ROAD TRIP!

We took 'The Low & The High' Road!

Here's a short little video/slideshow of our travels!

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…

santaphobia?

My "SantaPhobia" started at a young age! This is me at 15 months old.



Santaphobia :
An abnormal, persistent fear of Father Christmas

shooting range

So I went to the Shooting Range with Luke and Matt the other day. We rented a GLOCK 19 9mm. I shot four rounds worth. (15 shots a round/in the clip.) My first round was by far the best one. I can't believe how loud and how much kick that little gun had. My adrenaline was pumpin' big time as I was poppin' a cap into those paper targets! I had a lot of fun. Hope to do it again soon.

Who wants to take me next time?

Don't mess with me!

"Ladies & Gentlemen"

OPENER AT NORTH POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH




"Ladies & Gentlemen" - by Saliva

Vocals - BigSnow & Moxie

Band - NPCC Production Band

Strings - ClassyChicksTrio

through the years

Randy Parker through the years ::: 1950-2000



This is a lot of fun. Go on and YearBook Yourself too. It's easy and a lot of laughs. I see: Austin Powers, Kurt Russell, Jerry Lee Lewis, and...?

Who do you see?

HT: J-VO

just wondering...

Who comes to my blog?

I know there's more people than my mom, my wife and Pat now!

Who are you? Tell me about yourself.

I'll start. (You all probably know this stuff about me already.)

My name is Randy.
I'm 28 years old.
Been married for 5 years.
I have two boys and another one coming soon.
I live in Cumming, Ga.
I work at North Point Community Church.
I am a Lighting Guy.
I like to watch Sports.
I love to BBQ.
I want a iphone bad!
I drive a small green car.
My blog is RandyParker.blogspot.com
BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!

word count.

You know...Sometimes you just have to make fun of yourself. Just laugh at yourself and say, "That's me." So that's what I'm doing. Right now. I watched "The HUGE Parker Family Announcement" video again this evening and counted how many times I said certain things.

Here's the word count:

Umm - 36
New Covenant - 13
Ministry - 9
Excited - 6
God - 4
The Parker's - 4
Prayer & Support - 4
Fresno - 4
Atlanta - 3
North Point - 3
Love on them with - 1
Zero year old - 1
The lives of me - 1

I need to work on stopping the umm's. (Again, a script would have helped.) I liked the last three lines the best. What do they mean? Glad I only said them once a piece.

another trip to atlanta.

This morning, Jill and I headed back out to Atlanta, GA. We will be looking for a house to live in and finding some Doctors for her and the boys. We will be here until late Monday night. Hopefully everything will go alright. Jill has a full schedule of events and appointments for us.

Her Dad gave us a ride to the airport. He got a speeding ticket along the way there. We felt really bad, because we were in kind of a hurry. So he picked up the pace a little. Sorry Pops!

It was a long day today. The plane from Phoenix to Atlanta had a Radar Control Panel thing go bad. So that took about a half-hour to get it fixed. It was strange to hear a hacksaw like sound coming from underneath my seat while they changed the part out. The rental car place was a little different than we are use too. You can just go and pick out a car and the keys are in it. Jill and I thought that was weird, but cool. And the hotel was having AC problems in their rooms. But no complains here. We are here safely. We are in our cool room. Thank you Lord! Don't think my wife and I can sleep without it this trip. The weather here is a lot different than Fresno. It's muggy and has a wet feeling. Plus the sky flashes brightly all the time! It's gonna take some time to get use to it.



I didn't do much videos taking or picture taking of this trip. These are the only two pictures I took and the only video I made. Sorry everyone. Maybe I'll do some more this week. Enjoy!

Randy & Jill - Walking in the Phoenix Airport

Big Announcement!

Alright. I'm sure some of my tweets have been on the edge of their seats for this! Well. Here it is.

The HUGE Parker family announcement.



I decided to film myself instead of type it all out. It was a lot easier for me this way. After watching it a few times while editing and uploading it, I think I should probably have done a redo or re-shoot! Definitely needed a script. But...Oh Well. It's all good. It's all me baby! (Count how many times I say New Covenant. WOW!!)

