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Engineer Richard Chappell has been at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios for over 15 years -- and he's spent seven of them working on Gabriel's latest solo album.
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Peter Gabriel fans have had to wait 10 years for a solo album proper to follow 1992's Us. Last year, their man finally obliged with a new collection of songs, Up, joking that "Old men take a little longer to get 'up'," and adding, "Starting is always easy... finishing is harder." Gabriel also noted that "Speed is not my strength: diversions are," and it should be pointed out that he has worked on several other projects in the meantime, most notably Ovo (2000), the music from his Millennium Dome show, and Long Walk Home (2002), his score for the film Rabbit-proof Fence. Nevertheless, 10 years is a long time by anyone's standards.
Up's CD booklet contains some hints of the gargantuan amount of work that went into its making, with 10 engineers and assistant engineers credited, and half a dozen recording locations across the world mentioned. The average amount of musicians credited per track is about 12 (counting bands and orchestras as one), with people doing things like 'groove treatment', 'tape scratching', 'loop manipulation,' 'Spectre programming', 'Supercollider programming', and so on. Apart from Gabriel himself, however, only one other person was there during entire period of the album's making: engineer Richard Chappell, "on whose shoulders," according to Gabriel, "this record has been built."
Chappell has worked at Real World, Gabriel's prestigious and pioneering recording complex near Bath, since joining as a 17-year-old teaboy in 1987. He's followed the usual route from teaboy to tape-op, assistant engineer and engineer, being taught by the legendary David Bottrill, who was Gabriel's regular engineer until he
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I talked to Richard Chappell in the Writing Room, also nicknamed the garden shed, which is a glass and wooden building sheltered by trees and located a few hundred yards from the main Real World studio complex. "Peter made the decision for this album to get out of the production room in the main studio building and make the Writing Room his base," Chappell explained, adding that it offers privacy and the freedom to have the equipment set up as he pleases. "Whenever he walks in, his mic and his keyboards are always live so he can just sit down and play and work."
The Up album began life in the spring of 1995, when Chappell and Gabriel set off to a place called Meribel in the French Alps, where they rented a local chalet. "We achieved a lot there because there were no distractions," Chappell enthused. "We did a lot of writing, and a lot of snowboarding. It's a dream way of working, up in the mountains every day. It was very inspiring and made Peter very happy. We generally worked at night time, which was tiring, because we'd be exhausted from jumping around and running around the mountain by day."
Other than guitarist David Rhodes, who "came in at the beginning to jam along and play," only Chappell and Gabriel were present during this initial period. They worked for two months in Meribel, returned to Bath, took part in a Real World recording week, kept working in the garden shed, and in October went to Senegal for a further three months of writing. Apparently Gabriel managed to come up with more than 70 ideas during the Senegal phase. Afterw
The equipment Gabriel and Chappell were using during these sessions was brought over from Real World and included a Mackie 48-channel mixer, a 32-track Pro Tools system, a few ADATs ("for if something didn't work properly with the hard disk"), and three Macintosh 8100 computers, one with Pro Tools and Logic, one for backups and one for writing lyrics and going on the Internet.
"Peter had brought most of his normal writing setup to these places," Chappell explained. "This includes an Akai MPC3000 or MPC60 -- he likes to have a modular drum machine. His main sampler and keyboard controller has been the Kurzweil for the last 10 years, initially the 2000, then the 2500, and now the 2600. It can do a lot, and he can make interesting sounds very easily with it. He also has a Clavia Nord Lead, and lot of Korg stuff, like the Wavestation, 01/W, and more recently the Triton. He likes basic Korg sounds to play with and treat, more than he likes Roland-based stuff, even though he likes Roland pianos sometimes. He also uses an Emulator IV and the Waveframe, although the latter less and less recently.
"His setup is quite simple really, and it's more about the treatments in the moment. He'll work with a good piano sound, and then treat it with effects like Eventide or Delta Lab delays, or distortion or other pedals. He has a lot of guitar pedals to play with. We use Pro Tools plug-ins, but in general it's more a matter of putting stuff through speakers or a pedal. But it could be anything. It's not that calculated. It's whatever works."
