I Heart My Job!

One of my responsibilites here at Flamingo is to capture the services on video and send it to our campuses. When I started, I have to say it was a little bit too much for me. I only knew the basics about video editing and if you have ever worked with video, you know there’s tons of specifications and little details that you have to get right in order for it to work flawlessly. Sometimes, getting footage from a camera into a computer feels almost impossible. So, in the past 5 months, I’ve learned a lot, we have resolved issues in the process and we are now at a point where our videos are playing the way they are supposed to be playing at our video campuses. Am I happy with where the video capturing team is at this moment? I would think a normal answer would be yes, but I have to say my answer right now is ‘No’. Don’t get me wrong, I am glad that there haven’t been major video issues as of lately, and I was feeling confident but all of a sudden, Pastor Troy challenged me big time.

During the summer, we will be dropping a couple of services at our main campus; but instead of taking this time to relax, our leadership team has challenged us to think ahead and get a big push down the road so that our teams are prepared and ready to execute and lead in a better way. This Monday, Pastor Troy Gramling addressed the staff via video from Tampa FL. He is there because he is having back surgery. He has been struggling lately with continuous pain in his lower back and decided to have laser surgery to correct that problem. He said something that blew my mind:

“One of the reasons I am doing this is to reach my potential because my back pain is stopping me from getting where God wants me to be”

Wow! I never saw it like that. In my mind, I thought Pastor Troy was simply having surgery because he was tired of feeling pain in his back. I felt challenged, big time. Pastor Raul shared in the same meeting about what are the things in our ministry we have to do to be more effective and what are the things we need to stop doing in order to have a better ministry.

So, what am I doing this summer? I want to work at preparing a team of people who will take video capturing into a new level. Easier said than done though, building team is not an easy thing, specially in video editing. It envolves a lot of training and skill development. Will I do it? Yes. I’m sure there is a group of people who’s hearts are being nudged by God into helping in the video team so they can reach their potential.

My prayer is that this ministry will be prepared for our fall season. Come October, I’m sure I will love my job even more.