My Worship Revolution

Check out my blog cloud. Visit this website and you can put in your web info and it creates this cloud of words that are used commonly on your site. Kinda fun. You can tweak it and change words, but i just left mine as it came up. Interesting to see the words that popped up! A couple of people got on there (good thing "wife" and "rachel" were among them) along with some other significant words like "community", "learnings" and of course "worship." Have fun making your own!
[via Ben]

So you may notice that I’ve updated the page some, and I hope to update it some more in the coming weeks or months.  I know there are some things I’d like to add – idea’s I’ve gotten from other blogs I’ve viewed – but at this point I don’t know how to do half of them.  I guess I’ll just need to take some time to learn.  Unfortunately that time usually comes in the late hours of the night when I’d probably be better off sleeping.
One thing I have finally done, though, includes the addition of a page, or in this case a link on my blog.  Since I began this site, I mentioned that one of my desires was to try and provide resources, both for the Revolution worship community as well as for others who are doing creative ministry.  One of the ways that I have been encouraged and gotten ideas for ministry is by looking at some things that other people have done and posted on sites.  Watching videos others have made have always inspired me and stirred creativity.
Being that videos are something that we have been doing more and more often at Revolution as time has gone on, and being something that I am continually learning more about (and hopefully getting better at), I thought it would be fun and hopefully beneficial to have a page to download and view videos that we have made for services and for fun.  I finally got that page created and up and running after taking time here and there to slowly get it built.  Hopefully it can serve 2 purposes: (1) as I mentioned, to give ideas and resources to other ministers, and (2) for people at Revolution who just enjoy seeing some of the things we’ve done again.
Unfortunately, a lot of the videos aren’t great quality the way I’ve exported them, but if anyone really wanted to use something, I do have them in format to put on DVD with better quality.  There are still some more videos I can get up there, and the page in general is a work in progress.  So, there is now a link on the sidebar to visit the page, or for now you can click here.  Enjoy!

*UPDATE – this page no longer exists.  Instead all of my videos are hosted at my site at YouTube.  username: bobbymarchessault

So I guess it’s feast or famine over there at inbubblewrap.com. After months of entering and never winning, I win a second time like a week later! This book, Satisfaction, actually looks quite a bit more interesting to me than the last one. We’ll see if I ever find the time to read either. I guess I’m in the club now, eh Will?

For many months now I have been visiting www.inbubblewrap.com and entering to win a book to know avail. It is a website that daily gives away business related books. I have entered faithfully everyday without winning as I’ve watched one friend win 3 books and another win 5! But I continued to persist and finally I won today!!
I opened my email this afternoon and literally yelled for joy when I saw a winner confirmation from inbubblewrap. I’m not sure I’m really all that excited about the book I won, but it’s just nice to win!
When you sign up for the offer each day, you answer 2 questions. many months ago, the question was, what would cause you to tell others about inbubblewrap.com? My answer: win a stinkin book! So now I’m making good on my answer. Go check it out!

So, this past Monday, Rachel and I had our first doctors appointment. Most of the people who come by here already know this, but Rachel and I recently found out that we are going to be parents! We found out our due date is set to be September 24, 2006. We even got to see a sonogram already! Check it out -


At this point, it really just looks like a blob…kinda Jaba the Hut-esque.  The sonogram showed us to be at 7 weeks 3 days, and even that early we could see a heartbeat…wow!
It seems even more real now.  It’s definitely a big shift in lifestyle for us as it is for everyone when they have their first kid.  I am totally excited to see where this journey takes us.  I know that the two things that God has called me to be above all else is a good husband and a good father.  Please continue to pray that Rachel and the baby would stay healthy as we go through this pregnancy.  Thanks all!

So once again it’s been a long while since I’ve taken the time to blog, so I’ll just have to bang a couple out today.  A big part of the reason for my absence has been the time that went into getting ready for our grand reopening at Revolution Church. 
For any friends reading here who aren’t a part of Revolution, this past Sunday was our first Sunday in a new facility.  We are now setting up and tearing down every week at Artesia High School in the city of Lakewood.  A lot of work went into making things happen by everyone around Revolution and it was a HUGE success!  It was so fun at 9:00 when the doors opened to see people just flooding through the doors.  We ended up having 565 adults and 135 kids for our first day!!
I am really looking forward to this next Sunday and the one’s that follow.  For a little more info about the specifics of the grand reopening, check out Dave’s blog.

