New Post

Ok, ok, I know. It's been like two months since I've had a new blog post. I am fully aware of this and my only response to that is that my life is so full of other stuff I don't have time for blog posts...or I'm just a lazy blogger (if I can even call myself a blogger).

Here's the update to get caught up:

1. My brother got married on June 14th to the best sister-in-law I could ever ask for. The wedding was beautiful and funny side story, it was a beach wedding and it was scheduled to rain that day. The rain totally held out for the ceremony, but as soon as everyone went inside for the reception it started to downpour harder than I think I've ever seen in CT. Praise God for holding out the weather for a beautiful wedding.

2. I hit a dog on June 23rd. It was the most traumatic experience I've had driving or riding in a car. There was nothing I could've done, so it wasn't my fault, but I still felt horrible. I stopped the car right after it happened and ran over to the dog who had managed to pull himself off of the busy road. He wagged his tail at me and licked my hand which made me feel better and worse at the same time. Joe was with me in the car and very supportive. The owners called about half an hour after we got back on the road and told me the dog didn't make it. Also, our car was in the shop for two weeks to be fixed.

3. When I hit the dog, I was on my way to KidStuf auditions at Northpoint Church. I wouldn't have gone if Joe hadn't been in the car with me, but he drove the rest of the way and held my hand and helped me feel better. He even brought the car to a Honda dealership to be looked at while I was in the auditions and then walked two miles to meet up with me. We got a ride home from a friend.
The audition I think went pretty good considering the circumstances. I had a great scene partner and the people at the audition were very nice. They didn't end up having a role for me, but the whole experience was fun and I'm excited I was even considered.

4. Joe is working at Northpoint a lot now, which is very exciting for him. He loves being a part of the team up there and loves the work that he does there. I'm very proud of him for working so hard at Northpoint and on all of the other projects he has going on.

5. I'm enjoying my work as well. Southside has been great and exciting because there is so much going on right now. There is a lot of construction happening on the new wing they're building here. Everyday more is done with the construction and it's cool to see the church grow so fast. I enjoy my job and I'm learning new things everyday which is also very exciting. The more I learn, the better I get (at least that's my hope).

That's about it in my life that's new and crazy. I hope I post more frequently, but who knows. If you're reading this blog thanks for sticking around, even when I don't post for a while!

Yesterday at Southside

Chrystina Fincher led worship at Southside. It is not a secret to most of my friends that I have a huge girl crush on her. (My husband knows and he's ok with it.) To tell the truth, I really think she's a great worship leader and is a great role model for any woman who is involved in worship at church. She really engages the congregation and leads them into a great time of worship to God. Off the stage she is no different. She is friendly to everyone and when I went to thank her and her band for coming down to lead worship everyone just thanked me right back for having them down to play.

As a woman who wants to eventually be singing on a church stage (even if it's BGV's) meeting Chrystina Fincher and the rest of her band and watching them lead worship was an inspiration. In my opinion it can be harder as a female worship leader to have the same effect when leading a congregation in worship as a male worship leader. For both men and women, not only does the worship have to be about God and not yourself performing on a stage, but you also have to live your life in a way that is holy and pleasing to the Lord. Otherwise your focus can be off and the worship is not genuine. It takes a lot of work and there is probably a consistent struggle of pride for many worship leaders. Meeting someone who I look up to as a role model and finding out that she has her focus on God and her pride in check was (like I said before) an inspiration.

Thanks so much to Chrystina and her band for coming down to Southside and leading worship for us!

Drive

It has been a long time since I've been a part of a worship service that has not only mad me cry, but has made me sob and pour my heart out to God and feel His presence not only in the room, but in the life of every single person in the room. Last night at the Drive conference here in GA was one of those worship nights.

It was the kind of worship session that made you realize that even if you work in a church and go to Bible study and attend every Sunday service that you possibly can you haven't been paying enough attention to God, your Creator... And then you realize that even though you haven't been paying attention to God and spending enough time with Him, He's been paying attention to you... And this thought makes you want to fall to your knees because you realize how not worthy you are to have the Almighty God care so much about you that He has blessed you with everything you could possibly want in life. That was Monday night for me this past week.

