Cool Person of the Week

Have you ever thought what goes in to making a service happen? Most people who attend church will never know the planning, practicing, preparation that it takes to have a 1-2 hour service. It take so much time and effort not to mention people. So many people (even in a church our size) must do what is asked of them, go beyond the call of duty and selflessly serve others. One of those people is Russell Hopkins. Each service you can find Russell in the sound booth. He is there an hour before each service. He is making sure the music sounds right. He makes sure that when Andre hits the drums you can hear them. He makes sure that when I have a point to make you can hear it. In case you don't know it Russell is in charge of a 32 channel mixing board (if you're wondering that's like setting the volume on 32 radio's at the same time). In addition to that he maintains the churches computer system so that everything that is done in house can be duplicated to CD (if you have heard them lately you know they sound GREAT). On top of all that he makes sure the powerpoints are done. And if that's not enough he also maintains our website (awesome I might add) our bookstore (with help from April, his lovely wife) and puts up with me (someone who knows enough about sound to be aggravating and not enough to help). AND to top all that off...he is still not satisfied with any of it. He continually pushes me to make sure that what people outside of our church see and hear is done with excellence. He refuses to think that a small church can't have a LARGE church look. Sooooo join me and saying THANK YOU RUSSELL for all you do. We Love you, April and Jayden.