The Start of it All

Well, I really don’t know how to begin. I suppose the plane ride there. They had TV’s on the back of the chairs, and so everyone could see one. But, we waited to take off b/c they would not work. So, b/c I was tired and a little nauseous, I did not eat the dinner. I listened to my IPOD, which I mainly listened to the most wonderful Breathing Exercises. If you have trouble with anxiety, panic attacks, you need to get Carolyn McManus’ CD. I bought it off of Amazon.com. Just listening to someone talk slowly with wonderful music helped me sleep many of nights. So, I was really tired and so I let my friend Lizzy watch a movie on my IPOD. By the time I woke up, it was breakfast time and a little while later we came to Brazil.

I was nervous about doing the Redeemer Skit. I had been training with my sister, (thanks Jenny) but it’s different in the crowd. We were able to do it in church so I knew about doing it in front of a crowd. But, when you do it in front of a bunch of kids, you can see there faces change. When you do it in front of a bunch of boy juveniles, you can see the change. Right after we finish the Skit and get up, the Sketch board is started. Mike B, our fearless leader did a lot of them. While he is talking about the Titanic and how it pertains to the gospel or talking about Jose, who has everything he wants, (drugs, women, drinking, and money). But what he desperately wants to fill is this whole in his heart that only The Father can really fill.
We went to a couple of schools while we were in Sao Paulo. The kids came up to us after the skit and sketch board was complete. There was an invitation at the end always, and to just see children praying in a school setting was wonderful. And different, since I work in a public school and was thinking that it would never happen to do the Redeemer in front of my kids. Lizzy, who also came with her husband Tim, is a teacher. We were talking about how she believes that her children know that she is a Christian. The things she talks about that happens in her life. That’s what I want my kids to know also.