Today was a great day at Drive too. It was lots of fun and very educational and the whole night ended with a concert from the Bethany Dick Band and.......... a comedy show by Jeff Foxworthy!!! It was supposed to be a surprise, but I heard through the grape vine in advance what it was going to be and that made me even more excited!

Back to Monday, after the conference was over for the night, Joe and I, along with Tim Elrod, got together with a whole bunch of bloggers. We took a group picture and everything and found out the next day that Carlos Whittaker posted a link to all of the blogs that were represented at the get together that night. This means that I might be getting a few more readers than I'm used to. I've gotta say, I'm a little excited. I hadn't gone public with my blog yet, and I guess this is probably a great way to get more readers. Thanks to Carlos for posting an entry with my blog link!

Sunday

Just a short post to keep up:

-against all better judgment I finally caved to Twitter
-Sundays can be quite long
-Sundays can be quite rewarding
-Drive conference this week
-I love my husband!

That's about it. Sorry there's not more to be fun with. I will come up with a better post when I have more sleep in my system.

Fin

Captain Eo

When I was younger this attraction was a big favorite at Epcot Center in Disney World. My family and I used to love the 3-D special effects. It was replaced by what is now "Honey I Shrunk the Audience." Can you guess why they took it out?



Oh yeah that's right... it was staring Michael Jackson and it was filmed in the 80's!

PS Check out the Southside Church blog!

One Month

Ok, it has been exactly one month since my last blog post. I'm not going to apologize, because I'm not sorry about that. I am going to warn you, however, that this post may either be very long, or kind of sporadic.

New Job: I have been working at my new job now for about a month. It is the best job I've ever had! That may be because it's the only job I've had that hasn't been waitressing, or it could be because the people there are awesome a I love what I do. If you want to check out the church's website, go to www.southside.org.

Old Job: I love the family that I'm still working for. I babysit their one-year-old and I work in their office at their house. The baby is so cute and is almost to the point where she can communicate fully by talking.

Joe's Job: Joe has officially started contract work for Northpoint church as of last week. He helps out with the TenBefore. He is really excited to be there and loves working with the media team at NP.

Creativity: I have written a song. I won't expound too much, because I'm hoping to eventually record it and figure out how to put it on this blog so you can listen to it. (Little sidenote: It's hard for me to say that I wrote a song, because I don't want to sound like I'm bragging about my ability to write music and also I couldn't have written it if I didn't pray a lot about it and really try to honor God with what I wrote. Anyway, that is my one disclaimer for any music that I write and post about in the future.) I'm still working on a couple of other songs. I don't know if any of this is going to be good, but I'm excited about them and I can also feel good about having done something with everything I've learned about music from school.

Ummm... I totally thought this post might be a bit longer, but I now realize that my life isn't interesting enough to have a very long update blog post. Maybe I'll get back to posting about what's going on in my head and my thoughts on life and stuff, and even though it still may not be very interesting, I'll have some longer posts. That's it. Oh, and thanks for reading!

Date Night and a New Job

I want to start this post off with date night because the place Joe and I went was pretty cool. We went to go see the movie Semipro tonight on a much needed date. We hadn't been to the movies in a while so we were pretty excited about going. Afterwards we were going to top the night off with a bite to eat. It turned out when we got to the movie theatre that we could combine our whole night into one experience! The movie theatre was also a restaurant and waiters served food to patrons who sat at tables in their selected movie theatre. Granted the food was pretty standard quality for a movie theatre, but the prices were lower, there was a wider selection, and it was served to you at your own table! That meant no missing any previews to stand in line for just a bag of candy that cost double what it does in the store! Joe and I now have a new standard for movie theatres. =)

Alright, new job. Yes, I have one! Today I received a call from Martin Huggins, the service programing director at Southside church which is a Northpoint Strategic Partner church to let me know that I got the job. I had a phone interview with him yesterday and today received the call letting me know that I will be working at Southside! My new title is service programming assistant, or SPA. =) It's only a part time job, like 15 hours a week, but it has a lot of responsibility and I'm really excited about it! I will start this Tuesday and hopefully pick up on all of my responsibilities pretty quick. Another great part about working there is Joe has already done a few freelance jobs for them and so we already know most of the people in the offices there and so I'm excited about working with people that I already know I like! Tune in again Tuesday for a post about my first day as a SPA!