One Person - That's All It Takes

If every Christian lead one person to Christ and then they lead someone else to Christ it would take 17 years for the whole world to be Christians.

Think about that for a second. 17 years? Really, that's it? If you think about the thousands of years people have been on this earth, seventeen is such a small number. To think of every human on this planet being saved by the one true God and that someday they'll be in heaven is an incredible thought. Do your part, lead one person to Christ.

We saw John Mark McMillan perform four times today and each time was simply amazing. On our way to the stage at a whopping 8:00 in the morning we saw him on the side of the stage and we stopped and waved.. he waved back with a huge smile. Oh man, it made my day! We even got his autograph by walking in the back door! Who would have thought his choice of pen would be a silver sharpie.

We also saw Matthew West, Thousand Foot Krutch, Toby Mac and had a candle lighting. It was quite a sight to see thousands of candles lit up in the dark.

Day Two

I opened my eyes to sunlight and quiet talk coming from the other tents nearby. Rolling out of my warm sleeping bag I unzipped the tent to find the sky cloudy and the air quite chilly. Sweatshirt it is. Cinnamon toast crunch for breakfast.. I admit I didn't brush my teeth. We packed our backpack chairs and headed over to the festival. Lakita Garth-Wright gave an amazing talk on "The Naked Truth About Sex". She used to be Miss California or Florida, I can't seem to remember and has modeled with Tyra Banks and has been a co-host on a huge television show. She's pretty much the big bucks but she lives her life completely for Jesus and was a huge inspiration. She made it clear that waiting for "Mr. Right" is completely worth it... To let God control your life and to give him everything will pay off and your match will come along when He wants him to. Sons of Day was the next concert. They are four brothers from Ukraine and the lead singer, Vladimir, is going to be my husband if I don't marry Seth from Needtobreathe, haha! Remedy Drive was next followed by part II from Lakita. The Classic Crime was definitely one of my favorite performances! Hillsong lead amazing worship and the Newsboys were incredible also. I've decided that I've never heard a bad live christian band before. They almost all sound better live than they do recorded.

Creation!

Off to Creation we go! The van is jam packed and Switching Goals, Marykate and Ashley movie is playing in the VHS player. Yes, it was that cool! Four hours later we arrive in Enumclaw. We set up our tent and get things situated, ate some Bar-S hot dogs and made our way to the stage for some concert action. My body was covered in sweat but I couldn't have been happier to be where I was. My best friend at my side, in a place where Jesus was the center of everything going on. The David Crowder band was first and then Switchfoot. They were both amazing! Jon Foreman was quite incredible I might add. We listened to a little bit of comedy by a man with the name of Nazareth and when our eyes couldn't stay open any longer we made our way to our humble abode of a tent. Casey, Macey and Sarah slept outside of our tent on the ground. They didn't have a campground and didn't want to drive back home at midnight so we shared our little piece of land. With no surprise, I fell asleep but apparently Meryn and Casey had quite a long conversation in Spanish and kept everyone laughing for a good while :)









By the way, I didn't take my Nikon with me on this trip. I just had my little Olympus digital camera that doesn't take the greatest pictures. I saw tons of SLR cameras the whole week though and it kind of upset me that I didn't have mine. It was good for me though. I really think it helped me to enjoy what I was experiencing more and not having to worry about always snapping photos.

Lamentations 3:27-34

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him. Let him bury his face in the dust there may yet be hope. Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace for men are not cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to children of men.


Oh Lord, how great is your unfailing love.
How great is your faithfulness.



Creation tomorrow!

things to do.

- Jog around the neighborhood.
- Shower.
- Picked up Andrew and took him to the eye doctor.
- Went to get his eye drops.
- Stopped by Barnes & Noble and the food court.
- Came home to edit pictures while Andrew napped next to me. Josie napped with him.



- Said goodbye to Josie. (My aunt had a stray cat adopt their family and she became pregnant. This little orange, adorable kitty needed a home so my aunt brought her over. My dad wasn't home and when he did get home he didn't like the idea one bit so she went back :( I miss her already.)





Now it's band picture time! Same Time Yesterday is their name. Gregg, Garrett, Matt and Curtis. I think I laughed more than I took pictures.

BBQ

Today was the church BBQ in the park and I've never seen so many people at Howard Amon before. Tons of people got baptized in the river which was really awesome. Gregg's band played their first little gig and I took a few pictures of them in action. They sounded great. I believe they just changed their band name to Same Time Yesterday. It will be cool to see them succeed! I had a couple pieces of water melon, a cookie and two homemade ice cream cones for dinner. Pretty solid, I know.





Poor Andrew has something terribly wrong with his eye. It's all red and swollen and he can't open it very well so I was his taxi for the night. We went to feed Senora's cat who never comes out of the bush except for me. We rented Remember Me from the red box and it was kind of a bust. I fell asleep and Andrew couldn't open his eyes to even watch it. I don't know how it ended. All I know is that it's an overall sad movie. Not one I'd really recommend.

Drive-In Movies

We felt a little bit spontaneous today. Matt, Andrew and I squeezed, and I mean squeezed into the truck and drove to Milton Free water to the Drive-In Movie Theater. We got lost and the boys made fun of my driving the whole way there. It only cost $6 to watch two movies, Grown Ups and Knight and Day. Quite a deal if you ask me. We spread out a bunch of blankets in the truck bed and enjoyed the movies under the stars. Perfect, to say the least.