Spent the last 2 days at a church technical conference

I spent the last two days at a conference called FILO (stands for "first in, last out" meaning that technical people are the ones that are the first to arrive and last to leave when they work at church). It was a very interesting conference and I learned quite a bit. The problem that I, personally, had with it is that I'm a volunteer at church (although there were a lot of volunteers there). So I'm really only working a couple Sundays a month and nothing during the week. A lot of the information would be more relevant if I was putting in more time at church.

Even so, I still got a lot of good information. One thing that was really good about the conference was to find out what other churches are doing. Church congregation sizes are fairly easy to find. And you can see online replays of services and get an idea about how many cameras they run, but you don't know how many people they have in the booth, how many cameras are remote controlled, what kind of audio and lighting boards they have, and so on. What I found out is that we're a bit behind on equipment, but we do a really good job with what we have. That was comforting to find out.

It would have also been beneficial to make some contacts from similar sized churches, but you see faces and names and that's it. Just making contacts to bounce ideas off each other in the future would have been nice. Again, with me being very part time, I didn't really approach the conference from that angle, although in hind sight, maybe I should have.