If you are able to be at one of our in-person services this weekend, you will see that a camera has been fitted on the wall below the sound room at the back of the church. The plan is to move the computer that controls the projector up into the sound room and use the same PC to manage the new camera for streaming video content.
We are very grateful to Ian and Malusi who worked tirelessly through the day on Thursday to install the camera. Looking at what was achieved, I’m struck by how what we see is not the whole story:
1. When the whole job is finished, you won’t notice a huge change inside the building, but there is all sorts of hidden work that has taken place – numbers of cables passing through walls and hiding in the ceiling, and various little pieces of electronic equipment tying it all together.
2. Our in-person services will not seem different at all, but the ‘invisible’ congregation - the numbers of people who join our services online each week – will experience a significant improvement in their experience of worship.
3. At some stage in the day I had a chance to climb inside the ceiling above the sound room – it’s a completely different perspective of a building that is so familiar to us. What we see is not the whole reality.
The same applies all through life, doesn’t it? People are not as we seem – we are all dealing with stuff that is out of sight; and God is working in secret too – in the hidden parts of our lives, the Spirit of God is at work. May you be conscious of this God – the God who loves the whole you – as you go through this day.
We are very grateful to Ian and Malusi who worked tirelessly through the day on Thursday to install the camera. Looking at what was achieved, I’m struck by how what we see is not the whole story:
1. When the whole job is finished, you won’t notice a huge change inside the building, but there is all sorts of hidden work that has taken place – numbers of cables passing through walls and hiding in the ceiling, and various little pieces of electronic equipment tying it all together.
2. Our in-person services will not seem different at all, but the ‘invisible’ congregation - the numbers of people who join our services online each week – will experience a significant improvement in their experience of worship.
3. At some stage in the day I had a chance to climb inside the ceiling above the sound room – it’s a completely different perspective of a building that is so familiar to us. What we see is not the whole reality.
The same applies all through life, doesn’t it? People are not as we seem – we are all dealing with stuff that is out of sight; and God is working in secret too – in the hidden parts of our lives, the Spirit of God is at work. May you be conscious of this God – the God who loves the whole you – as you go through this day.