Weekend Download

This past weekend flew by. Here's my weekend download...

• Pageant is now at 50% complete. Most of my time this weekend was consumed with the 5 Pageant performances. With the exception of a couple of technical malfunctions, the performances all went very well. As always, the story is compelling and told with excellence. I'm having a great time serving behind the scenes with the media team.
• Denver and the Mile High Orchestra are still in it! They are now down to four bands in the Next Great American Band competition. I can't believe they made it his far. Keep on voting.
  
• Sunday morning we had Charles Lowery in to speak at McGregor. He did an awesome job preparing us for a RIGHT Christmas. As always, he had me laughing till my stomach hurt and at the same time had some powerful thoughts to challenge me with. Here's his outline on having a RIGHT Christmas...
• R - Be Realistic
• I - Ignore the little things
• G - Get over it
• H - Have a sense of humor
• T - Tell yourself who you are - a child of the King!
• We have our all-staff Christmas luncheon today. This is always a blast and this year our Children's Ministry team has come up with some fun awards. Can't wait to see who wins!
• Weekend Highlight - watching Gerald Malloy in each Pageant performance live out his "I want to be like Elvis" fantasy. This alone is worth the price of a ticket! Thanks Gerald!
  

This week's challenge - avoiding the distractions and staying focused on the Savior. This is always a huge challenge this time of year for me and I'm sure for others as well. I want every part of my life to be focused on what really counts - living for the Savior. And I know the world will send every possible distraction to divert my focused attention in doing that. What distracts you? I know I have tons of possible distraction every day. I'm going to try to recognize and avoid those distractions and have a "focus on the Savior" Christmas. How about you?

Denver Still Alive

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in a post the show The Next Great American Band and that Denver and the Mile High Orchestra had made it to the last 8 bands. Well, DMHO is still on the show and they are now down to 6 bands! You gotta watch and you gotta vote this Friday night.

Check them out on the show...



Here's a video to get a little more feel for who DMHO is...

Voting for Denver

Macy and I are enjoying watching the show The Next Great American Band. First of all, it's no American Idol, but, it has been fun watching. What got us watching in the first place was hearing that Denver and the Mile High Orchestra were going to be one of the bands on the show. We had this band at our church a couple of year's ago for a Valentine's Banquet and they were unbelievable! I have several of their CDs and love their big band/swing sound.

So, I was very interested to see how they would do on this contest/show. Well, Denver and the band are doing really good on the show. They have survived down to the last 8 bands. Watch them on Friday nights at 8pm and vote for Denver.