During the Summer of 1997 the duo made another trip, this time to the Amazon, where they recorded on a friend's boat. "It was a small trip of perhaps two weeks or so," Chappell explained. "It was a private boat with a full recording studio on it, but I can't talk about it, other than to say that we worked on Logic there as well. It's just a crazy thing that we do now and then. It was a strange and bizarre trip in which we were travelling down the river working on music and looking out of the windows seeing the rainforest go by."
Back In The Real World
In the Writing Room, further writing, recording, overdubbing, and editing was undertaken with the help of a digital Sony R3 Oxford recording console which was installed in the Summer of 1997. "When we moved to the Writing Room we just had a Mackie setup here and a whole bunch of gear and a big mess of cables," recalled Chappell. "After the second Meribel trip we bought the console and installed a proper studio here, with Neil Grant Boxer 3 speakers, and currently Mackie HR824 nearfields. We have two Sony Oxfords now, one here and one in the workroom in the main studio. It has 120 faders, which is just about enough for what we do!"
After the different writing periods Gabriel had, with his 'sprawling' way of working, come up with about 130 song ideas and sketches. A selection of these would find their way on Ovo, Long Walk Home and Up, after going through many different permutations, variations and approaches, with people being invited in to try different treatments and musicians asked to overdub all manner of parts. The joke has been made that Up is the first recording that needed its own archaeology department to organise, store and retrieve all these bits of information. It was therefore not surprising to hear
"Looking back, I don't think we would have been able to do it with more traditional studio gear," Chappell remarked. "With Peter's way of working there's simply no other way of doing it. It does get quite crazy, because he doesn't like to throw many things away, so you build up a huge archive of tracks and tracks and tracks. I had various assistants on the project and one of their main jobs was to listen to things and make notes of what's happening and highlight the different bits. These highlights then ended up on DAT tapes so we could go back and listen to them. Then they got transferred to iTunes, the Macintosh's MP3 player, and so Peter always had a point of reference."
Nevertheless, with Ovo and Up being Gabriel's first largely self-produced recordings, one wonders whether he and Richard Chappell didn't at times feel overwhelmed and find it hard to remain objective. It appears that the versatility of digital technology again proved essential. "We didn't get overwhelmed because the music we were working on was always changing. The canvas in front of us was always changing... it was always fun, and always interesting, and I really like the music. And Peter is very amicable and fun to be with. So it was refreshing more than overwhelming. I never got worried about it."
"Peter has been asked that question quite a lot," Richard Chappell commented. "We played with the running order a lot, and we always kept coming back to this track as the first track. It is one of the first tracks that we finished, and it was one of the easiest we worked on, to get it right. It just has so much muscle and it seemed like a fun idea to have the quiet intro and then the loud assault. Some people have actually broken their hi-fi because of it. A few people became quite upset during the discussions about the running order, but Peter wanted to come back and show some strength. I really respect that. "The quiet pulsey sound right at the beginning is a triggered keyboard sound. It's a gated treatment that's running along triggered by a groove, and then we cut it in and out and laid it at the front of the track. The aggressive, loud noise that comes in is actually a conga going through a distortion box. It's all drums and percussion, although there's a guitar underneath it as well. We used the Jam Man for the distortion, and there are a lot of percussion loops on that track created with percussionist Mahut Dominique. The distortion on Peter's vocal is a combination of the Sansamp and a Line 6 plug-in. It wasn't added in the mix, we always had the vocal like that."
According to Gabriel, this was originally entitled 'House In The Woods' and remains a track about "fear and how fear inhibits people". The track has reportedly inhibited quite a few people from listening to the rest of the album, such is the shock of the gentle tuned percussion right at the beginning being abruptly interrupted by monolithic distorted riffing and vocals. One wonders why Gabriel decided to put this right at the beginning.
"Peter has been asked that question quite a lot," Richard Chappell commented. "We played with the running order a lot, and we always kept coming back to this track as the first track. It is one of the first tracks that we finished, and it was one of the easiest we worked on, to get it right. It just has so much muscle and it seemed like a fun idea to have the quiet intro and then the loud assault. Some people have actually broken their hi-fi because of it. A few people became quite upset during the discussions about the running order, but Peter wanted to come back and show some strength. I really respect that.
