New adventures don't ever cease around here...

First day of school for the kids was today. It was a full day of school. I'm helping out with the 4th grade class and got tested right off the bat! As we entered into division, myself and the lead teacher soon found out that a couple of the kids had forgotten their multiplication tables that they'd learned over the summer. Division without multiplication can become quite long and tiring so I spent most of the day trying to help a couple of the kids memorize their multiplication tables. It didn't go so well so if anyone has any tips on that, i'd love to hear it, hah.

Intern run concerts 1 and 2 done. There have been some microphone problems but other than that things have been going well. Got the chance to dip my toes into my different concert roles and they went alright even as nervous as I was. But that doesn't really matter because this is what makes these nights of worship special every single time...

Incredibly beautiful isn't it? Some of the best worship leaders i've met...

(Photos courtesy of CJ Palmer)

The busiest weekend is just around the corner! My tour leader, Christi, told us that in this upcoming weekend we'll minister to more people than the rest of our tour combined! Let me describe it to you so that you get an idea of how big it really is. There's a conference in Atlanta, Georgia for pastors and leaders of the church called Catalyst where there will be over 12,000 people. This will be our first performance Friday morning. I believe our soundcheck is at 7am which means we rendezvous at our host church at 6am which means i'll probably need to wake up around 4:30am to shower, wake up the kids, get them ready, make sure we have breakfast and then travel to our meet up point. Then we travel during the day to go to our one non-christian venue the entire tour. Quite the contrast of arenas if you think about it. Then the next day we'll be performing in a family picnic concert featuring Jars of Clay and Third Day. We will actually be performing with Third Day! Then on Sunday we will be travelling to South Carolina that night for possibly our biggest church performance, a church that has about 15,000 members.

Prayer for this huge weekend would be amazing! That energy and rest would be given to all involved with making each thing in order to assure the glorification of our great God is at the center of it all. Specifically for that one non-christian venue, Newnan, that eyes would be opened and hearts would be turned to the knowledge of all that our beautiful Savior has done for us. That everything would work out smoothly from transportation to host homes to sound systems and everything in between.

As nervewrecking as this time could possibly be, we know that the almighty God is on our side, so we say...

Bring it on!