This morning our group got up and headed out to Community of Faith Christian Fellowship which is a church plant out of Highland. Sean Richmond has done a great job with this incredible group of believers and it was an amazing encouragement for our students to lead out in worship for the church. We got there early to help set up and do sound checks before the service...we had no idea that CFCF was in the midst of a series promoting families and this specific Sunday was an emphasis on youth. His encouragement to the church (and us) was for the adults to invest in the lives of students and for the students to live "rebelution" type lives. In other words, live a life of rebellion against the norms of the world. It made a great impression on our students as we prepared to go out and express God's love through the MOTION program.
This afternoon was our first public presentation at Faneuil Hall which is in the Quincy Market. We were set up for our performance right outside the doors of the Market which houses all kinds of restaurants that make up a huge food court. These students did an awesome job in the program which held the attention of over 100 passers by, most of which once they stopped, stayed to take in the entire program. The program included Jumping in the House of God, Soldiers, and Shackles as well as The End of the Beginning and the Lifehouse dramas. As we looked around, many of the people in the crowd were wiping their eyes at the end of Lifehouse, which seems to be a common occurrence. It is one of the clearest presentation of how Jesus saves us from ourselves and the sin of the world and people connect with it. Many of the students got a chance to go out into the crowd and talk with the people who had been watching and the kids had some great stories.
Tonight we went out to Boston Harbor to go see all of the "Tall Ships." Apparently these huge sail boats come into the harbor every four years in the midst of a race...at least that is what we understood. There were a handful of large ships with huge sails resting in the harbor and we got to go and look on the boats which was a great experience for the students. On our way back to our housing, one of the students began a conversation with some guys sitting on a park bench in Boston Commons. So we decided to do an impromptu show of Jumping in the House of God which these guys loved. A couple of our students stayed back and spoke some more with these men and learned that they were believers and that they were in need of some encouragement and that God had just blessed them tremendously because these students took the time to stop and share with them.
It has been a great experience thus far...continue to pray for us tomorrow as we begin our Kidz In Motion programs. We'll post more later with pictures.
Blessings from Beantown,
HSM MOTION
