Getting Settled.

When someone moves from there home to another home there is a period they go through that is relatively tough - they experience things such as losing friends because of the distance, they experience new challenges in there new surroundings and they usually fall away from there beliefs as they try to "get things back to normal." As when i changed my job of 4 years to completely be taken by faith and trust that God would provide i felt myself worried about all the things "movers" experience. Working at a single place for as long as i had i had grown friendships with people i was around every single day and because work was so demanding these people were the only people i had time to hang out with. After the change despite all the discomfort between why i left and my worries of losing all my friends and being honest of not knowing what was going to happen to me - I moved completely on faith.

A Month into my new position at Living Waters Church has truly been a renovation with myself and with my faith. Not only have i become closer to the one i have been effortlessly trying to grow with (God) but i have seen his work in many ways since my shift of life. My friends and I still hang out and in fact in ways more then others because we can relate experiences instead of the same talk about the same job every day. And as for not knowing where I am going - I still don't. All i know is that the more faithful you are to God, the more Faithful he is to you.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mothers womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things."

Recent Work

These last two weeks have been kinda hectic in the life of Mike - between meeting deadlines and finishing up jobs. Here are some of my works I've done in the month of March, Enjoy.

Team Brute Force

1. "It's a Warzone" - Filmed and Edited

2. "Practice Makes Perfect" - Filmed and Edited

3. "Just the Beginning" - Filmed and Edited

Living Waters Church

1. "Myths that Make us Miserable Part One" - Edited

2. "Myths that Make us Miserable Part Two" - Edited

3. "Myths that Make us Miserable Part Three" - Edited

4. "Myths that Make us Miserable Part Four" - Edited

Gods Path

Its interesting - they say that the more faith you put into God the more he gives back to you and in this case thats just what i have done. I let my faith take over when i was let go from America's Best Defense, I just had this feeling that there was something meant for me. I donated my time to Living Waters Church editing there services to produce a DVD, i also began concepting and creating productions with Chris for the opening of services and today i had an interview with Tim - the Pastor at the church and it looks like i will be turning my time i spend there into a paying job! God sure does deliver!

God's Deadlines

I have had such an extremely busy weekend. All week i have been involved in a production that had people lip-singing to the song "Shadowfeet" my job was to receive the footage shot by my co-worker and edit it into a short cut. However this short cut involved long render and export times and complicated shots, cuts, and edits. Timing was difficult to achieve between syncing the actors to the words. Also the Render time was killing me with having a 40 minute clip time lapsed into 30 seconds. Now all of this could have easily been done in a single day of working. But I learned of what i had to do Friday night, and i had a paintball event all day saturday which left me with Saturday Night to fully edit and export the film. After pulling an all nighter i finally finished and met my 7AM deadline. I finished the video at 6:30AM.

Paintball however rocked with having the entire team out there player all 9 active members!!!

New Stuff

For the past few weeks i have been settling myself into working at Living Waters as a Film Editor for there new Video Ministry. My responsibilities are to soft edit the footage of the services to add in sub-text of the scriptures, and manipulate the footage to make it look professional and clean. Also I am to prep and export the footage to get it ready for DVD and webcasting. But now i find myself doing more advanced projects. This week Chris and I are working on a video for the beginning of service on Sunday. Its a music video involving green screening - Were filming members of our church lip singing a song in front of a green screen. From there I plan on taking the footage and cutting it up so the people interchange while lip singing to a song. The green screen will be replaced with footage from the city thats out of focus - the overall look and feel of this video is going to be sweet. I'll see if i can post it when its complete.

Changing Things Up.

Life as i know if has completely flipped upside down. Usually i am open to change and take any obstacle i hit with a positive attitude and keep moving forward. I have been recently "let go" from America's Best Defense, and whether or not i was fired or laid off i have no idea - originally i was replaced, but there seems to be a new person being trained for the job position i was told wasn't open. I'd rather people be forward to me instead of trying to let me down nicely or act like i don't know what's going on. No disrespect because I love all of my former co-workers at ABD and i always will - and truthfully i don't know what's happening. All i know is i was not needed or wanted there and that means it was time for a change. Since the change i have been dedicating a lot of my time to Living Waters Church as a Film Editor, its not every day i get to do something i love and know that its changing lives and bringing people closer to God. I hope one day i can become paid for doing this - Film is definitely my future. In the mist of all the confusing stuff going on i do have some Victories! I am now a Licensed Driver, I have released a few videos for my paintball Team, and Megan is still and will always be as incredible as she was when i first met her over a month ago!

"When God leads you into darkness - he is testing your faith in him, Put your Trust in him and he will lead you back to the light."

I also have been doing some designing lately, check out these two designs for T-Shirts i came up with.
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Megannn

Church today was really good. I haven't heard Pastor Geyzer speak in a long time and i forgot how scary he can get! When he preaches he gets really emotional to the point of yelling and screaming! and being in the front row with a huge headache doesn't work to well but i fought through it! After church i had Megan over and we just chilleddd and watched TV Shows on my Mac, we watched Pushing Dasies (AKA fav show of all time) and she showed me some highlights of this show shes trying to show me lol weird showw!! She had dinner over and then left around 8:15ish I've seen her 4 days in a rowww its going to be tough going back to school and having to wait a whole week to see her again! I'm a mess i know ill deal :)