Ladies and Gentlemen, I am now blogging to you live from the site of Student Impact’s annual winter camp – BLAST! We are in full swing and are getting ready for students to arrive tomorrow night! The stage is finished, lights are blasting, audio is kicking, and video is looking stellar.
Over the past two days, we have spent a cumulative amount of around 400 hours to transform a convention center into a place where 1400 youth can come encounter Christ. Thanks to stellar volunteers and staff, we are up and running ahead of schedule.
I believe I can truthfully speak for all of the tech crew for this year’s blast – we are so excited to see what God is going to do this weekend!
Enjoy the photos!
The finished stage, as of 4:00pm on Thursday!
Keith and Zayne love to hang out on truss…and talk about risky camera shots.
Keith scales truss to attach fixtures
Final checks before raising the truss
Tilting house light truss into place
Tilting house light truss into place
Bill, Justin and Keith add lights to the stage truss
Keith bringing the stage truss lights to life!
Keith bringing the stage truss lights to life!
Zayne attaching lights to one of the house light trusses
Video cables ready to be plugged in
Matt, Troy, Zayne, and Brent all working.
The guys move a sub into its new location
The guys move a sub into its new location
Zayne and I take an obligatory self portrait during setup
Justin, Bill, and Steve working the cables.
Keith and Kevin look happy as they take a quick break.
Zayne and Brent help raise one of our ginormous side screens.
John and Jon putting finishing touches on the Kitchen Set
The smoothie station – in all of its glory.
Keith, proudly standing in for lighting modeling on the Kitchen Set
Ryan, Jon, Matt, and John working on the “Kitchen Set”
Adam doing one of his specialties – Smoothies.
Dale chopping fruit like a brilliant chef
THE Ryan Pribyl, Everyone.
Here We Are: 
Hey Joy! Looks like you are having way to much fun! So glad the Lord is blessing you with smooth set up and being ahead of schedule! That’s awsome! I’ll be praying that the kids coming to BLAST will be able to understand the Gospel and see Christ through the ministry there. Hugs and Blessings to you my sweet!