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everybody's here as we talk about really important information as we begin to think about what it looks like to to reopen our buildings for continued ministry. So I'm going to offer the platform right now to Bishop McKee but before I do that I just want you to remind you that you can go up to your right-hand corner and take an opportunity to do speaker view or grid view however you like to participate and that sometimes can help your experience if you've got the right view and we'll also be having the presentation and the resources in the chat box so that you can cut and paste the links and have resources for yourself and then you can also ask questions in the chat as we continue to meet for the next 90 minutes. So I'll pass everything on over to Bishop McKee and we'll move forward. So I present to you Bishop Mike McKee. Thank you Canny. So I want to thank y'all for being on the call today and I know that some of us are reaching Zoom that fatigue but we will not grow weary in our well-doing I want you to know that but I appreciate you being on and I think that we can be helpful to many of you and we have some people who can be helpful but also planning to present from perspectives on which they're working. I want to acknowledge for all of you that basically the churches in the East District, Northwest District using proper guidelines that we have used as a conference are on they have opened their churches for the most part but as we open one of the things I want to remind you is that we will continue to keep the road with the guidelines in place which means that it's going to be challenging and difficult for some of you in larger congregations especially about where do how many people can we have and I remember I think it was Christchurch I think Kim you did a y'all did a measuring and it's not like what's 25% of the the capacity it's like what's six feet of equal distancing a social distancing around so it's important to remember that. I also want to remind you that I think that there's a tendency that you get a lot of pushback on something like this so I want to say to you that what's guided us as an annual conference has been my some mantra all along is to just focus on on especially especially the general rules in this way do good do no harm and stay in love with God and so especially on that do no harm one of the things that that has been my goal all along for all of us for this desired outcome is number one is I didn't want our clergy and their families to be at risk in contracting COVID-19 because because of this which means that the protocols are designed to lessen that risk. Secondly I didn't want laity to also be at risk if they came to worship God and the experience will not be like what they had but it'll be different but it'll be the way for people to gather and we want people to know that they have to socially distance. I think about the church in this way I know this is this has been very different and I will tell you that I think it will continue to be different and I can do not be I will not be surprised if later this year we close churches again if the virus ticks back up and so I think it's important for us all understand that and one of the reasons why I've been reticent about this is the day we're going back because early March when when the first time we closed for the middle of March I thought by the middle of April we would be open and then so I just did this month by month by month was guided primarily I want to be honest with you by the numbers I think the numbers tell no lies and they tell us how many people how many new cases there are the challenge well and little short rise and Colin and Denton counties recently we believe we can open was with some safety but when it comes to Dallas County we still don't know when that is but we're having a meeting next week either Monday or Tuesday I can't remember Deborah Monday or Tuesday with the Metro district pastors on we just said it and nobody knows it yet it's Monday at two Monday at two with them so we'll be anyway we'll be using the protocols and we're we're asking that people continue to mask I had a very interesting comment from one of our pastors yesterday when there is a little some pushback about masks that it's not comfortable they don't want to go to church and sing through a mask the whole music thing that's probably going to get addressed today but what a mask does is it does not protect the wear it protects everybody else and if we I think when you get to think about if everybody is wearing a mask then everyone is welcome that means a person who has a condition that really puts them at risk I can go everybody's going to be wearing a mask it means people over a certain age can feel more comfortable out going everybody's going to be a wearing a mask and so to be the beloved community and the church that we are everybody should wear a mask and I don't like wearing them either but I tell you what I do not want to infect anybody I don't want to get it but I don't want to do any harm by infecting anybody I've had a COVID-19 test because of all the board members at Memphis hospital were able to get one I'm negative Jones negative I want to stay that way but I want our people to stay that way I know this is going to be a challenging difficult time and we're still in conversation about when those churches the Metro District were open but I think you're going to get a lot of good content today it'll be very helpful and the challenge is going to be about how do you tell someone you got to wear a mask you got to stay six feet apart we don't have room for you but you can go here and watch on TV or any number of things but I know this is hard work and blessings on doing this but there's a goal and the goal is is that no church be a Petri dish for COVID-19 and that everyone we want everyone to feel safe in our buildings no matter when we're together we want everyone to be to be safe from from the spread of the virus this is not a hoax the virus is real and I was just talking to Joel and evidently so I think in someone in Fort Worth has contracted the virus for the second time they think so blessings on your time together I know that you have a good call I will say that Kami and other people who have joined her in this effort are very adept it's what's about what what is permitted and what to do and how to do it and I want to thank I want to thank the annual conference team especially and some other people they've gathered around them for for working on this and blessings on you and because I'm I'm really moving for executive platinum now and zoom miles and I'm gonna get off this call so I can get some more zoom miles since I've got this qualifies as one call but we've all learned to live with this and it's just the way it is in that so blessings on what you did thank you Kami another call with you at some alright thanks so much thank you bye bye so the purpose of today's webinar is to focus on the large church and I'm assuming that if you're a part of a medium-sized church and small church you can also gain a lot of information from today's presenters we're going to be discussing what it means to be a past oral leader in these times as well as a lot of details that have to do with opening our buildings for continual ministry and in our churches so for just for your knowledge today the presenters will be Reverend Kayeck who is from Lovers Lane United Methodist Church we will also have Lenita Jesson who is from First United Methodist Church of Richardson K. Richardson is with us and she will be speaking to us from St. Andrew United Methodist Church I think I noticed that her name was Robert Hasley on there but she is really Kaye Richardson and a great resource and Kim Hill is also with us from Christ United Methodist Church of Plano our district superintendents and center directors will also be facilitating breakout rooms along with these leaders so all of these persons will be assisting us in our presentation also have some information that I'm going to offer you from Reverend Don Underwood that was very insightful and so we look forward to just gathering and giving you all this information the first about 40 minutes we will be going through a lot of details and then the last 40 45 minutes we will be putting you into groups there's about 115 people on this call we were going to divide into 10 groups so you'll you'll have an opportunity to offer your insights and ask your questions in in group so that is what's that that's the plan for today so I will begin by just giving you the topics the first part is we're gonna have a small conversation on what it means to be a faithful leader and see the work we're doing with reopening buildings is a faith movement and a leadership opportunity to express your theology and your scriptural grounding and your practice then we're going to move to the context and challenges that we face and so our contextual realities we're gonna step through a checklist so that you can look and see what some of our larger churches checklist look like and what yours might look like then second then next is the stages and rolling out of a plan and sometimes we'll have to roll back into those that stage if some things happen so just to be aware of how much leadership is needed to just take a look at the things that are going on and then we'll be looking at the larger picture of who the church is right now all the different audiences that your church ways your church looks so you know some of your churches are gonna be meeting online some of them are gonna be in meeting in person and so it's gonna look very different and then last we'll come back together to ask and answer questions so that's our plan and with that and we'll just start our PowerPoint with that I would like to jump over to Todd Harris who I would love for him to share a little bit about what it looks like sorry let's go back where I jumped in Todd there's a new resource out that is very well done it's called resuming care-filled worship and sacred life during a pandemic and this is going to be placed in in the chat so that you can copy and paste it but it it will cover most everything that we have discussed today we'll also have the PowerPoint that you can as I said download but this one particularly I think will be very helpful for your use and with that said one of the things I like about this particular resource is that it has a very strong theological undergirding as well as biblical leadings for us and this time as a way of really caring for our people and our churches and the communities that we live in and honoring their sacred worth and so I think it's very