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Oh Happy Day!!! Adventures with the Antequera Gospel Choir

4/15/2016

 
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Billy sings in a gospel choir in Spain! Our town has a municipal music school and offers this choir as a class and performance group. This has proven to be a fun activity for Billy (he misses the days of singing with his buddies in the choir in Navasota).
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It has also proven to be a great opportunity to share about Christ. The choir sings gospel songs in English. The choir is made up of Spaniards. So, as a
native English speaker, Billy helps teach pronunciation, as well as translating the lyrics so everyone can understand what they are singing. On many occasions, the gospel message has been heard and received in choir as a new word to listening ears! Most of the choir members are not believers or are unchurched. Some are Catholic by birth, but do not associate with any congregation. This has been a fun way to build relationships within the community and to share his faith in a natural and non-threatening way. 

Atrophy

4/15/2016

 
atrophy
Origin from Greek, ‘lack of food’, from a- ‘without’ + trophē ‘food’.
verb
1.  (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or injury "the calf muscles will atrophy"
          synonyms: waste away, waste, become emaciated, wither, shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, become shrunken, dry up, decay, wilt; 
2.  gradual decline in effectiveness or vigor due to underuse or neglect.
         synonyms:  peter out, taper off, tail off, dwindle, deteriorate, decline, wane, fade, fade away, fade out, give in, give up, give way, crumble, disintegrate, collapse, slump, go downhill, draw to a close, subside
noun
the process of atrophying or state of having atrophied.
       synonyms: wasting, wasting away, emaciation, withering, shriveling, shriveling up, shrinking, drying up, wilting, decaying, decay; 

I remember back to several years ago.  I remember the fear that I had when my leg was not responding.  I had a long-troubling back issue that became a major problem when I sneezed.  Okay – no jokes here… it’s true, a sneeze caused me to rupture a disc in my back and sent me in to severe pain.  It was a pain like no other, like fire was searing my whole body.  In the emergency room, they gave me the maximum amount of morphine they could give me, and I continued to feel like I was on fire.  The problem was a nerve that had been compromised in the injury.  When I was seen by my doctor and referred for surgery, my leg was already not responding.  The signals to the nerve in my leg had been blocked and I could not make my calf respond.   I had surgery a couple of weeks later to deal with the disc, but the damage was already done to my calf.  In such a short period of time, the muscle had begun to atrophy – lack of use and lack of nerve signals had already caused it to begin the process of decline, of shutting down and giving up.

It took time, many months, but once my back was repaired and I began to work on using the leg again, I slowly regained what was lost. 
I was reminded of this scenario recently when I heard a Spanish pastor discussing atrophy with regard to our faith... 

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    Laurie Drum

    In my USA life, I was a teacher in Texas for 15 years.  I was also a professional photographer, a soccer mom, a horsewoman, and the neighborhood hospitality queen.  I did "Joanna Gaines farmhouse style" before Chip and JoJo were even a thing - we restored an 1884 Victorian farmhouse in small town Texas and did shiplap walls until I thought I'd go crazy. I taught at NASA, scuba dived with astronauts in training, and studied animals at Sea World for educational purposes. I've tried just about everything, because I have an insatiable need to know if I can do it! Never underestimate a Texas girl in cowboy boots!

    ​In 2006, my husband Billy and I became cross-cultural workers (CCWs) with TMS Global.  For five years, we served in three rural Quechua Wanca villages in the Andes of Peru.  And when I say rural, I mean RURAL - like no potty!  I spent my days in Peru learning to live a Quechua lifestyle in a rustic adobe house - cooking Peruvian foods, sewing with Quechua women, raising my chickens and goats and pigs, and planting my gardens. Now I live my life in small town Spain, serving other cross-cultural workers via teaching and training and care, and helping displaced people to navigate their new reality in Europe.

    I'm passionate about fostering personal growth, growth in community, and growth in The Kingdom. Walking alongside others and helping them to use their unique design, their gifts and strengths and maximize their abilities to fulfill their God-given purpose - that's what makes my heart sing! 

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