Amusement at church on sunday

[faeriecat]

OK, so we're your average mid-sized American baptist church. A few hundred peeps fit in our chapel, and we run 2 services. Like a lot of places we use a computer/projector system to throw the words for songs and verses. 2 screens in front for the congregation, 1 screen in the rear for the choir/praise band.

Well, Sunday, the rear screen projector decided to konk out on us ... as in, doesn't even turn on konk on.

Imagine the scurring about the choir room acquiring the hymnals and marking pages so we can find things. Discovered 3 of the songs were in one hymnal, but everyone was positive they'd remember the words to "How Great thou Art" so we didn't have to carry 2 hymnals and the sheet music for the choir song.

It almost worked.

Our one flub was getting the verse order wrong on How Great thou Art.

Hopefully they get the projector working by next Sunday ...

 

[reba]

I love those stories about the silly things we do thanks

 

[faeriecat]

Sure thing! We are all merely human. ;)

Two weeks ago it was our choir director changed the choir song ... in his head. He forgot to change it on the order of service, and on the computer ...

 

[evenifigoalone]

Trying to work without a projector when you're used to having one can be interesting.

Once at my church the projector was fine, but the person supposed to be running the slides wasn't there. They had to look up YouTube lyric videos for the song service.

 

[faeriecat]

Once at my church the projector was fine, but the person supposed to be running the slides wasn't there.

LOL yeah, I can see that! Luckily our computer person is 99% of the time there (he's my boyfriend in fact). Our old MAC though periodically just keels over dead mid sermon/song ... lol ...