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Serendipity and Grace
Feb. 18th, 2020 07:42 amSunday morning one of my piano students came in early with his parents, who had duties, and he was at loose ends. He joined my daughter and me where we were chatting in the audio/visual equipment corner. He popped up on the chair at the sound board, and commented that someone had shown him how to run it once, but he didn't really remember. I spent a couple of minutes showing him simple basics-- the most used channels, and what the switches and sliders did. Then he went off to Sunday school, and I to choir.
Later, as I played my prelude, there was a flurry of discussion near me-- a man I didn't recognize, clearly worried about something. At the time I thought me might have been figuring out that he was in the wrong church, we have an identity problem. I found out later that he was the driver for one of our elderly members. She's very faithful about church attendance, but wasn't answering the door, and he had no emergency contact info so he came to us. And the assigned sound engineer knows her well, so he abandoned his station (rightly) and went with the driver.
The woman is fine, just overslept... and you have likely guessed by now that my young friend stepped in and ran sound for the first 20 minutes of worship, and did it brilliantly!
Later, as I played my prelude, there was a flurry of discussion near me-- a man I didn't recognize, clearly worried about something. At the time I thought me might have been figuring out that he was in the wrong church, we have an identity problem. I found out later that he was the driver for one of our elderly members. She's very faithful about church attendance, but wasn't answering the door, and he had no emergency contact info so he came to us. And the assigned sound engineer knows her well, so he abandoned his station (rightly) and went with the driver.
The woman is fine, just overslept... and you have likely guessed by now that my young friend stepped in and ran sound for the first 20 minutes of worship, and did it brilliantly!
