Missions 360

Wow... what an event it was! God is so good! Most of you are probably thinking, "what is he talking about? It was good, but it wasn't THAT good." Well let me explain.

In january 2007, the missions team started planning for our 2 projects: Missions 360 and Mission Education.  We really focused on Mission Education a lot, and we only started REALLY planning for M360 like a few weeks before camp.

So the whole missions team was working hard on their parts.  We each had a seminar to prepare and a skit to practice.  The skit was very last minute.  The group started practicing 3 days before the even.  Then on the day before M360, we decided to replace jamie, the orignal parent, with me, because we thought it would look better if God was played by a guy.  We also adjusted a few sections of the script.  So i even though i only had a few lines, it was kinda hard for me to get it right away.

Now on the day itself, i was kinda wasted cuz luigi, ben, and ian E stayed at my house and we didn't sleep the whole night.  And then we had to commute  to church.  So i got there at 11:00.  Barbie told us we would practice teh skit for the frist time with sound tech at 11:30.  So i was just relaxing and helping out here and there.  Then when we went down to the old worship center, THERE WERE NO INSTRUMENTS THERE!  So we started to freak.  So Theo went and tried to look for them.  While our team was praying, i also realized we had no LCD. We also asked for a guy who could fo sound tech, but he didn't show up, so dave did it for us. Thanks Dave!

So there was no equipment to work with.  I went up to the 3rd floor and asked for help. They said kuya bam was incharge of it but he was out to lunch. So was kinda freaking out na. This was the first event i planned as the missions team head and was going really badly so far.  I also knew it was partly my fault cuz i didn't reserve an LDC. So ofcourse i was praying the whole time while walking around.

Believe it or not, i was scared but also laughing a bit. I knew i couldn't fix the situation by myself, so i was completely depending on God for the strength to do it and the wisdom to know who to ask for what.

After a while, the band equpiment was found and set up.  So that was a big relief. James got the aircon on for us.  Then i went up to get something from the yc and when i came down, the LDC was there. WOW.  That was so cool the way God pulled it all together. 

Then i had to do an impromptu power point for the praise and worship. There was even a song that i didn't know, and the power point was out of order in terms of the song line up. so i did my best, i messed up on like 3 or 4 parts, but i think wasn't that bad.

Then while Ate Rhods did the cat and dog theology, we practiced the skit in the back. 

I slept during the wycliffe but i could still kinda here what was going on. Sarah was really good. I wanted to stay awake, but i knew i had to sleep a bit so that i could function for my seminar part up next. I was actually worried that the wycliffe section would be boring, but it turned out to be one of the best parts of the whole event.

The rest of the event ran pretty smoothly. Had one issue though when najee's laptop went to standby mode during a video cuz i tried to close the screen :p The skit went well even though we had never practiced it with mics before.

When it was all over, i finally got to eat for the first time in the whole day. That was at 5:00.

We had 45 people attend.  7 signed up for the orientation. I think that's pretty good.  Imagine if all of them fully join the team, we'll be 17 na! and to think we were only 5 in the begining of this year. wow. =)

Even though she doesn't have my mulultiply, I'd just like to thank barbie here for all the work she put into it. =) Thanks Barbie!  Couldn't have done it without you. And praise God for everything He did during this seminar.