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.. title: openlp.org to the Rescue!
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.. slug: 2008/03/23/openlporg-to-the-rescue
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.. date: 2008-03-23 18:03:01 UTC
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.. description:
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This morning I was not on sound/data projector duty at church, so my
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wife and I decided to take it easy and arrive just before the service
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(instead of an hour or half an hour beforehand, as usual). However,
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unbeknownst to me, but beknownst to my pastor, the people on duty didn't
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rock up. So on our way to church, my wife gets a phone call from said
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pastor.
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"There's no sound coming out of the speakers... how do we fix that?"
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So I had to trouble-shoot remotely via my wife. Of course this never
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really works (at least not in my experience) and so I had to hurry to
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church (while keeping to the speed limits along the way of course),
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instead of taking a leisurely drive. Somehow I knew that if there was a
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problem with the sound system, then chances were that there would be a
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problem with the data projector as well.
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We got there 10 minutes before the service was due to begin, and I saw
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that not only was the person on sound duty not there, but the data
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projector was unattended as well. Thankfully, a friend who operates the
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sound from time to time had stepped in and was helping out there, so I
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quickly hopped in at the computer, opened openlp.org, and started
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setting up the service.
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Unfortunately the service started before I had selected all the Bible
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readings for the sermon (our pastors like having the verses up on the
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screen while they're preaching), but I wasn't worried about that.
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Whenever I got a chance, I'd just add the next verse selection. No
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problem with openlp.org's everything-in-one interface.
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The part which took the longest was not setting up the service, but
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rather finding the correct verses. Our pastor that was preaching this
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morning has a habit of saying he's reading one verse, when he's actually
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reading 3 verses on, or in a different chapter altogether!
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This reminds me of another service, where the preacher had not given me
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a list of all the verses in his sermon, and I was pulling verses on the
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fly. Wow. I would not have been able to do that with another projection
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application. openlp.org's interface makes it easy to show adhoc things
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on the fly.
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Have you got a story to tell? Why don't you comment on this post and
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tell me your story.
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