Well, since you asked so nicely, here goes!
We had our normal Sunday evening service. Kids are in the AWANA program (sort of like church related scouts), most adults are in a casual type of Bible study. I head over to the new fellowship center to pick up DS, and while we're there, the lights in the gym go out and the emergency lights come on. I assumed that someone hit a light switch, but then we all realized that the hallway lights were off too.
We made our way through a REALLY dark night (remember, we are about 85 miles from the closest major city, so I've seen stars most of you have only seen while we're out at sea on the Magic!) back to the church. This was our last choir practice before our cantata, and trust me, we needed the practice!
There's one emergency light in the sanctuary. Good news is that it's right over the piano. Bad news is that with no power, we have no accompaniment track. The pastor finds some candles left over from a wedding, which we stick to the bottom of styrofoam cups, and a couple of people have emergency flashlights in their car, so we improvise. The emergency light died about 1/2 hour into practice, so we had the roaving music light held by whoever wasn't singing!
We start to improvise, and at least work through how we are going to be moving in and out for the various numbers. There are 2 adult choirs, a kids choir, a praise trio, and several breaks for narration, so it's pretty complicated.
We managed to get through most of the music in the hour or so we worked. We do have a final walk through on Saturday, which will probably run long since we didn't get to do as much as we wanted.
Next up. House status!
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