"The quiet pulsey sound right at the beginning is a triggered keyboard sound. It's a gated treatment that's running along triggered by a groove, and then we cut it in and out and laid it at the front of the track. The aggressive, loud noise that comes in is actually a conga going through a distortion box. It's all drums and percussion, although there's a guitar underneath it as well. We used the Jam Man for the distortion, and there are a lot of percussion loops on that track created with percussionist Mahut Dominique. The distortion on Peter's vocal is a combination of the Sansamp and a Line 6 plug-in. It wasn't added in the mix, we always had the vocal like that."
The Truth About Analogue
Gabriel and Chappell were, however, worried about another aspect of digital technology: sonic integrity. In 1995, when work on Up began, hard disk recording was in many ways still in its infancy, and many were fearful of losing data and concerned that 16-bit audio coming from a hard drive sounded inferior to tape. Chappell said "I tend to agree that
'Growing Up'
Chappell: "The elephant-like sound is a vocal treated by the Jam Man. This is the only track that has a sample from a library -- a cello coming from a normal Akai library. What sounds like DJ scratching is in fact Tchad. He put a bunch of drum fills onto a tape machine, hit go on the tape machine and spun stuff in."
"We A/B'ed a lot of A-D converters. We had used Apogees for the final stereo transfer to DAT of Us. Since then we did more A/B tests and got a bunch of Prism converters to record any fundamentally important things, like vocals. We immediately heard the difference between the Prisms and the Pro Tools A-D converters. One of the reasons for going for the Sony Oxford desk was the quality of its A-D converters. In the end we simply used the Sony converters. Our only problem now is to figure out where we're going next, because the Sony doesn't support more than 48kHz, and I've listened to 96k and it sounds better. But then, the Sony sounds better than a lot of 96k desks that are around at the moment.
"When we began the project there was no 24-bit recording. We did eventually transfer everything to 24-bit/48k and kept it at that. Sometimes
'Sky Blue'
Gabriel: "The oldest track on the record. The original riff is probably 15 years old but it was something that I always liked and felt had good emotion in it. As a teenager I was very influenced by soul and blues and it was my starting point for a lot of music. I think this was definitely an influence on that track."
"We also do treatments in the Sony console. I'll have a reverb available like his standard Quantec, a set of delays and quite a few plug-ins, whatever is needed. But as a rule I print any treatment or effect, so when you get something that's really happening, it is recorded, rather than having to go back and having to set up again. The same with a plug-in that's working."
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The Writing Room boasts a 32-channel Neve 33-series desk, but its 33797 modules are "basic
'No Way Out'
Gabriel: "That is something that emerged from the early sessions and there was this sort of Latiny feeling to the groove, but that's pretty much buried now. In fact some of my favorite rhythm programming was on this track by Chris Hughes and a thing called Supercollider [a Mac freeware soft synth]. It breaks everything up into lots of little pieces and then reassembles them, still very granulated. It has this strange mysterious percussive quality to it. I was thinking a little more Roy Orbison when I was doing some of the singing and I think there is that influence as well as the computer-mangled ethnic rhythm element."
Gabriel's love of guitar stomp pedals and analogue sonic treatments are other examples of old-tech -- as is, arguably, his most recent talent, playing the guitar. "Yes, Peter plays guitar now!" stressed Chappell, "and yes there are particular ways in which he works, sometimes with sampling, sometimes with manipulation. He doesn't play it normally, let's say. But he has fun doing it, and he likes to record a lot of it, and then he likes to go back and find out what happened."
'More Than This' is one of the tracks that came out of Gabriel's unorthodox guitar experiments (see box), as is 'No Way Out', on which he is credited as playin
'I Grieve'
Chappell: "The way that track ended up was very much Stephen [Hague]. The way we'd worked on it, it was very dark, even on the 'up' section. There's one loop that remains from that, the drum loop that comes in and out. Stephen worked with a programmer called Chuck Norman and they got the rhythm track to happen the way it does. We did a mix of this track for the movie City Of Angels a couple of years before, and Stephen heard it and wanted to have another go at it. So we let him and it ended up on the album."
'The Barry Williams Show'
Chappell: "The treated loop I did on this came out of the 3/4 drum tracks that we had put down -- as we did for every track -- and me going, 'right, what can we do to make it different and right?' So I took some Manu [Katche] parts and looped them up and started to treat them with some samplers and put them back on hard disk. I think you can just play with things and see what happens."
