Thinking Big, Thinking Secure

Life at FBC is moving at a very rapid rate for me.  But safety and securing have been on my mind with my “back burner” projects.  However, a couple of those projects are slowly moving to the light of day.  Here are the current horse race of projects that are in the lead.

Project #1 – Preschool Move (bad baptist word) and Security

My friend Amy D (Interim Childrens Minister) is close to consolidating our preschool on to two floors and dealing with the congestion in our preschool hall.  The solution is a mix of moving some classes, new furniture, new security doors and a computer check in system.  When it comes together it will be a sweet project.  This project is in the lead for going from idea to touching lives.

Project #2 – Server Room

As the IT man for the church (lot of help from Robert, Russ, and other volunteer brain trust members) we have been on a search for a secure, climate controlled, limited access location for our growing infrastructure needs.  It seems it may be possible to take part of a little used room and add a wall, and poof – space for a server room that should last us for a good while.  The nice thing – out of site and out of mind.

Project #3 – Asterisk Server

The leased Nortel is showing it’s age in features, function and size.  If three things come together moving to an internally managed phone server would be a reality.  If we have a place for the server (server room), if we can wirelessly like our remaining two buildings (prices are dropping for hardware) and we organize the team of people to pull wire, patch things together it is a done deal and will save the church some cash down the road.