Chisholm Project

This weekend, 6 of "our" kids were in a musical through the Nehemiah Project, a Chisholm ministry of FBC Montgomery. It was really well done and quite an accomplishement for 50 wild and wooly chirruns. The name of the musical is Hans Bronson's Gold Medal Mission and is about this Finnish Olympian coming to know the Lord through the testimony of three persistent little children who happen to be newspaper reporters at his Olympic press conference. I do have to confess that Hans Bronson might be the whitest character ever concocted by our Christian subculture... I mean, he is from Finland, and he is vitten to talk very much like Arnold Schwarzeneggar. Yah. Veally, he is. So watching and hearing a grown black man talk like vis vas very, very funny to me, as were the multitude of black chorus children behind him who had no clue why they were chanting, "Yah!... yah!... yah!..." like a bunch of Scandanavian, steroided Vikings.

By the way, the Nehemiah Project had the flyer (above) changed, and a black dude's face was imposed on the original blonde Hans, as were several of the children's faces on the originally Anglo children. Hans was as legitimately black and Finnish as he could possibly be.

Aside from how funny the choice of musical was, I need to reiterate how impressed I was with what was done. Mad, mad props to Rhonda Thompson and Eleanor McKelvey from FBC for their hard work and patience. The children-- some of whom are very untame-- were angelic. I felt like the earth had been subdued and redemption had been accomplished just watching a living, breathing, singing, structured piece of artwork being fleshed out before my eyes. It was an excellent reminder to me that the Lord can and will do through us anything that we are willing to do with and for our neighbors. I want to see more fruit from our ministry, and I hope that I will be willing to commit more time and planning and sweat toward that end.

The other bit of news that I wish to share is that our buddy David Dwyer should be moving into 9 Rotary one day this week. We bought and built a bunkbed and some additional storage space for him. It is official that 3 is going to be the maximum capacity. David's presence will mean a lot to our Hispanic neighbors who LOVE him and ask about him all the time. The kids love David too... in fact, I think everyone loves David. You need to know him.

Please pray for a fast-approaching and significantly cooler Autumn because our house is skanky-danky HOT right now. Other than that, pray for the usual-- grace, provision, ministry opportunities, salvation.