Hello blog world! I remember that was the title that WordPress gave the first post to my blog when I started it. It has been so long since I have blogged, it feels like that is appropriate to say again!

Anywho, this last week was A-MAZING! Just wrapped up the first C3 conference since being on staff at Fellowship. It was awesome to be a part of what God is doing through Fellowship and Pastor Ed and Lisa. God definitely showed up in a real way!

Somehow during this last week, I lost my computer power. So today I went back to the church to try to find it. I walked into the band room and it was empty and not a soul around. It was a weird feeling. Just a couple of days earlier, we were experiencing a life changing time with each other and with God. We were laughing, praying, crying and growing together. Now, all those people were gone, it was quiet all around, and I was just looking into an empty room.

The other day I read Proverbs 24:32 and have been trying to apply this to my life. I was observing this empty room and I knew there had to be something to learn from this….

Sometimes we think a conference, a camp, a book or a song will keep the fire alive. If we could just hear the C3 speakers all the time. If we could just recreate that experience.

The reality is that all those things are great, but they are just an empty room now. People, books, camps and conferences can enhance things, but what makes all those great is an encounter with the Holy Spirit. It is the Presence of God. C3 was great because we encountered the Holy Spirit. If you really want to keep that alive post-C3, stay close to God! If you try to do anything else without that, you will end up with an empty room!