Allied Media Conference Trip: Noon, day one

Still in Columbus and I'll be departing for Bowling Green at around 3p.m.

Aaron MacCaughey, of the Columbus based band Sheldon Marsh drove by, saw me and picked me up. No, he whttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8072549asn't looking for the city's ugliest streetwalker, we knew each other already. Aaron is part of the Landing Place community in Columbus.

Landing Place or "LP" is a small, Christian (I'm starting to prefer Xtian as shorthand) community where about 40 people get together weekly for small house churching. A smaller set of LP folks live communally. My wife, Becky, and I are members of the Vineyard Central community in Cincinnati, which is a similar kind of church.

Aaron and I met up with Jason Gilliland, the band's drummer. They were discussing how much they hate the band lingo that's so prevalent today - "BGV" for Backgrounnd Vocalist or "VOX." Aaron is the band's VOX, "and BGVs, too," Jason says.