helpful in in the work that we're going to be doing together all right Todd Harris if you would just take a few minutes to talk a little bit about setting the table for pastoral leadership and how it is that the shepherd has become your guiding metaphor as you thought about reopening our buildings thank you cammy and I can we thank you for guiding us in this process to always ground ourselves theologically in what we do whether you're a pastor or a lay leader or another type of leader in your church on staff we're grounded in our faith and our faith should be should be our guide in all processes especially major processes such as this and so I appreciate that cammy encouraging us to do that you know we all have different parts of the Bible different images that that resonate with us throughout our life and at different times different seasons and being a pastor or being a lay leader there are different parts of the Bible that truly speak to us and that we resonate with that begin to serve as a guide and and for me one one of those images in the Bible that is as an image that I've long resonated with and that is that's the image of the shepherd and and and so even as I pastor the church I resonated with the image of the shepherd and all that that perhaps brings to mind as I think about what it means to pastor a congregation and then even as a district superintendent now one of the images that that I remember thinking about when we were challenged to do this back at DS training school again I resonated with the image of the shepherd and what that means in terms of leading flock of churches and and so for me there there is no doubt that that Christ is the good shepherd so Christ is the ultimate shepherd that guides us in our work in our ministry and then then the bishop is also a shepherd that guides and directs our annual conference and and the in the cabinet but but as a district superintendent as a leader in the in the conference as a leader in the district I resonate with this image of the shepherd and all that that brings to mind and and so the shepherd leads the shepherd sometimes guides the shepherd sometimes stands in the middle of the flock sometimes behind the flock but the role of the shepherd is to lead to guide sometimes we prod sometimes we have to go after the lone sheep to to bring them back into into the flock I know I've had multiple conversations with pastors that I've one reason or another haven't had recent contact with and so I like to reach out to them and say hey come and be a part of the flock and let's realize that what we're doing is all together so so sometimes I have to go after the ones that have gone astray and lead them back to the flock one of the things that recognized either in the local church and both in the local church and as a district superintendent is that sometimes the sheep want to do what they want to do and sometimes we call that stubbornness strong willed and and so part of my work is is to help cultivate that relationship so that they're able to catch a glimpse of the vision the Bishop talked about you know a desire to keep all of our pastors and their families safe in this time and and I can't tell you how many times I've heard that he is committed to keeping our pastors and their families safe from the virus he's committed to keeping our churches safe and and and so that's a vision that that he is instilled in our minds as we consider the process of resuming in-person worship so so sometimes sheep want to do their own thing and and perhaps you experience that in your local church and and what's your role in that so so anyway that that's an image that that res that I resonate with that helps to ground me theologically that reminds me of the work that I do and and the variations of the ways in which I live that out in my role now as a district superintendent and all this is to say is to just to challenge you and we're gonna have time in our small group meetings in just a moment to to consider what is it that grounds you theologically maybe maybe your image is being a neighbor maybe maybe your image is another another one that we find and some other one that we find in the Bible but what is it that grounds you theologically that will guide you in the process of resuming in-person worship that's where we're going with this because I believe when we're grounded theologically we're able to differentiate ourselves to self differentiate ourselves as followers of Jesus Christ and we're able to stand there to be a non-anxious presence as we guide our church so what image resonates with you and your soul and guides you especially in this process that's all I have to say about that camey thank you I appreciate that so on a regular basis Todd has been one of those persons that has been a great conversation partner with me and with our cabinet about why we do things theologically and and grounding ourselves biblically so I really appreciate your words thank you so much we're gonna move next to K. Eck and early on lovers Lane did a really good survey found all kinds of interesting pieces of content that helped them guide what their next steps were gonna be some of our larger churches have also done surveys I think some of our smaller ones as well and the ones that people that are presenting today have given K some of the feedback that they've gotten and so she's gonna share right now some of the context challenges and realities and survey information that she's come up with okay friends it is really great to see you all this is my little sheep Ellie who wants to do whatever she wants to do right now when she's supposed to be taking a nap so I apologize for that but when considering your context of ministry we really suggest that you send a survey to your congregation just to get their feedback and find out where they are and I know that many of you have already done this but we would be happy to share our survey questions with you and the survey questions from some of the other large churches who are presenting today if you sent a survey several weeks ago you might consider sending one again to your congregation as people seem to be kind of changing where they stand on how they feel about what's going on but across the board from the surveys that I looked at we ask really similar questions like which service did you attend online what was your experience of that service did you experience guide in a way at that service we ask for people's age what precautions would you need to be in place for you to come back to worship would you bring a child or someone in a high risk category to worship with you and overall it really seemed that those with younger children and those who are in a higher risk category were not ready to return to campus yet quite yet but interestingly those with youth group age students especially those who are in sports are ready to come back as soon as they can some consistent precautions that people seem to expect or to have hand sanitizers available the wearing of face masks designated ingress and egress areas with clearly marked paths on the floor eliminating any handshakes or greeting times and eliminating congregational seeing it sounds like most people are monitoring the coronavirus cases close to them in their area and that's the primary determining factor and when people feel comfortable returning to our campuses so we've also found that most of our classes and groups have transitioned to being online very easily and they really like that we've even gotten some feedback that some prefer to keep the zoom option online so they don't have to get in the car and drive to class or to their groups during the week so as you're considering your context continue to think about how we can do no harm and how you can continue to reach your online audience even as you prepare to come back to in-person worship we we believe we'll see a significant decrease in the number of people who physically attend our campus when we do open so we've tried to be intentional about thinking about how do we continue to address online audience as well as the in-person audience and we've kind of talked about it like this like pre-covid we did worship services online with the people online kind of looking over our shoulder into what was happening in the room post-covid we have to switch that thinking to we're worshiping online and as people come back we let them look over our shoulder into the production of what's going on so we'd be happy to share our surveys with you and some of those results and I encourage you to send one just to to figure out where your people are and what they're expecting so Kay one of the things that you said to us early on was that you were surprised to find out how many folks responded positively to the online experience would you just say a couple words about that? Sure on the lover claim survey we ask specifically how have you experienced God have you experienced God in the same way or more with worshiping online or less and we found that about 75% of the people said that they experienced God in the same way or more than they had previously and so that was really encouraging for us to continue to do really good online worship. All right well thank you Kay and I appreciate the highlights that you brought with us and just showed us today and she does have all of those her survey available as well as some other options if you want to connect with her. All right our next presenter is Kim Hill and she's going to be talking about a checklist for reopening. Hi everyone I'm glad to have this opportunity to share some of the work we've been doing at Christ United. First of all I want to say that there's unfortunately no single checklist that's going to work for everyone so I am kind of giving you a broad brush of what you should be thinking about as you decide to reopen. The first thing is to create a task force that's focused on strategy and procedure. So you need to decide who you want on that task force, a facilities person for sure, probably hospitality, engagement, communications definitely, age level ministries because it's not just about opening worship it's about when to open everything and then decide how you want to or if you want to or when you want to involve lay committees, lay members in that process. So right now we meet and we have been for a long time we meet every week for at least a couple hours to talk about all the reopening issues. Next you'll want to if you have members who are working in the medical profession they're really helpful. It's good to kind of talk to them regularly and see where they are. They're a great resource for determining timing and policies and then Kay just talked about surveys