Greetings! It has been a very long time since my last post, so I guess one is due.

In some respects, a lot has happened; February and March were definitely the busiest months of this year, but to tell you the truth, they weren't exactly overflowing with exciting and interesting stories. I'll do my best to fill you in though...

In my previous post, I mentioned a new member of staff coming onboard to help us worship interns. Having him around, helping us, has been great! He has done a lot for us and it's great to have someone that really cares about us. We have had instrumental and vocal tutoring, each of us have recorded a song in studio, and we also learned a bit about how to do sound, all of which he arranged. He is also into similar styles of music as myself, that is also a plus. Soon, I will have the mp3 of the song we recorded and I can't wait to send it back home.

By the time March hit, things were noticeably busier than the start of the year, in fact, I would go as far to say that things were moderately busy! Three cheers for working! I am probably making this all seem a lot worse than it is, the first or second week of march I actually was busy for the whole week, I worked hard everyday that week and it felt good. You see, the reason March got so busy is because we had started to fundraise for our missions trip to Italy, which we just got home from. So that first or second week of March, I was organizing a fundraiser while I was also arranging creative worship for a conference, both of which were happening on the same weekend. Interestingly enough, even though I'm probably more on the disorganized side in my personal life, I really enjoyed coordinating these events.

Team Italy (there was also a team going to Thailand) put on three fundraising events; a table quiz, a carwash, and an "Italy night." I arranged the table quiz. Basically, people come, pay money at the door, then there is different trivia from different categories, people answer as teams and there are prizes at the end, it's a popular thing out here in the U.K. The event went really well, I got good prizes donated and it was a lot of fun, there just wasn't too many people. Our "Italy night" also went pretty well, and there was a bit better turn out. People came and had a three course Italian meal, then watched the original version of the Italian Job. It was a good night.

All of this, of course, led up to our trip to Italy, which went pretty well. We ended up doing quite a few more tourist type things than we expected, but it was alright. We like to say that it was a "relational" trip. We did a lot more within the church than we did outside. For example, we went for dinner with the English class that they teach so that they could practice their English and we went bowling with their youth group. We also put on their church service which went really well. First, we did worship, then a mime type of thing which led into some testimonies. The service went very well in all aspects. I probably would have liked to do more, but it was still okay.

Since we got back, it's been a little difficult because I have had nothing to do. Next week I am going to Germany to see my dear Mother, so I'm really looking forward to that, it will be so good to see her. After that the month of May should fly by because when I get back, there's a retreat that I'm taking part in, then I'm spending a day in studio, and after that I'm going down to Spain, which leads me right into June! I'll be home in no time!

Well, I hope you liked this little update. I tried to put some pictures up, but it didn't work. I'll try again soon!