Choir Tour: Minnesota 2011 Awakening

Rebekah, Abby, and I

Hey y'all! Haven't been on in awhile. Been way to busy to get on here and type out something. I mainly want to talk about a choir tour I went on spring break this year. I went in April with my church. We went all the way up to Minnesota. Yeah, that's right, the north! Absurd, I know, but them Yankee's gotta know the Lord too! Ha ha. It took forever to get up there! About maybe 21 hours to get there. We were all getting tried of the buses real soon. Once there, we entered into the most fancy place choir tour has EVER stayed in..EVER! We were just completely in luxury. Which the people back home that went on past choir trips were very annoyed at the place we were staying at since we were pretty much not in a camp type situation. Oh well, we had the best of times there. Choir tour this year was one of the best we've had. Also said by Matt Sloma, our choir director. Which that means its legit! :]



I took this from Amanda(on the left). I had to put this up because of Molly's(on the right) model pose and cause its cute!

 In Minnesota we did many community projects to help the people of Minnesota. My favorite of all of them was definitely Feed My Starving Children. It is a non-profit organization that helps feed people in Africa and many other countries that don't have food. It brought me to the realization that there really are kids out there that don't even know where or when they may get a meal. We take our food and everything for granted here, and to them they don't even know if they will eat or not. Which I've never had that issue. Which really tugged at my heart about. So, it made me really excited to box up the meals that will be sent out to different countries to kids that will be super pumped about actually getting food! They told us a story about a boy who was 7 and before starting to eat the food he only weighed 24 pounds...a 7 year old boy! That's like our about 1 year old kids here. But after a 6 month period on the program he then weighed 77 pounds! How crazy? That shows that the food they send over there really does help the kids get the nutrition they need. All thanks to the nutritionist that figured out what to have them eat.
After all of this in Minnesota, once getting home everything was going just the way I hoped. Then God came in and showed me "Hey, don't go back to normal. Remember what you learned in Minnesota!" Which was good that He reminded me. Also another way He helped us remember to not go back to normal was the tornado's that came through north Alabama.

 The damage of these tornado's is overwhelming, but after all of this we have all come together and helped one another.

To conclude on this blog update, I just challenge anyone to just try and get out there and help those who don't have a home, food, clothes, etc. Because this is the best mission field for us as believers to get out of our comfort zone and express to others ,who may not believe, the love of Christ. As I keep dancing through life..