Media Missionary

Meet Keith Holloway. Keith is a media missionary. Actually, he is the video editor for First Media and is passionate about using the tool of media to share the love of Christ with others. But he also has a heart for serving in missions. This week he has had the opportunity to combine those passions by serving in Honduras on a medical/evangelism mission team.

Keith took a Canon 5D and a laptop with him and has been posting daily video updates of the team's efforts at http://www.vimeo.com/fbchtn/videos. These updates have been a good reminder to our church to continue to pray as the mission team is ministering in Honduras.

I'm excited to see Keith using his gifts and passions to serve others in our own community and around the world. Pray for him and the rest of the team as they travel back home today.

Just keep swimming...

It's easy in a church production environment to make a mistake that gets everyone's attention--feedback ringing in the sound system, words mixed up on the screen, lights being cued at the wrong time, etc.

It's inevitable...mistakes are going to happen. You can't do anything to change what has already happened. Once the feedback has occurred, you can't un-feedback it. Once the words are mixed up, they're mixed up. People will notice.

The key is to just keep swimming. Rather than focusing on the mistake and trying to figure out why it happened, you should immediately try to get back on track and keep moving forward. Focus on what's in front of you, not behind you. After the service or event is over, you'll have plenty of time to try to figure out what caused the mistake and how you can prevent it in the future.