The Church Basement Roadshow

The Church Basement Roadshow

Fresno Show Recap

posted by Doug Pagitt | 2:39pm Wednesday June 18, 2008

For Info and Tour DatesShow update from Fresno, CaliforniaAfter a lovely day off (our only one of this leg of the tour) we rolled into Fresno, California to University Presbyterian church. The people were friendly, helpful and encouraging. This is a really great church. Chris Erdman, who is a great guy, is the pastor, but as in all churches the quality of the community comes from the people. We certainly met the cream of the crop during our stay. Chet, a man about 65 years old made us a most tasty dinner of organic greens, chicken and scrumptious heirloom tomatoes. The show went really well. The crowd, our largest yet at 163, was enthusiastic.We had our first technical problem at the start of the show and Preacher Withee stepped up and started the show with no sound support.People are truly enjoying the show – we hear regularly that people are surprised at both how much they enjoy it and how much meaning they find the message of the showThe show is running a solid 95 minutes at this point. We are working to get it to 90 minutes on the button. Part of the show includes an invitation for people to sponsor a child through the group Compassion International. We have a goal of 150 child sponsorships over the course of the tour. We currently have seen 32. If you are planning to come to the show start thinking now about the possibility of becoming a sponsor. Life in the RV is good (despite our lesson on the range of a ¼ tank). We have traveled 1084 miles at the time of this writing. We are only marginally getting on each others nerves. To this point in the trip there have been five of us in the RV -Tony, Mark, Dave (who is our prime driving, sound tech and video editor) and Michael (owner of the RV and all around terrific helper and decal applicator) and me. To this point we have spent most of the time debriefing the show, re-working parts, writing blog posts and editing pictures and video. Hopefully that will lessen a bit as we go.We have utilized host homes each night in addition to some sleeping in the RV which has really helped.We are few hours from Sacramento – so let’s keep rollin’.



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