Chappell's credits on Up extend beyond general engineering to individual mentions for programming on all tracks and 'treated loop' on 'The Barry Williams Show' and 'loop manipulation' on 'My Head Sounds Like That'. Most of his programming centres on rhythms, reflecting his origins as a drummer. "It's basic stuff really," Chappell explained, "because you're engineering you're adding sounds, you're programming stuff, you're moving things around. It's normal in engineering now. This is why my credit for programming on 'The Drop' [a piano/vocal solo for Gabriel] pissed me off. I just recorded it and manipulated some stuff around. That's all. With regards to the other stuff, now and again we ge
'My Head Sounds Like That'
Gabriel: "Some chords in there are very old, but the mood was something I liked. And then there was this moment in Africa when one of the echo machines jammed and started malfunctioning and I liked the sound of that, and so the loop that begins the track is actually from this Delta Lab Echo which was crapping out at the time."
"We normally have a rule that we only use audio that originated from us, so no sample CDs. We have a lot of drum sessions that we go back to and get parts from, and then it's a matter of trying to get it to sound different. Sometimes I may get some MPC happening, but most of the time I like to cut up audio in Logic. On Ovo we had a programmer called BT [aka Brian Transeau, interviewed in SOS December 2001], who did some programming on the tracks 'Make Tomorrow' and 'The Tower That Ate People'. I
'More Than This'
Gabriel: "This came right at the end from a thing I started with guitar samples. I was mucking around with guitars and Daniel Lanois had left his beautiful Telecaster. I can't play guitar to save my life, but I can make noises on it. The first sound that you hear on this track is me manipulating my guitar samples on the keyboard. I'd always liked it, and I was driving through the Italian Alps and found this old cassette which had this stuff and I'd been playing around with a different groove, and it started to make sense to me at that point."
Mixing Up
Another juxtaposition of the hi-tech and the old-tech came in with the American engineer, producer and mixer Tchad Blake, who mixed the album. Blake is particularly known for his work with 'dummy' binaural heads (in his case the Neumann KU100), and his strong preference for compression and what he calls 'mechanical effects', sticking microphones in rubber tubes, tin cans, or cardboard boxes rather than using digital reverbs (see SOS December 1997). Blake decamped from Los Angeles to the Cotswolds in recent years and now mixes and records frequently for Gabriel's Real World label, often using his binaural head. Blake himself was reluctant to talk about his work on Up, but Chappell was prepared to lift the veil a little. "I think Peter invited Tchad because he was producing himself and wanted to have a fresh pair of ears towards the end of the project to keep things under control. Tchad is very strong-willed and having someone like him around is a good discipline. We tried out a few songs with him, and Peter liked the results, so we kept going. Tchad is a genius with what he can do sonically. We also have a history with him here at Real World, so that's what we went for."
There was, however, one complication, and it fell to Richard Chappell to sort it out. Blake didn't want to mix on the Sony, nor did he want to mix straight from hard disk. So he set up in the large recording room in Real
"Tchad wanted to work off tape and completely in analogue -- although in the end he did mix from hard disk. Tchad likes to work in the big room because he has a lot of equipment and wants to spread it around. He likes the Sony Oxford desk, but he often inserts a lot of analogue gear everywhere in the signal path. You can do this with the Oxford, but you get sample delays. You can adjust these, but it was just too much hassle for Tchad to deal with. He's very instant and likes to quickly buss things in and out and get on with it. He could also use his binaural head techniques more easily in the big room.
'Signal To Noise'
Chappell: "The Oxford backward samples on this... Peter likes to have treatments come back again through the Oxford and use the EQs on the console, which are pretty dynamic. So he'll take his keyboard track and a drum track through the EQ and do some passes of the whole song running an EQ filter across it."
"With Tchad mixing in a separate room it meant that Peter and I could keep working. Peter would be in here recording things with me for the same song that Tchad was mixing, and we'd walk towards the main building to add these things to the mix. Tchad would either agree or disagree, and they'd have to figure out between them what was going to be used."
