Open Doors

It's no secret that sometimes I feel as though I'm walking down a dad end road, wondering when the opportunity to use the skills I learned in college will arise. Well, apparently, some of those opportunities are now being made known.

This past Sunday, my church held a Harvest Party as an alternative to halloween and trick-or-treating. Each year, the men have a chili cook-off, it's awesome! No really, a youth group member won this year, knocking out a reigning 3-4 year champion, it really is awesome! Anyways, backing up to the main point. Anyways, I was approached by the worship team leader about helping to coordinate and pull together the Christmas Eve service. In previous years, he and the worship team administrator have pulled it together, but the administrator doesn't have time this year. So, seeing as how I just graduated from a theatre program, they decided "hey, why not give her a platform to use her gifts and abilities to edify the church and glorify God?" So, I have now been asked to write the narration/story/script for the Christmas Eve service while the worship team leader works on the music aspect of the service, like recruiting a choir and pulling together the musical selections. Obviously, Christmas is is going to come up very, very quickly and there is not a lot of time to pull the service together.... BUT! I am very thankful for this opportunity to use the gifts that God has given and the skills that have been learned and practiced over the past four years! :D

In other news, one of my friends from school has recently been cast in the role of Mark Cohen in RENT! Yup, the awesome (though sometimes controversial) musical about artists, AIDS, and the new millennium. Remember, as the playwright and lyricist (Jonathan Larson) said and incorporated into the music: "The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation!" Anywho, since he was recently cast as, essentially, the lead (because he narrates everything and is in most every scene) of the play...and because I did my final project for dramaturgy on this play, he said that we will probably be talking a lot in the near future. So excited for him to have this opportunity of playing the complex, adorable, quirky role of Mark! Also excited to have the opportunity and privilege of helping him develop characterization and gain knowledge of the history of the play!

God is so good!