a team of young people learning what it means to have gifts from God to use for His glory…and how powerful they are when we step back and let Him use them…

Saturday, July 9, 2011

UPDATE...

welcome back!  
:)
i didnt intentionally wait a month to come back to this - but it worked out that way.
kind of a fail.

ANYWAYS - 
no worries...
i'll update you.

so last you heard -
we performed at Revolution,
we had auditions for The Project: Testimony (its name, by the way)
and i was off to miami.

update -
still working on getting the video from Revolution dance (hopefully soon!!!)
we chose parts for Testimony...
and spent the last few weeks working on it.
praying about the timing and trying to work it all out -
and in the past week,
EVERYTHING changed.
so now -
we have a slightly different team,
a little more than slightly different story,
and we're still working on it.
team.
God is faithful.  and He is just really giving us peace about moving forward and He is totally taking control of it.
its a little intense, its different than what we've done in the past...
but He's doing it.
haha

and miami - i could write for a very long time about Miami.
but i wont
it was one of the most challenging trips i have ever been on...
in the sense that we CONSTANTLY had to be figuring out what comes next.
we would plan...and the plan would change.  so we'd redo the plan.  and it would change.
and that cycle went on - literally the entire week.
and somehow - it worked.  God did it.
it was hard, its hard to constantly surrender your ideas and plans...
but the biggest thing i learned through it all - is that if we're truly willing to surrender our ideas and listen to what GOD wants to do and give Him all the glory -
He will absolutley, 100% take it and show up in BIG ways.
very very cool.
so it was tough, but it was a huge blessing.
and God is so faithful!
i didnt plan on going on the trip...but at the last second God gave me the go-ahead.
and i wasnt SUPER excited about doing a VBS and working with kids...
but we got there and found out there was a bunch of youth that was a part of the VBS.
(i happen to enjoy youth :) )
and so i, along with some others, took charge of that.
and we ended up letting them choose between drama, art, sports or music "classes" for the week.
so i not only got to work with youth, but i also got to teach drama!
it was so fun!
jordan even got to step out of her comfort zone and teach a dance class ;)

and choreograph a dance...then teach it...then perform it.
all in one day.



and i got some of the team together to do a drama w/paint they learned in about an hour.



and some of them even did some dramas on literally a 2 minute notice.

gotta love ministry!
:)
but God did it all.
awesome stuff.
i love being a part of seeing God's creativity.

and i'm really excited to see how Testimony turns out.
for now all we can do is pray, keep writing and keep practicing.

and that's what happens in a month of ALIVE.


-ALIVE

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