Everyone wants to touch the poofy hair!
"What are you looking at?!"
Besties for life <3 ... even on road trips haha
Cuddle buddies!!
FUNNY STORY!!!! curt cannot see out of his right eye.. and we have this little instrument called the melodica. they're kinda funny looking its like a handheld piano/recorder whistle thing.... ANYWAYS... the piano part is on the right hand side... and Curt wanted to play it... but he cant see it.... SO... he got a little air tube thing and hooked it up to it and played it through the tube so he could see what he was doing... RESULT: us getting annoyed PRETTY quickly... just think of a kid playing a recorder for 7 min straight in the back of the van... YUP thats what it was like hahaha
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Hit the Road Jack!!!
GOOD MORNING!!! day 2
Bethel, Josh and Sam goofing it up at the breakfast table :P
Jen and me... in our morning tiredness
Josh making fun of D Hongs crazy morning asian hair ahha
Curt... being curt
Our leader... who's pretty much just as mature as us...you would have never guessed he'd be the one incharge of us us hey?? JUST KIDDING!!! :PDay 2** Eastside Foursquare Church Washington
Day 2... and we've already experienced the consequences of Taco Bell!! :S We had an amazing night in Stanwood staying with the pastor's family. All of the girls got to sleep in the beds... and the guys got couches and floor space... i'd say things are working out perfectly haha. Today we hung out with the pastors family in the morning and hit the road around noon. They laid out an amazing breakfast spread for us and blessed us with their amazing hospitality and company. Not to mention... their 2 year old daughter Jane.... cutest thing ever!
We packed up the beastly van and hit the road again. If there was one word to describe our tour team to you... it would be: LAUGHTER. The amount of laughter that goes around in the beast is shocking!! We just have so much fun together! IF i were into Miley Cyrus music... i would be singing "Party in the USA" pretty much everday... cause it pretty much describes our fun times... AND we're just that cool... AND you wish you were with us so you could sing it too... just admit it... you secretly listen to her music :P We were gonna start a journal with all of our funny quotes... but it turned out that in the past 2 days we could have filled up a WHOLE book!!! Kramer is probably one of the most RANDOM and hilarious people to trip with... and Jodi... where to start with her?? Lets just say that shes the Christian version of drunk when she's tired... and in the morning she ACTUALLY has a hard time remembering what she did the night before hahaha. Last night at McDonalds she tried to return the ketchup to the people behind the counter.... and then somehow convinced me to play leap frog with her. ALL THE WHILE.. the guys were having a somewhat serious convo. Whoever said that guys are the life of the party was seriously mistaken... im pretty sure a short clip of our girls in a typical tour team moment could prove that theory wrong no problem!! I think the guys are a little culture shocked... Dont know if they've ever come across such entertaining/hyper girls before :P
We stopped off for our first shopping trip at Target. Jodi, Jen and I hit up Famous Footwear and all bought our first pair of converse shoes... YES WE ARE BEAMING!!! we're soo stoked about them! but... we need to dirty them up a bit... cause they're too white!! shocking... i know. So yea, we stopped off to go shop.. and then hit up Taco Bell. THAT is a whole nother story in itself! We crammed all 10 of us in one rounded corner booth!! YUP!!! hip-to-hip... knee-to-knee. It wasn't till after we were done eating that we realized half of our meals had beans in them!!! OH BOY!! so far we haven't had too many rear-end speeches.... but they have been making themselves present... whether we are in a van... or touring the church. WELCOME TO OUR NEW LIFE!!! OH and just incase you are wondering... the public rear speeches have only been from the guys... the girls woulda killed me if i left it so general just incase you guys thought it was us hahah. ITS THE GUYS!! but thats nothing new.. is it? Enough about indigestion... lets talk about something different haha. Right now we are currently at Eastside Foursquare Church, where we will be spending the night. This is the church that Curt (one of our guys) spent his last 2 summers interning at. It's pretty cool to have some sort of connection to a church we're staying at. We dont have anything planned for tonight other than some service work that the church is going to hook us up with. Not quite sure what that means yet... could mean folding bulletins... and their church is huge... so that could take a while LOL.
