My youth pastor can't give me pause with our stupid videos anymore. I like to say that after performing the lead of the Everything Skit (yes, I did the lead) in a public park farther away from home than I had ever been before in a country which has a language I don't know, with people I hadn't known a month previously, there's pretty much nothing really embarrassing anymore. Of course, the people didn't come into it really, because we knew each other so well by then, and really cared about each other, that we had no embarrassment inhibitions from the presence of each other.
We packed up the Jesus costume (which was short on Skyscraper, the big group Jesus, and long on Samwise, our small group Jesus) and the toy gun for the person doing that part, The Joker's guitar and everything else we needed, and walked to the park. At this point Sweet n' Spazzy was seriously stressed out about sharing her testimony during the presentation. In fact, as we walked around telling people, she seemed extremely distracted, and The Joker decided that it would be funny to do the following exchange.
Sweet n' Spazzy: NO, I'm not going to try asking anyone in Spanish, I can't do it...
The rest of us: Please?
Sweet n' Spazzy: NO. Please stop nagging me...
The Joker: Who's nagging you? We've been talking about sponges for the last five minutes, where have you been?
Sweet n' Spazzy looked around in total disorientation, and the rest of us stared at The Joker.
She didn't wind up doing her testimony because the pastor of the church we were working with didn't want the thing to go too long, because it would lose people's attention.
So after these trials and tribulations, we were finally all set. We sang some songs in Spanish, such as "Desde Mi Interior" (you can find it in English as "From the Inside Out," and Spanish and English are both Hillsong United) and "Danzo Como David." Then we performed the skit, and I think it was a smashing performance. (In more ways than one; that pavement was hard!) Then the pastor of the church gave a message about the church and its mission, and that was that.
Later we learned that that was the first time the church had done an evangelical event like that, and we were very humbled and glad that the church had let us be a part of that.
I think that was the night we learned something amazing. There had been a woman coming by, and she a) was thinking about Christianity and b) she had cancer. Among other things, she had seen us, my group, praying together, and talked with the pastor, and then decided to become a Christian. She had a test scheduled, and they ran the test and they showed no cancer. So that day, previously, she went in for a previously arranged surgery, and when they looked, there was no cancer.
We packed up the Jesus costume (which was short on Skyscraper, the big group Jesus, and long on Samwise, our small group Jesus) and the toy gun for the person doing that part, The Joker's guitar and everything else we needed, and walked to the park. At this point Sweet n' Spazzy was seriously stressed out about sharing her testimony during the presentation. In fact, as we walked around telling people, she seemed extremely distracted, and The Joker decided that it would be funny to do the following exchange.
Sweet n' Spazzy: NO, I'm not going to try asking anyone in Spanish, I can't do it...
The rest of us: Please?
Sweet n' Spazzy: NO. Please stop nagging me...
The Joker: Who's nagging you? We've been talking about sponges for the last five minutes, where have you been?
Sweet n' Spazzy looked around in total disorientation, and the rest of us stared at The Joker.
She didn't wind up doing her testimony because the pastor of the church we were working with didn't want the thing to go too long, because it would lose people's attention.
So after these trials and tribulations, we were finally all set. We sang some songs in Spanish, such as "Desde Mi Interior" (you can find it in English as "From the Inside Out," and Spanish and English are both Hillsong United) and "Danzo Como David." Then we performed the skit, and I think it was a smashing performance. (In more ways than one; that pavement was hard!) Then the pastor of the church gave a message about the church and its mission, and that was that.
Later we learned that that was the first time the church had done an evangelical event like that, and we were very humbled and glad that the church had let us be a part of that.
I think that was the night we learned something amazing. There had been a woman coming by, and she a) was thinking about Christianity and b) she had cancer. Among other things, she had seen us, my group, praying together, and talked with the pastor, and then decided to become a Christian. She had a test scheduled, and they ran the test and they showed no cancer. So that day, previously, she went in for a previously arranged surgery, and when they looked, there was no cancer.
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