From Edward:
Hey guys! We're here with most of our stuff. God has already worked a few miracles getting our stuff here and I look forward to the rest of it arriving.
And news from the Honduras team leaders:
Hello wonderful people! Thank you for your prayers! Our team has arrived safely in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. We had a good time today getting to meet the Youth For Christ staff workers and hearing about what's ahead of us. Some of our equipment has not arrived yet, but we are leaning on Proverbs 3:5-6.
We are all very excited to see the love of Jesus stir in this country. Our vision as a team is to fall deeper in love with Jesus in humility, servant-hood, and love for one another. Please pray that vision over our team, that we may continually humble ourselves, have a servant attitude towards the Youth for Christ especially, love each other more day by day, and that our equipment would arrive soon in Jesus' desire. Tomorrow at 7am is our first concert! Woot woot! You all rock!!! *smile*
Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I'm leaving on a jetplane again
Again, I'm pretty sure when I will be back, but who knows God's will?
A prayer list for while we are in Honduras (in no particular order):
*Safety (while traveling, while sleeping, with the food, etc)
*Health
*Unity
*Strength and renewal for the YFC staff (led by Mauricio [sp?])
*That God would work in the hearts of the people who hear us and come into contact with us. Whether or not we see the results does not matter, just that they would be saved at some point
*Good weather. We are in the rainy season for Honduras, rain every day, but not all day. Pray that we would have good weather for our outdoor concerts so that we do not have to cancel them. If we do have to cancel them that we would still be willing to serve the YFC in some fasion
*Rest!
*Strength to get through each day
*Joy for the work, both in our hearts and our faces
*That our hearts would be broken for the children we are reaching out to, so that we earnestly desire to serve them
*That we could learn more about and grow clsoer to God
*That we would not rely on ourselves to do the work, get through the day, or save people, we cannot do that on our own and to think we can would be lying to ourselves and to God.
*That we could fall deeper in love with Jesus in humility, servant-hood, and love for one another (our vision for the trip).
Please do not limit your prayers to these, if you can think of others, we would love to have those as well. We will be in the Eastern time zone, the last team that went had days where breakfast was at 6:30 am. So when you wake up for work, we are waking up for work. We are told we will play an AVERAGE of 2 shows a day. Usually not so much on Sundays.
This is most likely my last post before when I return in July. If anything of note happens it will be posted here (hopefully). You should be able to follow along with the limited info passed back to the states here or at www.ctimusic.org, find your way to the Honduras Summer team stuff. I've taken 170 pictures so far and most of those were just us rehearsing in one room. When the scenery starts to change... well, I've got 4 gig of memory and 20 batteries.
Peace and grace to you all!
A prayer list for while we are in Honduras (in no particular order):
*Safety (while traveling, while sleeping, with the food, etc)
*Health
*Unity
*Strength and renewal for the YFC staff (led by Mauricio [sp?])
*That God would work in the hearts of the people who hear us and come into contact with us. Whether or not we see the results does not matter, just that they would be saved at some point
*Good weather. We are in the rainy season for Honduras, rain every day, but not all day. Pray that we would have good weather for our outdoor concerts so that we do not have to cancel them. If we do have to cancel them that we would still be willing to serve the YFC in some fasion
*Rest!
*Strength to get through each day
*Joy for the work, both in our hearts and our faces
*That our hearts would be broken for the children we are reaching out to, so that we earnestly desire to serve them
*That we could learn more about and grow clsoer to God
*That we would not rely on ourselves to do the work, get through the day, or save people, we cannot do that on our own and to think we can would be lying to ourselves and to God.
*That we could fall deeper in love with Jesus in humility, servant-hood, and love for one another (our vision for the trip).
Please do not limit your prayers to these, if you can think of others, we would love to have those as well. We will be in the Eastern time zone, the last team that went had days where breakfast was at 6:30 am. So when you wake up for work, we are waking up for work. We are told we will play an AVERAGE of 2 shows a day. Usually not so much on Sundays.
This is most likely my last post before when I return in July. If anything of note happens it will be posted here (hopefully). You should be able to follow along with the limited info passed back to the states here or at www.ctimusic.org, find your way to the Honduras Summer team stuff. I've taken 170 pictures so far and most of those were just us rehearsing in one room. When the scenery starts to change... well, I've got 4 gig of memory and 20 batteries.
Peace and grace to you all!
