andrew dodson

In my quest to blog more often this year, I find myself running into a problem. I have more to blog about than I have time to blog. I was hoping to get a couple of posts up this past weekend, and that didn’t happen. As I sit here typing this, I’d love to write those couple of posts, but it’s before work, and I don’t really have time. So, I’ll write quickly about a couple of random things.

Loops Update

The loops at church yesterday went fairly well, with a couple of minor issues. GarageBand only lets you open one song file at a time. This become an issue when transitioning from song-to-song in our worship set. I had to close one song and open the next song and this created the one thing we try to avoid in our worship sets – the “awkward pause” or dead space, until I was able to get the next loop going.

The other issue involved one of the loops dropping out for a split second during the intro of a song. We were able to stay in time with the loop, and I’m not sure many people noticed that it even happened. To alleviate both of these issues in the future, I’m going to try mixing down the loops to 6-8 minute WAV files and just play them from iTunes. I’m thinking this will solve both issues.

Sojourn

Jeremy and I went to Louisville last night and attended a service at Sojourn. They are another Acts 29 church (like TPCC). It’s always interesting to attend another church. Inevitably, it leads to critiquing what you like and don’t like, compared to your church. We went to their latest service (they have four on Sundays). The crowd was overwhelmingly young (nearly all 20s and 30s). It seemed like a very artsy, intellectual crowd. I would hope that, in the future, The Point could have more young people attending, like Sojourn. The praise band was very folksy in style, with acoustic guitar, keyboard, cello and percussion. Their building has an art gallery in the foyer, which is nice. The atmosphere of where they gather for services has an intimate feel – low ceilings, soft lighting. Sort of a modern, industrial feel to it. If you’re looking for a church in the Louisville area, check out Sojourn.