Playing the Lakeshore Offertory

For the last couple Sundays, I've been worshiping at Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church, where Woun serves as Youth Facilitator. This church has been blessed with social awareness, a strong sense of community, and a warmth in welcoming newcomers, and I immediately felt right at home. This Sunday, we were invited to provide the music during the offertory, and decided to play our original song, "Savior of My Life". Unfortunately, Lawrence was unable to join us due to his position as worship leader at his church.

We arrived at the church minus a bass strap and hi-hat, forcing Sun, in true MacGyver fashion, to build a strap out of yarn, while I attempted to make hi-hat-esque sounds on other parts of the drum set. I've never been much of a public singer (having restricted most of my singing to the shower or other isolation chambers), which made singing the opening lines super intimidating. Nevertheless, our music offering seemed well received - one woman even approached us afterwards asking for the lyrics, though we certainly missed Lawrence's keyboard lines. Thanks be to God for making the seemingly impossible possible...

Following the service, we attended a fund raising luncheon for the youth group's trip to the National Gathering of American Baptist Youth. Sounds like a really great event. Oh, to be young again...