God is so good! He has been so faithful to us while we have been performing at the Jazz festival! It has been so amazing getting to perform in front of an ever changing audience...
it has proven to have its challanges though....because of the impact that we are having on the festival....there has been alot of spiritual warfare that has been affecting our team....including some ridicule by people in the audience..and many of our team members getting reallz sick with a flu like illness that keeps them in bed for almost a whole day....
but these things can not over shadow the wonderful things that God is doing while we have been in Montreax....we have had about 15 people make desicions to accept Jesus Christ....and over 100 people prayed for and over hundreds that have seen and witnessed the Holy Spirit through our show....it is truly such a blessing to witness the Holy Spirit at work with all the people who didnt expect to be encountered....and get to see the fruit of our labors and sacrifice right before our eyes....
thank you somuch for all of your prayers....i truly feel angels protecting me and my heart while i am here and I know that God will continue to be faithful to my team and me :) I am sorry that i have been slow at writing....but we perform till about 11 at night and by the time we get home it is past twelve... so if there is anything else you are wondering about when it comes to what I am doing or you just want to talk to me... I would really love the conversation...and the advice :) also if God has been speaking to you about anything about my team or me while you have been in prayer...it would be really encouraging and I will share it with my team....:) I love you guys! and I am so thankful for all of your love and support of me :)
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
"He is my strength when I am weak...."
This is the verse that is keeping me alive here in Lausanne. For the next two weeks we are going to be performing at the Montreax Jazz Festival which is a world wide festival where about 20,000 to 30,000 people come to experience a variety of cultural music and dance. It has been so awesome to see somany different people from all over the nations come to one place! Our company is performing every night of the festival and are soming in contact with not only the Holy Spirit but with many people of all different backgrounds and cultures! It is such a beautiful thing to witness :) One of the most vivid revelations I have gotten about our time here in Montreax is that God is bringing the Nations to us....! and that he is breaking down all cultural barriers between the people, so they can all experience the love of God through our show!
We have performed twice so far....and already have so many testimonys about what God is doing in peoples lives! before every show we pray two by two around where we are performing.....my biggest prayer was that the Holy Spirit would annoint not only our performance....but the ground around us 50 yards in each direction.....from where I was sitting and praying I observed that every person who pasted by our venue stopped......looked around(with confused looks on their faces) and I knew that the Holy spirit was there touching people as they walked past our stage.....it was so beautiful to see! and he has been anointing our show from the beginning and He will continue too as the weeks go on :) there are somany more testimonies that I will continue to share with all of you, but as prayer requests go....please pray for the health of our team! about half our team members are sick with a heavy flu(one of the the joys of community living...) ....that has caused many to stay in bed for most if not all of the day...so just pray for healing for many on my team, so we can all go forth strongly as a company and represent Christ at are absolute best :)
I will upload some more pictures of the festival with my next post :) thank you all somuch for your faithfulness in prayer for me and I love you all :)
We have performed twice so far....and already have so many testimonys about what God is doing in peoples lives! before every show we pray two by two around where we are performing.....my biggest prayer was that the Holy Spirit would annoint not only our performance....but the ground around us 50 yards in each direction.....from where I was sitting and praying I observed that every person who pasted by our venue stopped......looked around(with confused looks on their faces) and I knew that the Holy spirit was there touching people as they walked past our stage.....it was so beautiful to see! and he has been anointing our show from the beginning and He will continue too as the weeks go on :) there are somany more testimonies that I will continue to share with all of you, but as prayer requests go....please pray for the health of our team! about half our team members are sick with a heavy flu(one of the the joys of community living...) ....that has caused many to stay in bed for most if not all of the day...so just pray for healing for many on my team, so we can all go forth strongly as a company and represent Christ at are absolute best :)
I will upload some more pictures of the festival with my next post :) thank you all somuch for your faithfulness in prayer for me and I love you all :)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Swiss Alps and Cheese :)
So if you didn't already know...Switzerland is BEAUTIFLUL!!! God has blessed this nation with somany natural beauties, as well as a rich history...and cheese and chocolate :) But it is the people that truly make this nation peaceful and secure.....yet since I have been here I have realized that the people are comfortable....too comfortable...once this nation was built on Christian principles and was an example to many other nations on how peaceful a nation can run when God is at the center....yet over the years Switzerland has bridged into the modern age....and had created another bridge that proves to be further and further away from God....But God is going to revive Switzerland and they will turn back to where they once where :)
We took a gondola ride up to the Swiss alps yesterday! along with a visit to a cheese factory :) it was out of a book! some of the picture is look at...and they dont even seem like they are real! we went up about 2, 502 meters in the gondola where we could walk around and explore all of the amazing views ;) We witnessed how cheese was made....and it was actually kind of repulisive.....but it tasted good in the end :)
our first perfomance was in a beautiful theater with over 700 seats....We advertized well for the show but had no idea the kind of crowd that was going to show up....and every single seat was full!
It is truly amazing to see how faithful our God is !! Our next performance had a similar turn out as the first....there was about 300 in the audience and over 20 people came to accept Jesus Christ that night! It was so touching to see the Holy Spirit move through us and into peoples hearts that night :) honestly I am speechless at how wonderful and awesome our God is...