and that surveys have been really helpful for us. We did our segmented and we did demographics and we found the same thing that Lovers Lane did that the older demographic and the younger with children aren't ready to come back yet and I'm happy to share that survey with anyone who would like it and you may want to consider doing surveying more than once because now we're into this almost four months and as we all know it's pretty fluid situation so opinions change throughout. Then you want to do research so we've actually had someone go to a couple of larger churches on Sunday that are already open not Methodist churches and walk through the whole Sunday morning process and that's been pretty enlightening. Gives you a lot of insight into what you probably do want to do and maybe what you don't want to do and there's lots of opportunity for that and then later on you'll hear from Kay Richardson about communicating and it's just vital that throughout this process you regularly communicate what you're doing as a staff to get to reopen because you know your congregation is wondering when how if so it's important to do that. The next piece is phasing and you know to me that's almost the most difficult piece to to come up with it's a kind of a logistical nightmare. Lanita is going to go through Richardson, first Richardson's phasing but you know you have to consider all the different groups you know you've got staff and small groups, mission work, child care preschool, Sunday school, weddings, memorial services, just facilities rental, your gym if you have one and worship and all of those may or may not be phased in at different times and then you have to define your parameters for reopening all those phases or all those groups is it the number of cases you know where do you start do you start with worship do you start with the groups and then identify factors that would result in you closing after you've opened beyond you know the bishop saying we have to close you may have other factors you want to consider and then going to worship which is yeah next slide is worship the determining a worship style so for a lot of us for almost four months we've really been you know refining our worship experience we haven't been you know live for an hour in a long time you know we get to do multiple takes lots of editing we're having some off-site fun this month and so would you suddenly go back to the usual one hour live for I don't know 100 200 people and you still have a thousand plus online expecting expecting what they've been receiving for the last four months do you do a hybrid do you do both so there has to be a really big conversation about that for sure calculating your worship capacity it's not as easy as it sounds you know you put the 36 square feet around every individual because most people don't come into the worship space as individuals so you'll have you know families of four families of two so you're going to have probably a wide range wide-ranging number so we can see our capacity is about 1800 but from our calculations it would be two to three hundred depending on size of family units so you need to make that calculation we've talked about a reservation system just for headcount you wouldn't actually have people you know show their ticket or their phone or whatever when they come to services but it would give you a good idea of headcount and if you're getting close to what capacity is then you have to decide if you're going to you know close the reservation system what i found in looking at other churches and talking to people who have been going to church that doesn't look like it's going to be a problem most people aren't getting close to their capacity even their reduced capacity um and then you have to talk about multiple services for our our sanctuary it will take us an hour and a half to clean the whole sanctuary so we'll need that much time between services if we decide to do multiple services maybe you go in slower and do one one service to begin with and just wait for that because it's you know that's a lot of work to have to clean that quickly singing that's a whole another issue and i know you'll have a whole webinar on that so you're going to have to decide the congregation singing people on the chancel are singing communion got to decide how you might want to do that mask we are planning to require mask for worship and how are you going to manage that you're going to have to decide who who will be the person or the people that will confront people in the sanctuary when they've decided to take their mask off we have signs up right now that say love your neighbor wear a mask so it's just that that's going to be a difficult piece of it and you know how do you do communion with a mask on is another another issue do you manage the parking lot um then you've got to think about ingress and egress how many doors do you have open do you dismiss by rows restrooms we visited one church that had their restrooms closed so which might not be a great idea but if you have your restroom open you have to have attendance in the restroom because they have to clean after every uh every every person that's in there and then really importantly is managing expectations because the people that will come the last time they were in your sanctuary things will have looked a whole lot different especially if you're going to be doing a showing a live stream on the screens and then to prepare you have to develop your Sunday morning policies and procedures so that's going to be a long list so it's all about seating and how you shepherd people through the building to keep them distance long list now and now you got to start recruiting and training so you'll be prepared and you need staff and volunteer participation guidelines a facilities hygiene protocol your facilities use policies need to be amended to account for cobit and all the things that need to be done with that the tracing system it's not something you're required to do but it seems like it would be the right thing to do to know who's in the building on Sunday morning i mean we know who's in the building all week long so we can trace that way but on a Sunday morning how will you do that you don't want pens that everyone's signing in you can use an app and have them do it that way you don't want them punching it in on the screen you need to revise your waivers if you haven't already done that no we won't have Sunday morning worshippers sign waivers but we do have anyone participating in mission work definitely signing waivers that contains the new cobit information and then signage so your communications team is going to be busy creating signage that does all the usual you know check check and make sure you don't have a temperature you don't you know have the symptoms you haven't been around somebody wash your hands i mean just there's so much signage that has to be done so i think i've gone way over my five minutes it's a lot of information thank you so much cam i appreciate it i mean that's slide is going to is made available to you as to the group as well our next presenter is lanita and she is from First United Methodist Church of Richardson she's going to be talking about stages and rolling out a plan thank you cammy um this is so much information as you all will see so moving into the phases as kim mentioned putting together a logistics team is really important and we did it very purposefully making sure that all areas of the church were represented and all demographics so different ages and life stages so that we had all voices heard um and then determining how you are going to move forward as kim mentioned is really important what are going to be the determining factors that will move you from step one to step two for um fum cr we've decided to be more data driven and not date driven and we're not going to move forward until we've seen flattened or declining numbers in dallas county so we started with step zero which is the buildings closed it was when we're shelter in place and we tried to list all the the major items that will need to be looked at from step to step and we chose to do it based on gathering size so the governor and all the cdc the guidelines from the beginning were um gathering size so we are currently in step one transitioning to step two but we are only allowing outside meetings and those are people are scheduling or reserving our parking lot so that's socially distanced with masks um we've had drive-thru parades we've had outdoor baptisms uh confirmation our conformance were baptized outside with lots of creativity um our senior pastor used a palm branch to baptize our conformance so he was able to be socially distanced and far apart we do not have staff on campus yet it's all uh essential staff only and then our school we have an onsite school that was scheduled to open yesterday but um even our government um government facilities are not in agreement of how things should work so we have the Texas Health and Human Services that had given us permission to open because we sorry let me back up we had teacher training and a case um someone tested positive just or had symptoms and um had to self-quarantine immediately following teacher training last week Texas Health and Human Services gave us permission to open on the 15th the Dallas County Department of Health um said everyone had to self-quarantine and so our school opening was pushed off an additional week but we're following all of the guidelines of the temperature checks and reduced class sizes and additional cleaning um all of that then our staff is not on campus yet we're slowly doing that um we have our welcome desk manned just beginning this week for deliveries only and essential staff are coming in um but that all of those guidelines will be put into place um as people enter the building we they're forced to go to one only one door uh temperature checks masks cleaning all of that so then we can move on to step two that is 25 people um we're just moving forward so cautiously our preschool is closed for the summer and it would not open until the fall anyways it follows risd um so staff and volunteers on campus we're just saying approval required socially distanced by appointment so we're not letting anyone into our facility yet we have a building across the street so the first group we wanted to support our support groups like a so they are the first group to be able to meet we're requiring um attendance be taken so that we'll know who's on campus uh it will be kept confidential but we're asking for them to uh follow all of the guidelines so whoever is the person in charge of the group they have to take that responsibility for the group to be