Pastor Larry and his shotgun

Well, as promised, here is Pastor Larry - the proud owner of the shotgun.

We Have a Winner....

We have a winner from the shotgun raffle....

Pastor Larry Beard - Children's Pastor at Church on the Rock, Lubbock, TX.

I'll deliver his gun after church tomorrow and get a picture for you all to see our happy winner.
It was fun calling him last night....he was certain that it was a joke. When we talked him into believing he really won. He said, "That is too cool." Way to go, Pastor Larry. You are too cool!!!

Thanks to everyone who helped make this a great fundraiser!!!! Even with being gone to Africa during half the ticket sales time, even with a crazy economy, and even with the wildness of the holday season....we still pulled together and sold 450 tickets. Wow! What a blessing to help me get started on all the expenses of moving to South Africa!!!

Gun Raffle When & Where

Well the much anticipated announcement of the when & where of the shotgun raffle is finally here ;)

Terry & Sabina Shilling are a part of the West Texas Encounter the Cross team and have been a big help with the shotgun raffle for me. On friday night they are hosting a Worship Gathering at their house. They do this every once in a while and it is always great. Last time there were probably close to a hundred people gathered around their countryside home for the night.
So, I've asked them if we can go ahead and do the drawing at their house on friday night since so many of the people who have been involved will be out there.
So here's the info in simple form:

Shotgun Raffle Drawing
When: Friday, December 5 @ 7pm
Where: Terry & Sabina's Worship Night

Tambourine Video 3

Okay, last video post of these amazing tambourine players! This one actually is of some of the worship at church on our last sunday in Ghana.

Tambourine Video 2

Well, apparently Blogger only likes to post one video per blog post....so here is video number 2.

The Most Amazing Tambourine Players in the World

I'm pretty sure that during this last trip to Ghana I had the privilege of hearing and seeing the most amazing tambourine players in the world. I wish I had a short video that did justice to how amazing these ladies were, but it just was not fully captured on my little camera. During our first conference one of the ladies played on the worship team, then one night our team got to visit the home church of the tambourine players. We were at their home church one evening and about 6 six ladies were perfectly choreographed playing the tambourines. The church leaders in Ghana must have noticed how amazed out team was with the ladies, because they were all at the host church on our final Sunday in Ghana. I have never heard tambourines play in such unison with the worship team....you can't really hear this on my little videos. Since my camera is so small and I was close to the tambourines it sounds like they overpower the worship team, but live they blended in perfectly with the full music sound of the team. Also, I can't even begin to explain how fast these ladies could play a tambourine. And unfortunately, none of my little videos captured a great choreographed moment. These ladies would bend down low with the tambourine flying in their hands the whole time, then rise up and play at waist level, then move up with arms high in the air, then move around some more....all the while they played super fast in perfect unison. Absolutely the most amazing tambourine playing I've ever witnessed.....actually, I'm pretty sure they have to be the best in the world!
I'm going to load all the videos and pics that Google will allow me to post on this blog so you can get a small idea of what it was like ;) I really wish you could actually experience seeing these ladies in person!

PS - I know some of these videos are side-ways but I don't know how to fix that....sorry :)