Well it's been quite a month this week!
This week we were in tech and dress for this year's concert tour of Let It Be Christmas. We have such a great cast and crew, and we opened at the Lemont High School on Saturday night. It was a great night, and a huge turnout (nearly 500!) for a city where Community doesn't have a campus... yet! We are excited to be launching a new location in Lemont in the spring, and Let It Be Christmas ended up becoming a catalyst to announce our presence in that magnificent city. It was a blast, the high school was a great host, and (particularly cool for me) our new campus pastor for Lemont is an old great friend, Dave Richa. When I was first hired at Community, Richa was the Student Ministries Director, and we've been friends for a long time. You can check out his specific take on Let It Be Christmas and the Lemont connection right here. oh, and here's a youtube trailer for the show you can share with your friends and invite to the show:
This week we were in tech and dress for this year's concert tour of Let It Be Christmas. We have such a great cast and crew, and we opened at the Lemont High School on Saturday night. It was a great night, and a huge turnout (nearly 500!) for a city where Community doesn't have a campus... yet! We are excited to be launching a new location in Lemont in the spring, and Let It Be Christmas ended up becoming a catalyst to announce our presence in that magnificent city. It was a blast, the high school was a great host, and (particularly cool for me) our new campus pastor for Lemont is an old great friend, Dave Richa. When I was first hired at Community, Richa was the Student Ministries Director, and we've been friends for a long time. You can check out his specific take on Let It Be Christmas and the Lemont connection right here. oh, and here's a youtube trailer for the show you can share with your friends and invite to the show:
And now, a short story about a U-haul. So we rented a truck to carry Lighting gear and other things out on the tour. I was driving it home after dropping off all the gear at Romeoville. (we had two great shows last night in Romeoville!) So it's around 10:45pm, and I'm 6 or 7 blocks away from my house on Washington, and boom. Transmission goes out on the truck, and I'm just revving, as though in neutral. I was in the left hand lane, and had no option with a 17 foot truck that was on a slight incline.
So there I was stranded - I called U-Haul and was beginning the process of getting one of their mechanics out to check it out. Awesome. Again, I remind you that I am 6 or 7 blocks away from my house. Where my bed is. Where I should be sleeping right now. But instead, I'm waiting for a U-Haul mechanic.
And I would have to wait longer, because the Naperville Police showed up. It turns out that they are not "down" with the idea of having a giant U-Haul in the middle of the road in downtown Naperville. They were very helpful, called U-Haul and commandeered the vessel. They brought their towing company, and took it away. But they wouldn't let me leave until the towing turck was there. So around 12:30am, I was ready to go. But I needed a ride home.
And I would have to wait longer, because the Naperville Police showed up. It turns out that they are not "down" with the idea of having a giant U-Haul in the middle of the road in downtown Naperville. They were very helpful, called U-Haul and commandeered the vessel. They brought their towing company, and took it away. But they wouldn't let me leave until the towing turck was there. So around 12:30am, I was ready to go. But I needed a ride home.
So I "got to" ride home in a squad car after this adventure. Happy to say it was my first, and I pray it was my last. It was ridiculously uncomfortable. But I did get home, I got some sleep, and the happy ending is that when I went to U-Haul to "close my contract" (read: Hi! I don't have a truck to return to you!), they completely refunded my money with no questions asked. Good job!
So the moral of the story is, GO SEE LET IT BE CHRISTMAS! Get your tickets RIGHT HERE! We have shows this week throughout the western suburbs (Thursday in Yorkville, Friday in Plainfield, Saturday in Shorewood, and Sunday in Montgomery), and then next weekend we close out the show at the Naperville Yellow Box (Friday through Sunday, Dec. 17-19). Don't be someone who misses it!!!!!
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