Here we are. We actually got together for a photo on a hot, sweaty festival day. This was taken on the main stage at about 6:30 pm, between Skillet and Third Day.
They were re-setting the stage and Kori (Media Director) got us up there for a shot with the crowd in the background and suddenly, stage manager, Brian Paris (DP’s cousin) started telling us that the Third Day band manager wanted everybody off the stage. Hilariously, DP and Luke and I all started to comply when Tredessa was like, “Get back up here. We are getting a picture.” And I had to laugh to myself, because, yeah-I wrote their check, you know? Have mercy!
So Matthew Greenleaf, one of our awesome photographers, took a quick shot.
Then Luke “front lit” us via Photoshop and “magically flipped” his and Tre’s credentials. This is a cropped version of Luke’s and I have got to say, I like how blue my eyes look, thank-you, Luke.
But I had asked to have 20 pounds and 10 years shaved off, and if it wasn’t too much trouble – the roots needed a touch-up. C’mon, already!
Being “staff” and having the double-A credentials doesn’t mean too much. It mainly means the-buck-stops-here and handle-all-complaints and how-are-you-going-to-fix-THIS-mess-??. We are volunteers, too. It was an honor to serve with almost 1000 other people to make Heaven Fest 2009 work. The day we quit serving is the day we shouldn’t be “staffing” HF! We are humbled to get to be a part. No joke. Humbled.
So, we may have doubled from last year. The final count remains to be seen.
There are so many things to recall from yesterday. So many things almost made me burst into tears, in a good way. Things like…
But mainly? I love that making the Name of Jesus glorious was what every. single. thing. was. all. about! Yes, Lord! Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven!
I am so loving and praising God for His faithfulness…Jeanie
NOTE TO SELF: Thank all the people who made this happen – no matter how long that takes. Watch for and tend to the fruit…
“The LORD has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118.23-24 NIV
www.heavenfest.com photos should be posted in a few days
l-r: Luke, DP, Tara, Tredessa, me, Tasia, Pam
Here we are, the staff with Pam and Tasia (Robert was unavailable for the photo), the world’s most incredible interns ever! They worked tirelessly and devotedly with all of their strength and they just brought an incredible level of excellence! THANK-YOU for making our HF world sooooo much better, you guys!
What a perfect day. Truly.
And wow, am I tired and achy and grateful and awed and speechless and graced and …I need a nap now.
O-there will be more!…Jeanie
This was already posted this morning from the hip-hop stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh5IZGPin0s (which, by the way, was a hot stage all day – very cool stuff going on in there!
The story goes that Carol Ann was leading worship in The Tent-Heaven Fest/88-hours of continuous worship, prayer and intercession, and as she was joyfully belting out her version of the Delirious song, “Rain Down,” rain it did! The wind began to blow, the sky turned green and the downpour was torrential – no other word for it.
Elise-the-Niece and Ste-with-an-”f”
Carol Ann got a little bit wet!
We will be cutting Carol Ann’s clothes – (yes, the very ones she is wearing in this picture and was wearing when she brought the rain), into squares and for just $29.95 you can get some of this anointed fabric and all your prayers will be answered! (btw – j/k)
this is what the bottom of port-a-potties look like apparently
the “brob” went down, too
It happened in the late afternoon (4:30??) and within minutes, the tireless volunteers were back out there cleaning up and righting all wrongs.
These people are amazing beyond belief!…Jeanie
Every night we pray to make the Name of Jesus glorious. We declare His faithfulness. Then the heavens start declaring His glory right back at us. Then, we are in awe and praise Him even more. And the colors get richer and deeper and more swirly and amazing and it just becomes a contest between man and the heavens to just try to tell God how wonderful, how amazing, how exalted He is.
These are untouched scenes from Tuesday night (4 days before), while the 88-Hour Tent was being raised*, taken from my spot on the veranda. Beautiful musical worship and praise was being offered up led by Josh Holleran and a young adult small group from the Arvada Vineyard. A youth group from Aurora joined us and a smattering of die-hard Jesus-lovers of all ages, as well.