Hey everyone!  Just wanted to let everyone know that Adam Rose and his band are playing this Thursday night at Aura Night Club in Studio City at 8:30 P.M.  You do have to be 18 or older to get in (sorry kids).  Click here to get in for $8, otherwise I think it’s $10 at the door.  So if you can, have a night out and support one of our worship artists from Revolution.  Have good show Adam!

I’m just home briefly before I go back to meet Rachel, Kari, and Will at Disneyland for Rachel’s birthday.  Today is the big day.  I just had to jump on the CPU real quick and tell everyone how much I appreciate my wife on her birthday (I mean that’s when I’m saying it…I appreciate her everyday.)  Rachel really does sacrifice a lot for me to do the things we feel God’s called me to do, and she sure does put up with a lot during the times (which are often) that I’m not being who He’s really called me to be.  I feel so blessed to have her in my life.  Thanks for everything Rachel, and Happy Birthday.  Now I better get back to the park!

As I mentioned was the plan last week, I went to visit Life Church in Temecula this past Saturday. They are a 3 year old church plant in Temecula that sets up in a middle school every week. Rachel and I went down late in the morning in order to meet up with the worship pastor, Eric Beeman, at his home.
First he took us by the recording studio/ELI house. The use of this house is being donated to the church, and it is a house where they allow their interns to live rent free as they serve. Then we grabbed lunch before heading to the church. It was great to sit and hang with a friend who has similar passions and involvement in ministry.
Then we arrived at the church at around 3 pm. This was really the main reason I came – to watch and learn some more from their setup. This week it was fun watching a room go from this:

to this…

In this case it actually took a few hours, but to their credit, they were trying some new setup ideas this week. From talking to some of them, it also seems like Saturday afternoon has been a tough time to get volunteers. Since I wasn’t running sound like last week, I had a little more time to run around and take some pictures. Here’s a couple that I took that were helpful:


cool idea for the hanging of a techno beam on the stage on some trussing. may come in handy as we try using a few intellabeams.



the 2 outside screens were stinkin gi-normous – pretty cool.



pretty cool rig – on wheels – for their video camera/easy worship screens.

Anyway, that was just a couple of the 60 or so pictures I took.  Here’s a few other thoughts:

• It’s nice to have storage on site.  This is a luxury we won’t have, but I think we’ve planned really well to make it simple regardless
• The more the merrier.  I just know that the more people we can get involved in setting up – especially in the sound and lighting area for me – the faster it will go and the more fun we can have doing it
• Lighting is key.  They did a great job with their lighting scheme.  We have ordered a lot of new and high tech lights for our move, and I’m excited to see how we can creatively use these to add to our atmosphere even more than we have so far.  This also means more light team volunteers to learn how to use it, so if you might be interested, e-mail me: bobby@revolution242.com
• It’s just really fun to see a room go from an empty and bland space to a creative space that will help people enter into God’s presence in an atmosphere somewhat familiar to them.

It was a blast to hang out for the service and get to worship and enjoy.  Afterward I had dinner with their lead pastor John Rulman where we were able to get to know each other and I got some great insight and thoughts on the first several years of ministry in their church.

All around it was a good day and well worth the drive.  I really am looking forward to the opportunities that lie in front of us at Revolution Church in a similar situation as we head into our grand re-opening month.  Thanks a ton to all the guys at life church who let me hang out and learn from them.  They are all great people and I know that being around for the experience gave me some great ideas for us.

This past Sunday I had the week off at Revolution, so instead I ran sound for my sisters church in San Diego. My brother-in-law was leading worship that morning, filling in for their worship leader. By the way, he did an awesome job! It’s been so fun to see him be used by God in such an awesome way.
Anyway, it was fun to volunteer at church with them. The church is pastored by John Rose who was my youth pastor and a large factor in me first coming to Christ. One of the best parts about going was that they are a portable church, setting up and tearing down at an elementary school. It’s so fun seeing a room go from this…

to this…

…in less than an hour.  It was a great experience for me as we get ready to start setting up and tearing down weekly.  It gave some great ideas on how I want to do things as we get started.  This Saturday I plan to visit Life Church in Temecula to experience their set up process as well.  I look forward to getting some learning from them as well.  I’ll be sure to take some pictures in the process to put up.