Randy Wray’s Blog

Mexico defeated USA in the world baseball classic with both runs gven up by Roger Clemens. So that was his idea of showing the world how to play “our” game.

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We are still taking care of the details for our event Saturday night. The pace and activities are bringing back some fun memories from my youth ministry days. (Cue reminiscing / flash back music here)

When I was in youth ministry my especiality (pronounced exactly as spelled) was the big event / retreat / conference / youth rally. I love everything about the big event. The planning, the frenetic place, the strategery, all of it. The preparation, planning and execution of a successful event energizes me like nothing else. It’s the unleashed creativity that makes the difference.

Late nights, set building, chips & salsa, multi-media presentations . . . the sounds, smells, and memories of projects gone by are floating happily around in my mind as we get ready for Saturday night.

Once during a retreat, a stayed up all night long putting together a multi-media slide-show. Back then we used slide projectors with carousels and a fade / dissolve unit for neat special effects going from one picture to another. I worked for hours meticulously selecting, on a home-made light table, the sequencing of each picture. I loaded both carousels did a practice run through to make sure of the timing with the music. I made a few changes and was ready to go. As I began to pack up the carousels to move to the main hall I dropped both trays on the floor and 200 slides scattered all over the floor.

Those were the days my friends, those were the days!