meeting all of the requirements um outside organizations still just outside vehicle usage we don't know when our buses and golf carts will be used again the fitness center gym it's staff only right now very limited we said we'll follow the Richardson YMCA however they just opened yesterday so some you know this has to be so fluid where you'll have the best intention today and it could change tomorrow and so you know I encourage you to build a system that can move forward and backward easily um we are not do go don't plan to do any onsite meals or drinks that could be shared we're encouraging anyone that comes on campus to bring their own when they can come on campus so step three is pretty much the same it's just increased to 50 people step four is up to a hundred people step five over a hundred and then the new normal um but we are our senior pastor has been so supportive of acknowledging that whatever decision that you make it's going to be too soon for some and too light for others and just you know accepting that and doing the best that you can it's a lot of information right so most people are going to need to download that and take a look at it are you available for any questions Leneita if they want to email you directly at first absolutely all right um thank you so much for all of that work and showing us steps and I did think that I remember you saying that you also um had talked about you might be in step five but you might want to go back to step four or uh that it's fluid correct yes right thank you so much um Kaye Richardson is going to come up she is um going to speak to us she is from St. Andrew United Methodist Church and they have been discussing a communication strategy at their church that she's going to share thanks Kaye there we go so funny story I'm always teasing Robert Hasley about his technology you so I know you'll help me keep a secret that I accidentally clicked on his calendar invitation instead of my own today so I am Kaye Richardson and I'm so happy to be with all of you today and all of these strategies that you've heard the others speak to we've all been in this together and had the opportunity to share with one another and we are just as you all are going through this process and it seems like it's 2020 and every day we have something new right so we are moving along with our plans to reopen and the first thing that we did was inform our staff because we understand that they're going to be getting questions from all of those that know them the best in the church and so we wanted to make sure we gave them the tools they needed to be able to answer as many questions as possible and of course they can always refer to pastors and senior leadership for answers if they don't know them so last week we informed our staff that this past weekend our pastors would be making announcements in worship services are about our plans to reopen and they have done that and we are letting our congregation know all along the way as you've heard what is going on with our reopening strategies and we said at this point we are going to look at mid July for reopening so we let our staff know last week on Thursday our pastors made that announcement in worship live in all weekend services this past weekend and the next step we are doing just happened right before i got on this call we had a what we call town hall today with our entire staff and we pulled them into the sanctuary and we practiced on them we have put tape at the bottom of our pews right where you would sit down every two feet and so we had our leadership team be our ushers and greeters today as everyone came in and we seated them the way that we have worked through on our plans and then we explained to them the process that we've been going through the last three months we had a leadership task force we had a medical task force we met with our trustees twice we met with our staff parish and then we ultimately met with our executive committee who's planned all of our strategies that we've been in place and will be putting into place effective now so staff got to hear all of that today and that was such an important time that we spent with them this morning so that they felt informed for their own personal selves and knowing the safety precautions we're putting in place for them as well as our congregation and next week we will begin to make a series of videos that we will push out in all of our communication platforms so we will be sending by email a video of our pastors talking about our reopening strategies when that will be and what we expect that will look like we'll also put that on all social media platforms and it will as well be on the church website so that it's available 24 seven and we will continue to communicate these messages about our reopening every weekend until we get there one of the things that we think will find very valuable is having a preview weekend and we plan on doing that the weekend before we will actually be able to invite our congregation back and all those committees I just named to you we've let them know every step when we've been visiting with them that they're going to be our guests to come in and be our preview audience so that we can practice on them and some of them might be a little contankerous when they come to the door and they're asked to put on a mask and that way our volunteers and our staff will have a little practice by the time we're ready to really begin having our congregation come back in so that is kind of our process that we've been working through to this point the week right before we open after that preview weekend there'll be another email very detailed where we're setting expectations this isn't the new normal we don't want this to be normal it's just new and so that's the way we will discuss that with our videos that are going out in all of our platforms for communication this is new and this will be phase one of new we don't know when phase two will come but we will continue to communicate that with you and oh by the way as everyone has said we could go back to having the church have to close down again depending upon what happens and so what we have decided to do is communicate to our congregation that we have three sanctuary work worship services that we will be reopening one is on a Saturday evening and it will have an in-person focus we will still live stream it like we are now but the congregation that's there will be our focus on Sunday morning it will be more of a live audience type experience and we are shooting special videos so that when people come in we will be able to tell them what to expect there may be some musical pieces that will be filmed and they will be shown during that service but they won't be live in the venue with them and so just as our musicians and our musical staff have been so creative during this process we hope that that will continue and that might mean that they'll be seeing some taped pieces so we're going to communicate all of those type things before people arrive as well as all of the three major initiatives that we all know are so important we're a mask and that's going to be mandatory we will require everyone coming in to use hand sanitizer and we will ask them all to social distance so our communication strategy is just that we're doing it as often as we can to stay in touch and let people know what our plans are and i'll just add on to what kim said with our sanctuary we can typically see 1600 we think we'll be doing good to get about 300 so that kind of gives you an idea of the difference in how much the social distancing is really really going to matter we laugh and say we hope we have lots of families of six because we'll be able to get more in instead of lots of individual single people right so that is our strategy right now on communication and just as all of these things we know it's probably going to change by this time next week thanks so much kim okay sorry for offering all that information i think as we move into the next part of our of what we're offering today i'd like to talk a little bit about a piece that don underwood has done called keeping the five audiences connected and this is a little bit of a of a shout out we are in the process of host getting ready to host him to do a webinar on keeping these five audiences connected that these are the new audiences that have have come to be because of COVID-19 so i'm just going to go over these very quickly but i also want to just invite you to watch for the upcoming webinar that i think he'll be able to do a little more deeply so there are five audiences that are now a part of our churches highly engaged and the unafraid and those are going to be the ones that come to our houses of worship no matter what decision we make and when they say it's time to open they are going to be there at the high opening so that's the first audience our second audience is the highly engaged but cautious this is that audience that will return more slowly and in sputters and depending on the degree of confidence they will feel about safety and health and they'll start returning cautiously the next group is the highly engaged who will potentially never return or rarely return and really this audience oftentimes are our our seniors they're but not entirely they are they have good reason to have some anxiety about being out in public they have experienced the the effectiveness of our digital worship experiences and this may change the way that they engage our facilities and the local church and that forever so that group is a very important group and i'll go on to say what the next group is and make a couple more comments sorry go back the next group is the less engaged and you know that's a lot of of our membership they feel a great affection for the church they call the church this our church their church but they are not as engaged and they may have gotten even less engaged during this period of time and that's just one of the realities and then the last is the newly reached and it's possible that our online worship services have reached new people and have reinvigorated a less engaged group and so you know it's important to remember that these persons now feel very connected and and i think one of the things that when i was listening to don underwood speak about this is that we have to really be aware that all of these audiences are very important audiences for us to continue to engage and that we don't want to make a mistake by leaving some of these groups behind as we think about returning back to our buildings they are important to the viability of our churches the financial viability of our churches the spiritual viability of our churches and their