woo
I am back. LIFE 2004 is over. I couldn't have asked for a better time. It was awesome. I was able to be more outgoing than I usually am. and I feel as though I have brought it back with me, so you might see a more outgoing me ( its pretty cool when used for good) but yeah. The swift was the worship team, they were good. the messages were all good. But to me, i loved the concerts that I went to. My first concert was at this conference. and it was an awesome one....
for those of you that know me, you know that I am the biggest dc talk fan that you could meet. DC Talk is consistant of Toby Mac, Kevin Max, and Michael Tait. If you know dc talk, you know that they are all doing solo projects right now. Well, I have never seen any of them in person, I have never seen them perform or anything. At this conference Michael tait did a concert. It was soo awesome, he is shorter than I thought, but he is awesome. He performed some dc talk songs, and his own songs. I knew them, I was so happy. He finished with Jesus Freak. It was cool because he acted as if he wasn't going to do it, but it just appeared slowly and all of a sudden BAM, JESUS FREAK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I Don't know about everybody else, but I was freaking out. I loved it. I think what made it 1000 times better was that I was able to experience this first experience for me with friends. Bryan and MM where there with me at the beginning. I know they didn't have to wait in line with me for an hour. They didn't have to watch me twitch with excitement... They didn't have to listen to me talking about whatever I talked about (I can't even remember) Thankyou, you guys made it an even better experience. I will also say thankyou for those of you that stood in line for me and got stuff autographed. I owe you all something.
I enjoyed the times that we just hung out. It wasn't us running around and doing stuff, it was the times when we were just sitting and hanging out and talking. Those are the times that you learn the most about your friends.... 3 hours in an ice cream place i thought was fun.
I went to one other concert, and that was the Grits concert. I have heard a couple of their songs. I Know that they are a good group. We didn't show up early this time, we showed up while they were playing, I didn't mind. Mason had decided that we were going to get up to the front by the stage (the only problem is that there are around 200 people here that have all thought this same idea, so they are packed in rather tightly. But I will follow mason. Just before we start, paul decides to come, so its me, mason, and paul going to the front. Its easy at the back because its kinda spread out. but as we get deeper into it, it was like magic how mason got through, it was soo much fun, a couple songs later, we had positioned ourselves right at the stage, we made it so we were right at the speaker, I thought that was cool. we got to see DJ Skill Spinz do his thang up close, that was amazing. That was so much fun...
But in years to come, when I can only remember that I saw tait and Grits. When I don't remember the songs, or how we got to the front, or that I waited in line for days, I will remember one thing that happened to me.
David Aderholt was talking. I like his style. At the end of his message he said "ok everybody listen" The first thing that jumped into my mind was that he was going to have the people come up that feel that God is calling them to work some way for him, maybe youth pastor, pastor, missionary, something like that. I had a feeling he was going to call them all foreward. That was something that I didn't want to happen. I didn't want him to say that. but I listened to him, and as I listened, I knew that is where it was going. I have thought about this question before, so it isn't like I had never thought it before. I know that I really would like to be a youth pastor. I didn't want this question to be asked because what if I didn't get up. What if I couldn't make myself get up. Well, he ended up asking for them to come down, I sat there for about 10 seconds, and got up. That is the one thing that I will remember over everything, but it goes even farther past that. When I was down there praying. I wanted mason to come down and pray with me, then the guy talking said, youth pastors, counselors, if you have a student down here feel free to come down here. You have no idea how happy that made me, but after like 45 seconds of waiting, I wondered if mason was going to come. Just as I thought that, I felt it, Mason put his hands on my shoulders. I was so incredibly happy that he was there to pray with me.
My life has taken a dramatical change in the last couple months, he brought that up while we were down there talking, and it is amazing how different I have become from a couple months ago. I think back to those times, and if I didn't change certain things, I wouldn't have been at LIFE. I think that that was the reason for me being there, not the concerts, but that. That was the reason why God had me go to that conference. It was awesome
I will post up pictures when I get them. Thankyou to all my friends for all the support you have given me, not just this last week, but in my life. If any of you need anything, just let me know.
