Mozambique Show in Rolla!!!

I'm excited to say I will be back in good ol' Rolla, MO, this coming Saturday, May 2nd, at 7pm at the Vineyard church to share through music about God and just a little bit about what He's doing in Mozambique! I'm looking forward to seeing my old church family and anyone who can make it out for some worship focused songs. I'll be doing some Christian covers and songs I wrote in the past year. The show is free, just consider if God is leading you to make a donation to help me get to Africa! :) And back. (I suppose.)

I was hoping to sing with my sister backing me up with her beautiful harmonies, but unfortunately she had an obligation come up. :( That bad news came with a very positive twist--I'm going to have the LONG awaited pleasure of singing with the enormously talented singer/songwriter Bonnie "the Bonz" Cox! She's helped me out with BGV's on past recordings, and vice versa. I'm glad to finally get to sing with her in public! Also, I would not be where I am as a worship leader or songwriter or musician without the encouragement of her husband Nick Cox, who has agreed to provide percussion.

It looks like with everything going on this time of year, this will be the only show. Thank you, Springfield. Hopefully I'll be able to work something out when I get back!

Yesterday I was reading these verses in the Book of John, Chapter 12, which really summarize WHY I am going to Mozambique. "²⁵The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. ²⁶Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me."

I especially like the part where He says, "where I am, my servant also will be." Jesus is moving in Mozambique. He is stirring hunger in the hearts of the unreached to know the hope only found in Him; to believe in His goodness and the tenderness of His leadership with the faith of a child. The Gospel is not an ancient manuscript explained into obscurity and irrelevance by scholars. It is a living reality--the reason their mother who was blind can now see, the reason their brother who was lame can now walk, the reason there is enough food on the table to provide for the abandoned street children their father brought home. They are drinking Living Water and eating the bread of sacrifice as they become evangelists for their own countrymen. I want to learn from these!