It’s been a while since our last newsletter article, but WAASUP has some things worth sharing again. As we wrap up our Stand Firm tour, we have a few “farewell” shows left.
Since Kyle is at school in St. Paul, it has become a little more challenging for the team to get together for practices or performances. However, he has a long Christmas break, and as you can see below, we’re making good use of it!
On December 12, Lutheran Island Camp had us back for another one of their Christmas dinners (a special thank you goes out to Timothy Helland for helping fill in as a puppeteer). On Saturday, January 9, we’ll be at St. Edward’s in Henning (EDIT: This performance has been postponed). The following Saturday, January 16, we’ll be at Peace Lutheran Church in Ashby. The next morning, Sunday, January 17, we’ll be returning to Calvary Lutheran Church here in Fergus for their Sunday School/Adult Bible Class time. Watch the bulletin for exact times.
We’ll also be performing a song or two for the Valentine Dinner here at Trinity on February 14.
The performance at Calvary will mark WAASUP’s 14th full performance of our Stand Firm production. If you have a really good memory, you might recall that we actually started the tour at Calvary back in January 2009.
It’s been great to watch Stand Firm grow from our original “concept meetings” in the back room of the church, where we’d draw out our ambitious dreams and ideas in the somewhat infamous green notebook, to puppet and prop construction at talented and willing puppeteer’s homes, to our first practices, to finally hitting the road and sharing the show with hundreds of people. We’ve been blessed with churches and venues, host homes, and audiences of all ages. There’s no way for us to measure or know the impact our performances may have had on people, but we know that God’s Word never returns to Him void, and that it will fulfill its purpose. We’re just ecstatic and humbled that we got to play a little role in getting that word out there.
Speaking of that word, we’d like to leave you with the two theme verses that fueled the Stand Firm tour.
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
In Him,
The WAASUP Team