Tchad Blake's mixing process and Gabriel's enthusiasm for last-minute overdubs meant that the various ingredients of many songs ended up in even more different places than before, making Chappell's job of compiling the material still harder. When I talked to him, he was in the middle of collecting the recorded ingredients o
Chappell is also preparing material for producer Stephen Hague, who is working on a revamped version of Ovo, with Gabriel singing all the songs, which is to be released later this year in the US as a genuine Gabriel solo record. A remix album, which will see people like Tricky and Trent Reznor having a go at various tracks from Up, is also expected in the shops towards the end of the year. On top of all this, after the European and second American legs of the Growing Up tour in the spring and summer, Chappell and Gabriel intend to complete the follow-up to Up, tentatively titled I/O and based on material from the same sessions as Up. It is scheduled to be out some time in 2004. It seems like an extraordinary avalanche of releases from the master of non-record-proliferation: "Sometimes you wait ages for a bus, and none come, and then suddenly four come along," is Gabriel's explanation. With a possible six albums out in the period 2000-04 he may risk having a congestion charge slapped onto him...
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Team president Matthew Riley said the move comes as no surprise.
"We knew that Troy was going to get a position at the AHL level, a head coaching position," Riley told 23ABC from his home on Wednesday, "we just wish we had him for a few more years, obviously he had a great year and that got the attention of folks so we wish him the best of luck, he's on the fast track, he's doing great things."
That great year was highlighted by the first western conference finals appearance in franchise history.
In Mann's lone year as head coach, fans dubbed the team the cardiac condors. The nickname stuck not only for their ability to come back in playoff games - but the way in which Troy Mann turned around a historically slow start to the season.
"He said he tried everything and yet we were still losing," booster club member Butch Swen recalled, "and he said it was up to the guys. He brought it to the guys and said this is your team, this is your game now and that's how they got it."
The most successful year in Condorstown was Troy Mann's lone season as head coach in Bakersfield. He returns to an AHL club where he spent four seasons (2009-2013) as assistant. The search has begun for Mann's replacement in Bakersfield but unlike year's past, the team's NHL owners provide a jump start.
"[The Edmonton Oilers] want to develop coaches," Riley explained, "so they may have folks they can already see stepping in here or some people from outside that they want to be a part of their organization so we'll have a great coach I'm sure."
Troy Mann's departure is due to how well he coached the Condors last season. The shape he left the organization in will help in recruiting new players, returning players and ultimately a new coach. But the biggest impact Mann left in his single season at the helm of the Condors was on the fans.
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"Coaches come and go," Swen added, "I wish him the best of luck - you've got to just hope we get a coach that the players like and go on from there."
Troy Mann will be travelling back and forth from Hershey and Bakersfield and will be available for comment the week of July 16th.
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Went here in a group of 7, and we all had a good time. The Masala chicken was a tad too spicy for my taste, and we had to chase a few times for drinks, but service was friendly. I definitely recommend going in a large group, as you can try a wider variety of items. The tables are long though, so conversation can be difficult.
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Leaf Apollo. Despite it's simple décor and setup a kin to a canteen of sorts.
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Though food was fine, it's way overpriced. Staff is very dishonest and slipshot. Reason? Wanted to order the 3.50 Vegetarian Briyani with veggies. Twice I was rejected, saying it's basic rice. I said yes, I would like this. Again he reinterated they won't sell it, recommended me those $10+ meat dishes. I told them I'm on Vegetarian! and diverted me to the $8 vegetarian meal instead. And once I ordered that they forced the $8+ meal on me more than once.
Their drinks are way way way overpriced. $4 -8 for drinks. Their Briyani nothing to shout bout. Anyone tried Anatolia Briyani would kick this out of the drain.
I'm from the office nearby, so who would want pay such extravagant for lunch?
Today I brought my friend there, 2 people, they forced us to share the curries, and few of the curries did not arrive at all!!!! Have to ask them a couple of times, and the staffs wasn't too eager to serve.
Seriously this place needs a boycott for them to wake up.
I used to be a regular here. Then some of the waiters changed; and so did the chefs. This is evident once you're seated: you don't have your order immediately ready now, then the wait is a compulsory 15-20 min one. The waiter won't bother coming by or will ignore. The fish head has gotten smaller over the years (no doubt the big fish have dwindled in supply). The other meat manages to surprise me every time (either very good or very bad). Seems like the day of the week and the time of the day do matter now. What was once my favourite restaurant seems like it's now the haunt of tourists who are ill informed.
