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Date: 06 October 2008 22:44:56
Yesterday we had our first evening service at church in some time. As I understand it, there used to be an evening service a long while back, but it stopped shortly before I moved here (five years at the end of this month - blimey, where does the time go?!). Well, now we have our own building, and have been seeing a bit of an increase in numbers over the last year or two, we're going to have evening services again.
It seems that there may have been a bit of promotion for this at the various universities in town, seeing as how we had about thirty or forty students turn up for the first time. It being a large church, I'm used to not necessarily recognising everyone there - but even by my usual standards, I was left thinking, "where did all these folks appear from?!" - in a good way, like. But there were also plenty of regulars. It was all a bit exciting, and it'll be interesting seeing how it develops over the coming weeks and months.
Yesterday was also interesting for me, as I had something of a baptism of fire in my new role on the technical team. I only agreed to do it on Thursday, so I hadn't really had time to do any training. Thankfully, there were a few people on hand who knew what they were doing, and I picked it up quite easily. In a nutshell, my role involves working the laptop that puts all the songwords, notices and suchlike up on the screens. And, I have to say, it was a whole lot of fun. There's a large element of seat-of-your-pants to it - particularly during worship, when you have new songs you've never heard before and older songs where the worship band may choose to go on to the next verse, back to the last verse, or somewhere entirely different, and you have to get the right words up on screen quick - but thankfully that was more exciting than nerve-wracking. In fact, I can't wait to do it again next month.
So, all in all, I think these evening services are going to be A Good Thing. Hurrah!