Almost Halfway

A lot has happened since our last February post. We are nearly halfway through the school. After a much-needed Spring Break for everyone, second quarter began on April 2^nd.  Dance History has replaced Anatomy, in Composition students are starting to prepare their own choreographic group works, and next week we have our second guest artist week—with two guest artists coming from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tomorrow the students will be performing for around 600 middle school students at a local church’s Middle School All-Night event. In the beginning of May we will be working with the Salvation Army on a spring swing dance fundraiser they do every year.  The second weekend of June of we have both the school concert and student choreography concert, and on July 4^th we fly out of Calgary, Canada to go to London for our six-week outreach.

At the dock during the last week of 1st quarter.

In the midst of all the busyness, it is key for us to always keep our focus on the reason we all are here doing what we are doing. If we lose sight of Christ, His call on our lives, and our desire to share it with the world, all is in vain. Last week we had a great discussion in our Faith Food class about the importance of knowing what we believe, and knowing the pieces of our faith that are black and white. For example, that Jesus was the Son of God, died, and rose again. That there is a heaven and there is a hell. That we are all sinners and need saving. That the Bible is the inspired, true, word of God.  That we are saved by faith. In the midst of talking through these things, working through pieces we may personally struggle with, and taking them forward to think about sharing on outreach, we started to come together in a greater way. Excitement to go out, using all the things that the school has given us, is building!

If you have not seen it yet, here is a link to our Spring Newsletter. We serve a truly amazing God who has a lot of exciting things in the works for School of Dance Studies!

SODS Spring 2012 Newsletter