Lights Out

This weekend was another adventure as we (Sounds of Shasta) went to South Lake Tahoe. I am writing this after about an hour of driving home. I hope the excitement is over. Well...I guess I should start from the beginning. We left the school Saturday morning in our three-van caravan with expectations of needing chains. So we stopped in some city, which I can't remember the name of, to be sure we had the right chains for all the vans. The guys went into Kragen and off went the girls to Safeway. I won't comment on that, but not much happened until we got to about 5000 feet. Charissa--she lives were there's lots of snow, so she knows how to put on chains--and the guys had to chain-up the three vans in the snow; but that wasn't too bad, though it took us about 20 minutes. Then we were off to conquer the snow and enjoy the very bumpy ride, which in turn opened our trailer door with all our new sound equipment while we were driving up the road. Nothing fell out though. :) On the way up to Tahoe we saw at least three different accidents, or were a car lost control and hit the side. That was the last of the excitement on the way up to Tahoe.

We arrived at the church and set up as quick as we could because we were delayed a couple hours and dinner had been ready for a while. After dinner, we went to our hosts’ home, got our room set up, and I played some songs out of my new music book. I was practicing three new keys--the key of F, B flat, and E flat. The key of F was pretty good, but E flat needs a lot of work; as David confirmed with his earplugs. :)

The next morning the town lost power; so it made for interesting service. Before church started, I told a couple friends I had prayed that God would show us, as a group again, that He is in control. They told me that they had prayed similar prayers. So it was kinda ironic that we lost power and couldn't use our music tracks or microphones. Pastor Chris played the songs on the piano, and we sang our hearts out for Jesus. Everyone could hear us; even the ones in the very back I could see singing along with us. We had hoped that by the second service we would have power back, but we didn't. It didn't matter much; because several people came up to us and told us how they were blessed by it. So regardless on having power or not, the Lord was still honored, which is our one and only goal.

We ate a wonderful lunch at one of the ladies homes and then started our trip home. Oh...I almost forgot; it snowed about a foot of nice powder that night; so after we sang most of us had a snowball fight in our nice clothes. It must have been a sight to see for those watching and for those driving by the church; but it was worth it. :) Ok... so now we are on our way home and we only saw one accident this time; we can only hope and pray that no one got hurt. But a couple of them looked bad, so I pray that they were prepared to meet their creator by putting their trust in Jesus Christ and not themselves.


Proverbs 3:5-6

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
NIV