ANYWAYS... i should probably get back to hanging out with the team... we're just chillin in the Youth room playing games. Hope you enjoy the updates and pics :)
**Lana Sullivan
Dawn Marie staring up the skits
D Hong adding his Korean charm into the mix
D Hong(nose) and Dawn Marie(heart) in the first skit
Me and Bethel getting ready to leave Canada :)
Sam and Jen ;)
Jodi trying to get off of the van roof... much assistance needed :P
Packing on the van roof
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Day 1 ** Stanwood Washington
... And we're off!!!! Day 1 in a 15 passenger van with 10 people... let the fun times begin! if we weren't comfortable with each other before... WE ARE NOW! Its funny how such a short time together in a squishy van can bring people closer (and I'm not just talking about them practically sitting on you due to no room). From just one day, i can say that we have a pretty amazing team :) We're all pretty high energy, passionate, and striving for God to move in the churches we visit. I have to say, I think God knew what he was doing when he put us all together :) .. and this is JUST the beginning!
So we left base at about 1pm and didn't actually get across the border till 3:30. D Hong had to get his visa renewed, so we stood in a stuffy border lineup for a good hour or so. If we weren't all so tired from all of our recent late nights and early mornings, we might have actually gotten bored. BUT, somehow we all found ways to entertain one another and those around us in the lineup.
Conclusion #1: When one is tired... everyone near will be greatly entertained.
Conclusion #2: After being tired and a great source of entertainment for others... chances are, you make a fool of yourself and you'll regret it later.
Conclusion #3: When you learn to laugh along with everyone, life is a whole lot more fun :D
Our first stop was Stanwood Washington were we ran a youth group night. We were all surprisingly confident and not nervous. However, once the ministry started... we all started to doubt ourselves. Tough crowd much?? i think we were the only ones laughing for the most part. haha. Our message is about church unity, so we took the idea of the Brady Bunch and made it our own into the Body Bunch. We pushed through till the end and did the best we knew how. By the time we got to our drime i felt like that would be the breaking point for some. For the first time i felt the weight of my role. Basically the drime is about everyone being robotically controlled by satan. He wakes up the relationship boy and girl and then splits them up. Two guys end up fighting over the girl. Then satan wakes up vanity and shows her how gorgeous she is, and she gets totally consumed with pride. Then i am woken up. My role is "lonely". Satan calls me forward and then blocks me with a wall of fear. The rest of the drime is about everyone mocking me cause i cannot get out, them getting caught up in sin, and satan putting me down. Then they are given a rope from satan, and he persuades them into a tug of war with each other. He then cuts the rope and the become disillusioned and fall to the ground. When the rope is cut my box walls fall down. But i am so stricken with fear and tradition that i dont want to leave my 'box'. The whole time that im fighting with my insecurity the others are falling into adultary and sin... all the while wrapping themselves in the rope. Finally satan grabs the end of the rope and wraps it tightly around them and pulls them in the direction he wants them to go .... all the while im fighting with satan and myself to go and join/help the others and step out of my insecurity. the drime ends with everyone tangled in the rope and depressed... and me feeling set apart and frustrated because i didnt know how to step out and have confidence. I felt the weight of my role because for the last half it is the main focus, how i portray it can determine if it impacts the youth or not! WOAH!! what a responsibility! So i decided to throw my whole heart and body into it. By the end i was so breathless and exhausted from fighting the wall and trying to escape. I thought that i might have put all that effort out for nothing... but afterwards a few of the girls came up to me and told me how impacting and effective the drime was. HALLELUJAH!!! All our efforts WERE for a greater cause! I guess i'm really learning that you cannot always read people by their outward expression... cause maybe theres something going on in their heart that they just dont know how to communicate! I am proud to announce that we just might have some PLBC recruits coming in the next few years from the city of Stanwood :) We all had an amazing time afterwards just hanging out with the youth and teaching them new games to play with their friends and vice versa.
SURPRISING NOTE!!! we tried to pull that whole over usage of EH thing... and only a couple of them understood the whole EH Canadian stereotype! THE WORLD IS CHANGING INTO A BETTER PLACE :P now we just have to work on convincing them that we actually do drive trucks and not husky sleds haha.
Well... it has been a long and VERY productive day. I think we are all gonna try to head off to bed after just watching 2 episodes of American Idol and attempting to digest our McDonalds meal of preservatives. I hope to keep you all posted daily on our progress and adventures. Keep us in your prayers! GOD BLESS!!!
*Lana and the tour team*
Tour team members:
-Lana Sullivan
-Jodi Warren
-Bethel Tamarey
-Dawn Marie Small
-Jennifer Tardif
-Samuel Romijn
-Daniel Hong (D Hong)
-Daniel Kramer (Kramer)
-Curt Branscombe
-Joshua Benzinger (OUR LEADER)
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