2005 Youth Music Mission Tour to Colorado - 6/1/05

Another busy day for our mission tour! The paint crew put the finishing touches on Fellowship Hall and we even painted and covered a few bulletin boards to spruce them up a bit. Another crew went to Forrest Manor apartments (which is an affordable housing complex that's part of the Colorado Coalition for the homeless) to pick up trash and pull a few weeds. Once again, we were finished ahead of schedule and were off to prepare for our next event...

...which was a performance at the Senior Resource Center on 32nd street. The SRC is an adult day care center and there were about 30 or so people were waiting for our arrival. We performed our usual set of anthems and instrumental pieces and as usual they were well received. It is always a blessing to see smiles on the faces of our audience and hear their thanks and praise.

That evening, we returned to Montview Blvd Presbyterian Church and participated in their Taizé service. Carrie, Daniel, Jane, Joseph and Meg all performed solos during the service and everyone sang the refrains and psalms during the meditative service. A time of peace and reflection, the TaizÉ was a great opportunity for for us to worship the Lord.

Heading out to dinner, we stopped at Goodfriends restaurant and enjoyed some good food and good fellowship. We thought our mission work was over for the day, but one final performance awaited us. It turns out that one of our friendly waitresses was a voice major and is graduating this week and one of the other waitresses asked us if we could sing something. In addition, we figured that since we had an impromptu birthday at our table, we might want to give something back. We sang our arrangement of Psalm 139 ("Lord, you have searched me and known me...") and we drew a crowd. People came from the other areas of the restaurant to listen to us sing and we were met with a smile on every face. The young woman who was graduating was very pleased and she said it "made my night." It just proves that you really can do mission work anywhere and sometimes it's just doing something small to put a smile on someone else's face.

Assuming we don't have any more spontaneous mission work to do here in Denver, we're off to Glenwood Springs tomorrow for the remainder of our vacation. The people we have met, upon hearing our destination tomorrow, have all told us how much of a good time we're going to have and how jealous that they are that we're heading out there, so it sounds like it's going to be a blast. Also assuming we're not out having too much fun, we'll be sure to let you know how it goes.