Shine Down

My Lighthouse

Wouldn't Burn Away

Let's backtrack to last month, shall we?

We siblings had a blast putting together our very first music/dance video!  It was a video about the Hanukkah story, featuring a song written by Jordan and a dance choreographed by me.  We had a lot of fun on the project and especially enjoyed getting our "adopted" sister, Lindsey, to join us in the dancing fun!

Here are the behind the scenes pictures of all our hard work!

And that, my friends, is our lovely backdrop.  Tape included.

 Trying to get the camera angle right... and no one doing a very good job of helping out.

 Working with the little guys.

 Dance shots.

 We only had an hour to put this dance together... and no one but me knew how to do it!  Everyone did such a great job catching on quickly.

 Keeping the arms up, because it is just so much better that way.  ;)

(That was a tricky jazz step I insisted everyone learn--it looks great!)

 Laughing because something went wrong, which is a good thing because it means we're happy.  :)

 Having some fun!

 Contemplating the idea of adding a sequence from the Fox Trot...  ;)

Hava Nagila backtracking...

The ending is a favorite!

This must have been an amusing conversation.

 After all our hard work, we decided to have a bit of fun with the infamous "Awkward Family Photo" (for all you Studio C lovers out there)!

A couple nights later, we all work on our movie developments... while Eden kicks back and eats ice cream!

Our movie's promo picture!

And yes, we have a blooper reel of all our fumbles, funnies, and fun!  Enjoy!

"I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."  ~John 812b

Ted Pearce and One Accord

Our church hosted Ted Pearce (internationally known Messianic artist) for a worship concert.  Since one of the days he was playing was on Shiloh's birthday, we went to enjoy a fun evening of praise songs, worship, and dance.

We arrived and settled in, but just as he started to play, some technical issues started up.  The sound crew tried to troubleshoot the problem... but he still couldn't get his program to run correctly.

(Sorry for the bad image quality--it was hard to take pictures.)

Some of the dancing we did during the concert.

He was just at the point of calling it off when he decided to call up anyone who wanted to join him on the stage!  We had four women singers, four men singers, Jordan on the keyboard, a lady on the tambourine (I had never seen such amazing tambourine playing before!), and a guy on the conga drums.

 And this was the ensemble we put together! 

It was just an incredible evening of worship!  We just sang our hearts out even though we didn't know have the songs!  Just being in the presence of the Lord like that was amazing.

Some of the congregation dancing.

Mr. Pearce is such a talented musician and songwriter!

After the concert, we had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Pearce.  After talking for a bit, he asked if we could join him on a few songs the next morning.  Wow!  What an honor!!!  We were totally stoked!

We came early to set up and did our mic check... and ran out of time to rehearse the songs.  We only knew one of the songs were we playing and the other two we had heard for the first time last night.  It was going to be all improvisation!

It turned out to be an incredible morning!  The Lord blessed us beyond belief as we played with Mr. Pearce.  It was amazing to just have everything flow together like we had practiced for days... Praise Him!!!  It was an amazing time of worship as we glorified the Lord!  Mr. Pearce was so much fun to work with and had such a fun personality. 

Sadly, we were not able to get able to get everything on film... but we were able to get the majority of two of the songs. 

 

I feel so humbled and grateful that the Lord blessed us with this amazing opportunity!  All the glory goes to Him!

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~Bethany 

2014 Christian Heritage Conference

div style="text-align: center;"> This is the event of the year for our family!  Surrounded by crowds of other like-minded Believers, listening to thought-provoking messages, and participating in various musical performances, you can probably put things together and guess why we enjoy it so much.  Oh, of course it helps that it is a huge social event as well... I mean, in my family, every one is a social butterfly!

(Oh, and I should mention that there was a very special event in April that I haven't got around to posting about yet.  It will be up here soon!)

Thanks to Paul L. and Evan S. for taking some of these pictures... you can tell which ones they took because of the super amazing camera lenses!  ;)

 Eden and I in the back of our looong van.

 This is the typical trying-to-decide-what-session-I-want-to-attend moment.  ;)

 The big auditorium.

 This is my Cute Boy!

 Listening to one of the speakers.

The vendor hall.  A

n Extrovert simply does not go through this room without stopping to talk at least 53 times.

 Wave to anyone you recognize! 

I had the amazing opportunity to meet and get a picture with Mr. Ken Ham!

The first evening, both Jordan and Eden performed as soloists in the Family Music Night.  

Jordan and Eden waiting on their mic check..

...And that was when I decided it would be nice to meet Ken Ham.  ;)

Apparently this is what musicians do backstage.

We had lots of friends who also performed that evening.  Everyone did so well!  God was glorified and the listeners were blessed!

Evan S. performed a prelude with an amazing hymn arrangement.

  Eden brought the house down with "The Holy City".  This was her first time doing a performance this big and she was wonderful!

The Bisecglia sister as Whispering Roses played a lovely Baroque piece with Ross L. on the saxophone.

And last but not least, Jordan played Chopin's Revolutionary Etude.  That was a smashing success!

Elanee, Shiloh, Eden, Jordan, Evan, Me, and John after a wonderful evening of music!

We're just a group of normal homeschoolers... why would you ask?

Heading back for the evening and enjoying the lights... obviously Eden was relishing in her Sopranoisms to not notice the poses...  ;)

"The purpose of homeschooling is to give our children the heart and mind of Jesus Christ."
~R.C. Sproul Jr.

Ken Ham really stressed how, in the debate with Bill Nye, he took the opportunity to share the gospel to everyone listening from all over the country.

A sea of socialized homeschoolers.  Can you imagine that combination?!

Some of the lovely S. family... with a photobombing L. daughter in the back.  ;)

The next day we were preparing for the chorale performance.

Mr. Craig is our amazing director!

No, you can't walk through this place without saying "hi" more than once!

Noah C. directs folks to the vendor hall!

The final chorale rehearsal.

Where are the guys going?!

The Sopranos.

The Tenors and Basses.
(Yes, the guys are always outnumbered.  It's a given.)

The Awesome Altos.
(What?!  It's true!)

Mr. Craig our amazing director.

Chris Rogers the chorale pianist.

After finish of our favorite conference, we hosted our annual Closing Conference Party.
This was the biggest one yet!

 We had some issues with our hotel and the location got changed to a different hotel... that was quite confusing, but everything worked out okay, praise the Lord!

 Food and fellowship.


The evening was a bit disastrous for Paul L...

Ah, there's a better one!

It was great seeing the S. family again who came all the way from Canada!

And lest you think that this picture was easy to get...

There was photobombing...

Serious changes in some short person's height (and more photobombing)...

And talking...

"You didn't think it would be this hard, did you?"

The next morning we said our goodbyes to all the delightful families we spent time with...

Obviously the girls cooperate when it comes time for pictures.  (Okay, I know that isn't always the case... but I thought I'd just try to see if you noticed.)

Final group photo!

 A silent top hat wanders the hotel streets...

 Waving at the little guys in the window!

 A Judah and Bethany selfie.

On the way home we saw this amazing double rainbow.  Sadly, I wasn't able to get a good picture of it, but this one turned out the best.

Well.  That was a very special weekend pack full of very special memories!  :)  I'm already looking forward to next year!

"O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together."  ~Psalm 34:3

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~Bethany