Getting Closer

So, it's 12 days until our Boone event!!!

I feel prepared in that I know what I have to do, where I have to be, and what is expected of me. I feel well informed and capable.

12 days will be sufficient to make it all happen, if I work hard and stay motivated until the 27th.

I need to:

practice with the band for my music.
compile the information I want to present at the "cultural table"
continue communicating with ArtSociety about their sound needs and merch table
continue helping Cat and others with whatever their needs are.

I'm really excited about this event. I think it will be really interesting to see the response we get. LIFTED is a gospel-centered event, not to shove opinions down people's throats, but because LIFTED truly believes Jesus cares the most about child sex trafficking, more than we could ever care about it. Part of my conversation in the past few meetings has been through giving insight about Boone peculiarities when it comes to the idea of Christianity. Boone is a place of great passion, specifically passion for causes. Boone is also a place particularly resistant to Christianity. Based on my time there, I can say that overall many people respect Jesus, believe He was real, and believe He did good things, much like Ghandi or Muhammad. But when it comes to Christianity the religion, nothing could be more despicable, backwards, irrelevant, and out of date.

My insights have been helpful. Not helpful in that LIFTED has planned to do things a certain way based on this, or that LIFTED has used this information to "up" it's "Christian strategy." That's far from what the response was, and honestly, even if we were a bunch of geniuses and planned a spectacular form of Worldview Manipulation we still couldn't change people's minds or hearts. It has been helpful in that LIFTED has been more focused in it's prayer. We're praying that people will dare to care about children they don't know. We're praying that the name of Jesus won't be so offensive that people will turn off their ears to what we're saying, and what we're saying is that Child Sex Trafficking is global, it's growing, it's heartbreaking, and we MUST RESPOND.

We're praying that the Lord would do what He wants to do at this event. We want to yield our plans and our strategies to Him, so He can address individual hearts. Because at the heart, we're just like the kids being sold, we're just like the girl willingly selling herself for extra cash, we're just like the men who buy them.