CAST 2018- small but mighty!
With combined talents we put together an original show that we will be using to spread the gospel, not only around the Central Territory but also in Argentina later in the summer. After ten days of hard work at THQ, we finally had our show road ready, everyone’s finger prints are seen in our original show named, “Just The Way You Are” from Sandy’s over all theme and leading, to Amanda’s choreography, Erin’s song choice, to Nikki’s original choreo-Drama “The Crossover”; we hope to tell the story of the gospel. We spent time in voice-over recording sessions and some members had a fun time re-learning how to use their timbrel. For our rehearsal camp, we stayed in a hotel where we spent most of our fellowship time together. One of the highlights would be that each night one team member made dinner for the whole team. Nikki made chicken stir-fry, Erin made naan, Amanda made pasta, and Sandy made rice, quesadillas, and enchiladas. Each night would be filled with joy and laughter as we helped each other cook dinner and clean.
As a team, CAST had decided that we wanted to spend more time working on our personal time with God. Each day after lunch we met and Sandy would read us a small piece of scripture and a devotional, just asking us some questions to reflect on. Afterwards each of us would find a quite space for thirty minutes to reflect and just spend time with God. Some of us read the Bible, listen to music to embrace His word, or wrote out our thoughts from that day’s scripture.
On Sunday, June 16th, the team attended the Rockford Temple Corps and Nikki’s parents, the Bowyers, hosted us. They took the team to lunch and allowed us to spend some time in their home before our drive back to THQ.
Finally after all our hard work to complete the show was over, it was time to make the drive to WMNI’s music camp at Little Pine Island to do our first performance of “Just The Way You Are”. Rain and traffic made this a little harder than it needed to be, but we made our way. We even managed to have lunch with a past CAST member; Jacob Wise. He seemed excited for us as we told him about our show and wished us the best of luck as we set off on our way.
Please keep our team in your prayers as we continue to work on our show and head to EMI’s music camp, where we will be staying and leading for the whole week.
~Sandy, Amanda, Nikki, & Erin