ACA Amen

I started getting a cold Wednesday night. Usually I'd be okay with it, but I was asked to lead out in worship Friday night for the ACA Amen program we were putting on after the usual vespers program.

I got a list of songs together and asked people to play with me.
I picked us to sing:
My Redeemer Lives
Famous One
Mighty to Save
From the Inside Out
How Great is Our God
Nothing But the Blood
I was really excited because I had only done praise songs for camp or week of worship here. But this, this was a big deal. Every year, ACA puts this program on and tons of people from the UAP come. I was prepared, but not for what was going to happen.

Friday came. The choir, the drama, our praise band, we practiced ALL afternoon. I was exhausted and drained from this cold and not getting enough sleep, but I took a short nap after dinner. We had planned to meet again at 9pm to run quickly through some trouble spots before the service started. Imani and Sabrina were the only ones who showed up early, so while Chris and his band were going through their song, we went in the back and was working on some stuff, then we heard a lot of ruckus outside. We opened the door and people were there. No PEOPLE WERE THERE. It was only 9:30pm! The choir wasn't there, I had no idea where my piano player was, I immediately started to calmly freak out. Imani told me I looked stressed so I went to the back room and prayed.

I won't go into great detail, but I'll say this. The beginning was rough. I mean ROUGH. I had no idea if we were going to make it through the first song. But slowly as the night went on, I could just feel a calm in the room and I knew HE was there. I wasn't nervous, actually the whole time I felt calm. I knew the Holy Spirit was in my heart. It was an awesome experience. I lost my voice, hopefully that comes back for our choir tour tomorrow, but God just continues to prove Himself to me as I'm here in Argentina. There's never a doubt in my mind that HE is God.

I am so thankful to be able to come together and worship in another language. I have grown so close to God while being down here. There have been some rough spots while being down here, but those just led me closer to the God who created me.