MVP

Meet Carol (she's the lady on the right; Teresa is on the left). Carol does a lot at our church, ALC. She runs our entire Hospitality Community (in house services, coffee bars, first impressions, guest stuff, etc. etc. etc.). Carol has a lot of gifts: she's a singer, an actress, a great hostess, and a phenomenal leader. She is actually leading and consumed with a very big leadership role at our church.

This past weekend, our drama team took on a rather lengthy and important role in the message communication about Capturing the Moment (from Luke 10 story and Mary/Martha, go watch it here once it is posted around Tues/Wed). It was a drama involving two ladies and took about 12 minutes total. There was a lot of dialogue and nuanced interaction. Carol was not originally cast in this drama.

Sadly, this past Friday, one of the ladies that was cast has some emergency medical issues come up, and was not available after all the practices, blocking, and hard work. We're still praying for you, Tanya! We love you and trust that God is working out every detail for good! Many were asking about you and we are thinking about you!

This unfortunate situation put our communication this past weekend in quite the bind. After all, we were planning on this drama being a major piece to the message: everything was depending on each other (music, message, and drama working together). Tom, our drama director, called Carol on Friday night. He gave her the script, and less than 24 hours later, Carol stepped in and connected beautifully in each Celebration with a great performance that ministered to everyone. At the last Celebration, many around the room were wiping tears. It was so awesome to see how God spoke through all of the elements and people involved, but particularly, how Carol was able to capture a moment this weekend. By stepping in like she did, in the crisis mode and in learning the character, she is my MVP of the whole weekend. Awesome.