Well I come again with words of joy and satisfaction. These past few weeks I have been reminded of the attributes of our Lord and Savior. Oh it's such a pleasant thing to sit and think about. We are truly without excuse to believe. One of my favorite authors A.W. Tozer wrote "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." I thought this was interesting, because that's not a questions you can just pop out an answer to. It is deeply buried and can only be answered within yourself. Not what we hear in church over and over again, but what our heart truly feels towards Him. I could meditate on that for awhile..

So it's nice to review some of his characteristics..often times it's easy to have a false idea of who God is. Maybe we make Him to be who we want Him to be? Ah let's not fall into that any longer. Our Lord is never changing!

Last week in class we had Marc James come and speak to us. His band is called Verra Cruz from the UK, they have some awesome music. We worked a lot on writing music and this was my groups lyrics: (Chris, Jessica, Lauren and I)

I know your smiling at me

through my inadequacy

I am not enough

but your my everything

I know your holding my hand

amidst my disposition

and I am not alone

You bring everything

You are everything 

Lord, you are everything

to be certain of you

I'm uncertain of me

I wait in expectation

Even in depuration

You are my restoration

And I will follow you

Taaadaaa! As you can see this is a "churchy" worship song. We attempted to go for the kind of christian song that reaches believers and non believers, but that was really hard. That'll be next. Maybe if your lucky you'll get a video clip of us singing it with the musical instruments. hehe

Along with music writing we have had one class of voice training, another of acting, and a few of dancing. Now I know what your thinking..Taylor doesn't do any of those things but dance. And you're correct. So i'm holding on for dear life. Oh but it's so much fun.

A couple days ago one of the awesome staff leaders came to me and said she had a scripture the Lord put on her heart to share with me..so I'll leave you with that.

"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, He has set me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lords favor and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." -Isaiah 61:1-3

Cindy, me, Anna at the Marc James concert

Paddle boarding-so much fun!

Love you all!

just the beginning

Hello my friends and family! Well it's been about 2 weeks since i departed from sweet Texas and I must say it's a nice change of scenery :) Our Performing Arts team is very diverse with people from all over the US, many from South Korea, 3 from Switzerland, and one from South Africa. I couldn't ask for a more amazing group of people to grow with. As we all share the same passion for arts, it ranges from media, singing, acting and dancing! And I must say, we are in for a ride!! We have already started voice lessons, ALL of us! I'm no singer and that's for sure, but we are all being trained for when we're on stage. Also we had our dance auditions and have a taken a couple of hip hop classes. Oh I love it, we have some incredible dance instructors that are extremely talented and passionate about what they do. And more than anything they love love love the Lord and are so anointed by the Holy Spirit!

Now let me introduce you to my roommates. They are AWESOME!

This is Lauren, 24, from Capetown, South Africa! She's an incredible dancer and singer..oh and sorry guys, she's taken.

This is Paula, 23! (the crazy one of the room) She was born in Korea but last lived in Boston. She's lived all over the place being that her parents are missionaries. She has such a beautiful voice and can bust a move as well, you'll see in my videos:)

And this is Eun Sam, 22, from South Korea. She is a dancer as well! SO very talented in modern and ballet. I always ask her to dance for me in the room. hehe!

Lastly my friends, I will share with you our future plans thus far for outreach so yall can pray pray pray for us as we prepare! Our first stop will be Turkey, where we will meet up with some christian bands that are touring in the middle east as well. We are going to jump on board with them to perform through Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Now hold your breath because I have some exciting news! We were asked to perform for the king of Jordan! From Jordan we'll head to Israel where we will perform a few shows and hopefully visit the places Jesus walked. Our leaders informed us that we are going to try and sail from Israel to Greece just as Paul did. But that is not set in stone yet. From Greece we'll head to our last stop, Switzerland! There we will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of YWAM in Switzerland. Yippy! We were originally were supposed to be visiting Syria and Egypt, which were two places I was really looking forward to, but wherever the Lord leads we will follow! 

Thank you so much for those who have graciously supported me financially and through your prayers. I CAN'T WAIT to share more of what the Lord is doing in our lives through these next 6 months. You all have blessed my life more than I could ever express.

Bellow is a little video I put together of the trip so far!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RioiTP2x6X4

Grace and Peace my loves!