We are preparing to perfom 7 days in a row at the Montreal Jazz festival starting on Thursday :) God has been doing crazy things so far and I know that he has alot planned for the next week in Montreal :) please continue to pray for the people that are going to be seeing our show next week and that God would be able to move powerfully through us! also pray for health in our team because many are starting to get sick from all the traveling we hve been doing....thank you all somuch for your devoted prayers for me :) I love you guys :)
Friday, July 2, 2010
First official blog post from Switzerland!
The reason why this blog post was so late in coming was because I wasn't able to get a successful internet connection till now! but I am safe, happy and sound here in Switzerland! I will try and catch you all up on the past few days here, including some of the traveling details :) at about 8:40pm in Monday morning we boarded a flight from Kona, Hawaii headed to LAX international Ariport....about 5 hours later we landed in LAX at about 5 o'clock in the morning.....(shortest night of my life)....when we landed in LAX I had the pleasure of seeing my family for about 15 min, before I had to get back through the security line to be able to make our 8 o'clock flight to JFK international airport....I was hoping that I would be able to sleep on the way to New York....but no such luck.....:(
we had about a 5 hour layover in New York where I was able to meet my best friends Grace's parents! It was fun to have parents at both airports we landed in on the way ;) After that we boarded yet another Red Eye to Zurich Switzerland!! I was lucky enough to get an empty seat next to me on the plane, and I was hoping it would help me sleep....but it didn't :( except the night from Kona to LAX was nothing compared to the night from New York to Switzerland!!! about 3 hours past and the sun was rising over the ocean! I couldnt believe it! we lost about 6 hours from New York to Switzerland so none of us got any sleep.....Once we got in Switzerland the first thing that I noticed was how clean it was.....and how quiet it was......it was almost erie to an extent! I couldnt believe that I was actually in an airport and not a library...After one of our team members nearly lost his passport........we made our way to the charter bus that would take us about an hour away to a small village outside of Zurich. After we pack our rediculous amounts of luggage into the trailer we headed off to our destination. What I love about Switzerland is how much history is stored into this small country....and how they are so up with the digital age! I fell in love with this country at first sight :) When we arrived at the church that we were staying at....we quickly unloaded our stuff and I immediately fell asleep once I hit the pillow at about 1 in the afternoon and slept till morning! I found that I woke up at 5 in the morning nautrally...and so did a few other girls...so we all decided to be shutter bugs and take our cameras downtown and explore :) Everything looks like it cam straight out of a storybook!! I am not joking when I saw that I should have been wearing ball gown...while dancing through the street in song! It was amazing! every street had its own unique smell....it wasnt just an odinary smell...you could smell the history of the whole town....hundreds and hundreds of years of history had lived on the cobble stone walk way that we were strolling on.....It was such an unexplainable serinity that swept the streets at that hour in the morning....to say it was peaceful would not do it justice....after our walk we went about a day of resting and trying to catch up on about 12 hours worth of a time difference....I ended up falling asleep fairly early again and woke up the next morning very refreshed and excited to start another day :) We went to a water park which was about a mile away from where we were staying! It was alot of fun :) I will write another blog tomorrow i promise ;0 but it is about 1 in the morning here and i am still a little jet lagged....but i love you guys and i will fill you in tomorrow on the rest of my first few days here :)
we had about a 5 hour layover in New York where I was able to meet my best friends Grace's parents! It was fun to have parents at both airports we landed in on the way ;) After that we boarded yet another Red Eye to Zurich Switzerland!! I was lucky enough to get an empty seat next to me on the plane, and I was hoping it would help me sleep....but it didn't :( except the night from Kona to LAX was nothing compared to the night from New York to Switzerland!!! about 3 hours past and the sun was rising over the ocean! I couldnt believe it! we lost about 6 hours from New York to Switzerland so none of us got any sleep.....Once we got in Switzerland the first thing that I noticed was how clean it was.....and how quiet it was......it was almost erie to an extent! I couldnt believe that I was actually in an airport and not a library...After one of our team members nearly lost his passport........we made our way to the charter bus that would take us about an hour away to a small village outside of Zurich. After we pack our rediculous amounts of luggage into the trailer we headed off to our destination. What I love about Switzerland is how much history is stored into this small country....and how they are so up with the digital age! I fell in love with this country at first sight :) When we arrived at the church that we were staying at....we quickly unloaded our stuff and I immediately fell asleep once I hit the pillow at about 1 in the afternoon and slept till morning! I found that I woke up at 5 in the morning nautrally...and so did a few other girls...so we all decided to be shutter bugs and take our cameras downtown and explore :) Everything looks like it cam straight out of a storybook!! I am not joking when I saw that I should have been wearing ball gown...while dancing through the street in song! It was amazing! every street had its own unique smell....it wasnt just an odinary smell...you could smell the history of the whole town....hundreds and hundreds of years of history had lived on the cobble stone walk way that we were strolling on.....It was such an unexplainable serinity that swept the streets at that hour in the morning....to say it was peaceful would not do it justice....after our walk we went about a day of resting and trying to catch up on about 12 hours worth of a time difference....I ended up falling asleep fairly early again and woke up the next morning very refreshed and excited to start another day :) We went to a water park which was about a mile away from where we were staying! It was alot of fun :) I will write another blog tomorrow i promise ;0 but it is about 1 in the morning here and i am still a little jet lagged....but i love you guys and i will fill you in tomorrow on the rest of my first few days here :)
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