Busy but Blessed Weekend

 

This weekend was super crazy busy, but it was a blessing all the way through.  Saturday  morning I met a bunch of fellow Elevators to help set up for the Rush of Fools concert.  I could not believe how much equipment they had.  I really had know idea how much went into a production like they had.  Anyhow, we got it all unloaded and set up and right off of the get go the devil was trying to spoil plans for this concert and take away from God's glory.  The day before the concert while the band was enroute to Ohio, their equipment trailer came unhitched and was hit by a semi-truck and totaled.  Luckily, by the grace of God, all of the band's equipment was in a box truck they were driving and so all of the equipment was fine.  Then once they were getting plugged in to everything we realized that the school did not have enough power to supply all of their equipment so we had to order in a big diesel generator.  The generator got to the school and the band got plugged in and started testing out equipment and getting everything set for the show and suddenly the subwoofers stopped working.  No one knows why.  The band broke for lunch and Tate and I and a few others stayed at the school to babysit the equipment while they were gone.  Meanwhile, generator quit working.  We called the service number on the side of the generator and got a voicemail.  We left a message and then started making calls to see about getting another generator.  We had another one lined up when the repairman finally called back and then came out to the school.  It turns out that there was a problem with the fuel filter.  So after replacing the fuel filter the power supply was back up and running.  All seemed well, although we were running a few minutes behind schedule since the equipment had been down.  The opening act came out and played great all went well and the show went to intermission.  Minutes before Rush of Fools was set to come on the Subs went out....again.  This time we believe it was because the $25,000 sound board was overheating, so we scrambled to find a fan to put on it tool cool it down and bam! we were back in business.  After that everything went fine.  The band came on stage and rocked it out!!!! It was a great day and a true blessing.  All day long the father of lies tried to steal, kill, and destroy, but we remember that Jesus comes to bring life to the fullest and so we chose to go with the second option.  What a night and what a blessing to the city of Norwalk and all who came out for the show.  Huge thanks to Rush of Fools and anyone who doesn't know about their music should check it out.  They just released their third album "We Once Were", get it.