Crazy Love Block Party & Missionary Benefit Concert 7/31

The Crazy Love Block Party was crazy cool bringing the love of Christ to the peeps of Reading! It was an amazing time of ministering in song to all who were in earshot of the stage. The word is that 28 new souls surrendered to Christ for the first time and 2 people rededicated their lives as well. It was an amazing time of sharing the songs that God has blessed me with and lifting up His Name!

The missionary benefit concert "Bring the Light of Christ to Liberia" approaches on 7/31/09 7:30 pm, at Hope of the Nations, 134 N. 5th Street, Reading, PA. It is the third stop on the Gems Tour and I am anxiously anticapating this event. It was on my heart many months ago to help my missionary friend, Elena Pellizzaris-Freas as she endeavors to return to the orphanages in Liberia.

I once was an orphan of sorts myself and can relate to the rejection and complete abandonment that the children of Liberia face, though my biological mother and father did not leave me due to illness or civil war. Though being poor in America as a child, living in the campground for a bit before I was school-aged, is a far stretch from the Liberian poverty, I somehow feel connected to the children when I look at Elena's photos.

I thank God that missionaries are called to be the salt and light for these children so that they know that Jesus loves them, no matter what else has happened in their lives. I praise God that there are Godly people to tell them that they have an identity in Christ that surpasses any circumstance that they face in the physical.

I feel the call to be a missionary musically, and to take the Light of Christ forth through music and my testimony to all who would listen! I will shout about what God has done in my life and how He has restored me wherever He opens the doors for me to go, even to the ends of the earth!

I want to support Elena and her ministry as she has such a heart for the abandoned and lost! Please join us at the benefit concert at the end of the month!