7 Years Ago Today... It all Began

Mother's Day 2002.  That's when it all began. Next Level Church was born 7 years ago today! It's hard to believe that 10 Adults and 2 kids on a Launch team and 35 people in total Attendance would one day grow into all this!

What a privilege it is to get to live out our dream daily! I can't help but be a bit sentimental on a day like today. Those who were there in the early days will forever hold a dear place in our hearts. Mike, Dave, Taitem, Jessica, Jim, Tanya, Preston, Sandra, Matt, Sarah, Will and Tailer. That was it. What a humble beginning that has grown into so much influence today!

Thank you to all who believed in us when there was nothing.  There weren't many of you, but each one of you mattered.

Happy Birthday Next Level Church!!!

I love what you've become,

Pastor Matt

Something MAC can't do???

I think I may have found something that my MAC computer can't do?!? I know, it's really got me all flustered tonight, especially since I gotta speak tomorrow and everything... Anyway...

Let me start from the beginning... (this is so traumatic, I'm shaking just trying to type it all out...)

So I'm trying to put some photos from my MAC on a new memory card I just got at the Office supply store today. I put the memory card in my digital camera, plug it into my mac and proceed to attempt to find it on the desktop. Unfortunately, after no small amount of searching, I learned that apparently, I'm not able to transfer data that way. It only works one way. From camera to mac, not the other way around.

It all makes sense logically to me and all, but seriously, I bought a mac for a reason... because it can do everything, right!!!

So then I get my jump drive and throw some photos on there expecting to be able to plug that into my digital picture frame and then simply transfer them to the new memory card that way, but again, no luck.

So at last resort, I stand up, throw both hands above my head a say, "I think I'm going to have to go get my old PC that has a memory card slot and transfer files that way!" Just saying such a thing scared me half to death. I might as well have found a skeleton in my bed on halloween night!

Has my life come this??? Have I really gotten to a place where I have to go BACK to a PC, even if it's just for some photos? Say it isn't so MAC, I'm depending on you. I can't stand the thought of a dent in the armor!

Well, I guess without a better option I'm off to fire up the Old PC and make the photo transfer. I'm nauseated just thinking about it. I have a scowl on my face. My fingers are going numb at the thought of actually having to touch a PC again after almost 2 years of MAC sobriety.

Why God Why?!? I thought you loved me when I got my iPod. I thought there was a loving Creator when the new MacBook arrived in June of 2007. Now here I am on a lonely, cold (not really) dark night in May of 2009 having to retreat to an inferior existence. A PC filled existence.

I hope the simple file transfer doesn't ruin my digital picture frame or the memory card. I hope my desk doesn't melt when I turn on the PC. I hope my MacBook will forgive me for my waywardness. But then again, Who left who on this whole thing, anyway?

By the way, I'm typing this on a MAC,

Here's to Mac's Infallibility, it was a good run old girl...

Keller