Hey all,
It has been a little while since I gave an update on what I’ve been up to recently. It was a month ago last night that I officially graduated the DTS, and since then a lot has been happening.
Between getting back from Ghana and graduation, we had two weeks of debriefing. During this time we reflected on a lot of things that God had taught us over lecture phase and outreach, and talked through what it might be like to adjust back to life outside of the DTS context. This led straight into our graduation on February 28th.
Over the next few days after graduation, our DTS began to separate for the final time as people packed and headed home. This was a very hard couple of days. It was literally just one hard goodbye after another, but it wasn’t anything we didn’t know would come eventually.
As you know, I was planning on starting to work with Evergreen (the band I mentioned before) after graduation, but on their suggestion I took a week off between graduating and starting with them. I spent the first half of the week trying to survive the above mentioned goodbyes, and the second part of the week winding down and getting a chance to take a deep breath. Then, exactly a week after graduating I started going on the road with them. (Again, just to reiterate my goal in staying on with these guys: I am really interested in trying to recreate something similar to what they do, back home, and by spending this time with them I hope to get a clearer picture of how God wants me to do this and to learn from these guys’ wisdom). After just the first night helping the guys get to and set up for a show, I was already learning lessons about how real of a mission field the music industry is. Just seeing the presence that Evergreen brought to the venue compared to the presence that some of the other bands brought to the venue was amazing. While other bands were glorifying violence, sex, and drugs from the stage it was awesome to see 4 guys pick up some instruments and worship God through their music and their words.
Since then, I have been to several more gigs with them, and right now I am just hanging out as they write up the finishing touches for their new album which they will begin recording the 1st of April. I have already gotten a lot out of my time with them and I am sure I will learn much more. Being here at all has been a miracle of God; everything has been provided for in amazing ways, from finances, room/board, to visa situations. There are a couple more testimonies I would like to share in regards to those things, but they will have to wait till next time.
I do have a couple prayer requests I’d to mention:
(1): That I will apply myself in getting all that I need to get out of this extra time here.
(2): I find myself needing the simple self-discipline to stay spiritually healthy, now that I am again making my own schedule. (No longer being in the very structured schedule of DTS,).
Thank all of you again so much for your concerns and prayers.
God bless,
Will Clegg
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