TheOneCubed

Every year my church does a very nice and well thought out Christmas program. This year will be no exception. To start off the production for this year’s program - a team from the church traveled to Snow Hill, NC about 1hr. 30 min. away from Raleigh. There we set up at a farm, but not just any farm - a farm with sheep and a farm in the middle of no where.

Now in order to film a believable shepherd scene as depicted in the bible it has to be dark. Funny thing is, cameras don’t pick up too much when it is dark. So how do you film in the dark yet have enough light to see on the tape? Big generator and lots of big lights! Thanks to some amazingly well thought out solutions, we hauled a giant generator (one of those you have to tow behind a F-350 truck) tons of lights, tons of props, lots of recording equipment, and a whole lot of excitement!

Needless to say I found the entire event a lot of fun. The most hilarious part of the night and thus the name of this post was what my good friend David Woodall was able to do with the sheep. You see sheep are stupid animals that are frightened easily. You walk towards them, they run away and when one runs, they all run. We spent a lot of time trying to corral sheep but David seemed to have a way with them - thus he got nicknamed the Sheep Whisperer.

Below are a few photos but feel free to check out more in the gallery.

A nice shot of the sheep settling down and the sun setting in the distance.

Shepherds tending their flock.

Yes we set up a small audio recording and video monitoring studio in the back of a U-Haul.

As I mentioned in my last post, two weekends ago I was on a retreat with the college ministry of Providence Baptist church. I finally got the chance to post a few photos from the weekend. Here are a few of my favorites.

Headed up Hwy. 50 towards Oxford, NC

Josh Hinton rockin’ it out on the bass.

Gorgeous view looking across the pond at our cabins

Life has been very busy and crazy at times these last few weeks but God has continued to be amazing! Last week was a happy and a sad time as a good friend of mine, Patti, was leaving for NY for a year. Her awesome roommate Shelly threw a party for her departure last Thursday night. I posted a few photos below, but more are available in the Patti’s Heading to NY Party gallery.

After said party I went home to pack up as this past weekend was spent with the college ministry from church at their annual fall retreat. While it was a busy time for me (as I was responsible for all the sound/tech needs for the weekend) God used it to really stir within me. He raised questions within me that have been refreshing and renewing for my spirit. Please pray for me as I begin to allow God to make changes in my life to remove things that will detract from Him being my satisfaction and detract from me finding my rest in Him. Photos from the retreat will be up soon.

It appears the Iron Chefs of the State Fair have come up with it again - Fried Coke. You can read the full article from the Charlotte Observer below but what is this world coming to? In the words of my friend Megan (whom also shared this article with me) - “a heart attack.”

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/events/15726857.htm

Update:
I had to add a bit of banter exchanged between Megan and I over this Fried Coke idea.

megan: i mean, i’m kinda curious to try it
megan: aren’t you ?
me: hah!
me: maybe
megan: i heart coke, and i sure heart anything fried
megan: it’s like the south iconified
me: but you don’t heart your heart huh?
megan: hahah, yeah i do. i guess i could split an order
me: maybe if it were fried sweet tea . . .
megan: ahhh, nice!
megan: or sundrop
megan: i’m sure next year . . .
me: oooo
me: cheerwine
megan: hot dog
megan: next time i make funnel cakes, i’m so doing it

Update 2:
So I thought it might be fun to have a little poll about which liquid better iconifies the south.