First off, I want to encourage all of the SJV youth to be open to attending a concert in the cities with me someday! We will have a concert event on November 7th, but I know that this cuts out all of the people in the musical, which is sad. There will be more chances as the year goes on, but that is the only concert the club is having in November that involves a national group...
Secondly, if you don't read anything else in this blog...at least read these lyrics by Thousand Foot Krutch...and you can see the pics below that include the band members! I think these lyrics will really speak to a lot of you... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2X0mjAUvIg to listen)
"This is a Call" - by Thousand Foot Krutch (sidenote...this is about reaching out to God)
She fooled all of her friends into thinking she's so strong,
but she still sleeps with her light on,
and she acts like it's all right on,
as she smiles again
her mother lies there sick with cancer,
and her friends don't understand her,
she's a question without answers,
who feels like falling apart.
She knows, she's so much more than worthless,
but she needs to find her purpose,
she wonders what she did to deserve this and..
She's calling out to you, this is a call; this is a call out,
'Cause everytime I fall down, I reach out to you,
and I'm losing all control now, and my hazard signs are all out,
I'm asking you, to show me what this life is all about.
He tells everyone a story,
because he thinks his life is boring,
and he fights so you won't ignore him,
because that's his biggest fear,
and he cries,but you'll rarely see him do it.
He loves, but he's scared to use it.
So he hides behind the music, 'cause he likes it that way.
He knows, he's so much more than worthless,
he needs to find the surface,
because he's starting to get nervous.
Have you ever felt this way before?
'cause I don't wanna hide here anymore.
Take me to place where nothing's wrong and thanks for coming, shut the door.
They say someone out there sees us,
Well if you're real then save me Jesus,
'cause I've been here for far too long.
I wasn't meant to feel alone.
Show me what this life is all about
Now back to the story....so Friday was amazing - I attended the concert with Jen and Katie who are two other Fairmont Youth Ministers (it was Jen's birthday), and it was the most amazing concert I've been to in awhile. Here, I will let the pictures tell some of the story of the night:First off - here's what some youth ministers look like when they get a Friday night off and get to go to a concert in the cities...lovely, right?
Second, here's a pic from the concert. This is the lead singer for the band, Thousand Foot Krutch - one of my all-time favorite bands. He is one of my heroes, because I absolutely LOVE his music! Feel free to check out their music someday - I'll try to get us all to their next concert in the area...they are so good!
Next, here are some sweet shutter shades I got for Jen and myself (after all, I had to get her some sort of birthday gift!) They came with a CD of KJ-52 that I bought...pretty sweet, right? Especially with the tags still on them. Nice. (side note: I got some pretty sweet pics of some Fairmont seniors wearing my shutter shades at the Retreat Team meeting on Sunday night...I'll have to share those someday. :)
Here's a picture of the Thousand Foot Krutch guitarist - they were all pretty amazing. Continuing with the story...so we continued to enjoy the concert...and then at the end of the concert....the drummer threw out his drumstick, which is pretty normal...but it's not normal for me to be one of the people to catch it! Katie and I caught it when it sorta got lodged in between us, so we both grabbed one end, looked at the drumstick in disbelief, looked at each other in disbelief, and then turned to Jen and said, "Happy Birthday!" She was pretty shocked, to say the least, I don't even think she had noticed that we caught it until we were handing it to her!
So here's a pic of us and the drumstick that we shockingly caught...I think it only happened because it was Jen's birthday.
After all of this happened, we knew that we had to stay after the concert to get the drumstick signed by the band! So we stuck around and got pictures with first the lead singer and the guitarist (look to the right for said picture - who were standing around in the center of what used to be the general audience area)...then we noticed the bassist and drummer still back by the stage making sure that everything was being loaded out properly...so we stared at the bassist (who was standing on the side of the stage), and once he glanced over - we waved him over - so he came over and talked to us for awhile and signed the drumstick (as well as took the pic below)! 
We then asked him the favor of bringing it up to the drummer (who was still onstage), and he brought it up there so that we would have all of the band's autographs!
Once he came back out...he continued talking to us...and then this guy - with the dreads - came out, who I immediately recognized as the guitarist from another band called Pillar (they had played the night before). He hung out and talked to us for awhile - giving us a hard time for not making his set the night before, and then he even did part of their best song a cappella for me since we had missed their concert! It was amazing (to say the least, I still cannot believe that happened).
Towards the end - we did catch up with the drummer (who had finally come out) - so we got a picture with him too...and we got the chance to thank him personally for the drumstick. :)
And just think - if you come to some of these concerts...you could experience the same sort of great evening...although I doubt that any of you will catch the drumstick the first or second time that we go...
Well, sorry there's not something more exciting for me to write today, but this blog is a lot quicker than the other topics I want to get to...so until tomorrow............
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