What Calm Before the Storm?

Today is prep day for the Leadership Summit where signs are put up; volunteer central is set up; snacks for breaks are picked up, decorations are being arranged, if you can name it it is being done.  The team is doing an incredible job!  At this point they are breaking for lunch two hours ahead of schedule!
Like most people where did my eyes go to?  My name.

There is a cliche: "the calm before the storm."  And as great as things are progressing it is not without challenges.  Earlier this week our head usher had to step down from his responsibilities because his father passed away and he had to fly out to Virginia.  Then today the leader of our Conference Information Center had a death occur in her family this morning and now is unable to participate. 

Fortunately we have an incredible On-site Event Manager(OEM), Alex Layson, that got two people to step up into these roles.  This is one of the incredible benefits of having a serving team that has been together for the five years we have been hosting the summit.

In addition we do no recruiting for this event and have to actually turn away help.