We sucessfully held our first concert last night with the band Fervent!
It was a whirlwind of a day. Tom, Rachel, Jason, Amber and Brandon and Jeremy all left with the jeepney around noon or so to drop the equipment down at the basketball court. Tom stayed at the court with the equipment while the others split off into groups to hand out posters and verbally invite people to the concert. Overall, it was a success...the concert spread fast by word of mouth and everyone seemed excited to come--much different then back in the states. After handing out posters they got to hang out with some of the kids that were at the basketball court and Brandon and Amber learned how to play takyan. It's very similar to hacky sack, however, in this game you can use your hands/arms to keep it off the ground also.
While they were handing out posters Becky, Nick, and myself stayed back at Shofar to teach the kids the comic book bible series. The kids seemed more comfortable and eager to answer our questions throughout the lesson and overall it went well.
After the lesson, we left shofar and headed to Freedom In Christ to pick up the drum set and some other equipment and then met the rest of the group at the basketball court and began to set up the equipment.
The concert began at 8:00 and it was packed! Fervent played a few songs and then we showed a video from the basicseries --Francis Chan. It was subtitled in cebuano which was really cool and the adults definitely showed an interest in it. Pastor Lando took the stage after to expound on the video and preach the good news and then fervent finshed up the evening with another set of songs.
I cannot even explain what a blessing this first week has truly been. Pictures don't do it justice and it is just so awesome to see God working here and to know that he is working back home in the states and everywhere else in the world-all at once. God truly is never far from us!
We are off to our second concert tonight with Fervent in a different town. Please continue to pray for us and for all this work that we're doing to bring glory to God!
Caitlin <3
7 comments:
Hey...it is good to hear that things went to so well... Where are the concerts being held?
Awesome!! Concerts are appreciated in a wonderful way over there huh?! Keep up the good work friends :)
good to hear the concert went well...
Wisconsin Temp is HOT! Must be so I remember to pray for you all. Glad to hear of the successes. The teaching thing sounds like fun too. Stay encouraged and remember if you get down it is because you are doing it right and the enemy is trying to lay one on you. You kids are awesome!
Who's your little buddy in the bucket? ;) Glad to hear you're all getting so many new experiences- glad you're being blessed by it all!
Laura-our "little friend" got in on Friday night through the gate I think...Brandon caught him...he was pretty cute.
Thanks for the update!
-hartung
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