Back from an altered state...

Got back yesterday from our little trip, brief overview; We went from New Hampshire, through Massachusetts, Vermont, New York and to New Jersey, kinda crazy to be able to go through to different states that easily. It's about a 10 hour drive to the next province for me, so this is a little different! We traveled about 5ish hours to Long Island where we stayed the night at the Lighthouse church, which Sharayah's family pastors. The next day, 3/4 of the group stayed there for the service and the rest of us, myself included went early to New Jersey to "Harvest Training Centre" where they were hosting the kick-off for the USA offices of TRIN (Touch, Reach and Impact the Nations) which included a Jason Upton concert. We got there early to do any set-up that they needed. Then that night we split into two groups, went to two different houses to sleep, then left the next morning and took about a 7 hour drive back to good 'ole New London.

Picture: Brandon(Alberta), Dave(Massachusetts) and Luke(Alberta) on a van break

It was more laid back than other trips we've been on, but it was a different type of service, not as active and as busy as say, something like Salem, but it was still good and we were able to bless people wherever we went.

Picture: Jacob(California), Nathan(North Carolina), Chad(Michigan) and Caleb(Alberta) on a lunch stop!

On the whole trip, I probably enjoyed being at the concert the best, although I'm not a big Jason Upton fan, it's kinda of been very overplayed in the last few years, at least for myself, I still had a good time. I helped usher, which meant I stood the whole time and took an offering, not too difficult, which is ideal for me.

Before the worship started, we did dream interpretations for an hour, then when it was half-over, we started doing teams again. It was such a blessing for me because I didn't think I would get to do teams at all, because we left early and didn't stay at the church in NY to do ministry like most people, I didn't know we were going to get to do it at the concert.

Picture: Jacob, Jamie(Alberta) and Anthony(Virginia) just driving

This was really good for me as I led a team the whole time. It was a lot of fun and encouraging because I was really able to see how much I've even been growing in hearing from God as I was able to step out and do dream interpretation and gave prophetic words to people. I had a killer team to work with, mostly Kulbir(England) and Dave(Massachusetts), but also at times, Anton(New York) and Jacob (California), which made it so much easier too!

The highlight of that night was probably having a father, son and daughter, all come to my team for dream interpretations separate from each other. They were all great dreams, you could really see how God was working in the family and how their dreams reflected what was going on as a whole. It was really neat too because none of them knew each other had been there, they probably had a lot to talk about later!

It was pretty fun, I had a good time but it's nice to be back home, it'll also be good to be home this weekend, I'll enjoy going to the New London Bridge, our home church here, we've been away for the last two weekends so this will be a treat!

I don't have much a segway or anything, but here goes a big subject change! I was surfing the internet and found this product. I guess I just don't understand it. Why? I mean, just put that thing on the wall. Do you really need to spend that much time in bed?

I didn't get really any pictures while we were at the churches, I'll try to get a hold of some and put some more up... In the meantime, I hope you are entertained by the following...


Video: Mike and Amanda(Texas) and myself at the Concert



Pictures: Desperate attempts to alleviate van boredom!