A great choir, like a great church, knows that nothing great is accomplished without total commitment to teamwork. People working together, each pulling their own weight for the greater good of the team. Our Celebration Singers Student Choir knows this first-hand, and week after week it is taught, yes even drilled, into their heads and hearts. With every song they sing and every concert they give, it is teamwork and interdependency on each other that has caused them to rise above the mediocre expectations of the norm ("that's too hard") to the extraordinary heights of excellence and possibility ("we CAN do this!"). It is teamwork that causes them to know how to trust each other, to hold each other accountable, to lift each other up in the valleys and to celebrate with each other on the mountaintop. It is teamwork that allows them to create together what they cannot create on their own...harmony.
Today, we had the incredible opportunity to go whitewater rafting on the Arkansas River...yes, the ARKANSAS RIVER in Colorado. A few of us even "called the Hogs" as we set off on our course! If you are able to listen closely, you might hear the echo as far as Little Rock! And, in rafting the river, we were able to experience the beauty of teamwork.
Some say that our kids are too young to understand what this means. I beg to differ, and have multiple hundreds of examples to dispute that claim. Too often, we sell our kids much too short of their God-given potential...but I am here to tell you as an eye witness many times over: they are smart enough to do what we as adults are smart enough to teach them to do. Today they worked as teams, from the youngest to the oldest, boys and girls, young men and young women...they proved to themselves and to the world that, if given a chance, they can and will conquer the challenges before them: from beautiful sacred music filled with complex harmonies to the roaring rapids of the Arkansas River; from the difficulties they face in their educational settings to meeting the needs of hurting people: if you serve a big God, expect big things, dream big dreams and work "with all your heart, as unto the Lord" (Colossians 3:23), mountains can be taken like Caleb did, giants can be slain like David did, battles can be won like Joshua did...
and rivers can be rafted, like we did.
If you attend one event this entire year, be with us this coming Sunday night for their return home concert at 6:00 pm...and be inspired once again by the beauty of teamwork in the body of Christ.
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