We're home!

Well we are pulling into the church parking lot right now! It was a great trip and just like I tought almost all of the girls fell asleep! I am glad we made it home safe and had such a good time!

Signing off!

On our way!

Well we are in the van and finally back on our way home!

Pray that it goes well and that we stay safe!

It has been a long but fulfilling two days! We had a lot of fun and glad we could make it to 2009fine arts festival!

We are going to stop at the car wash and clean out the car when we get closer to home and will call to let parents know our ETA!

We're at the mall!

We finally made it ti the mall! Ate some over-priced food ($16 for a salad and a wrap!) other than that it was at least filling!

So, here we are at the mall; some are shopping others are sitting but overall it is much more relaxing than waiting for the next nerve-wracking performance. Probably be here until about 3pm and then we'll be heading back!

Although the trip has been great for getting spiritually filled and encouraged we have had an even better time building friendships and relationships with one another! God has truly blessed me and stef and this church with great youth!

Almost shopping time!

Thus far we've been here, still at the church watching other performances...in a couple minutes we will be heading out to towson mall!

I am just so encouraged to have some of our students "stand up and be counted" as a child of God! Fine arts is just one small way they can do that!

Im glad our students have the opportunity to see other students glorifying God with their abilities and talents!

I'll keep u updated!

Kaelan and nicole did it

Kaelan and nicole just finished up their performance! They, too, did an excellent job!

Nerves were running high and the excitement was thick! But all was well bc they used my hyperventilation technique before they performed! They were a little out of breath but the message came through lol!

All of our girls did an incredible job and i am so proud of them! You should be to! They did a great job representing our church and most importantly honoring God!

Next up: we are going to hang out here and check out some of the other performances from other churches and then we are going shopping (towson mall)!

I will continue to update our wonderful fine arts adventures!

Bethany did it!

I am very excited for bethany she went on at 8.50 and di a great job! She was very nervous but after I taught her how to effectively hyperventilate she did better!

I did not see much of the competiton but from what I saw from bethany it was great. She is still struggling with her cold and im sure that after all of the nerves and excitement she will be exhausted!

A new Da!y

Well it is morning! I have not seen any of the other students yet; i'm sure they are feeling just as tired as i am!

I am getting ready to do all o the usual morning stuff and then go down stairs and fight for some breakfast! With over a 100 other students here it should be interesting! Hopefully, they wont all listen to their parents and "eat their breakfast"!

Keep the other remaining two performances in your prayers!

They Did It!

The dance team has finished their performance and it was great! After much anticipation and nervousness they stepped on to the platform and did a great job! We are not sure what their scores were but they did an even better job here than they did in our Fine Arts Showcase last sunday!

We are all very proud of them!

Its still not over though; after finally getting checked in to our hotel "most of us" are preparing for a good night sleep! But with a hotel filled with at least 100 other students that might be kind of difficult!

Now all we have left to do is be back at the church by at least 8:30 and Bethany Dewitt will be performing a Solo Human Video! I am very excited and know she will do a great job! Make sure you pray for her: she has been having allergy issues all day from a cold! We know she will still shine!

After her performance we have the privileged of watching Kaelan and Nicole sing!

I will be sure to continue the updates!


I tired to make the video short and low quality so that it would be optimized for dial-up users...but at least its better than a video of me setting in a chair!

We're here!

We finally made it! Getting ready to eat at chilis!

We are all getting very excited about tonight!

Almost had a huge problem....they only had us down for five tickets instead of six..we got it all worked out!

Were finally on the road!

Well we just left and we r finally on the road...to begin our long awaited fine arts extravaganza!

Don't worry; im not texting this while im driving, pastor pete's driving!

For starters the gorls r crazy! And I mean crazy...theyzre already singin and dancing...won't be long before they have everyone in the van singing!

So to sum it up things r going well (aside from the fact I forgot all of my camera equipment!) oh well just one of those bumps in the road!

First "mobile"update!

Don't worry u guys have not missed anything! Im just testing the mobile update feature to see how, and if it works!

Fine Arts...here we come!

I can here the melodramatic music now! "dum, dum, dum"!

As I think about our upcoming trip to Fine Arts Festival I begin to wonder what our journey has in store for all of us!

Inevitably, there will be some things that just do not work the way I wanted them to or even the way I planned. But, I hope that by now God has developed my my patience enough to endure these little problems I face along life's journey! James 1:2-11

One thing I am going to try to do, and am unsure if it will actually work is keep this blog updated with pictures and cool write-ups of events and fun stuff along the way! That way even though our students will be 3.5 hours away from home parents can still feel "somewhat" reassured!

I'm excited about all of the fun we're going to have, and hoping that God does even more amazing things in our students lives than what He has already "begun" to do!