staying connected to them is absolutely important so part of what i just wanted you to have a taste of is a piece that he is going to be doing that really talks about keeping engaged with all of these different audiences and continuing to have strong relationships with them so that you will continue to have viability in your churches so i'm going to stop with that i know that there are some questions but we're going to take the questions at the end of the time because i'd like us to move over to our small groups and my plan is to have the small groups be for about 25 minutes we have small group leaders that are going to be leading these groups and you'll have an opportunity to engage each of the topics and share your also your experiences in your knowledge as well as the leaders are going to help with the content so i thank you all i think if it's take a few minutes and i'll let mariel put everybody into groups we'll begin that particular component thank you thank you to all the speakers as well some questions or in comments if anybody has something that they'd like to put in the chat you can go ahead and do that kami while they're working on that some of the ones that came in earlier were questions about contract contact tracing and letting local officials know how do we respect HIPAA laws and let alert possibly exposed individuals if any of our presenters want to comment on that okay um so i don't know that we are under any legal obligation to notify anyone if we find out someone who was here had it it's more for us it's because the person it's my understanding that the when the person's diagnosed they actually have to reveal everyone they've been in contact with it's it's their responsibility and of course we can't give any names i mean even for staff if someone on staff was diagnosed we wouldn't be able to tell the other staff members who it was right and they're all going to figure it out i'm sure but so we just want to be able to know who was in the building so that when someone comes to us and says i need to you know give this information that we were able to do that we're able to share that information i mean i would want to know you know if i were exposed but i don't i have not seen that it is a you know legal reporting obligation kim can you also speak to i think you said you had waivers that you guys put together can you yeah i just sent a message yeah i just sent a message to kelly and i'm going to send the waiver to her as soon as we're done here and y'all want to figure out where you want to put that but i'm happy to share okay there's a similar question i see andy just answered it again kevin strunke had posted about church liability and andy's responses that jody is working on some of those details so well the next slide will be our ntc.org resource page if you're not already very familiar with it um that's where we put content as soon as we were able to have it and distribute it so it's a good first place to look for things like that um what does cleaning between services look like solutions types of wipes vacuuming is a different than our regular cleaning kim you want to speak to that yeah um so for us it looks like our right now it's going to be our custodial service coming in with you know backpacks of whatever spray stuff they decided wouldn't hurt the pews and would dry fastest um i don't know what that is our facilities director knows what that solution is um because you know you think well it's it's every other pew so why don't you just if you're going to do two services the pews that are blocked off the first service you just swap them out but you can't do that because somebody might have touched you know the back of the back of the other so you got to spray everything um so yeah that's essentially what we're going to do is just spray the place down that's the fastest way to do it you can't i mean the sanctuary our slides you can't wipe it down it would take forever and yeah i don't know what the name of the solution is that we're using but i can find that out okay thank you any other questions i didn't understand the call i didn't understand the comment that you can't tell the rest of the staff if a member of the staff becomes ill you can't give their name it's it violates their it violates HIPAA requirements yeah HIPAA doesn't cover us it's another patient they're not patients HIPAA only covers medical medical providers and their patients doesn't apply to us i'm not gonna i'm not gonna tell other staff members that which staff person has has covid i think that's personal private information so don't you think they deserve to know if they had contact with that staff member i'll tell them they had contact with a staff member that has been diagnosed they don't have to know which one all they have to know is they've been in contact with a staff member who has been diagnosed okay i suppose that's your prerogative um i want there's a couple of questions coming in the chat one of them is about different places people have sourced and we've had that on another call and i think there's a list and so um if it hasn't been put together i will try to source that list of places resources people are finding for cleaning supplies and information about them um and then the next one is um any mandatory requirements about closing in person worship if we find out someone had symptoms or a positive test and then anyone through a worship service has been exposed that's not my understanding you have to close but you have to clean we don't have those requirements listed on our website we would like for you to use wisdom um and your own leadership agency to make the right decision i i did have a pastor or church leader ask me what so what if someone does get come down with the virus what what would we do and and i said well my recommendation would be that you close for two weeks that that um i mean i realized that there's a difference in the population and those kinds of things in the northwest district but but if one of the churches that had 50 people in worship and one person came down with it and the way they congregate after church i would say we need to close down for two weeks at least you can see if anybody develops it so so i think you're right can you get a user your wisdom and but but anyway i know it's hard to close down a church with a thousand people in worship right well it's um it is time for us to close down um i think we were supposed to end at 3 30 so i'd like to be able to just stop for a minute and say thank you so much to all of our presenters today um once again you can go on our website and and to our coronavirus resources um and it's also under latest news uh you can also uh we'll take a minute you can cut and paste um the our presentation from today and that's in our chat at the very beginning um as well as the resources that we used that had the i believe had the checklist and also the rolling out plan um so that you can use them for your own resources thank you all for your faithful leadership appreciate so much the work you do at the local church whether you be a layperson a pastor someone on staff i really appreciate all that you're doing to be faithful at this time and to our presenters thank you for the resource that you brought today you have blessed us and we appreciate it so much you know god bless you all


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We'll come back to our lecture series math 1050 college algebra for students at Southern Utah University As usual, I'll be your professor today. Dr. Andrew Mistledine. This brings us to the final section We have about polynomials in our series at the end of Chapter four here and what we've been spending a lot of time talking about factoring polynomials But the last thing I want to talk about in this in this unit here on polynomial functions is Multiplying them because factoring is a challenging process but multiplying can be a little bit difficult as well And so in preparation to the so-called binomial theorem, I want to introduce to you the binomial coefficients So what are these? So first let me remind you if you don't are just tell you if you don't know Let's talk about the factorial function So in factorial if you have a whole number a positive whole number in factorial is defined to be in times In minus one times in minus two times in minus three all the way down to three two one So you stick the product of all the numbers from one up to n So for example seven factorial is equal to one times two times three times four times five times six times seven That's that's this number right here. This is this seven factorial in factorial Now it's the product of one up until the number if it's a positive number if the number is actually zero zero Factor we define to be one And we'll make some more sense of why that is in a little bit People sometimes think that zero factor should be zero because shouldn't you be times it by zero? But you can't multiply from one up to zero because zero is actually less than it Zero factor we define to be one and the basic idea behind is what is a factorial? You think of it is how many ways can I line up children to go to the drinking fountain in kindergarten? When you're in kindergarten being the line leader is a big deal So whose first seat matters so if you have for example like five kids in this very small class That have to have to line up well basically you have five options Who's gonna be the line leader then the next slot there's gonna be four options right there because well? You know who's in next in line is matters because I mean they'll be the line leader tomorrow They'll be the first one to get the drink tomorrow. So status is a big deal here So you have five options for the first kid But the second kid there's four options because you don't pick whoever the line leader is Do you have three options for the next one two options for the next one and then one option for the next one Right here. So this right here is five factorial. There are five factorial ways, which is 120 There's five factorial ways of lining up five kids to go get a drink of water saying kindergarten now Coming to back to zero factorial. What if you have no kids in the law? There's no kids that came Maybe because they all stayed home for the coronavirus or something like that I don't know but if you have no kids then how many options do you have well? It turns out you might think like there's no options But when someone says there's no option what they really mean is there's one option no choice When someone says no choice that actually means there's just one option Choice would mean that you have a diversity of options and you can pick between them. So you have one option