Week 2

This week at church we have reached our halfway mark of Upward Football. If you aren't aware Upward is a national organization that helps develop christian sports leagues in communities. They provide resources from Director to player. This is our first year to partner with Paramount Baptist Church with Flag Football. It is a very small league, only 7 teams. I personally serve as the halftime commissioner for the league, my responsibilities along with announcing the players as they run out on to the field are, do the halftime game and devotion. The halftime game is a quick "minute to win it" type game, with a scripture that correlates with the game. Upward in the past has done halftime devotions in a different fashion, Directors were in charge of finding a volunteer for every week, every halftime to deliver a devotion of the volunteers choosing. First Baptist has been involved with Upward Basketball leagues for over a decade so we are quite familiar the varying types of devotions that will be given. Every devotion became a gamble, you could get a 20 minutes sermon or a 1 minute prayer, all that is supposed to fit in a 5-7 minute time slot. The new format of halftime commissioner with pre provided activities is much easier logistically.

Speaking of Upward Basketball, flyers will go out today, and brochures are already available on site. Chaos follows Chaos in Church life.

God is the peace, amongst the Chaos.

Week 1

The title "week 1" is a deceptive title for I have been employed by First Baptist for quite sometime now, but it is true however in that this is the first time I will have blogged about my time here at FBC.

First Baptist in recent months has been in collaboration with Three Leaf Creative on designing several  changes such as bulletins, business cards, website, etc. Recently however they have been working on our new television commercial. Our new church motto is "Many Faces, One Faith", the motto is trying to express the expansive diversity that is represented at First Baptist Church of Amarillo. I got a chance to get to preview the rough cut of the commercial and offer suggestions to be taken into account before the commercial goes over the airways. 

I am excited to see what the final cut will look like, and for our church to move away from shooting our commercials in house. It is good that we are working with professionals. Though the content of First Word may be good, getting it in a 30 second spot is too rushed.