Buddy, I completely understand. When we started with our online campus we had a lot of connection issues, and I have never prayed so much for technology as I did then - I told my wife I feel really funny praying for computers, but now I do! I'm praying for you guys tonight, and I know there are a lot of other people there too. It's all in God's hands, and He'll do His will. That's your guarantee! All the best for tonight, if I didn't have small group I'd join in!

I'll help out, sounds fun :)

If there was a way to embed, that would be exactly what I'm looking for I think!

Starting to use Planning Center Online for volunteer scheduling (think past just the band), it's really amazing
Using cbox.ws for the chat element, still exploring options there. Really want a twitter enabled chat with moderation, preferably free :)
TweetDeck for Twitter

I'll fess up to being a lurker, not scared just busy :) I do enjoy reading your blog John, thanks for all the info that you pass along!

I really like this idea, but I'm wondering if Google Wave is going to fill this role. We already use Google Apps as our platform for email/docs/calendar sharing, from the I.T. perspective that means less training necessary if Wave satisfies this need.

Thank you for this, I really needed to hear #2 today. It's hard to be in infancy stages when your heart and vision are looking at the mature results, and that's been frustrating me lately. God is the one in control of the timing, not me.

Now THIS I can agree with, well said!

heh...you know, Jay, I have seen some worship pastors like that. It isn't pretty :)

I think if any good campus pastor ended up in that role he'd discover those terms pretty quickly! However, if he can surround himself with techie people and delegate those roles it can probably go pretty well until he gets comfortable.