So lining up zero kids. There's only one option there and so that means zero factorial is gonna be one So the little of explanation there, okay So what do factorials have to do with our binomial theorem? Well, we're now going to introduce what we call the binomial coefficient So this is denoted as in over r. It's kind of like a fraction, but there's no fraction bar It's gonna be blank right there in over r, but we do put parentheses around it. That's mandatory This symbol right here is called the binomial coefficient and it's defined to be in factorial divided by our factorial and in minus our Factorial so why is that? Well, let's do a few examples of this So when you see this binomial coefficient you read this as three choose Three choose one because this is about choosing things. I'll talk about more than just a second So three choose one is gonna be three factorial over one factorial times two factorial notice that two plus one equals three So three factorial looks like three times two times one one factorial is just a one and two factorial is two times one So you always get this nice Cancellation here. You're gonna get two cancels one cancels. So you left with you're gonna be left with three over one Which is just a three So three choose one turns out to be the number three. I'll explain again some meaning to this in just a second If you did like in choose one factorial, what that would look like is in factorial over one factorial times n minus one factorial well in factorial looks like n times n minus one times n minus two All the way down to three times two times one one factorial is just a once a divide by one really doesn't do anything But then in one in minus one factor will be in minus one times in minus two All the way down to three two and one and so you can see there's a lot of cancellation here The one cancels the two cancels the three cancels the in minus two cancels the in minus one cancels Basically everything cancels out except for the in on top and the one on bottom What's division by one again doesn't do anything you need you're gonna get in right here and So this is a nice little thing you can simplify in choose one is always going to be in If we did for example for choose two this one's a little bit interesting calculation here For choose two looks like four factorial over two factorial and two factorial two plus two is equal to four The sum on the bottom should add up to be the number on top So four factorial it looks like four times three times two times one two factorial is two times two times one And we get it twice So that will cancel the two factorials and then the one divided by one doesn't ever do anything now two does go into four Two times and so in the end this gives us a two times three, which is equal to six Something that's interesting about these binomial coefficients is that even though there's division This thing will always turn out to be a whole number no matter what it'll always be a whole number look at six choose three For example, you get six factorial over Three factorial and three factorial one trick I want to show you is the following six factorial is the same thing as six times five times times four times three Factorial three factorial of course is three times two times one And then you have a three factorial bottom the notice that they're always gonna have a bigger factorial on top versus a smaller Factorial and so you could always factor the number on top using a factorial and so those factorials will cancel out So picking the bigger of the two factorials if there was one you can cancel that out So now we have a six times five times four over three times two times one now We have to look for numbers will notice three times two is six. So if you take three times two That'll cancel the six on top and we're left with five times four, which is going to equal 20 And so this is evidence here that this these binomial coefficients always turn out to be whole numbers You can always cancel all devices on the bottom here now if you take in in choose in right This is gonna look like in factorial over in factorial times zero factorial in which case the in factorials cancel out You're left with zero factorial Which we don't want this to be divisible. We don't want to divide by zero, but zero factor is not zero It's one so this is one over one which is equal to one On the other hand if you look at in choose zero right here This is going to turn out to be in factorial over Zero factorial times in factorial notice here that in fact or still cancels you get one over one One over zero factorial again, which is just one. So there's these numbers turned out to be the same thing So let me give you some explanation about these these binomial coefficients Now one thing that we just observed is the following that if you have the if you have for example In choose R. This is the same thing as in factorial over our factorial times in minus our factorial Which is the same thing as in factorial over in minus our factorial times our factorial Which is the same thing as and choose in minus R So if you swap the number so notice that R and in minus R add up to be R If you switch the number on the bottom to its complement there, you always get the same thing This is why in choose in and in choose zero turned out to be the same number because zero plus n equals in if I were to do something like Seven choose two. I know that this is going to equal seven choose five because five and two both add up to be seven We know those things right there. So that's a pretty nice observation Another thing I want to mention about these binomial coefficients here is that the binomial coefficient in choose R This is equal to the number the number of ways of Choosing of choosing our objects from a collection of n objects So for example, we go back and look at these numbers when I look at something like three choose one If I have three options in front of me if I have strawberry ice cream chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream I have to choose one flavor to eat. I have three options I could choose strawberry chocolate or vanilla, right? Those are the options. So three choose one is three in choose one If I have in options and I have to choose one of them Then there are in ways of doing that you just pick the option you want now If you have if you have more choices to make it gets a little bit more complicated if you have four objects And you have to choose two of them. There are six ways you can choose those two objects Or if there's six options and you have to choose three There are 20 ways of choosing three things from six If you take up if you have in choose in many objects, you have in objects You have to choose all in of them. There's only one way to do that. It's to choose everything If you have in object and you have to choose none of them There's only one way to do that. It's to choose none of them. So you have one option This next number right here 52 choose five like if you're playing a card game And you have to deal out hands of five five cards from a standard deck of 52 There's going to be 52 choose five ways you can deal out a hand and that's going to be 2,598,960 So if you're a card playing individual And you like to play by the odds This is a number critical to help you determine the odds of getting certain hands and things like that On the other hand, if you have five choose 52, what is that going to be? How in the world can you choose 52 objects from a set of five? That's not possible So this number turns out to be zero in that case If we write again that formula I had on the screen in choose r versus In choose in minus r Why are these two numbers the same thing because if you have in objects and you have to choose r of them By choosing r of them there were in minus r that you didn't choose And so choosing though like so let's say you're playing like a dodge ball game Right, you have to choose which of the in kids Which r of them are we going to choose to be on our dodge ball team? Well by choosing the r people to be on your team Essentially, that's the same thing as choosing the in minus r kids to not be on your team And if you've ever been that kid who didn't get selected to play dodge ball Then you know exactly that by not being chosen. You're actually chosen, right? You're chosen for something different. Sorry for that that very sad metaphor right there And so if we asked want to ask ourselves the question how many different committees of three people can be formed from a pool of seven people So we have to choose three people from seven That's going to be the number seven choose three And so by construction that's going to be seven factorial over three factorial divided by four factorial So seven factorial seven times six times five times four factorial Three factorial of course is three times two times one And then you have a four factorial on the bottom the four factorials will always cancel out here And then three times two cancel out with a six And so you get seven times five Which is 35 there are 35 possible committees That we could form by choosing three people from seven so we can compute these binomial coefficients using Uh these factorials now a way that's a little bit more convenient with respect to the binomial coefficient As we can to compute them recursively using a number array called pascal's triangle And i'm not talking about pascal from disney's movie tangled. It's not a chameleon here We're talking about the mathematician scientist basal pascal This is a recursive number a recursive triangle numbers that follows that is constructed by the following pattern So you start off with the number one then the next row is you're going to have a one and a one So you have two ones and every time you draw a new row it always starts and ends with ones So the first number and the last number is a one your bookends are ones So how do you construct all the subsequent numbers in the middle? So so you start off with a one you end with a one How do you get the two two is the sum of the two previous numbers above it? So one plus one is two So for the second for the third row here, you're going to then take one plus two, which is three And you're going to take two plus one, which is three Okay for the next row you're going to take one plus three, which is four You're going to take three plus three, which is six You're going to take three plus one, which is four for the next row You're going to take you start off with a one you're going to get one plus four, which is five You're going to get four plus six, which is 10 You're going to get six plus four, which is 10 and you're going to get four plus one, which is five right here One