Miracles…and more…

Before Christmas, I must admit that many of us were lacking in faith. Would God provide? It seems that He likes to wait until the very last minute. This past week has been amazing. Our last guest artist, Randall Flynn (Director of Ad Deum Dance Company) came (I’ll tell more about him later) and prepared us for the future more than we can say. The Holy Spirit has been moving in the whole base and we leave for outreach in no more than two weeks. Several miracles have happened and we know more will come. Carla, from Costa Rica feared that she wouldn’t be able to complete this school, but just this past week a supporter from the base gave her four thousand dollars, enough to cover her remaining fees and her outreach fees! Not only that but another girl, Sene from Samoa has been missing her visa and nobody knew when it would come back from the embassy. It had been gone since before Christmas and if we didn’t get it back soon then she too would be held back from outreach. But yesterday, we got the news that it had come back! Now, all we need is money for Jackie (and her passport and visa back) from Rwanda and for Heather from Texas and for Alissa from North Carolina. We know it will come. Before Christmas the entire school as a whole needed 48,000 dollars. Now, we only need 28,000 dollars! All of that money came trickling in from God’s very hand.

We’re praying for another miracle. Lotte, the head of the School of Dance had injured her foot a while back. She is an anointed dancer and when one watches her dance, something moves within. But she has been held back by this foot injury that has had surgery and yet has never healed. We all know that this is not God’s will for her. We pray for her foot all the time. This week, the guest choreographer, Randall Flynn set a duet on her and another staff member, Crystal. Lotte cannot dance all of it full out, but as we watched her dance it, all of us were moved to tears because we could see her heart and see her longing to dance and we could see God’s grace in her movement. We don’t know what it feels like for her to sit out and watch us dance, wishing she could do the same. She’s going to be healed on outreach. She’s going to be healed and then she will be able to dance that duet full out, without restraint and without pain.

We’re working harder than ever with Anatomy finals coming up, two concerts to prepare for including all the dances we’ve created so far (around 25) plus all the dances that each student is creating on her own for our composition final. Outreach is in two weeks and we get more excited by the day, knowing that God’s going to do amazing things.

“Servant Artistry. Your dance is your towel. Now go, take you towel and wash feet.”
-Randall Flynn