Testimony!

WHAT A WEEKEND!!!

so cool!

God showed up.

it. was. amazing.

i'll blog more tomorrow - i'm officially sick of my computer today :)

but all the video and pics have been uploaded...

so its been productive.

for now - i leave you with a million pictures...:)

just a glimpse of a really great weekend...

started each day with some really awesome prayer time...love it.

lots of hair-curling...

love it.

they all looked GORGEOUS

art gallery :)

group pow-wow

stage set up!

so cool to see it all real for the first time...

God is TOOOO good

the show went FLAWLESSLY...only God could have done that...

amazing

backstage...always an adventure

everyone all together...actors and essentials :)

our AMAZING cast!!!

love these people...

some awesome ladies :)

...and one way to get pics of people onstage during the show?  give the extras a camera for the party scenes ;)

so fun to have these!

God truly showed up.

and we got to see Him so clearly...

such a blessing.

and some of us leaders were talking and truly just in awe of the

11 youth who spent SO much time on this...

the people willing to come and do stage set up at the last minute...

the people willing to come and run sound for 11 main characters using a 100 page script...

the people willing to give us the freedom to follow God's will and put this all together...

of how God honored our willingness to let Him work - 

He gave us scripts, a cast, everything and everyone we needed...

incredible.

and ALL the hours spent answering emails and scripting and rewriting and practicing...

all worth it.

its amazing how "work" in God's ministry doesnt really seem like work...

its been an awesome adventure working on this show and its sad to see it end.

but i really believe God is just getting started...

-ALIVE

The Project: TESTIMONY...done.

oh hey - have you heard of The Project: TESTIMONY?

cuz its fnished.

like - its all written.

some slight editing to do - but its a whole story.
all there.
our FIRST full show/play/project - ALL scripts.
here it is...

crazy.

this is months in the making, friends.

and as of 2 weeks ago we were basically starting from scratch - we had to rework the whole story,

rewriting a lot of the scripts we'd had

but it all just came.

in a matter of hours. 

only God can do that.

and He just keeps putting it all together.

so we've been writing and editing and just busting all this stuff out and after so much work...(and typing, by Austin) its ready.

:)

a couple things i've learned in the process so far...

if you ever need a three-hole punch...erika has many.

if you ever need a quick answer from a leader via phone or text...austin is your man.

if you have a 50 page script to pass out to 11 team members...sarah will think of getting binders and making cover sheets.

and if you need someone to highlight your lines in your script...absolutely, no question, for sure come to me.

i got you.

:)

and mark your calendars for August 12th & 13th!!!

TWO performances.

Edinbrook Church.

all focused on what God has done -

on the power of the word of our testimony

and how it can impact more than we can ever know.

so make sure to come to one of the shows :)

MORE DETAILS TO COME SOON!

-ALIVE

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