Ice Skating Outreach

Date: December 1, 2020

I was preparing for an ice skating competition that was actually an outreach. I was with a team lead by a friend . I was in charge of the sound system, but also supposed to skate with the team. I don't know how to ice skate so I feel incredibly inadequate and nervous, although I know my responsibility is to prophesy to the people in the audience. What on the surface is a skating competition, we know is really an evangelism outreach.

As we get to the entrance of the rink I notice that another friend is also on the team along with a Chinese husband and wife. I am very nervous that I will fall flat on my face just getting to our corner to set up for our act. (There are 4 total teams on the ice, ours in one corner and 3 others I don't see, but I know they are there, in the other 3 corners of the rink). The crowd is comprised of only people of Chinese nationality. I cross myself as I follow my friend on to the ice and the Chinese couple follows me. Miraculously I am able to skate just fine to our corner. I begin to set up the sound system, which is next to the announcer who is in our corner of the ice. I am trying to move the table so the plug for the PA can reach the outlet but the announcer keeps moving it back because his phone is plugged in and will get unplugged if I move it. So instead I just put the system on the floor of the ice rink.

Our portion of the program starts with my friend playing the bass as we are doing a prophetic song. Someone comes to me to tell me that my other friend, who is the leader of our group, wants us not to play our songs as intercessors but as prophetic worshipers. Then I pick up my mandolin and start to play.

The End!