EASTER

good friday

INRI

My wonderful, lovely (and PREGNANT) wife graciously burned the INRI sign with a fine-tipped soldering iron. Quite the finishing touch to a long-lasting project. Now to tack it to the cross...nearly time for our first Good Friday service.

tree re-erected

It's been a busy week, so I haven't posted much lately. But I came to a milestone tonight erecting the cross.
We pre-drilled holes in the tree stump and traced the holes and truck perimeter to paper. Then, we used the paper as a drilling stencil on stage so that the trunk holes and stage holes lined up. 10" lags were used along with angle brackets fastened to the stage floor joists under the stage.

Needless to say space is tight, as Robert models here. And it's VERY dusty, too, as modeled by my camera.


And there it is...re-erected as before...sorta. It's 12' tall by 6' wide and is evenly centered. Could hold a man. Now to lighting.

crafting a cross

Finally got the trees out of the woods (thanks to Scott and Greg). Looking at a 12-foot tall by 6-foot wide cross, which amounts to about 250 lbs of weight. HEAVY...and messy.



Much thanks goes to Robert, who's volunteered a LOT of time and provided a bunch of his personal tools to make this happen!

new communionware

I just put an order in for these gorgeous, handmade communion sets. Adam and Debra Ocepek run Ocepek Pottery out of their home in Ohio making these stoneware chalices, patens (plates) and flagons (a pitcher, basically). They're quite busy this time of year, and they were happy to hook me up and even get them to me by early next week!

Now we'll have something a bit more authentic for our communion celebrations instead of the shiny, stainless steelware sets. Excitement ensues.

great font

I'm liking the name of this font. Makes me think of Metallica, whom I like, and, from whom the font name is derived from their song Master Of Puppets, the Muppets, whom I really like, and pastors...yeah, they're okay, I guess. But really, how many pastors must think that some people are like Muppets?