-Jon-
for those of you that know me, you know that I am the biggest dc talk fan that you could meet. DC Talk is consistant of Toby Mac, Kevin Max, and Michael Tait. If you know dc talk, you know that they are all doing solo projects right now. Well, I have never seen any of them in person, I have never seen them perform or anything. At this conference Michael tait did a concert. It was soo awesome, he is shorter than I thought, but he is awesome. He performed some dc talk songs, and his own songs. I knew them, I was so happy. He finished with Jesus Freak. It was cool because he acted as if he wasn't going to do it, but it just appeared slowly and all of a sudden BAM, JESUS FREAK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I Don't know about everybody else, but I was freaking out. I loved it. I think what made it 1000 times better was that I was able to experience this first experience for me with friends. Bryan and MM where there with me at the beginning. I know they didn't have to wait in line with me for an hour. They didn't have to watch me twitch with excitement... They didn't have to listen to me talking about whatever I talked about (I can't even remember) Thankyou, you guys made it an even better experience. I will also say thankyou for those of you that stood in line for me and got stuff autographed. I owe you all something.
I enjoyed the times that we just hung out. It wasn't us running around and doing stuff, it was the times when we were just sitting and hanging out and talking. Those are the times that you learn the most about your friends.... 3 hours in an ice cream place i thought was fun.
I went to one other concert, and that was the Grits concert. I have heard a couple of their songs. I Know that they are a good group. We didn't show up early this time, we showed up while they were playing, I didn't mind. Mason had decided that we were going to get up to the front by the stage (the only problem is that there are around 200 people here that have all thought this same idea, so they are packed in rather tightly. But I will follow mason. Just before we start, paul decides to come, so its me, mason, and paul going to the front. Its easy at the back because its kinda spread out. but as we get deeper into it, it was like magic how mason got through, it was soo much fun, a couple songs later, we had positioned ourselves right at the stage, we made it so we were right at the speaker, I thought that was cool. we got to see DJ Skill Spinz do his thang up close, that was amazing. That was so much fun...
But in years to come, when I can only remember that I saw tait and Grits. When I don't remember the songs, or how we got to the front, or that I waited in line for days, I will remember one thing that happened to me.
David Aderholt was talking. I like his style. At the end of his message he said "ok everybody listen" The first thing that jumped into my mind was that he was going to have the people come up that feel that God is calling them to work some way for him, maybe youth pastor, pastor, missionary, something like that. I had a feeling he was going to call them all foreward. That was something that I didn't want to happen. I didn't want him to say that. but I listened to him, and as I listened, I knew that is where it was going. I have thought about this question before, so it isn't like I had never thought it before. I know that I really would like to be a youth pastor. I didn't want this question to be asked because what if I didn't get up. What if I couldn't make myself get up. Well, he ended up asking for them to come down, I sat there for about 10 seconds, and got up. That is the one thing that I will remember over everything, but it goes even farther past that. When I was down there praying. I wanted mason to come down and pray with me, then the guy talking said, youth pastors, counselors, if you have a student down here feel free to come down here. You have no idea how happy that made me, but after like 45 seconds of waiting, I wondered if mason was going to come. Just as I thought that, I felt it, Mason put his hands on my shoulders. I was so incredibly happy that he was there to pray with me.
My life has taken a dramatical change in the last couple months, he brought that up while we were down there talking, and it is amazing how different I have become from a couple months ago. I think back to those times, and if I didn't change certain things, I wouldn't have been at LIFE. I think that that was the reason for me being there, not the concerts, but that. That was the reason why God had me go to that conference. It was awesome
I will post up pictures when I get them. Thankyou to all my friends for all the support you have given me, not just this last week, but in my life. If any of you need anything, just let me know.
-Jon-