The food used to be good, but not anymore. I've eaten here 10+ times, but this was my last:
- People were seated directly next to us on our table without checking with us first.
- The butter chicken arrived with only a few pieces of chicken (looked like soup) and we had to ask repeatedly to have a full dish sent to us.
- The naan was hot but not fresh.
- The palak paneer was cold when it arrived. By that point we didn't even bother sending it back.
- We were charged more for the briyani than we were expected. We ordered the "$8 briyani" (usually restaurants in Singapore list the sizes of dishes by price). It was $15 on the bill. When I asked the staff about it, they rudely dismissed my question.
Overpriced and bad service, you can find many better places for South Indian food nearby.
Notice that most of the good reviews for this restaurant come from 2+ years ago.
Went alone due to Indian food craving, over ordered coz I was starving, When the guy was serving me the Briyani rice, I was on the phone and hence he put too much rice on the plate. So I asked one of the staff to take away the leftover rice and other dishes. He just refused to take a way the rice, no reasons given. Told them if you're just going to throw if away, thats very wastefull, just put in in a plastic bag like all the other dishes and he just said no and rather rudely. Basically its the rudeness that turned me off.


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Every Sunday, the members of Blue River Baptist Church gather to celebrate their faith.
They sing hymns, listen to a sermon from Pastor Justin Surface and reflect on the Bible verses that instruct on living a virtuous life.
But instead of meeting in a quaint historic building or a modern mega-church, the Blue River members meet in the banquet room of the Edinburgh Holiday Inn Express.
"The purpose of the service is coming away from the busyness of life, the temptations of life, and coming together as a people to encourage each other," Surface said. "As long as we have a place to go, that's all that matters."
While Johnson County has its share of congregations spanning nearly 200 years, a new crop of churches are forming to meet the changing religious needs of the area. Meeting in hotel banquet rooms, schools and community centers, these church plants are an attempt to evangelize to the thousands of county residents who don't call any particular church home.
"God has wired some of us to be entrepreneurs, and we like starting something," said Ken Dalton, pastor of Village Bible Church in Greenwood. "You normally find with church planters, you get bored just keeping it going, so we like to start something new."
Church planting has grown as the impression that existing churches are not prevalent enough to meet all the needs of Christians.
According to North American Mission Board, which helps churches reach new members, Indiana has one Christian church for every 1,500 to 1,800 people.
Evangelical groups felt the need to provide new faith opportunities and spread to ministry to more people.
Converge MidAmerica, a network of mission-based churches in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, saw an increase from 86 churches in 2000 to 186 in 2011. Those churches now reach 50,000 people.
Driving that effort is a wave of young pastors who are eager to spread the word of Christ and reach a new audience of Christians.
Surface, 26, and his wife, Cassie, 25, were installed as the pastors at Blue River Baptist Church in March. The 12-member congregation formed in 2008, but the resignation of the pastor left the future of the church in doubt.
When the Surfaces moved to Edinburgh from Cincinnati, the church had just lost its meeting place at the Edinburgh Community Room.
Justin and Cassie Surface had been pastoring for a church in the Cincinnati area when they felt called by God to move back to Indiana. Both are originally from the area — Justin Surface from Bargersville, and Cassie Surface from Mooresville.
"He put it on our hearts to move to Edinburgh, even though we weren't exactly sure what we were supposed to do," Justin Surface said.
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Though they initially intended to plant a new church in the area, an acquaintance approached them about Blue River Baptist's pastor resigning.
The opportunity to lead an existing congregation was tempting, but they were hesitant until God gave them an indication that this was the right move for them.
That sign came as multiple people associated with the church contacted the couple.
"A week later, I got a call to come fill the pulpit while they were looking for a new pastor," Justin Surface said. "The beautiful thing about this was, the Lord put us at the same place at the exact same time to where we were all ready to work together."
After preaching at Blue River Baptist for three months, the church leaders approached them about becoming the full-time pastor. The Surfaces prayed about the decision and in January accepted.
Though the church is five years old, the Surfaces and church founders both look at this as a reset of the church community.
Since taking over at Blue River Baptist, the Surfaces have worked to become familiar with the church family. They have conducted meet-and-greet sessions at an Edinburgh coffee shop to sit and talk for a while.
