The Summer Project is alive and kicking!

We went into full swing last Thursday and had a blast doing it. Going into it, of course, was a totally different story. I liken to use the term "deer in headlights" quite often when I have a huge task that seems overwhelming to me. I can tend to freeze up and feel paralyzed just by thinking about the enormity of the tasks before me.

But praise God things went amazingly smooth-way better than we thought-and the students really enjoyed themselves, which was the main thing we were hoping for all who arrived at the new building.

With that said, check out some of the pictures from the opening day!

SP2007 Opening Day

It was wild to find myself walking in the streets of Belgrade, Serbia on a mild Spring evening. Never in a million years did I ever think to myself that God would bring me here to serve Him in missions.

It was also sobering to see some of the buildings that were bombed back in the '90s in the terrorist attacks that happened in Belgrade. I can't imagine living in a place where anything like that could happen at any given moment. We live in a country where we are so far removed from that, we can hardly relate at all.

Though in recent years with the number of natural as well as domestic disasters that have happened, America certainly has it's share of scars that can relate with the rest of the world.

Anyways, it was a really neat city and awesome to be there! We almost felt like secret agent spies with a specific mission to infiltrate the country covertly. God's special ops baby. Oh yeah.

Welcome to my Hungarian train ride! This was on our train ride from Budapest, Hungary over to Belgrade, Serbia. There's really nothing spiritual or terribly interesting about the video, other than the fact you get to see a train ride that you've probably never seen before!

Anyways, the spiritual thing about the ride was that God gave us a very smooth ride across the border, and as soon as we stepped off our train, we met our hosts and were on our way into the city! That was totally a God thing. Go God!

This was taken from the lobby of the theater we played at in Budapest, Hungary for the Battle of the Bands the Student Venture high school ministry hosted there!

It was a phenomenal night filled with different bands of every genre with a few winners in different categories of competition. We weren't allowed to enter, of course, since we were the house band :)

We had about 700 students show up and each of them left their contact info and their thoughts about religion and Christianity, so that was huge for the staff team there! Every kid who walked through those doors now had some sort of connection with Student Venture and the staff had an easy way of getting on contact with those who may have been interested in spiritual things. Praise God.

I'll be posting up another short clip of one of the bands that played "Born To Be Wild" as their entry piece that night. Just the fact that they did that song was hysterical. But they did a great job with it and I think actually won a consolation prize! Go them.

It was pretty sweet to go overseas and have this as our first gig. It was a smooth transition into brief life in Eastern Europe. We had a great time :)

Enjoy!

Another video! Finally!

I plan to post one of these up every once in a while. I'm going to keep it unpredictable just to keep you on your toes ;)


A real quick update:

Right now I'm in the midst of Keynote's Summer Project. I'm so excited that we have begun our project and that this year the student's will be able to experience the new building firsthand. That is a really exciting thing and I can't wait until all the rehearsal rooms are full of people and music. PRAISE THE LORD!

I'll be working in the logistics department this summer, taking a break from the road. I am SOOO happy that I can just rest and stay in one place for a few months. PRAISE JESUS! I think if I toured anymore I would literally cry. Don't get me wrong. Tour was amazing, but I need my rest. There is a time to labor hard for the Lord and also a time to rest. So praise God He is giving me rest and stability for the time being.

Thanks for visiting the site, reading what's up with me, and keeping me prayer! Love you all friends.

Have a great weekend!