All my life I feel like I’ve only gotten to know and truly appreciate God from a very limited perspective. Although he has been multiple aspects of Himself to me, I believe I’ve been spoiled into only appreciating Him for the major and not the minor things in life. I feel like throughout my life I’ve exalted, prayed to and praised Him for being the God of “more than enough” and have been quick to complain when through His divine wisdom, He allows Himself to be the God of “Just enough”. It is my hearts desire to be a global worship leader, but I feel in order to do so I must be able to identify and know the attributes of God that are beyond my own life’ experiences. I want to be so desperately seeking after God and new understandings of His nature that every person I encounter or I’m given the opportunity to minister to/with I am able to make a true connection with them and worship together in spirit and in the truth of who He is to them. To me this mission is a search for God. I want to know the God that people choose to worship despite poverty, sickness, death, hunger, lack, opposition, no desires of fame, fortune, recognition, corporate or social status, etc. I want to know the God that is still deserving of worship despite the obvious surroundings of seemingly no hope or future. Today we are going to a refuge camp, and from the stories it reminds me of the children of Israel held captive in Egypt. I am so eager to meet and talk to the people there to learn about the God they serve and what He means to them. This team I am apart of is so God ordained its crazy! The mere fact that we all even made t to Africa is a testament of Gods’ faithfulness and purpose. I hope to continue to bond and grow with them and hopefully serve along side them again soon.
MARRIAGE: “The Final Frontier…..
Welp..I guess if there were ever a time to blog about somthing important..now would be that time.lol This time tomorrow my life wil be changed totally for the BETTER :) I’ll be a 22 yr old married man of God…pursing His purpose in convenant with one of the most amazing women I’ve met in my entire life..crazy right? I KNOOOOO!! lol Ive got this weird under tingle sensation..a mix between expectation/excitement/nervousness/happiness all jumbled in one..its almost comparable to the feeling I get ever time I step in front of large crowds to perform..adrenaline rush on 1 billion!!! sigh…the future is such a funny character…always one step ahead..giving you only a hope of its true identity but leaving it up to you to seek it til you find it. I dont expect the road ahead to be seamless….TRUST ME..im acutally more excited about the bumps..Gods on our side so I already know we are going to WIN anyway! Being a innate adventurer..i guess deep down inside its always been my dream to find someone to go on the adventure with..and thank God i did! A wise Lion once said… I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF DANGER! HAHAHAHA!! (thank you Simba) The challenges dont scare me..I plan to greet them with open arms..and invite them in for tea :) then smile in their faces as we SQUASH EM LIKE FLIES! :) newhoo im rambling now..prolly cuz im sleepy…long day ahead of me….well….bye for now something amazing is going to happen tommorow..sure would suck if you missed it ;) so here you go: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/10522784 West Coast it starts at 9:22am..East Coast it starts at 12:22pm afternoon
GREEN ROOM!
The Journey Begins…
In less than 6hours I will be boarding a plane to start a journey that i fully believe will change my life (Forever). Joined by a team of 7 I will be going on a mission to Kigali,Rwanda to ”Eradicate poverty using scholarship and visual & performing arts as vehicles of reconciliation with God, community, and self.” (www.thruguidance.com) It is a mission that I both naturally and spiritually feel God is leading me to go on and Im grateful to even be apart of something so my greater than myself. The fact that i am even going is a testimony in and of itself and it was my tangible confirmation that this was what God wanted from me. Im currently sitting under a hair dryer that feels like its on 1 BILLION degrees..waiting for my hair to dry and doing some final preparation for our 6:30 flight…Im going to do my best to keep up with this blog toboth give everyone that supported in the effort to raise the funds for this mission, an insight on how we are doing and how everythings going and also to share my feelings on the entire experience. So I guess thats all for now…next time you hear from me..ill be in AFRICA :)
blessings,
Andre’
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WOOOHOOOO IM EXCITED!
The Journey Begins..
Soo this week I begin my first Journey as a “Missionary”! AHHH I’m super excited and oddly nervous :/ I leave this Friday to go teach a week long Worship/Performing Arts camp in Louisianna. Then Im back in California for 4 days..during that time I’ll be featured in a concert releasing my first praise and worship single “Forever” and singing in the debut concert of LXW with Deitrick Haddon and then I leave for Rwanda,Africa the very next day to spend 3 1/2 weeks teaching another camp,and I just found out I will be doing a Worship and Arts seminar there with a church! :) God is AWESOME! Im still so blown away and I dont think it all has really hit me yet..I just want to be a vessel and an ultimately clear channel for God to do WHATEVER He wants to do through me and use me HOWEVER he chooses to. Im think this blog thingy is gonna be helpful in processing my thoughts and everything and a cool way to keep everyone updated…well I guess thats all for now…stay tuned :)
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…is going to be a GREAT day…
