Well, I'm awake. It seems we have been awake and going for days straight.
After our trip to the park on Thursday, my feet were killing me, and we were both quite exhausted. Friday we slept in a little bit and then we were off again - Dandara, her mom, and I went to the Museum of the Portuguese Language. It was a small museum but super cool. From there, we stopped for dinner and then parted ways - Dandara and I off to Passion, and her mom to return home.
For those of you who may be reading this but don't know what Passion is... Passion is a Christian conference for college students. They usually hold Passion in the States, but this year they are doing a world tour, and Sao Paulo was their third stop (after Kiev and Stockholm).
We didn't know exactly where the Via Funchal (venue where Passion was held) was, but we knew how to get to the general vicinity and asked from there. We made it no problem, got our wristbands and such, and found a seat. The event was Friday evening from about 7:30 to 10:30 and then all day Saturday, starting at 10 AM and ending around 10:30 AM (with two breaks, of course).
It was incredible - Chris Tomlin and Louie Giglio kicked it off Friday night and then tag teamed with the David Crowder Band and Francis Chan on Saturday. Brazilian's are crazy loud, so worship was crazy awesome. We jumped, sang at the top of our lungs, jumped, and sang some more.
Francis Chan presented an image of God that I hadn't really ever had before, as found in Revelations 4:1-8 (go check it out and really try to visualize the description of God sitting on the throne shining like rubies and diamonds with beings with 6 wings and covered with eyes flying around Him singing "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty..."). It's a pretty incredible image! and that is the God we worship!! It transformed the way I worshiped and blew my mind even more to think about grace. This God, through His Son Jesus Christ, gave me HIS righteousness and calls me "daughter"!!! I can come before Him and say, "Daddy." And there is nothing, no nothing at all, that He will not forgive me for - nothing that can come between us that He cannot remove in order that we may be reconciled again. Wow! Incredible.
Sorry to be long-winded, but hang in there, as I have just a couple more things to share...
Money was collected for Kampala, Uganda, which will be Passion's next stop on their world tour. They are anticipating 20,000+ students in Kampala, and the event will be completely free for them. But it of course is not free for Passion. Last night the students in Sao Paulo gave R$24,000 - which translates to about US$15,000!! I don't know that that will cover all the costs for Kampala, but it should help! And we all have agreed to be praying for Kampala.
To get home, we catch 2 buses and 2 metros - which takes a couple hours. Finally we got home, hung with the friends for a little bit, had some dinner (yes, at 2 am), and went to bed around 3. Whew. What a day. We were exhausted!
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so cool! so how does it work since they speak english and everyone there speaks portugese? i'll have to check that chan teaching out - sounds awesome!
um... i don't know if you'll see this or not, bro, but it works like this... the worship is all in english with the words in both english and portuguese (as, i believe, you can see in the pics) on the screen. and then there was a translator for the speakers. it seemed the majority of the people understood english though.
you crazy white girl! just got on your blog for the first time. happy to hear and read about you. We just got back from a camping/water-rafting trip up in Pilar, NM (just south of taos). it was great fun. 13 of us went & some folks from church went that i say hi to but don't hang out with much, also went. it was great to get to know new people!!! hope you're having fun. what a great experience to be in brazil. did i tell you i was actually in kampala bout 9 years ago? anyway, miss ya and have fun. Jeff
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