WOW!

I ended up in Conway for the weekend and went to church there on Sunday. Sunday night we had such an amazing service! I feel like it was a turning point for me. I had asked my niece to do sign language with me and we were going to do "Awesome Wonder" however I felt God telling me to change songs and I ended up signing "Mercy Seat." I don't know that I have ever felt as annointed as I did when doing that song. I felt God all over me in such a strong way. It was so amazing. And the service itself was absolutely amazing. I wore myself out from worshiping. We had some get drunk on the spirit and others get an awesome renewal. We worshiped for over an hour before the preacher got up to preach. He just continued the worship service by preaching on the day of pentecost and talking about how we need a break out. I watched a young lady get drunk with laughter and listened as she laughed at the devil it was beautiful! Bro. Tim Doran (my brother-in-law) was preaching and it turned into another worship service and he began to pray for various people. We watched a woman shout that probably hasn't shouted in 10 years it was great! He prayed for me and basically prayed for annointing like I've never experienced before. I can remember the words he used were something like "Give her an annointing like she's never had. It's been held in check for way to long" Well I took off doing the pentecostal jig and shouted right out of my shoes! It was amazing. Then once service was over I got several people telling me how much my song in sign language had blessed them. Thats what I love. I want my ministry to bless and touch someone. I am thankful that I was able to listen to God and choose the right song. I can't wait to see what God has in store for me next!

My involvement in Drama.

I became interested in drama years ago while still living in California. I can remember always being excited when the Western District Drama Tour Team would come through during the summer and perform a moving evangelistic drama. I can also remember being involved in our churches production of "Messiah" and loving every minute of it. Then I moved to Arkansas and it was a while before I really thought about Drama again. Then about 4 or so years ago some girls from Texas came to our church in Crossett and spent a weekend teaching the majority of our choir dramatic sign language. We spent Friday night and all day Saturday learning 5 beautiful songs in sign language. Then we performed them on Sunday morning. Sunday morning's service was awesome. I can remember watching people weep as one group signed "Here I am to worship" Then we all signed Jesus I love You and that instantly became my favorite song for sign language and is still at the top of my list. I became interested in learning more and mroe about sign language. I got online and found a wonderful website with video clips of all kinds of words in sign language. I went to work learning songs. I taught all of them to myself. It was about a year and a half or more before I was actually able to do anything with them. I moved from Crossett to Monticello and there I heard the wonderful news that our church had a sign team!! My very first Sunday there I was at sign practice and signing for our very next performance. From then on I have been highly involved in drama. Two Christmas' ago I wrote a drama called "Healing Hands" and we performed it. We put together a few other shorter pieces and I've written a few things that I haven't used yet. This Easter I wrote another drama titled "Through the Eyes of Mercy" It went so awesome!! I'm currently working on two more pieces one will be titled "A place called Hope" and the other doesn't have a title yet. Anyway here lately I've been feeling an even stronger call to become involved in drama as a ministry. I tell the girls on our drama team all the time that it's not about how much we entertain our audience but are we entertaining the presence of God. We don't just want to move the emotions of our audience we want to stir their souls! I have no idea where this journey will take me but I'm very excited about all that God has in store for me as I work for his kingdom. Please keep me in your prayers as I follow God's plan for my life!

God Bless,

Yvonne

A New Blog!!

This is my new blog. I have another one called "My Random Thoughts Put Together." that is just that, random! On that blog I have been talking about my passion for the drama ministry and how I really feel that God is calling me to become heavily involved in it. I decided that the subject needed its own blog. This blog is dedicated completely to my ministry. I may not post often but hopefully what I do post will be meaningful. I called it "My Passion, My Praise, My Ministry," because I consider drama to be all of those things to me. It is of course what I am passionate about, it is a beautiful form of praise and worship, and it is my ministry. Please check back often. Just as soon as I get them I plan on posting pictures of our Easter Drama.

God Bless!!

Yvonne