Cassie Surface has been meeting with women and teens in the church, hosting game nights or just sitting and talking over dinner.
Because the church didn't have a pastor over the summer, members are more active and willing to help with the administrative duties than at larger congregations.
"All of them were serving, going into the community and setting up booths. Even though they didn't have a pastor, they still wanted to reach people," Cassie Surface said.
The church's focus, inspired by the Book of Jude in the Bible, is having compassion and making a difference.
'You can lose your focus'
That drives Blue River Baptist's spirit of inclusiveness, Justin Surface said.
"Sometimes in churches you can lose your focus. You're not focusing on Jesus Christ or the Bible. You're focusing on things going on in society or other preferences," he said. "We want to live by having compassion and loving people."
Planting a church starts with a group of people who have faith in what they're doing, Dalton said. Finding a group of people who want to be part of the community you're trying to start, who share a vision of what a church should be, is the key component.
Suddenly, this group meeting in someone's living room or a vacant office can announce the start of Sunday worship, Dalton said.
"They may not have incorporated, they might not even have a name. But they have a date where they're going to start meeting," he said.
Dalton has been planting churches since graduating from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. His congregations have taken hold in Illinois, Arizona, California, Idaho and Colorado.
His experience as a pastor has shown that, too often, people find themselves disconnected with their own church community.
"When churches get larger, we find that people become spectators instead of participants," he said. "New church plants succeed because a lot of participation is required from everyone."
In 1997, he and 11 other adults founded Southside Bible Church in Greenwood.
Reaching the unchurched
Research revealed that many Johnson County residents didn't consider themselves part of any one church community. They were spiritual free agents.
"With that in mind, we decided we just need to be planting churches to reach those people," Dalton said.
Southside Bible Church grew from the initial 12 members to a congregation of about 1,000 people. At that point, it was time for Dalton to move to his next church plant.
He helped launch Village Bible Church in 2012. The group meets weekly at the Greenwood Community Center.
On a typical Sunday, about 125 people attend services. Dalton, the lead pastor, is teaching a series on the Book of Revelation.
The vision is to teach the Bible one verse at a time, as well as giving people the knowledge and skills to live through Scripture on their own.
"We want to do everything we can to equip our people to be self-feeders, so they can teach themselves the Bible during the week," Dalton said.
While Village Bible Church itself is a startup, it also contributes to the creation of other new church plants. Members provide financial backing for congregations just getting started.
Dalton also helps coach young pastors on how to ensure their churches succeed.
"If God wills it, I'd love to plant 10 more churches in Johnson County and the southside. If we're right about the number of people without a church, there is a need," he said.
Entrepreneurial attitude
Jim Clayton started planning a new church in the mid-2000s. He found Johnson County to be an ideal place to plant; research showed a number of people who had stopped attending church or did not identify as part of any one congregation.
Starting in 2008, he and his wife, Jodi, started hosting a Bible study in their home. After a year, the group decided to plan their own launch. Journey Church officially met for the first time in September 2008 at Northwood Elementary School in Franklin.
"For me personally, I didn't know why I was going to seminary. I was going to learn the Bible. God was calling me to start a business, and church-planting is entrepreneurial. I'm a risk-taker," Clayton said.
"When we started, my wife and I knocked on doors, asking what they were looking for in a church, specifically trying to find what they were missing. These people had been hurt and frustrated and felt like they didn't belong. Once we got to know people, started designing a church to meet those needs that wasn't being met here."
From a initial group of about 30 people, the church now draws about 200 each week. It has been forced to upgrade facilities three times, now meeting at Canary Creek Cinemas for its seating capacity.
For Blue River Baptist Church, the next step is finding a permanent home.
Though the banquet room at the Holiday Inn has been a good experience for the church, a fixed location will allow Blue River Baptist to take root and look to grow. The church voted in mid-April to move into an existing church building in Edinburgh and will have their first service on May 4.
The Surfaces use a Bible quote to explain their hopefulness for the future. Ephesians 3:20 reads, "Now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think."
To them, that offers proof that if they trust in God they can achieve the goals they've said.
"The Lord can do that if we believe he will. We believe he is going to do something we can't even imagine," Justin Surface said. "It may be three years, it may be 10 years. But it may just be a week."