We've been working out of the following scripture in worship this week:
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2
We are learning daily about what it means to look like all of those things... to be genuine people, with pure motives and attitudes that reflect holiness and humility, with lives evident of our belonging to God... and to execute our assignments with passion and excellence... This is challenging. This is what we call in the biz... good. :)
It has been one of the most phenomenal, experience to lead others into a deep, fun, loud experience of God's spirit through musical worship and although we walk away from it tired and a bit sad to leave everything between our hello's and goodbye's will leave imprints on our own lives and the lives of those our paths have crossed over with. We're lovin it here!
In other news...
We had a night of praise and worship the day after we arrived in Oahu. Families from Kanehoe Church of the Nazarene welcomed us with open arms, hilarious youth, delicious food in our host homes and an ecclectic repertoire of musical equipement... everything went off without a hitch (what does that phrase even mean?!?) but then in the middle of the worship set during a fast praise song our drummer Taylor (aka Robbie, or the ripped one) was attacked by the drum cage. He blamed it on his "[power drumming skills". Some of us beg to differ. Reporter/friend/Oahu Intern Will Campbell was on the scene to report the shennanigans...
It was such a blessing to build relationships with these beautiful, talented youth. Here is Robbie the ripped one with two of our sweet hearts from Kaneohe church. We had so much fun hanging out with Misty and Amber... they were basically the ones who busted out the Ukelele (it must be capitalized out of a deep respect for the sweet, beautiful music poured out of it by these kids this week...)each night after chapel and just jammed in the warm evening air. Oh the nostalgia...
Above: Us girls stayed with the Kaneshiro family in their little cottage about 5 minutes fromt he church. On our last morning their daughters brough us breakfast bed! It was the sweetest thing ever. Here is our goodbye picture.
Below: Here is a night of worship at Kaneohe church of the Naz on Oahu. That would be "Papa George" (George Williamson, PLNU director of worship ministries, also in the blog following this one where he is annihalating some jr. highers during steal the bacon) He's been training us and helping us fine tune our sound and sets for the summer ahead. It has been such an awesome privilege to have him take us all over the place so far! We're basically his padawa (sp?) worship ninjas. Teach us oh Jedi. :)
Below: We all participated in team competitions this week also and got to perform in a "gong show". Gong shows are the antithesis of a talent celebration if you will... where the judges have the power (and then so use it) to gong the team/current act/striving musician/artist/comic etcetera off the stage mid sentence/song/dumb joke. Taylor literally took one for his team and wore a dress. I may or may not go missing on this tour after he finds out I posted this picture on the world wide web.
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