From Africa!! (1st post)

We are here!!!! Well, actually we have been here for about 3 days now, and I don't even know how to explain to you all how amazing this trip has been already!! I can't believe we are here. I could really spend the next 2 hours writing about how in awe we are of just getting to be here. I can't put it into words, as we have just been learning a whole new culture, seeing a whole new (absolutely beautiful) country, and already making great friends. I will breeze through the first few days here and get to tonight, as we finally got to lead worship! So the flights. Wow. We flew from Arkansas to Atlanta, Atlanta to Frankfurt (where we had an 8 hour layover) free vacation! Frankfurt to Africa. Total time in the air, about 20 hours. Both the flight to Frankfurt and the flight to Africa were through the night, so we had 2 nights of sleeping on airplanes! Needless to say we were pretty tired when we got here. We got in at 5:30 in the morning, and by the time we got to where we are staying it was about 8:00. We were all ready for bed, but fought through and stayed awake so we could get on the right time schedule. I don't think anybody on this team has ever gone to bed as early as we did that night. I stayed up later than everyone, and I was asleep by 7 pm. So day 1 here is still a little bit of a blur. lol. So day 2 was just a lot of learning, seeing, meeting about the youth camp, rehearsing, meeting new people, etc... Learning the culture has been a blast. And again, we all were in bed pretty quick again that night. So now for today! Rehearsed again, a lot, and actually, finally got to lead worship in Africa! And all I can say is wow!! It was a very special night. The students, adults, everyone, walked into the room passionate, loud, and ready to go after God in worship! I have rarely played in a place that started out with this much energy and excitement. It was unbelievable! I think the worshipers blessed us more than we blessed them. So, here was our set list for our first worship service ever, in another country.

Let God Arise

Take It All

On Our Side

Mighty To Save

Jesus Messiah

Your Name High

God Is Bigger

From The Inside Out

How He Loves

Our God

Healer

Pics to come!!!