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Concert
Our concert went ok. It is a LOT different being outdoors then inside a cinder block room. THat led to some difficulties, along with a poor sound check (part my fault, part the bands). We'll have to talk about all that before our first Honduras concert. The promo pics of our team are cool. They are up on the CTI website which I have given out before. Clock on Summer teams, and then Honduras. You can click on any of the pictures from that point on to download a large version. Yes, I am that much taller then my team except for Joe (tall skinny guitarist who is standing on the left in the shot by the corner of a building). Some are not even up to my shoulder. I am feeling better now, which is good. I will come up with a list of prayer requests for our trip tomorrow and post that tomorrow night. I will be out of all internet contact after tomorrow. Our team leader's emails (which might have a short message from the rest of us) will be posted on the CTI site and mom might post them on here. Those emails will most likely be weekly at best. If I need to be reached because it is an emergency, CTI can get in touch with us, so call the office. If it is not an emergency, don't call them. If it is an emergency that can wait (it sounds bad, but it's true) call during normal business hours. I have been classified by members of my team as an "honorary asian" for the time I spend with them. Only 2 of the 7 guys are white. We've talked with a guy who went with CTI to Honduras a year or two ago. He told us about everything. THe place we are staying has been defined as a ranch in the middle of nowhere. The guy also woke up with a scorpion in his bed. Although everyone told him it never happens. So we'll see what happens. Thats all for tonight.
Happy Father's day Dad.
Peace and Grace to you all.
Happy Father's day Dad.
Peace and Grace to you all.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Another Concert
Our training time is almost complete. We have half a day of rehearsal left! Then a concert tomorrow night, then pack and fly out. Our concert set is 3 spanish songs and 3 english songs with me giving a "testimony" (If I refer to testimony from here out know that it's not neccesarily my life's story). Please be praying for health and strenght and rest. We get Sunday off, then it's packing day and we are off. freaky... almost gone... a week and a half down and we have a 17 songs repertoire (rep) with 7 songs in Spanish. Most of them are pretty good now too. Please keep us in your prayers and when in doubt you can check up on us here or on www.ctimusic.org if you click on the summer teams link. I'm not done posting, just putting up thoughts.
Peace to you all...
Peace to you all...
Of broken strings and good/bad news
So I'm a bit under the weather today. I was yesterday as well. I do not know what it is, I think I might have picked up a bug somewhere. So prayers for healing would be great!
The good news, we won't have to pay anything for the oversize and over weight charges! In the past they have cost $200-$500 each way for CTI.
There was an old musician named Paginini. He played Violin. One day he was playing a beautiful concerto, when all of a sudden, one string break. Astonished he keeps playing it on 3. Then... another breaks, incredulous that 2 of his strings could break he improvises what he can on 2 strings. Finally, a third string breaks. As he finishes the piece on one string, the crowd gives him a huge ovation, expecting him to leave then. He says "Paginini and one string". Then he plays an encore on his one string.
I tell you this story so you can understand the analogy I will make. We won't have to pay anything because NOTHING over 50 lbs or 61 linear inches (length + width + height) will go with us. Continental has been very strict about this. Going so far as to put it in our flight records that we have been informed multiple times. So we cannot show up and claim ignorance. What does this means? Well, the keyboard, kick drum on the drum set, acoustic guitars, and bass guitar are all over size limit. THe keyboard and drum are also over the weight limit. So right now we take my sound system (which now is 100% under limits) vocal mics, electric guitars, and some smaller parts of the drums. We feel like we have had some strings break. THere is still time for this to change, so you can be praying for someone at Continental to let us take it, or if any of you know someone from Continental that would be willing to let a BAND take MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, that'd be awesome. It's slightly astonishing that you cannot take an acoustic guitar on a plane right now, at least not to South America.
The good news, we won't have to pay anything for the oversize and over weight charges! In the past they have cost $200-$500 each way for CTI.
There was an old musician named Paginini. He played Violin. One day he was playing a beautiful concerto, when all of a sudden, one string break. Astonished he keeps playing it on 3. Then... another breaks, incredulous that 2 of his strings could break he improvises what he can on 2 strings. Finally, a third string breaks. As he finishes the piece on one string, the crowd gives him a huge ovation, expecting him to leave then. He says "Paginini and one string". Then he plays an encore on his one string.
