trey taylor

a lesson in being prepared

// July 7th, 2008 // church, leadership

Saturday night, about 30 minutes before our service started, our power went out. Now, thats not necessarily a big surprise because in that last few months we’ve had it go out during services, but typically its only for a second or two. Don’t get me wrong, that’s bad, because it takes a few minutes to get everything back up and running. But this black-out on Saturday was a brand new experience, you guys that follow me on twitter you may have witnessed the drama as it unfolded.

This was a whole new thing, because it went out, and it stayed out. Service time rolled around and we were still in the dark, and its starting to get hot. It stayed out until about midnight. So we created a back-up plan on the spot, which involved us cramming 130 people in our youth hang out room, which overflowed into the back portion of the main auditorium. We opened the garage door in that room for light and airflow, and we had church… the old fashioned way. Felt like an ol’ time revival.

Why we haven’t come up with a back up plan for that scenario before then I don’t know, but you better believe its something I’ll start working on real soon. If it would have been one of the larger services we would’ve had some serious problems. But it wasn’t and everything went great, considering. 

Here are some pics I took from my iPhone…