of that anymore.

[Anthony D. Coppedge]

Great to hear - more T3 teaching put into action!!! :)

Kudos on showing off a pic of a few of the peeps, but post a picture of all 100 techies!!!

By the way, to those reading his blog, Pete's blowing the doors off of their tech ministry - 100 volunteers in tech with around, what?, 1,000 in service? Does YOUR church have 10% of it's attendees serving in tech?!

And, as if that wasn't enough, all this happening in a COUNTY of less than 100,000 people!! Crossroads is simply amazing!

YOU ROCK, PETE!!!!

[Peter Bishop]

Hi Anthony and Jim,

Thanks for your thoughts guys! It truly is amazing to be involved at Crossroads. The people are truly the best!!!

I did get 3rd sunday's from T3( should have mentioned that!sorry Anthony :) ) Ill post more on that eventually. T3 was invaluable for us in pulling alot of loose ends together so I highly recomend it. I told you Anthony and the guys were incredable!

Jim thanks for the encouragement. We have a huge dedicated team church wide to pull of what we do on the weekend. It's an amazing thing to see! And be a part of. It certainly creates a team atmosphere and is really cool to be a part of. We can't take credit. It's a God thing for sure!

Anthony Ill try to round up a troop picture and get everyone in the shot. That would be way cool!

Our Amplify tech team is not just comprised of Sunday tech's we cover alot of area's. Right now we have people serving in the area's of SOUND, LIGHTING, STAGE DESIGN, DUPLICATION, GRAPHICS, SETUP AND TEARDOWN, WEB, VIDEO PRODUCTION, LARGE FORMAT PRINTING,MARKETING, ADMINISTRATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT. We are very team driven. All of the sub teams have team leaders and alot of the teams are driven by day to day by the leaders much more so than by me. We do a tiered system where I pour into the leaders and get them the resources they need and they pour into their teams and so on down the line.

I'm still learning and we got a way's to go getting it all put together but I am so blessed to be where I am and with great people! Without the people with the hearts they have we'd be no where.

Crossroaders are the best!!!