Disaster Response from ACS

Disaster Response from ACS
Our hearts were broken today for our brothers and sisters in Christ at First Baptist Church of Temple, Texas this morning. At this moment, it appears that their worship center, offices, and much of their education space is a total loss. I received a call today from ACS Technologies, and while the intel...

Connecting your church to Facebook, is it a stupid idea?

I’ve been tinkering with integrating my church Web site with Facebook, using Facebook Connect for quite a while. For the uninitiated, this allows our Web visitors to log-in to our page with their Facebook username and password.  Doing so allows their Facebook profile picture to show up next to...

An Historic Day, the death of FS605

Today was an historic day in the process of overhauling the network at First Baptist Belton.  It is the day that FS605 died.  More appropriately, it is the day that the FS605 was tortured and killed.  Yes, FS605 is the piece of equipment pictured at right. As much as I hate to admit this, and I really...

Everybody to the limit…

Sometimes I feel a little more like Homestar Runner than a bona-fide network professional, but this month I’ve been pushing the network to the limit in true Fhqwhgads style.  That’s right, we’re moving our way well into the late 20th century.  Hopefully we’ll be able to catch up...

While you were out: Santuary Edition

So, here’s some photos from our “While You Were Out: Sanctuary Edition” today. We had this lift in here changing lights. It has a reach of 105 feet but can fit through a standard double door. I promise, look at the pictures. We also had our crew from Fowler in today installing a new...

Busy week in our sanctuary

This week, we’re having a lot of action in our sanctuary.  The video team has contracted a company to renovate our projection system.  Hard to believe, but we’ve been running S-Video and composite to our projectors.  They’re running all new component cable to the projectors for high...