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Sound System Training Video

Hey everyone, Andy here.

I’ve put together a video of the training session we had on site as well as some added content for everyone’s reference. If you missed the training session, don’t worry, you can see the whole thing and follow along in the PDF (Click here) that is linked in the video notes.

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Last Vintage SLO Meeting This Sunday

This Sunday is the end of a journey. We’ll be having our last official gathering of Vintage SLO together out on the grass at Meadow Park.

The last few years together have been a blast. The community that we have all created, in Templeton and San Luis Obispo, is pretty unique in the church world. Times with both congregations have felt good, like home. Us SLO folks are incredibly grateful that you’ve welcomed us in, prayed for us, and even shared your pastors with us on Sundays. Thank you.

I love the “Vintage Way,” the somewhat-codified thoughts and principles that uphold our community. There are a lot of great things at the core of the Vintage Way. One is (paraphrasing here), “we ain’t gonna keep doin’ something just to do it.” In starting Vintage, Aaron and Dayn recognized that ministry, like life, has seasons. Heck, they even still refer to it as the Vintage Experiment!

Vintage SLO has been a gift: a place for healing, sweet times with community, and a space to learn and grow with one another. These past three years have been an important season, but we’ve sensed that the season for Vintage SLO has come to a close. And that’s okay! God is good. He has been good and will continue to be good as we step forward into whatever He has next.

-Gary

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To Live is Christ

Happy Thursday to you all. Last Sunday we wrapped up our journey with Paul through the book of Acts, and this week I’ve been mulling over Paul’s statement in Philippians 1, “For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

I think the “die” part gets a bit overemphasized in that short statement. Here’s the “die” part. Paul knows when he dies it will be rad to be with Jesus. Ok, we’re done with “die” part.

The “live” part is more important for most of us, and through out journey with Paul I have been struck by how true this statement was for him. His ministry was a catch-as-catch-can kind of affair. The only consistent strategy he seems to use is going to the Jews first, then the gentiles. Other than that, he talks to whomever, whenever, wherever.

I’ve known some people who do this without much skill. Those folks tend to not listen, just talk to whomever, whenever, and wherever. Paul, however, puts a great deal of effort to have the appropriate (not always non-confrontational) conversation based on the background and story of the individual or group.

Jesus is the answer. To live is Christ. Jesus is the central character to all the stories, but they are different and varied stories.

I love Paul’s answer to Agrippa when he asked if Paul was trying to convert him in such a short time. “Short time or long-I pray to God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”

To live is Christ. We want more for us, jealous and covetous for more intimacy with Jesus. To live is Christ. Every relationship around us is a story in which we have a role to play.

That’s all I have to say about that,

aaron

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Thoughts On Paul Series

Good morning fellow sojourners on this planet, Odie here.

I have been enjoying the dickens out of our study of the apostle Paul. Not only have I been learning how to RE-ENGAGE when I want to go hide or give up after facing drama and difficulties, but here’s another thought:

Even though it was prophesied that Paul was going to have big trouble in Jerusalem, he went anyway.

Have you ever had to step into a situation where you knew it was going to be really bad, but you knew you had to do it anyway? Yep. Very uncomfortable. Been there done that. It was rough. But in that uncomfortable situation, Paul had the opportunity to share his spiritual journey not only with the local authorities, but he was also heard by a variety of other folks who would have gathered at these events. We will probably never know, until we see the Lord, who heard his oration and what the results were.

But it doesn’t matter. God knows. And He knows about our situations. And He knows how to use them.

Odie