Sunday, June 15, 2008

About to do a concert in Santa Barbara.

Yet another rushed post, this time its because the concert is actually in 20 minutes, but I finally got an internet connection! But the summary of what has been going on is this:
Yesterday morning we left Trinity Presbyterian, and headed towards Murray Family Farms, where we stopped and picked fresh-off-the-tree-fruit and ate it, after some eating and shopping, we headed for Frazier Mountain High School, where we quickly set up the sound area, the props, and the changing rooms. Then we practiced and jumped in the bus (Still The Amazing Mr. Reggie Jones) for a short ride up the mountain to the pastors house for a great meal prepared for us by the pastors family and friends. After finishing dinner, it was back to FMHS for the concert!
After finishing the concert, cleaning everything up, and loading the bus, we all jumped on the bus for the excursion to the dorms at Masters College, where we spent the night. In the morning, we had some quick showers, a great breakfast, and then started the walk to Placerita Baptist Church.
Once we arrived at PBC, we warmed up and sang through a few of our songs so that the worship leader could pick out the ones he wanted us to sing. We sang for both services and then walked a little ways to the sunday school classes. After a great lesson (plus bagels and coffee) in the sunday school class, we walked back to the dorms to pack up and head for El Montecito Presbyterian Church. We arrived around 3:30-4:00 and started the unloading. We practiced for a while and then ate an amazing dinner. Almost immediately after dinner, we began to get dressed for the concert (or in my case write this post), once the choir was dressed and ready, the concert began, and according to my host family, was a "First Class Performance" 

We are currently in Santa Barbara, California!
















I'm sitting off to the side during rehearsal to write and upload this, but what I've done with the pictures is to just upload as many as I can to show you how the choir is doing. They may not be in the correct order.... but I thought you might like to see some of the choir.
(also, you may be confused as to the locations of many of the pictures, thats probably because I haven't updates the blog in a few days, hopefully I will be able to tell you about the last few days later tonight.)