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About 6 years ago our church in town switched pastors (the previous guy retired after 35~ years) and there were issues during the transition period. Now my wife and i didn't really care about the ensuing drama one way or the other, but the end result was that we ended up without anything to DO at our church. We're used to not simply attending, but to volunteer by running the sound board or projectors during service, or helping with sunday school, or something. And the ensuring chaos left us (A) without a consistent pastor, just a parade of random tryouts and (B) with the people handing the administrative side of things letting everything else fall into disarray such that there was no place for us. Meanwhile the head pastor at a "nearby" church (75 miles isn't that far <_< ) was in the process of losing their sound person because they were moving out of state to start a church somewhere else. That's something I have training/experience for so we started going there to run sound/media on sundays for them and we've been there for nearly 5 years now.

It was particularly useful when we first started because at that time I had only just started my job with the IRS and was on a night time schedule for training, 3 - 11:30 PM. My wife on the other hand works at a school and worked from 8 AM until 2:30 which didnt' give us any overlap at all hardly. The most we would see each other would be the drive to and from church during those days.

And now it's just a routine that's easy. There are people who commute further 5x a week so we can manage the 1x no problem.

But it's nice that we're in range to there/back without charging ^_^