Building your LAN.

Tonight Rachel and I went over to Pleasant Heights Baptist Church for "Town Hall For Hope." As I was sitting there I had the thought "why have I not been here sooner and met the worship/tech people." After all that was one of the things on my list as I started my job at The First Family, get to know the people in surrounding churches.

We should have a LAN (local area network) just like in computer networking. Twitter has given me access to many friendships that would not be possible any other way. I consider my Twitter friends part of my WAN (wide area network). Now it would be wonderful to have the 8-15 Twitter friends I communicate with regularly close enough to meet with often. (Could you imagine all of us in the same area? WOW) But we are spread out across the U.S. and thats fine too. I would not trade the 140 character conversations with them for a 8 core MacPro with 32 GB of RAM and 4TB of HD space, or would I?? BUT we do need to have some physical interaction with other like minds, thus the LAN.

After the stream was over I, like we all have, strolled back to the rear of the worship center where up a few steps was the video side of "the sound booth". There I met Rush, yes Rush not Russ, Rush like the water and wind RUSH over or by. Rush is the Associate Pastor of Worship & Music. My first impression, "this is one of the nicest people I have met." We exchanged contact information and talked tech for a min and decided we need to have lunch. I am excited to have a new friendship in town and be able to learn from and offer help to another church. I encourage and challenge you to go meet the worship/tech/media person at a church, that is more than likely less than 5 miles from your church, and start a LAN!