Anyone Want Some Water?

Hey everyone!

It's been a very long week! Actually long might be an understatement. There has been lots of singing, rehearsing with the band, picking out parts, singing, singing, and more singing! However, I'm extremely blessed to be singing praises to my Lord and King all day long.

We started out the week on Monday by getting up early and heading back to the church that I mentioned in some of my earlier posts. We unloaded all of our equipment and began the task of setting up just like we will at a Summit. After lunch, we began practicing. This week we had a couple that was brought in to work specifically with our team. The husband is the worship leader at his church. He and his wife graduated as vocal majors from college, also. It was a blessing to have some outside perspectives come in and really give us a fresh vision for everything we are doing as a band.

Each evening we practiced until around 9 PM and then headed back to camp. They were all very long days and the amount of sleep we got compared to how hard we were working didn't seem quite sufficient. The Lord got us all through, however, with limited casualties. I praise the Lord for water and the blessing of being able to have it so readily in a bottle. I wouldn't have made it through these past 4+ weeks without that blessing. How often do we thank God for small things like that? Things as simple as a bottle of water when millions of people around the world do not even have the luxury of clean water to drink?

I was also able to claim my locker on our trailer this week. That is probably something very insignificant to all of you (and rightfully so) but that locker is one of a very limited amount of things that is going to be solely mine this year. It was one of the most exciting things that happened to me this week! The second most exciting thing would be that blessing of eating out for lunch AND dinner almost everyday. It was incredible! Who knew that Fazoli's and Subway could be so good?!

We are leading worship tomorrow at the same church that we have been practicing all week. Laine Johnson, the revivalist from our team, will be speaking as well. Please pray that God would be the only one that is seen on stage tomorrow morning. It is not about Life Action or our names being made known; it's about giving the glory to God. Pray that He will also begin to soften the hearts of the people so that they will be ready to receive the Lord's message and that they will be changed.

Thank you for all of your prayers! I'm very ready (in my head) to be on the road. Please pray that I will maintain focus this next week as our date of departure looms near. I want to be out and traveling and seeing God's people worship Him, but I also need to focus on the stuff that needs to get done in this next week. There will be lots of preparation, more practice, policy meetings, and we will also be trained for our secondary responsibilities on the team. It has been a great week and I'm excited to see what God has in store for this year!

I love you all,
Reid

Isaiah 12:5, "Sing praises to the Lord, for He has done glorious things; let this be made known in all the earth."


P.S. Feel free to e-mail me at orangehorns24@gmail.com. When I get out on the road, it will be easier for me to reply to texts and phone calls as well.