California Love!

YES! It’s True!

The Parker’s are moving back to California!

This was not an easy decision for us to make. The past year, in Georgia, at North Point, as the Lighting & Scenic Director, has been incredibly rewarding. We've enjoyed many good times here as well as being apart of a really great ministry here in the ATL. The things we have learned in ministry at North Point we will take with us for the rest of our lives.

It feels like yesterday that we made the HUGE Parker Family announcement that we were leaving New Covenant and moving to Georgia. (That was only one year ago.) So I could work at an amazing church. Alongside an excellent production team.

However… Jillian and I have decided that living closer to our friends and family is far more important to our three boys and us right now. So, we have decided to head back to Fresno.

Let me just say that we LOVE North Point Community Church! I have really enjoyed working here. The staff is an awesome group of people. I will miss working with them VERY much. Plus the children's program is top-notch here and my kids loved it! I really wish we could pick up North Point, and the staff, and place it in California.

We both have met a lot of great people here in Georgia. Many good friendships were made here as well. And we pray that we can continue to stay connected with them. That’s the great part about Facebook, twitter, and blogs!

This past year has had its up and downs. (Way more ups than downs.) And we’re not going to stay it was a bad decision to move here. (Because it wasn’t.) We have learned a lot about ourselves and our marriage is stronger for it! Our family bond is stronger than oak now, too! What we have learned the most is that having our family and friends close to us is really important to our well-being.

We will continue to pray for North Point Community Church and its ministry in the Atlanta area and its impact worldwide. We pray that God will continue to bless this church!

Jill and I are very excited about what is in store next and we are looking forward to the next chapter of the Parker Family Story!

We would appreciate your prayers in this new adventure…

GOD IS GOOD…

"squares" - Stage Design

Just wrapped up a Six week Sermon Series, with Andy Stanley, at North Point Community Church, called 'Balanced'.



This series was also a start of "Live Andy" at all three North Point Campus each Sunday. Each week, Andy will speak live at a different NP Campus, and then he is played back semi-delayed (like 5 minutes or less) to the other two churches. Kind of like your home DVR or Tivo systems. So now all three multi-campus calenders are in sync. From the sermon series to set design, everything is the same and is times three!



Side Note: I started using Google's Free Sketch-up software to draw up my set designs. It was quick and pretty easy to pick up. I still have a lot to learn on it. But It sure is nice to be able to share a drawing like this, rather than a free hand drawing, to the team.

Christmas stage design.

This was the stage design for the two Christmas weekends at North Point Community Church.





Guest Speaker on December 14th - Scott McKnight



Opener on December 21st - East & West Auditorium
(Found this video on youtube. Don't know this guy, but he sure does like NPCC)

another set design.

New 2-part series at North Point



"ILLUSIONS" with Jeff Henderson






Special Thanks to Jared Roman for this one. They did this series & set design over at BuckHead church already. Look for BJ to do this series too at Browns Bridge soon.

"Ladies & Gentlemen"

OPENER AT NORTH POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH




"Ladies & Gentlemen" - by Saliva

Vocals - BigSnow & Moxie

Band - NPCC Production Band

Strings - ClassyChicksTrio

new stage look

New 2-part Series at North Point Community Church.



"YOU THINK. YOU ARE." with Clay Scroggins

NIGHT OF WORSHIP

Night Of Worship - LIVE at North Point Community Church
September 25th at 730pm



This is going to be great! Come and worship with us! I'll be in the lighting booth running the board and taking lots of pictures. Check back here for some incredible photos during the concert.

my first set design at npcc.

Alright! Here it is. My first set-design for a series at North Point.

Five Things that God Uses To Grow Your Faith.



I'll make sure to let you know in a later post, how we made it, how we came up with it, and how much time it took to make it. Stay tuned!

green room.

Green rooms are cool! Everyone knows that! And Everyone wants to hang out in them too!

This is the Green room for North Point Community Church. Some of you have asked me about this "Green Room" I have been twittering about a lot lately. So here it is. And it's Wonderful! Don't you think?




Currently it is the break room during the week as well. On Sundays, several meetings for the NP Production Team take place in here. Also two meals are severed for them and there families. I have been here for a total of five Sundays so far now and we haven't had the same meal served twice to us yet. The meals are good baby! NPCC doesn't mess around. They take care of their staff and their volunteers.

slicing watermelons.

If you ever need to slice a watermelon and don't have a knife around... use a T-Square!

Yesterday, Pat and I made another "funny" bumper video for the Leadership Toolbox sermon series at newcov. Make sure to check out the newcovproduction blog soon to see the videos.

(RSS: embedded pictures)

sneak peak.

This afternoon, Pat talked me into making a "funny" bumper video with him for the new sermon series at newcov named Leadership Toolbox. It starts tomorrow morning. The video will be on the newcovproduction blog soon. He's editing the video as I type this blog post right now! Yeah!

Here's a picture of the video shoot! What did we do? Anyone have a guess? Anyone?

friday night debate.

It was like old times for me last Friday night. New Covenant hosted a debate at Fresno State and I was in charge of all the "tech" side of things. I rented pretty much all the gear from Live Light. It was nice to be back in my old gig element for a short while. I even wore my old Live Light shirt for effect. I wish, my buddy, Mark, from LL, could have helped out. I sure could have used his help. I was running around all over the place.

The load-in started at noon. We had to first put down a trap on the gym floor. Then the stage got into place. Follow by lighting, sound and video. He had a few issues here and there. But overall the load-in went pretty smoothly. We were ready for show in plenty of time. We brought in our own church video equipment to film a two camera shoot of the event. It really need a four camera shoot. But I was pleased with the outcome of the video anyways.




The event was a huge great success. Tons of people showed up. (1400 total inside!) And there was plenty of people outside listening as well. (250!) We plan on doing this event yearly. Looking forward to next year all ready. Look for the Full length video online soon at the debate website.



You can also check out more at the newcov production blog HERE.