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“Back in the saddle again …”

That’s how I’m slowly beginning to feel now that we finished the “Worship Under The Stars” concert last weekend.

Rather than go into detail about the concert and all that happened, I’d simply invite you to visit the Worship Under The Stars site and read the “Post-Concert” review blog entry. Enough to say that it was totally incredible and I can’t wait to do it again.

It took nearly a week to sort through all of the administrative stuff involved in the “post-concert” review – we learned that the whole way we handled product sales, donations, and pre-orders was pretty confusing … at least, to us! Folks who pre-ordered or purchased products were supposed to pay “Highest Praise Productions“, my “for-profit” corporation … and donations were payable to “Worship International“, the non-profit corporation who produced the live event. We had single checks for pre-orders, product purchases, and donations – some made payable to HPP, others made payable to Worship International. Also, we failed to collect S/H on the pre-orders so that was a “hit” I wasn’t expecting.

Nonetheless, I’d gladly have those sorrows over the sorrow of having NO RESPONSE, and PRAISE GOD – we had response.

So what’s next – just trying to get back in the saddle … several things upcoming:
1) the Highest Praise Worship Podcast (3rd issue should be produced this week)
2) adding two new artists to InstrumentalWorship.Com
3) complete revamp of HPP Christian Web Hosting (packages, pricing, design)
4) post-production of “Worship Under The Stars” CD and DVD. (pre-order here)

Today I’m in the studio doing some work on #4 … Randy Adams (our recording engineer at WUTS) has well over 40+ tracks of audio for the WUTS CD. My ProTools recording system currently only handles 32 simulataneous audio tracks (which is usually PLENTY), so I’m having to create “submixes” of the drums, percussion, and house tracks to make room for the other important tracks and the new tracks that we will “add” that either weren’t live or were live and need “fixin”, as we say here in south Georgia.

Thanks for your prayers and support,

God bless ya,
FRED