Viva la Coldplay

So last night was very cool! The concert wasn't overly production heavy like the "Twisted Logic" tour was, it seemed like the realized that the songs are able to drive the show. We had great seats, and it turned out that the band ran through the crowd and preformed 20 feet behind Megan and I. Check out our pictures. (Click on them for a larger view)

That balloonish orb floating it the top right is a video screen

Yes that is a 40x60 foot screen behind them!

New Office

With things growing so quickly here at LCBC office space is limited to say the least. While working for our student ministry I worked with 4 other people in a office that was formerly a bathroom. It was either way too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter...not fun. Now I have moved to a new office (pictured below). It is also a bathroom (kinda). We have a green room behind our main auditorium and attached to the green room are mens and womens make-up rooms and restrooms. I am now in the men's makeup room between the green room and restroom. But my setup is pretty sweet right now. Check it out.




Below is a pciture of the sound board I work with most often now. It is a Yamaha PM1D. I help our volunteers mix wireless in-ear monitors for our bands weekly. She is gorgeous!

My run...

I am still on my challenge to keep running at least 4 days a week. The highlights of my run in pictures (not actually from my run).

Last Day

My last day working for LCBC's Middle School ministry is this Sunday. It hasn't really hit yet. The great thing is that I'm not parting ways with our community, I will still be working for LCBC! But this week I have the realization set in that I am leaving an amazing group of people. God has crafted such an amazing team to accomplish a difficult task and I am so thankful that I could have even a small part in what God is doing in the lives of Middle Schoolers in Central Pennsylvania.

But I know that God has wired me with this desire to make things better especially in areas of technology and production, so I leave the Student Ministry department knowing that God is calling me to a place where I can focus more energy in the areas that he has gifted me in. I am excited to move from serving in one ministry to being able to serve our whole church.

Today in my last Student Ministry creative team meeting, we talked briefly about the Spirit's fruit of faithfulness. We talked about how one of the best ways to teach about these fruits is through story. As I thought about how God has been faithful to me (and now Megan and I), the journey that I have been on for the past few years was on the forefront. I know that in the macro view of my life, that God will simple take care of me. I don't need to sweat the small stuff, and in all reality, I don't need to sweat the big stuff. God is faithful.

I really don't need to worry about where God will have me in twenty years. He obviously created me for a purpose and he will use me to fulfill that purpose and when I am done with that "task" I will die (I was thinking about using a lighter term for death like "move on" but chose not to). Part of me struggles with the death aspect of my life, mainly with the part of leaving Megan or Megan leaving me. But how can we not struggle with that when we are able to fully comprehend what some parts of our afterlife experience will be like.

So, as I move to this next mile marker in my journey, I know that God is faithful and that even when I have days like I did today (Megan's driver-side mirror was smashed by another car last night, they drove off).
God thank you that you are more than reliable, that you know what each of the next "big" steps of my life will look like (thank you you see all of my live at the same time somehow)! Please, continue to allow Megan and I to have some part of making the world right again. Keep me out of the way so that I cannot screw up what you want to do.

Well Done

I left a NY Strip Steak on the Grill a little too long tonight. Below is a picture of the carnage that followed...

Booooo....

This is the email I got today:

Sean,

Our records indicate that you purchased tickets to the Coldplay concert on Sunday, June 29th at the Wachovia Center.

Live Nation announced recently that the first two weeks of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida tour have been rescheduled due to production delays. The band’s scheduled appearance at the Wachovia Center on Sunday, June 29th has been rescheduled to Friday, July 25th at 8:00pm. All tickets will be honored for the new date.

June 29th

So Megan's birthday/anniversary present this year is a trip to Philly. While this trip is a full week after her birthday, it co-insides with a special event that day.

WE ARE SEEING COLDPLAY AGAIN!! Whoot!

It has been 3 years since we saw them in Pittsburgh and we are pretty pumped to enjoy their show again!

BTW - Check out the video for their newest single "Violet Hill" here.