Wake Review for 4/27/08

Wake is our weekly meeting for Junior High students at Watermark. We meet on Sunday mornings at 9:00am on the 4th floor of the Watemark Tower. This week's Wake was really fun and (I think) really challenging and inspirational. Instead of a formal review, I'd like to share a behind the scenes look at all the things our kids never know about. This is an actual list of stuff that "went wrong" this week:

• Our Program Director slept in and arrived about an hour late.
  
• The volunteer Tech Team Coordinator was a no show.
• The volunteer in charge of our student band was a no show.
  
• The drummer arrived a little over 30 minutes late.
• The guitar player/lead singer forgot to bring his acoustic guitar.
  
• Nobody ran the dishwasher after making pancakes last week so all of the bowls, spatulas, pitchers, and wisks were dirty.
  
• We forgot to ask a leader to arrive early to help make pancakes so the job ended up getting passed off to the first 8th grade guy that arrived (scary).
  
• A potential new leader showed up to check things out and ended up leaving in less than 3 minutes. I didn't even get to meet her.
  
• An 8th grader threw up in a cup on stage during our game.
  
• Of the 4 High School Juniors lined up to share testimonies, one called and canceled at 7:30am and one was a no show.
• Nobody cleaned up after the pancakes were served and the dried batter was a mess.
• Our Tech Team left without turning off the lighting board, stage lights, flat screen TVs in the lobby, projectors, computer, or the sound board. And nobody locked up our equipment cabinet or threw away the program grids (and other papers) littering the Tech booth.

It's weeks like this when I walk away amazed at how much fun and encouraging our program turns out to be. We have a lot of really passionate and gifted people that inevitably seem to take up the slack and make things excellent for our Junior High kids.