The Team: Nate Klan
Apr 13, 2009 Print This Post
It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to highlight another Riv team member. Today, I want to introduce you to Nate Klan.
I have literally known Nate his entire life. His big brother was my best friend and Nate arrived on the scene when we were in High School. You can ask him about ways we tortured him, but suffice it to say we were cruel.
Years later, when Nate was in High School, I ended up serving as his Youth Pastor. He became instrumental in putting together sets and staging on a none existent budget for us. But oh man, was it a mess. We’d have extension cords mazed all over the place, work lights hooked up to dimmers (bad idea) which Nate himself had wired (even worse idea).
Fast forward a decade and now Nate is doing the very same things for Riv, but at a much higher level. He does all the set design and lighting schemes for our weekend services. He actually has a budget now and while it’s not a lot of money, he can always create something cool with it.
I’m honestly not sure how Nate holds down a full-time job, takes care of his wife and kid, and volunteers so much time to the church, but he does it. And he doesn’t complain…his attitude is consistently spectacular, even when I throw him a last minute curve ball (which is often).
Check out Nate’s blog to see what he’s up to and see a behind the scenes look at the set design at Riv. You can also find him on Flickr.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
You are far too kind.
There are at least a dozen individuals who have stepped up to volunteer with me on these projects, without their help the work would be nigh impossible.