This week has been really outstanding!
On Tuesday and Wednesday, our students from Hickory Grove Christian School were a part of Awaken Student Revival 2012. It was a great time of worship and teaching. We had several members of our staff team teaching breakout sessions ranging from quiet times to dating to apologetics. David Nasser was the guest speaker. He did a great job of connecting with our students and pointing them to Christ. Team Wordplay, a 2 man improv team from LA, performed and did a great job with the students. GRITS came in on Tuesday night and did a concert. The students had a big time with them! My friend and colleague, John Stegemerten, and I had the opportunity to lead worship throughout the event. I will never get over seeing the students morph from hands in pockets looking around to outward expressions of their love for Christ. One of our students Ashley Hope Russell sang with us. She did an incredible job leading her peers in worship. She is definitely one of those teenagers that can influence and lead. We were and are blessed by her!
So we had a fun time with those students at Awaken. After the afternoon session, I came back to North Campus to lead worship for our mid week service. Since we used several of the North band guys at Awaken, I did an acoustic set with the remainder of our band. I am so grateful to have incredible band guys who love the Lord AND HGBC. We had a banjo and madolin last night on a couple of the songs. We took it old school with I saw the light and Pass me not o gentle Savior. There was definitely a bluegrassy kind of feel to those songs. It was fun. I think our folks really enjoyed it.
Then this morning I had the opportunity to do the music class for the 2 year olds. I sang lots of songs with motions and songs that I sang when I was little. They were jumping around and having a blast. I loved every minute of it!
We exalted Christ all week long.
We made disciples all week long.
We passed the torch all week long.
God was honored.
This was a powerful week.
I love HGBC!!
-G-