thing you should note with pascal's triangles that each row is a palindrome It's the same forward is backwards one five ten ten five one then I read that left to right or right to left You'll never know If we wanted to do the next row we can we can construct this recursively start off with a one One plus five is six five plus ten is 15 10 plus 10 is 20 and then it's going to repeat itself now 10 plus five is 15 five plus one is six And then you get a one the next row would be one one plus six is seven Six plus five is 21 Five 15 what did I say a six plus 15 is 21 15 plus 20 is 35 20 plus 15 is 35 15 plus six is 21 six plus one is seven and then you know one So that's just like we said here. We can keep on going going going going going when you look at pascal's triangle I should mention that since they always start off with a one you index the rows actually by the next number you see So this is actually considered the first row. This is the second row This is the third row and this is the fourth row etc So with referencing the rows you always go down that way Okay, uh, and so and so technically speaking This is the zero with row because there's no number right there And then as you go down the rows if you go through columns, this will always start off with the zero position This will be the first position the second position the third position and the fourth position So if you're out the nth row you're going to go from the zero spot zero one two three four five six seven you should always end with n The number you're on right now So we give an address to every number in this triangle and thus we're going to identify the numbers in the triangle with binomial coefficients So this right here is the zero zero position. That's zero choose zero This will be the one zero position. That's one choose zero. This is going to be the one one position That's one choose one. This will be the one or the two zero position. This is the two one position This is the two two position that actually means it's two two zero two choose one and two two two So what one can show is that this recursively constructed pascal's triangle gives us the binomial coefficients And so we can actually compute the binomial coefficients recursively Using pascal's triangle. So notice on the previous slide right We showed that seven choose three was equal to 35. Let's look on the triangle seven choose three We're going to get zero one two three. This number right here is seven choose three It's the seventh row third position seven choose three. That's not a coincidence We can compute the binomial coefficients using pascal's triangle. It's a very nice tool if you want to get them without the factorials


I'm doing my own hair and makeup today for an acting gig because often in non-union jobs, you're asked to come to set camera ready, which means you're doing your hair, you're doing your own makeup, and you're arriving to set in the outfit that you will be filming in. For the wardrobe instructions, they said business casual, jeans and a nice shirt or a sweater. So I'm going to bring a few different options as well as wear this to set because I think they're going to go for this. It's pretty neutral, a nice green color, jeans makes it casual, and then the top, I don't necessarily have to tuck it in, but I can. And hopefully not everybody brings green because usually a lot of people will bring blue to set. So I try to bring blue because production usually likes it as well as a few other colors. I just arrived to set and today is actually considered a half day even though I'm only here for about two hours. My call time is 12.30. I'm released by 2.30, so I'm taking all of my wardrobe and my hair and makeup stuff and my computer in case there's downtime. I got this job through my agency, but also through Aura Casting, which if you are in the United States in general really, it's an online casting company and they get jobs for all over. I've seen some in Colorado, I think last month they had one in Florida and most of them I've seen are in the Bay Area in LA and I believe that's because Aura started out in the Bay. Just got released from set. I wasn't able to film very much because it was an extremely small crew and we were running a little late at the beginning. It was great. One scene, easy. It's 2.05, so I actually got released early, right? I got here, my call time was 12.30. I think they just, they said that I would be here for two hours just in case, but we filmed my scene in less than an hour because we got called onto set one o'clock and then we did a wide and then a close-up of each person. Pretty good day. Oh my gosh, I basically got paid to work for like an hour, which is amazing. And this is a training video, so it would only be used internally. And so I got a flat rate. It was a buyout because it's going to be used internally. But now I have a bunch of time so we can do today's scene. Maybe I can go Christmas shopping, but I have stuff in my car and I don't want to leave it in the car and get broken into. So I have the rest of the day off because I took off the entire day to do this gig from my day job because you never know. Even if they say it's going to be half a day or you're only going to be there two hours, they can be running late, something can be wrong with the set, whatever. I just always take the entire day off. Before I do today's self-tape practice, I'm going to take a picture in this shirt because my agents in Arizona, I have new representation in Arizona and they would like me to get headshots. So my agents are helping me pick out outfits for my headshots. I'm doing three looks and they want to see if this is going to be one of them. I don't think they're going to like it with this undershirt, but if I don't wear an undershirt, you can see a lot. But I get with the vibe that they're going for because they did send me a lot of options that had a puffy sleeve and was very feminine. I believe I know the look they're going for. It's like puffy sleeve, feminine, delicate-esque. And this shirt I think might work as long as I'm photographed like this because if we get any lower, it just gets a little exposed. So I'm going to send them a picture of this one too. I don't like how the pictures are coming out in my bathrooms. So I moved into my office. These pictures are going to look so much better with backdrops. Not that it really matters because these are just photos of my clothes for my headshots, but still, I don't want to send in like bad photos. I'm going to email these to myself and then edit them into one canva so that they can see all of the images in one photo versus having to download each image and compare it. And I want to show you what they asked me to send because it was such a good idea. When I've worked with agents or photographers on figuring out what I'm going to wear for headshots, they will ask me to send in some wardrobe options. And what I usually do is put it on so that they know what I look like. But at this time, this agency asked me to send pictures of my clothes flat on the ground. And so they see all of the color pants and length that I have and all of the shirts and the sweaters. So here are pants, shirts. These are like fun personality shirts, I would say, for fun, for like commercial shots. And then all my sweaters and jackets that I have. This is more businessy, business casual. And you can see this pink shirt right here. And I told them, I'm happy to buy more things if you think whatever I have is not right. And the links that they sent me were almost all like puffy shirts, which is why I ended up taking a picture with this shirt because I think at the right angle, it can definitely be used for fun commercial shots. Here are the pictures that I was taking in the bathroom. And then here are the pictures I took in my office with the seamless backdrop. And this is what I sent over for my agents to approve for headshots, which I know they're not going to like the pink one now that I put it on, because I also haven't found the right shirt to wear under it. That'll actually make the shirt look good. The white one, I think they'll go for. I'm doing work on my computer. Typically I would self submit, but because of the holidays, there's not too much work. I usually self submit for LA. And then my agents in San Francisco submit me for there and my agents in Arizona submit me for there. So it's a bit slow because it's December and typically a lot of things are already coming out or people are on vacation for the holidays. So because of that, I am doing a self tape every day. It's an either a TV show where the episode is Christmas themed or it's a Christmas movie. And what I'm doing with that is that I'm doing self tape practice every day. So if I don't get a lot of auditions, like I typically don't in December, then I can still have some practice and have some fun. And I set myself up for success because I'm putting a 15 minute timer and then preparing the scene or monologue. And when that timers up, it's time to film something. Before I do that, I'm just checking my email. And I got an email from a filmmaker that I actually met in the summer at a film festival at the Brave Maker Film Festival in Redwood City. And we were on a workshop together. So we actually got to work together and she got to see me act. And so she was like, hey, I would love to do a short film with you. And she sent me the script. And so now we are setting up a meeting for like a week and a half from now to go over the details and see how we can do this. This production is going to be pretty small because it's about a page. I'm the only actor in the film and the settings are a car and a bar. So it's time to do the self tape. I don't have a reader today. If whatever is in door number four is a scene, but I had a couple people reach out to me because they watch the vlog saying, hey, if you want a reader, I'm here. Thank you so much. You are so sweet. I'm going to try and get organized so I can actually take you guys up on it because right now it's like, I don't even know what time I'm going to film it because I was doing so many random things. So I'm going to try and organize it so I can like plan it with one of you guys and actually do a self tape instead of being like, hey, I'm ready. Are you ready? And you're like in the middle of dinner. Let's see what's in door number four. Bad Santa. I love this movie. This movie is so fun. The script for this is a monologue. It's a monologue. So this is the monologue where I don't know the character names, even though I watch it like once a year. They're at the mall. The guy that hired bad Santa is telling maybe like the mall manager or something that he caught the Santa doing it in the dressing room. But this monologue is a bit, I mean, not super lengthy, but definitely the longest that I've done so far. I'm really excited to prefer this one. I'm going to do a timer on my phone today. I put a six 15 minute timer. So let's go. I'm going to keep this shirt on. I feel like maybe somebody would wear this to their office job. I have 24 seconds on my timer. So I didn't even get a chance to get up and play with it standing. But here are my two takes that I want to do. Do one take where the character is religious and worried about the kids and the innocence of the kids and they shouldn't even be around somebody like that. And then the other take is going to be like a raunchy person talking to their friend who also works at the mall and they're trying to conspire against this nasty guy to try and get him fired.  