Mime 4 Jesus - A Boring Entry

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12

Jun. 17, 2008

A Boring Entry

About not so boring events. The session has begun!

Training camp (yesterday) was great. We got to train our new intern from Germany, 17-year-old Simona. She’ll be here until early August. She’s amazing and she learns really fast. She had her first presentation tonight and did wonderfully. And she’s so sweet. We all love her.

We learned Honor, Fallen, 2 Sets, There is a God, and America Again for tonight’s presentation. We also learned Courtroom and Gifter. Unfortunately, Jory couldn’t come and talk about the Bible study because Anthem was really sick. The Rolfs and Simona got in at 2:30 Monday morning, so they were understandably drained.

We also spent about an hour reviewing our session Bible study methods and going through an evangelism training course, which we’ll be doing for a while and then going out and witnessing every other Thursday.

And we had Madison’s birthday party. She turned 15 last Wednesday. We had cake and we sung to her and then we had ribbons for her, Melissa, and Simona. It was pretty cool. A new Wal-Mart just opened 8 minutes away, so we went to check it out (and do some college shopping) and discovered that they didn’t have a table for cutting the ribbon, but just sold it by the spool. And they were cheap. So of course we got the spools, cut the ribbons, burned the ends so they wouldn’t fray, and gave them away. It was fun.

Tonight was amazing. We presented at this campground to this audience of roughly 75 who weren’t exactly welcoming toward our Christian message. We tried to stay away from songs strictly about Jesus, as the guy who booked us said there would be Jews in the audience and we didn’t want to offend them. So we stuck with the relatively safe lineup of Honor, Fallen, 2 Sets, There is a God (losing safety…), America Again (OK, so not so safe).

It was pretty awesome. I mean, a lot of the people there weren’t Christians, and it seemed like some of them might have resented our message by the way they looked at us while we were presenting, but that was what was exciting – that we had the chance to present the message of hope to these people. It was a little different… but it was really great.

There were a few little funny things, like when Melissa and I forgot the flag (OK, so that wasn’t funny) and Tess found another one that was so long that it would have dragged the ground if we had put it in a flag stand. Or when Jacob slid down the gravel incline and almost landed on his face. Or when I didn’t get a good grip on my Bible in America Again, dropped it, and had to bounce down to pick it up.

But mostly it was a time to experience God. The hardest presentations are always the most rewarding.

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