BSSW Starts!

The day finally arrived - the start of the BSSW 2009! Tanya and I waved our goodbyes to Nia and Grandma and drove to the church. We arrived at about 9 and had to wait in a long queue to register. They spelled Dembovsky "Dembousky" but we were able to correct it and get new name tags. There were about 275 students!

We had some coffee at the HeBrews coffee shop (photos in the next post) and went into the main auditorium. We are seated at tables with about 8 seats. We sat next to a young man called Johnny from Phoenix, Arizona. There are internationals from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Scotland, England and even Egypt!

(In this pic you can kind of see the prayer room on the left and the main church on the right of the hill)

The worship was amazing! Brian Johnson led with the Jesus Culture band and the Presence of the Lord was amazing. Brian and Jenn then spoke about worship and about the importance of being what who we are, not copying others.

We had some lunch at Subway - we gave Johnny a lift into town and prophesied over him while we were having lunch.

In the afternoon the team all introduced themselves and spoke a bit about the courses they are offering. We can only do 2 of the courses, so I am focussing on Vocals and Guitar and hopefully I get into the Advanced Recording class (it's an evening class). We are also going to be going to the Conference next week as part of the school. We signed up to help usher next Friday morning at the conference.

Tanya then drove home and I spent about half an hour in the Prayer Room (which is awesomely beautiful). I then had a sozo session with Nita. It was great, and the Lord showed me some pretty cool images. He gave me a massive Diamond (in exchange for pain and hurt), a Sword wrapped in Red Silk (anger that is now useless) and a green box filled with rainbow coloured slinkies (happy childhood moment that He stored for me when I missed them).

(This pic shows Nita and me - she was so great!)

Tanya came to fetch me at about 8:30 and we made our way home. I then had some dinner and we went grocery shopping (at 11 at night). I then crashed and I am now writing before we go back to school for day 2. Elective classes start today - I have guitar and Tanya has vocals.