‘Tis true, the sky I was seeing was actually brighter than these photos can depict (hey, it is a digital camera), but it was a showy, vibrant, colorful sky that went on and on and danced brightly forever!
One of the most amazing parts of the whole experience is how we get to see not only the sunset itself, but the reflection it makes on the water: double blessing!
BTW-I always HATE “scenery” pictures. I loathe seeing photo albums filled with people’s scenic drives in the mountains. But last night? I could not help myself! Ha! Mea culpa!
Whew. It was beautiful. Even now, I am thanking God for meeting us there, for receiving our praise, for opening up the heavens to us to show us His love.
*The Tent – Heaven Fest: 88-straight hours of worship, intercession and reading of the Word Wednesday August 5 at 4pm through Sunday August 9 at 8am.
The night of Heaven Fest, some radical, socially-conscious and caring individuals will gather to fast and pray for the homeless while they raise money by sleeping in cardboard tents.
I have had the honor of working closely, worshiping and praying with a group of these people this summer, especially Patrick Kennedy, Tia Anderson, and Jerad McMinamen and wow! They are such a blessing! Their serving hearts flow from the overflow of their love for Jesus!
The first video just went online today. The one below is an earlier piece they did. Both of them make me glad for people with hearts like Jesus!
Is. 58.6-10
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
www.cardboardcampout.com Seriously.
“Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy…”
From William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33
It is a Monday, a glorious, beautiful Monday morning. Heaven Fest is 5 days away. Robbin and Jake’s wedding on Saturday was a delightful and joyful event, going off without a hitch. There will surely be facebook pics posted soon, somewhere?…
My friend Pearl’s dad died Friday. He had been ill for some time, but it is still never easy. I only met him once or twice, but I know him through the big, loving family he raised, through his daughter, who is a woman to be praised. He is whole now, and with the Lord, he has gained life.
Last week’s late afternoon or nighttime thunder showers have saturated our yard to a new level of green, it being August in the arid-Rocky-Mountain-region, and all. Dave mowed and trimmed yesterday and I have spent the morning enjoying the bird-song, the gentle breeze and my time with the Lover of my soul, pulling a weed or two, harvesting a few tomatoes (leftover quesadilla with thick, juicy slices of red goodness for breakfast) and an armful of beets (to be roasted for dinner…I will try to enjoy them). The upside-down tomato, now in its’ place for about 5 1/2 weeks is boasting 5 little spheres of future deliciousness.
Dwight Schrute on The Office: “First rule in roadside beet sales, put the most attractive beets on top. The ones that make you pull the car over and go “Wow, I need this beet right now.” Those are the money beets.”
From Eternity to Here – Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God by Frank Viola. I started before family reunion and am just entering part two (about halfway through). It is so good. I have so little time, but I am enjoying it thoroughly everytime I open it. Fresh revelation. Resonating reminders. Goooooooood stuff. Join me?
Tim Hughes sings it this way:
“O what a glorious day
What a glorious way
That You have saved me!”
Turn it up, sing along. Dance a little.
It IS a glorious morning!…Jeanie
NOTE TO SELF: Praise Him all day long!
I am a wife. I married my true love 28 years ago yesterday (he wrote sweet words). God gave me children, I am a mom. Then He surprised me quite delightfully with these 5 little human beings called grandchildren. A reward! A trophy for my old age. I am a servant of the most high. I am a faltering, still-learning, mercy-needer. And I am almost 50.
Yet, here I am on the adventure of a lifetime, helping produce Heaven Fest: a massive, one-day, Christian music, worship and arts festival and we’re praying our heads off to be a catalyst for revival, to see the Church come together to make the Name of Jesus glorious!
Did I also mention? I am pooped.
And, I am…Jeanie