No Regrets

One of our registrants shared this story of their time here... thank you for sending!

So finally this year our church praise band went to MIR. Our first goal was to play and sing an original song the best we ever could to minister to whoever was listening (about 80 musicians from other bands and some judges) to draw them closer to God. And the competition was secondary, even though it was a little unnerving on the day of. It went so quickly, and when it was over, our leader had us leave the room with him for a minute. His words were, "No regrets. You guys played perfectly and it's just a matter of if they like our style now. I'm really happy, and I think we should just stop here and thank God for being so good to us." What a sweet time that followed. After the concert last night, the semi-finalists were announced, and...our name was not called. Our leader called me right away, and he sounded...great! He said our band was disappointed, not as much that we weren't chosen, as much as they wanted to play some more and share more new songs. I love it! The heart of worship is taking us over, and people like Rick Muchow and Jared Anderson and John Eldredge, Dan Keen and Brett Manning were so encouraging to stay tight with God and worship Him excellently. We each learned some things to take into our own private worship, as well. As our leader said, "How could I be discouraged when this has been the best week of my whole life?!" Meeting other musicians at Cafe Estes and hearing some great music at the CD critique, being exposed to a few who've broken into the industry, and for me, getting to tell Robbie Seay that God used "Hallelujah God is Near" to rescue my life; these were highlights I did not expect.

Beth Jayne

Basalt, CO

Juston & Eric with Dan Keen