From New Covenant Community Church to
North Point Community Church

This post is a part of Watercooler Wednesdays hosted by Ethos.

look at me.

Thinking about updating my user photos to this picture. It's a lot more up close and personal. What do you think? Should I go with it?

got twitter?

I've been using twitter for little over four months now. Honestly, at first, I thought it was pretty dumb. Why would anyone want to know my very thought or very move that I make during the day? Isn't my blog enough? Well... I was wrong. A lot of people want to know what's going on with Randy Parker! They want more of Randy Parker! I also enjoy seeing what's going on in the lives of other people around the world.

Twitter has changed the way I communicate. I'm able to keep in contact with friends and even family members, everyday, all the time, and whenever. I have made new friends and contacts though this social networking device. Blogs are mainly used to inform others of past or future events, but twitter is for now. This is happening now, now!

Twitter is like a "mini-blog" with Instant Messaging involved too. As well used for picture uploading. You can just simply choose to only update a few things that your doing during the day and/or you can send direct messages to people. Here's a video to help explain to you what twitter is all about.

TWITTER IN PLAIN ENGLISH


Twitter has been spreading fast. I personally have noticed that some peoples blogs have been pretty weak lately, but there twitter updates have been growing strong. Some tweets don't even have a blog. I encourage you to start a twitter account. Make sure to follow me randyparker. I'll follow you back.

*I came across this on a twitter update the other day. "Control your house lights from twitter!" Check it out HERE. The sky is the limit!

**A Church in Michigan will be twittering LIVE during a Sunday service. Check that out HERE.

HT: Jvo - gaddis

This post is a part of Watercooler Wednesdays at Randy Elrod's blog ETHOS.

coming home.

HEADED HOME.

Going home - in Atlanta airport.


Going home - in Phoenix airport.

travel day.

TRIP TO ATLANTA

In the Phoenix airport

On the plane

In the air

In the Atlanta airport

Driving the Rental Car

my shout out.

Two Sundays ago I got a Shout Out from the Pastor in the service! He wanted me to show one of my NewCov Production videos I made to the church on that Sunday. It was the Hawk Nelson 12hour Fast Forward into a short 1min video. After showing the video, he said something that makes me laugh every time I hear it.

"That was Randy Parker, our TECH GUY, he did all that!"

Magic Show.

"Do you want me to re-appear it?"

When I was like 11 or 12 years old, my mom got us a VHS tape video camera recorder! YEAH! A whole VHS TAPE fit right inside it! Can you believe it? It was huge! Just like the first "brick" cell phones made.

It wasn't long before I was making videos with it! I would film just about anything and everything. But this video is one of the first video's I have ever made.

It was pretty high tech for the times, if you ask me. Check out Randy Parker's Magic Show Video!

RANDY PARKER - MAGIC SHOW!

addicted to blogs.

WOW! I knew I liked to blog a lot. And I knew I liked to read other peoples blogs, but I had on clue I had a problem!

My Name is Randy Parker....and I...am a BLOGGER!

I scored a 84.

Take this quiz and let me know how you scored!

84

great idea.

Sorry - I haven't posted a new blog post in a while now. I've been busy working late hours at NewCov. Pat and I both have been getting everything all dialed in for the upcoming sermon series called "RESCUE". I believe we are really taking it up a notch here. This was a great idea we had. I hope it all comes together. More on the Sermon Series and the set design later on at the newcovproduction blog.

So...This great idea reminded me of another great idea I had back in the day while I was running the 5th and 6th grade youth group called S.U.R.F.(Serving Under a Radical Father). Well.. it was video promo piece for a event! Check it out this video.

RANDY'S GREAT IDEA!
- Laser Quest promo - 5th & 6th Grade Youth Group Event

my looks alikes.

I actually ran this twice with two different pictures of myself. And I still got 4 out of the five same celebrities look alikes. I guess I am pretty HOT STUFF! I'm more surprised that Kirk Russell was not on the list. What do you think?



HT: BIG T-LICIOUS

mustache for sure.

IT's BACK!!!



HOWDY!