Our last day at the ‘Make Change’ conference was at hand. What was for the day only God new that. The day start as Wednesday had with us participating in the bible study and workshops. Today was to be the day of our main concert, which we were all looking forward to. Free time cam around and some of the Lads went and played rugby with the kiwi’s and they won! Vimbie turned out to be the ‘man of the match’ for our team. Jordan, Hratch, and Jordan teamed up with some delegates from Fiji to form a battle zone team (basically capture the flag military style), they dodged the missiles and obstacles with ease and ended up as the hot favorite in the semi-final. Unfortunately they had to retire from the game early as they had to join the rest of us for the sound check. It’s a hard life boy's!
The sound check was a little unnerving, the acoustics are fabulous for a chamber group, but for a gospel choir with bass, drums, brass, keyboards and piano it wasn’t quite right. After a lot of fiddling from the very helpful sound men we got a sound that was good. Things were looking good for the evening concert.
We went to the evening meeting which was a great experience for us all. We all got a little sweaty as the room was very hot and also from the infectious sounds of the Praise and Worship. Fifteen minutes after this meeting finished it was our Concert in the Performing Arts venue.
As we arrived we had to fight through people to make it into the concert hall, eventually the doors opened and a flood of people came through, they started chanting Pasadena, Pasadena, Pasadena. This was going to be a special night; you could feel the electricity in the air. From the first song to the last, the audience new that we were all about praising out Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (for a more in-depth concert report see Capt. Dusty’s report).
After the concert we were all on a high, so many delegate’s came up to us and thanked us for our ministry. God truly poured out a blessing on our ministry in that concert, it was evident to us and the audience.
Eventually everyone was heading for the dorms, three hours later we would be waking up to get ready to leave for Melbourne.
1 comment:
Wow! It sounds like the trip is going great. I wish I could have been there because I know you all were as great as you said you were. Probably gave everyone in the audience shivers. I expect lots of pictures and stories when you get back! I pray the rest of the trip is as good as it obviously started out.
oxoxox
Julie
p.s. Special "hey" to Becky and Laura! The lunch table has been taken over by juniors and I miss you guys! MUAH
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