Choir Tour Epidemic

Then we had to put our stuff down to go to service to sing and dance and there was a comedian too. Then we went around Great Wolf Lodge just looking at stuff on sale then it was 10:45 so we started leaving to the rooms and started eating Doritos and Mountain Dew then we slept but some people were watching YouTube.

There was one man I talked to in particular that sticks out in my mind. And we didn’t even deliver to him. When we first got to IU Medical Center, we had to wait about 30 minutes for the food to be brought to us. While we waited, a man about 75 years old started talking to us. He told us about how his wife had died eleven years ago and after she died, he started volunteering at Meals on Wheels every day for the past ten years. He explained that his wife had a disease that got so severe that she was put in an assisted living home. The particular assisted living home she was in had meals for her, but were expensive. So her husband found Meals on Wheels. The couple got themselves each two meals a day and had lunch and dinner together every day. After the man’s wife died, he started delivering the meals to people who are not healthy and able to get out and go shopping for meals. This man was such a sweet man. This man is doing something that Jesus would have done. Even at his old age, he still takes time every day to help somebody else out besides himself, someone less fortunate and unable. This man sacrifices at least three hours a day delivering meals to people that he would not have known otherwise. This man made an impact on my life. He showed me that even when we think we are

Show Choir is an elective class that integrates choreography into the choral experience. A varied repertoire of 2 and 3 part music is memorized, choreographed and then performed in a concert setting. Vocal technique, developing the ensemble and dance are the main emphasis of this class. Various

The following week, we spent most of our time in the poorest parts of the city. There we went door-to-door sharing the love of God and had Vacation Bible Schools for the kids. This is when I realized how blessed I truly was. For the first time, I got to see the privations and penury environment that the citizens of Third World countries had to endure. The unpaved streets were covered in trash. Many houses, made of tin sheets, had collapsed on themselves. The people had to share wells, where they drew their parasitic water. Men, women, and children sat on the sides of the roads begging for money, because they were sick, hungry, and needed money for food and proper medication. The site of these atrocious states of living broke my heart, and showed me how blessed I really was for not having to face these problems.

We all went into the tent thinking that the night would come to an end. Since we had chips, pizza, candy, and all kind of other snacks, our friend Austin decided that it would be a good idea to throw a slice of pizza across the tent onto one of us. After that slice of pizza was thrown, an all out food fight took place. We were opening bags of chips, honey buns, pizza, and anything else we could get our hands on. After about thirty minutes of throwing food, we ran out of snacks and decided that we really needed to go to sleep. It was hard for me to go to sleep just thinking about what would happen the next morning.

About two years ago, I attended a Sunday morning church service where I became aware of my overwhelming

The car ride to Detroit Catholic Central High School felt the same as any other car ride I have ever taken in my entire life, boring. Just sitting, wanting to move around but cannot because of the small space and the belt harnessing you to the chair. But I knew I was going to play a game I have been

was August, and I was seven months behind on the mortgage. The house had now gone into foreclosure, and on the twenty-eighth, it was going to be auctioned. Despite what that letter said, I still trusted God to perform a miracle. That letter did not faze me a bit. My faith was solid, and nothing or any person was going to shake it. After all, I was following the direction of the Lord.

As the sun set on Shipwreck island, I went to my bedroom, and fell into a deep slumber. All was

Then, we ate breakfast. After that,all of the bands had met up at the basketball to perform. We were the second band to perform because, I was in the best band for my grade. Then we ate pizza and got the whole cherokee county group back together and got in a car to go

I saw kids of all ages living with a burden pinned to their backs. However, they did not show it. They were just like me, a normal kid. Yet everyday they had to live in a sort of jail. Following a strict schedule when to eat, play, sleep, and go to school. They couldn’t hop in the car with their mom and go to the mall. The things I take for granted were what they were praying for. While here my fellow life teen members and I came together as a sort of beacon of light to play with and be a friend to these kids. We all came together to achieve a common goal and help those in need. This experience really hit home with me as I underappreciate all the little things in life that I should be grateful for. Trying to live a selfless life can be hard, but I will continue to help my community and those in need throughout my

to the National Museum of Natural History first. My mom told us to meet her back by the front doors in an hour and a half. When we walked in there was a girl about our age, with long, curly, brown hair, singing for everyone to come and listen. She was very ostentatious, because she had this smirk on her face and you could tell that she knew she was good. I still thought she was very gregarious, because I would never have the guts to do that.

During the week my church evaluated one of the temples we visited in order to determine what materials would be needed to build the new temple. For the next year my church would be working to provide the Haitian congregation with a strong and secure temple. Little after the new temple was built hurricane Matthew came over Haiti. It was of great joy to receive the news that the temple we had built survived the hurricane and served as refuge for the congregation as well as surrounding communities. There is no doubt everything happens for a

This experience taught me how to receive someone else’s blessing. I have always been a giver, so to be on the receiving end of things was very humbling. I found a strength in myself, that I didn’t know I possessed. I had to be strong for myself, my children, my husband (he had enough to focus on with work and the house.) My endurance to keep moving forward and helping others along-the-way, taught me and reminded me that, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13. God’s love was shown to us and through us. People from New York to California and everywhere in between came to the Gulf Coast, to help all in need. It was so refreshing to see first hand, the body of Christ at work. I believe, that it is important to give back and I feel that I can accomplish that with a Health Care Administration

It was time for us racers to go to bed since we had to get up early the next morning for the race. My best friend and I were sharing a tent. We climbed in, got undressed and crawled into our sleeping bags. I could