dnow summary - at least the first summary

these are the initial thoughts on the discipleNOW that we had this past weekend:

• our host homes and leaders were great this year. i heard very positive experiences during the weekend. i do think that next year we will use the concept of an event blog at a much earlier date to encourage even more idea swapping. this year's blog seemed to help some in communicating with the leaders and thus doing it even earlier should help even more.
  
• andy neely (the youth minister at springhill baptist church in mobile, alabama) was great. he did a wonderful job of communicating.
  
• ten shekel shirt was great. they did a superb job of leading us in worship and i throughly enjoyed hanging out with them. lamont (the lead singer) and austin (the drummer) are both very passionate about social justice issues - especially modern day slavery in southeast asia and eastern europe.
  
• we got rid of the polaroid scavenger hunt that we had done in the past and instead went to a wild goose chase on l.s.u's campus. it went very well. the kids were completely worn out and we may need to shorten it just a little next year.
  
• i need to work on improving the student center sound system. we had to borrow some equipment from the ring and the stuff we borrowed was junk we should have had already. in the future i will add a 31 band graphic equalizer (i'm considering the behring FBQ3102 and the dbx 231) a compressor or two (i'm looking at the behringer mdx 2600 and the dbx 266xl), and a few other sound system nic nacs.