Choir Recording and Phone Calls

The church phones have begun ringing with requests for Easter drama tickets. We don't begin reservations for the general public until Monday morning; once that day hits, our secretaries are deluged with phone calls. We set up our reservations team in our church library, and they have two different phone lines that stay busy for the next two or three weeks.

Speaking of tickets, we never charge for our Easter drama tickets. This ministry is self-sustaining only through love offerings and corporate sponsors.

Tonight was our drama choir recording. About three or four years ago we began recording our choir vocals for each years' performance. As with any dramatic production, there are times where we have to supplement our live voices. It may be because in a particular scene the choir has to sit, and that puts them further away from the microphones; it may be because the choir is walking down the aisles away from the mics; etc., etc. I always hated having studio voices from the sound tracks supplementing our voices, so we now record our own voices, and if we need vocal support during a performance, it's our own recorded voices singing. This recording is not production perfect; we would never sell a CD of this in-house recording. But it is just right for a gentle "umph" when our voices need it during performances.

This next week will be full of editing this recording into finished tracks. Very time consuming, but well worth it.

Tomorrow would normally be a hospital visitation day for me, but our deacons are graciously doing my hospital visits for the next several weeks. Once Easter drama season hits my schedule gets so full. Tomorrow I have the task of getting all of our sound and instruments back on stage and ready for Sunday worship. It will be a full day, and without the deacons help, it would be a very long and late day. I'm thankful for their ministry of serving not only our church, but the staff!