Week End Review | #2

Monday

Shopping day with Amie, and we met our brothers for lunch.

Tuesday

Bowling and Baskin Robbins with friends.

We laid on the concrete and "star gazed" when we got home from bowling.

 Thursday

We drove to Antioch Baptist Church's revival - this picture was taken close to 11pm on our way home :)

Friday night/Saturday morning

(it was 4:00am. it felt like night time to me.)

I watched Patrick & Iris get married (live!) in Germany!

Saturday

My mom's birthday was Thursday, but we celebrated on Saturday.

Jacob's ribs were a HUGE hit!!

cornhole!

RIBS

Jacob sent us pictures of the rib rub and smoking process every 30 minutes or so. By the time he arrived with them at 4:00, we were quite ready to dig in...we were not disappointed!!! 

 RENOVATION/ADDITION UPDATE

tear out the back porch
dig footer

pour footer

lay block

build floor & walls 

Hallelujah!

At Music School last week we learned the Hallelujah Chorus in advanced music reading class. It was amazing. We learned it in 3 days!! We sang it on Thursday night and Friday night for everyone and some of us were so excited we were shaking. It's one of those songs that gives you chill bumps! 

It took George Fredrick Handel only 16 days to write the entire Messiah, and it's a three hour long piece. (The Hallelujah Chorus is only part of it, a piece took 3 days to write.) It was written in 1741 (over 300 years old!) 

His servant said he went to take Handel some water while he was writing, and he had tears running down his face as he wrote. He sent him away, and said he had to keep on writing. 

They sang it for the king, and when they got to the Hallelujah Chorus, the king stood up. Since then, whenever you go to a concert or hear the Hallelujah Chorus, everyone stands up. We stood on the platform and sang to a congregation of standing people. I've never experienced anything like it before. 

The Messiah was a God-inspired piece, and we've discussed how surely, a musical piece this complex, this beautiful, this God-inspired, and taken straight from the KJV (every bit of it!) must be sung in heaven. 

Friday night there were 355 people in our church. Hannah videoed it, and I wanted to share it on here. She was sitting near the back, so don't worry if it's a little hard to watch, it's the music that matters. I hope you enjoy it!

One Day All The Soldiers Will Go Home

Music School was this week! From 8:00am to 8:30pm we were at the church with 185 other people, learning music and singing songs. I got home last night around 11:30! It was a wonderful week. The advanced music reading class I was in learned the Hallelujah Chorus, and I'll have another post just for that another day. I believe it was our best school yet. On the last night (which was last night) we had 355 people in our church. Most of them were singing, but there were so many there to just listen. It was amazing! 

The Cleghorn family has been to this school for four years now, and they've been at our church lot during these years. They're missionaries to Indonesia, and they'll be leaving sometime this fall. It's hard to think about them leaving because they've become so special to my family and our church, but I know they'll do a wonderful work in Borneo. Please pray for them as they move to another country to serve the Lord!

They sang this song Wednesday night, and it was requested by several people that they sing it again on Friday night. I got chill bumps both times they sang it. Please listen to the words, this is a beautiful song and I think you'll enjoy it just as much as we all did.