First of all to my supporters, I want to take the time to apologize for the lack of blogs I’ve posted since leaving the country. I kind of figured I would struggle at posting but that’s no excuse. I would really love to be writing something at least once a week even if I don’t get them posted right away. So here it goes….I’m going to catch you up on my time in Honduras (Month 1). I am now in Guatemala (Month 2) and have been here for just over a week.
Sometimes in life you find things out when you least expect it. When you are placed in a circumstance when you have no choice but to fill a roll that needs to be filled. I mean I’ve spent my life knowing I wasn’t a horrible singer, but to be completely honest my sister has always been the singer, I was the dancer. So what happens….I guess I can’t say I was shocked; my team (Team Mashach) is labeled the music team. We weren’t actually assigned “music team” but it is the title that fell on us, so what was left to do but to embrace it.
This has been the norm this past month….who’s going to lead worship or do the music?? Oh TEAM MASHACH WILL…..we have led worship for INHFA, at the dump, at various church services, taking it to the streets. Our biggest challenge…since we are in Central America….WE HAVE TO SING IN SPANISH as well as English! So that’s been stretching. We are super blessed that we have a fluent Spanish speaker on our team, the lovely Betty. She has translated so many songs, and we have done our best not to butcher them. We would have been lost without her, and it’s been really cool to see God use her musically as well because like me it wasn’t something she ever thought she would be doing. Somehow it has not ended there, we discovered that we can write songs. It all started in a tent one day, Marcie was playing around on the guitar and all of the sudden we had a chorus for a song. Isaiah 61 inspired the song, which is the verse that our team derived our name (MASHACH). We had the chance in Honduras to sing it for our whole squad for the first time and it was absolutely amazing. God really showed up in a big way, seriously everytime we sing it, I’m like wow God this song is totally from you. I’ll post it to this blog for those of you who haven’t heard it yet.
