Fire Escape
- FireEscape was canceled tonight since they blew up their sound system. Too bad since tonight was the night we were planning on taking the whole youth group down there, but oh well. I think I'll run up to the LaGree?'s and take their battery back and have a chat. Not home. Bother.
- StrikeThurman was awesome! We had a great time of rock and a good deal of worship and lots of fellowship. It was plesant to notice how many true friends I have at FireEscape now and even just tonight how many more people are willing to be at least friendly. There have been some seriously closed doors!
- Saturday before FireEscape I picked up a book and a cd at hastings. WildAtHeart by John Eldgrige and ArmsAroundTheWorld? by CodeOfEthics. So far [Just A Man|JustAMan] is my favorite track and the book is a must read!
- FireEscape tonight was somewhat stressfull. The outreach is exploding and we are cutting new ground in serving the Lord, but we are being attacked accordingly. Satan is out their pushing us back as hard as we are pushing forward. Thankfully the work is not our own but the Lords and he is out in front with a really big stick and we only follow at His heals. Tonights stresses included a band who wasn't focused on their music or their message, miscommunication between tech crew, and a general sence of this being work - a job not a privaledge.
- I didn't forget about FireEscape tonight, and neighter it seems did a good many other opeople. Today was the final show for Against All Odds now that Sirus has moved to Denver. And what a way to go out with a bang. This was easily their best concert ever, of many great ones. They had a really tight set, an awesome message, and a killer crowd of 200 enthusiastic kids. Three lives remade in Christ, two dead amps and lots of fried fuses later, I made it home to bed about 3 am.
- DontWorryHannah? live at FireEscape tonight, complete with theire new contract with GhettoBoyRecords?. Somehow I managed to volunteer for security tonight and it was just me and Jeremiah trying to keep 190 high schoolers, most of them non-christians, in line all night in a night-club atmosphere. Fun.
- I guess the most significant thing that has happened since I last logged any entry here happened saturday night at FireEscape. We were expecting a band by the name of Rae from Texas. Without Andrew and a few other techs we were on skeleton crew but we had quite a show planned -- until that afternoon when the band called in sick from the road. So we had to put together a different show. We called in SarahGarate? to lead worship and asked for somebody to get up and share TheGospel. Sarah brought her sister, and I felt called to speak.
- DSV at FireEscape. Great music, better worship. Those guy's have tallent to rock and rock out for God.
- Ok so I got home to late to add saturday's festivities, but I'll try to sum them up here. We were having our monthly worship only night at FireEscape. Our time of worhsip and prayer earlier in the afternoon was really good, but it wasn't revolutionary. We all felt God calling us to some work but nobody had a clear picture of what that was or very strong desire to find it just then. Going into the night everybody was struggling. The kids that showed up were fairly off the walls - holding a conversation wasn't very practical. As we started worship, the few of us up front poored out everything we could into praise, but I felt like I wasn't able - like I was distracted or something. Apparently I wasn't the only one. John eventually interupted things and clearly speaking straight from the Lord, called people around and in the kind of in-your-face language that my generation is accustomed to everywhere but church reminded people of what we were doing there. We were there to seek the face of the Lord, not to chit-chat in the back. Here to worship a holy God not to play ping-pong. I have to say that the difference between twenty people worhisping and 150 goofing off to 150 worshiping and twenty gooffing off is incredible. The Lord turned up last night and filled the place with his preasance and gave us a very real joy in praising him. My vocal cords are kaput ;)
