
First off, Happy New Year! Thanks to everyone who helped see 513FREE move forward this past year. We are greatful for all of the prayers and support from all of you all over the world. Thanks!
A Few Upcoming Things…
We pretty much booked up for January, check the schedule to see where we’re playing. As always, the events we do are free so it won’t cost you anything to come and out experience some great worship and fellowship. We’re playing on January 30th @ the Eternity Coffee House in Osseo, and we’re in the process of setting up some events over by Madison WI at another coffee house / church. Substance will be on January 18th @ Peace Lutheran Church. If you can make it, we’d love to see you. On another note, our YouTube channel now has videos on it. It’s our goal to post videos from each event we do, so check it out.
Casper Wyoming (Trip Summary)
We were invited to Casper Wyoming by our great friend and partner in ministry, Jim Shade. We set out on Tuesday December 30 drving sixteen hours to Casper Wyoming, arriving there about 3PM their time. The team was Jesse, Jonny, Nate & Shelby. We were scheduled to play an event for New Years Eve at “The Link” in Casper at 10PM. We arrived, setup, rehearsed and played. It all seems like a blur, we were so tired. The event went really well, we had a small group of kids, but they were the craziest we’ve seen, it was a blast. Following the music we played football, volleyball and basketball with the kids and made it back to the hotel about 3AM. We slept for a while after that.
Throughout the week we spent time with the Fuhrers, the Shades and other great people from the Christian Church of Casper. We helped Jim with some web development and spent some time just dreaming and planning ministry events. We (513FREE) love to work with Jim Shade, his heart and vision is the same as ours, and his preaching is incredible. We traveled into the mountains and toured Casper. We had some great meals and were able to meet some new people and friends.
On Sunday we led worship. We had the great pleasure of having Jim & Tom Fuhrer join us (guitar / piano). Tom is the worship leader at CCCasper. He and his dad (Jim) are great musicians and a lot of fun to work with. Worship was great, Jim’s message powerful. It was a great Sunday. Following church we set out on the 16 hour hike back to the frigid temperatures of Wisconsin.
Overall the trip was amazing, as a team we had time to connect and develop. We met some great people who were really excited about what God is doing in Casper and through 513FREE. We were seriously blessed with the generous donations from the folks in Casper. Because of their gift we’ll be able to purchase the recording equipment we need to put together our next CD project. We’re running out of our current stash, so it’s time for a new one. Our music is always free. With us having our own equipment, it allows us to continue to do that without shelling out thousands of dollars. It opens up many doors. So to all of you in Casper, THANK YOU!
We’ve already planned our next trip out west, we’ll be posting that as soon as the dates become available. Thanks again to everyone who helped make this trip possible. Some great people in Turtle Lake helping to get the vehicle and trailer up to par. Thanks to Grace Community Church for your faithful contributions and support of this ministry.
January 6, 2009
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