Singin at Central 2

Wow. The singing went great Friday(see previous post)! The kids absolutely loved it. We sang for the entire 5th & 6th grade class. Let me just say that God works in such awesome ways. When we arrived there I noticed that they had awesome sound equipment. I brought the church sound equipment just in case, but since I saw how great their's was I decided not to worry about using our stuff. Well as we got closer to the time to sing, we realized we didn't know how to work their equipment so we were scrambling around trying to figure it out or get someone in there that did know. We finally got someone in there who knew a little bit (but not much) and so we were able to fix a few things. Central School's auditorium is pretty big, so I knew that if we didn't have proper sound (and I use that term loosely) that the kids would not be able to hear and therefore kind of defeat the whole purpose, know what I mean?

As we were backstage I just felt the overwhelming desire to say a prayer, probably because I was kind of worried about everything. So we got together and said a quick prayer, and wouldn't you know everything went well. The kids were energetic, clapping with the songs, and applauding and yelling and all that good stuff. It made it so much easier on us to get into the songs we were singing because we were getting so much energy from those kids. I could've sang 20 more songs. Timmy was there helping us set up and everything and he told me afterwards that as we were walking onto the stage (and remember we were doing this as part of a Black History Month celebration) that he heard one of the kids behind him say, "They're all white!" I thought that was absolutely hilarious.

Well, everyone said they enjoyed it and I think the guys' favorite part was the vocal percussion. I told them they could approach us afterwards and we would teach them how to do it. And they definitely took me up on that offer. We also were invited to sing for a youth lock-in hosted by one of the black congregations in town, as well as a potential offer to sing at next year's Martin Luther King celebration in West Point. I was floored! God is most definitely opening doors for us to reach out to others of a different race and different cultural backgrounds. I think it's just what this town needs. There are still way too many racial barriers put up by every race, and it's up to us as individuals to take part in breaking those barriers down. We can't wait for others to do it, we must be willing to do it ourselves. Praise God!

Not bad for a bunch of white folks, huh?