Maybe she's a little gross. Maybe she's a little jealous that she's not the one. So let's try it. I actually almost have it memorized. I think I mixed up like two or three lines. But I basically have it memorized. I have it right here on my phone. Take two. Okay. I think I almost got it. One more. Take five for this version. Oh my gosh. That's so close. It just feels so close. I'm going to try and do it again and not try to be word perfect or look at the script. Okay. Let's do the other one. Let's do the one where I'm like a gross girl. Okay. That one was fun. But I need to remember that maybe I'm into him. Which part? Take seven or eight.  Let's do it again. Okay. One more. One last one. I keep wanting to do just one more. Okay. Let's just do one more. That was really fun. And I almost memorized it word perfect just by playing around with it. So that made it even more fun. I'm realizing that having the script gets me out of it a little bit. But anyways, that was super fun. Here are the two best takes and I'll see you tomorrow. A couple of days ago, I was in the woman's big and tall and I heard these, the woman screaming and she was like, oh yeah. And then I heard his voice and he was like, you ain't gonna SAJT right for a month. Oh, but don't get me wrong. I was against the Clinton impeachment. Whatever a man does with his penis, you know, it's not for the American people to say. But when you're dealing with children, they have a tender sensibility. And you're in the position of trust. I just, I don't feel that, you know, a person who has screaming orgasms with a large woman should, anyways. But of course I can't fire him for that. But I just can't help it. Something about the guy just makes me feel uneasy. So maybe there's something I could fire him for. Do you think you can find something? Oh my God. The other day I was in the woman's big and tall and I heard these, you know, these noises. I heard a woman, she was screaming and she was like, oh yeah. And he was like, that's right. You ain't gonna SAJT right for a month. I mean, don't get me wrong. I was against the Clinton impeachment. Whatever a man does with his own penis, oval office, woman's big and tall, it's not for the American people to say. But when you're dealing with children, they have a tender sensibility. And you're in the position of trust. You know, I just don't think that men who have screaming orgasms with large women should. But of course I can't fire him for that. But I just can't help it. There's something about the guy that makes me feel uneasy. So maybe there's something I could fire him for. Maybe you can find something?


Yo y'all should boy down from the down showing friends and we back to under the k-pop reaction. I'll check this out today We're gonna do XO the Eve dance practice. Okay, so we're gonna be checking that out today and now need that I got some news for y'all. So check this out. This was gonna be going down I am going to be officially going fully active on my patreon for y'all I'm gonna be doing some music videos for y'all the performance of choreography videos But these videos will have literally possibly no edits and the music will be able to be turned up Because when I put things on YouTube, I have to make a lot of adjustments just for y'all to get this video without getting blocked So if you would like to join my patreon, I will put that in the description for y'all So music videos all the ones you've been wanting me to watch and I didn't watch yet because I keep getting blocked Going to comments right now Send me your list and we're gonna get it cracking starting tomorrow But you will have to join my patreon only because the fact that you too Just keep giving me copyright strikes and I really don't want to get this page Deleted you know I'm saying you never know what they be on but please hit the like button share ring that bell and yeah And also you also get to see some of my exclusive dance projects that I came up with on YouTube as well All right, so let's get into this y'all. Let's watch this and you like my new necklace. Look what I got So my friend she went to this festival and found this and every time I walk It's like Isn't that tight, okay, let's get into this video y'all. All right, here we go and three two One I like how we going. I like where we going already I like where we going already very smooth very simple Startup, you know what I'm saying kept a real simple But very sharp and clean How do I know check out the the angles of their bodies? How sharp they hidden this? Yeah Very clean now. Let's see what they do. Okay Work the floor Yeah, oh Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Yes This choreography to me when you get this style. I call it breeding I Call it breathing. It's like you get a chance to like let the movement breathe It's not a lot of thousand moves happen all at once It's movement that you kind of let breathe and they really showcase that in this video Because even when you listen to the song, there's a lot of Let you breathe let's go Hey That's see see see see let no movements breathe a little bit. Yes Now when you get those type of videos being done, right and those music videos and the choreography videos and the concert, right? It makes the crowd go crazy When you're doing moves like this where you letting it actually breathe You're really getting a chance for the audience to go crazy right here. You know I'm saying now When you doing movements like that, you want to really work your body with that You want to really get this flow in your body You want to get that flow because that's where the focus is that and I'm only going by the choreography Is that that's where they focus that if you look at their core look at the chest and stomach and of course I know fans y'all going crazy right now when y'all saw this video, but the movement that's what he was supposed to do It was supposed to make you go crazy Let's go simple ripple keep it simple Yeah And so many things could have been done right there too like that part right there It's how I took choreographers that put this together, but it was so crazy right there because they could have added slides They could have anything this is a dangerous type of choreography Like I know this part running over ones like five six years ago I think but this choreography is already really good still. This is a real good choreography Let's go did y'all see that This was nice Little something simple right here. Wow That was very well put together. I have nothing to say they put that together Now if you want to know what style that they was using it was dealing with waving You know, we talked about in the videos before kind of using the wave is in the flow of their level change NSYNC NSYNC NSYNC Let's go. Oh, and it hit the beam beam nice Let's go It's a very smooth choreography. I'm really actually joining this choreography I would have enjoyed doing this one, especially this part. I would have had everybody screaming Let's go and see those moments right there You could really you can put a more lean into it You know I'm saying like you can lean in that you can put more weight on the On the outside, you know, if you're if you're grinding right here, you go lean with that You know Sam put that on the put on the right leg You lean over here put that on the left so you can make this go ahead and put it work The choreographer knew what they was doing when he put this together like for real for real Like this is good and this is what five or six years ago. Come on and at the time you I think about the style and what was like really popping in choreography and Just to see how young they are now. Let me ask her this are these are to sit Everybody that's in this group right now far as artists. Are they still in the same? This is everybody still this is still the same group. I just want to see that real quick I just want to see how they how they How they pivot that and land it I just it's for me. That's this part is for me. Hold on y'all I just want to see this. Oh so Switch and spin one more time. This is for me.  I'm not even really doing this for y'all This part I'm doing for me. Hold on. I Just want to see how they Go all the way down switch the leg then set up the spin. Got it. Okay. Let's get back to it. Hey What you gonna do here?  How old was this five years ago? They're not the same they're not the same It's so good to watch the old videos because of the fact that I kind of I want to be able to see How far they came you know what I mean like you already know this group of some killers like I have videos Proving that they're on my reaction channel right now, but I love to go back and see what they done But this was absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing. So what do you think about this video when it came out? What was your thoughts about this and at this time of choreography? Let me let it be known better be known That that was the style We thought the hands and the movements that was really a style with the choreography world really is go back five years Go watch videos watch the dance group back then. You'll see on time up Definitely not the same world right now when it comes to dancing great song to really really got a vibe really really give me that R&B Really give me that R&B big time. So listen with this video. Yes, it will be on YouTube But exclusively it'll be on patreon. This will be it be a more raw It'll be more louder You can get to hear the music and then you probably go see no cuts on the one that you probably watching right now on YouTube probably got some cuts to it because YouTube is on some trash right now, but listen y'all I got more videos to do for y'all. I love and appreciate y'all for the amazing support y'all do to this page all Over 20,000 of y'all. I love y'all. I thank y'all so much. I see you next video peace