I tell you this story so you can understand the analogy I will make. We won't have to pay anything because NOTHING over 50 lbs or 61 linear inches (length + width + height) will go with us. Continental has been very strict about this. Going so far as to put it in our flight records that we have been informed multiple times. So we cannot show up and claim ignorance. What does this means? Well, the keyboard, kick drum on the drum set, acoustic guitars, and bass guitar are all over size limit. THe keyboard and drum are also over the weight limit. So right now we take my sound system (which now is 100% under limits) vocal mics, electric guitars, and some smaller parts of the drums. We feel like we have had some strings break. THere is still time for this to change, so you can be praying for someone at Continental to let us take it, or if any of you know someone from Continental that would be willing to let a BAND take MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, that'd be awesome. It's slightly astonishing that you cannot take an acoustic guitar on a plane right now, at least not to South America.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
My "story"/"testimony"/whatever you want to call it
So I thought I wanted to write out what I am currently working on for my 3 - 5 min bit of stage time. This story could change depending on the audience, but so far I think this story is the one I can get in the time limit and do well. It first occured to me during the individual Bible Study time on Monday. *Things like this are an aside*
Hola, my name is Ed and I am the sound guy for this great band while we tour in Honduras. *I was instructed that if we say their country name/compliment it they really like it* I have always enjoyed technology. I have been working with sound systems like this for the past 10 years of my life. Before that I played with computer technology. This love of electronics led me to take a few electronics classes in school. *I do not know what their school system will be like, so I am refraining for now from "college", I am also refraining fro mas many words that cound trip up the interpreter as possible, "physics major", etc* These classes were set up with one day being taught by a teacher, and one day building what we just learned about. We'd sit in class and learn the theory behind gadgets, so that we could read the instructions and put that into practice the next day. Each person was better at something different. My lab partner was a genius. By far one of the smartest people I have met at school. He could explain any of the theoretical parts of what we were doing. He probably could have taught the classroom part himself. But when we got into the building part, he almost blew stuff up. I, on the other hand, could build most anything given the instructions, but when asked to explain it, I failed. Together we made a good team. When asked to build something, I stepped up. When asked to explain what was happening, he got us through that part.
This is something that God has been showing me is true about having a relationship with him as well. There is both a practical and a theoretical, and you need both parts. The practical part is what we DO in this life. Do we love others as ourselves? Are we living as Jesus did? The theoretical part is this. *hold up Bible* This is like our instruction manual. It explains who God is, how we can know him better, and how we should act. If you haven't read it, I would encourage you to do so. It's full of good true stories and God's love for you. As we finish/continue our concert, I want to encourage and challenge you to think about your life. Do you have that two part faith? If you have just the practical side, I would encourage you to read the Bible and learn more about who God is. If you have the theoretical side, I'd encourage you to put it into practice. Thanks... *walk back to sound board*
Hola, my name is Ed and I am the sound guy for this great band while we tour in Honduras. *I was instructed that if we say their country name/compliment it they really like it* I have always enjoyed technology. I have been working with sound systems like this for the past 10 years of my life. Before that I played with computer technology. This love of electronics led me to take a few electronics classes in school. *I do not know what their school system will be like, so I am refraining for now from "college", I am also refraining fro mas many words that cound trip up the interpreter as possible, "physics major", etc* These classes were set up with one day being taught by a teacher, and one day building what we just learned about. We'd sit in class and learn the theory behind gadgets, so that we could read the instructions and put that into practice the next day. Each person was better at something different. My lab partner was a genius. By far one of the smartest people I have met at school. He could explain any of the theoretical parts of what we were doing. He probably could have taught the classroom part himself. But when we got into the building part, he almost blew stuff up. I, on the other hand, could build most anything given the instructions, but when asked to explain it, I failed. Together we made a good team. When asked to build something, I stepped up. When asked to explain what was happening, he got us through that part.
This is something that God has been showing me is true about having a relationship with him as well. There is both a practical and a theoretical, and you need both parts. The practical part is what we DO in this life. Do we love others as ourselves? Are we living as Jesus did? The theoretical part is this. *hold up Bible* This is like our instruction manual. It explains who God is, how we can know him better, and how we should act. If you haven't read it, I would encourage you to do so. It's full of good true stories and God's love for you. As we finish/continue our concert, I want to encourage and challenge you to think about your life. Do you have that two part faith? If you have just the practical side, I would encourage you to read the Bible and learn more about who God is. If you have the theoretical side, I'd encourage you to put it into practice. Thanks... *walk back to sound board*
Much needed day off...
And yet I'm up at roughly the same time. Apparently if I get 8 hours of sleep, I'll still wake up at 7 am. Today's agenda is to hang out with Honduras folks, do some laundry, and REST above all else. We are hoping to hang out at a pool that was offered for us to use. Some more info on our flight... They measured the JBL speakers in their bags that we would send them in. THe speakers are 46 lbs, the bags need to be 4 lbs or less to get them on the plane. The bags are 5 lbs. 51 lbs. So we are going to cut the carrying handles off of them and hope it knocks off the pound or so to get it to register 50 when we get to the airport. You can pray for my assistant team leader's brother who just had major surgery yesterday on his brain. The surgery went well, but he was having some complications afterwards (although he WAS alive, awake, and talking).
Peace to you all...
Peace to you all...
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