pig roast

Today, we’re hard at work getting the house ready for the pig roast. The entire production team is descending upon my house on Saturday to dine on swine, and the cooking festivities kick off tonight with an elite team of expert pig cookers staying up all night to tend to the Sherman-tank-sized cooker in my backyard.

Today, it’s a lot of grass cutting and trash hauling and food receiving from Charlies Bar B Que in Greenville. One of the owners is joining our team, and he’s helping tremendously with getting this event going. Jeff Spearman, what an awesome guy… he’s just been around for a few weeks, and he’s already jumping in head first to serve the team.

Sidenote: If you’re coming please consider parking at the church and carpooling over (or walking, it’s very close)… that’ll save on the number of cars parking in my yard. Also, don’t forget to bring lawn chairs, or blankets. Bring extra if you can, I only have so many chairs!

Back to the post. Why do we do the annual Production Team Pig Roast (subtitle: “this little piggy went to market”)? Because we have the best volunteers in the entire world. They absolutely rock. They arrive at the crack of down (it’s often difficult for me to beat them there) and they stay all day. With four services, we leave around 1:00 and get back at 3:30 in the afternoon. Then it’s out by 8:00 that night. Volunteering in Production requires dedication, and this crew doesn’t think twice about it. They just jump in with both feet and get the job done.

And they are excellent. Don’t believe me, watch a service online. That which you see is a direct recording of volunteer camera ops, volunteer director, volunteer technical director, volunteer shader, graphics op, teleprompt, engineers… the list goes on. Other than recording and some minor cleanup, the product you see was created by volunteers. A volunteer records and produces our podcast (and has it online quickly).

These guys (and gals) are excellent, and driven, and will do anything to see the Gospel spread. They use their gifts of technical ability and artistic sensibility to bring God the glory.

And that’s why we’re cooking a pig… to honor this crew and to make a large team (70+, rotating over a few weeks) seem small.

See you there, production team!