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I spent a good deal of time last night reflecting on what God has taught me through this tour and I feel like at this point in time the things that I have learned are far too personal to share on this blog. However, our home stay mom asked us a question about what were the mostly deeply spiritual moment for us on the tour and I would like to share a couple of them with all of you. A small personal moment that I had occurred when we were in Big Laurel, KY. Our show was outdoors and we were deep in the mountains at a mission post in a mining community there. We were a long ways from familiar landmarks such as Wal-Marts, gas stations, or stoplights. Big Laurel is situated in a valley surrounded on all sides by mountains. It was hot and we were working with uneven ground and grass stains but there was a moment when I was singing "Prepare Ye", and I just looked up at the tree covered mountains towering around us and the clear blue sky above us, our voices echoing back us from miles away as it hit the steep wall of the valley we were in, and I was so grateful. I was grateful for the gifts that God gave us not only in music and dance and theatre, but also in the grass and the tree and the sunshine.
Another truly moving part of the tour for me came when we were in Florida performing at the Salvation Army. That particular show kind of came last minute and after we arrived we found out that we would be performing for the homeless shelter and members of the drug rehab program. We were all pretty nervous about how the show would be received by such an audience. Before going onstage I had a mixture of excitement (because we would be performing for a group that really needed the message) and fear (because its killer hard to do a show when no one laughs or claps). Oh the life of a Christian theatre artist :). So we get going with the show and THEY LOVED IT! They were one of our most vocal audiences yet. They laughed out loud, they cheered, they clapped along with the songs, some of them even danced. And afterwards they all came out to greet us and they were so grateful. Then a group of about fifteen of them sent us letters thanking us for the show. I got the chance to read them yesterday and it was so touching. A lot of them could not speak English very well but many of them stated that they really appreciated the show because it helped them understand the gospel in a way that they had never been able to before. We even found out that a man devoted himself to Christ a week after we left. It's that kind of thing that we all live for and I hope we can get more shows like that as more tours go out in the years to come.
Loves,
Keels
I spent a good deal of time last night reflecting on what God has taught me through this tour and I feel like at this point in time the things that I have learned are far too personal to share on this blog. However, our home stay mom asked us a question about what were the mostly deeply spiritual moment for us on the tour and I would like to share a couple of them with all of you. A small personal moment that I had occurred when we were in Big Laurel, KY. Our show was outdoors and we were deep in the mountains at a mission post in a mining community there. We were a long ways from familiar landmarks such as Wal-Marts, gas stations, or stoplights. Big Laurel is situated in a valley surrounded on all sides by mountains. It was hot and we were working with uneven ground and grass stains but there was a moment when I was singing "Prepare Ye", and I just looked up at the tree covered mountains towering around us and the clear blue sky above us, our voices echoing back us from miles away as it hit the steep wall of the valley we were in, and I was so grateful. I was grateful for the gifts that God gave us not only in music and dance and theatre, but also in the grass and the tree and the sunshine.
Another truly moving part of the tour for me came when we were in Florida performing at the Salvation Army. That particular show kind of came last minute and after we arrived we found out that we would be performing for the homeless shelter and members of the drug rehab program. We were all pretty nervous about how the show would be received by such an audience. Before going onstage I had a mixture of excitement (because we would be performing for a group that really needed the message) and fear (because its killer hard to do a show when no one laughs or claps). Oh the life of a Christian theatre artist :). So we get going with the show and THEY LOVED IT! They were one of our most vocal audiences yet. They laughed out loud, they cheered, they clapped along with the songs, some of them even danced. And afterwards they all came out to greet us and they were so grateful. Then a group of about fifteen of them sent us letters thanking us for the show. I got the chance to read them yesterday and it was so touching. A lot of them could not speak English very well but many of them stated that they really appreciated the show because it helped them understand the gospel in a way that they had never been able to before. We even found out that a man devoted himself to Christ a week after we left. It's that kind of thing that we all live for and I hope we can get more shows like that as more tours go out in the years to come.
Loves,
Keels
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