Name:Alaric Location: Houston, Texas, United States Birthday:11/16/1989 Gender:Male
Interests:Praising God is most important, basketball, girls, cars, chillen, school?, i like food, listening to music. playing guitar, bass guitar, violin, and piano. i like to sing too Expertise:praise God Occupation:Artist Industry:Medical
WOW. i never imagined watching a hillsongs music video and seeing the crowd that i would ever take part in that. BUT I DID!!! Hillsongs is my favorite for now. Before i used to love christian music with a story. something that one artist or a band can sing, but now, i have a craving for songs that many people can sing just like worship. and hillsongs is just that. well, whoever thought of going to the Hillsongs concert, but didn't go, yall missed out freal. For me, it was the best concert ever. Wait, i dont look at it as a concert no more: its a huge extra long worship song and praise thing. And that's my favorite part of church cause you could really tell God and express to Him everything through your singing, I even get up and dance during church sometimes cause i can't contain my joy, but i have to stop cause.. but at the concert, i could do all that nonstop. i wished it went on forever and ever, but they have to go back to australia. i danced and sang as loud as i could. i was bout to cry cause i couldn't believe that HILLSONGS came to houston and I WAS THERE!! i was so jittery before it began and i had that squeaky voice saying "im at hillsongs, im at hillsongs!!".
im kinda selfish cause i always thought of hillsongs as my own thing, along with a few people. cause they're something that people from the philippines have. all their songs are from hillsongs. i kinda felt sorry for them that they dont have any other christian bands, so i brought along my library and gave some of my cousins my songs. but i realized after going to the young people there, that hillsongs is what i really want. (like from above). i mean, even though there was a lot of people, not very many knew the songs; me, kiel, and shane were really singing all the songs cause its our thing. but now hillsongs came to houston for the first time in their 20 years of ministry and people in there realized how great hillsongs really is. so its obvious that hillsongs will spread throughout houston. that means that its not just my thing no more. well im happy cause their songs really touch people, so i cant just have it to myself.
O MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WENT TO HILLSONGS!!! BEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!! top on my summer experiences are 3 things. philippines, takeout 06, and hillsongs!!!! again, best summer ever... i would definitely go to australia just to experience that again. thats how good it was. but if i go to australia, then how will i fit in philippines and a week of takeout!!
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO oh yeah.. i picked up my books today :P
wow. this summer has been great. probably the best summer i ever had, and it's not even done yet. i'm satsified with what happened already, but there's more!! first was philippines: the best trip i ever took back home right after that, we went to takeout. lifechanging. and to top that off, in church, we had an amazing guest speaker. i just had to have one of his books, so i bought one :] VBS volunteering at FPBC keeps me busy during the day, and its great spending time with them. CONCERTS!!! i missed the KSBJ 24th Anniversary concert, but that's cool cause there's a brown bag concert for Kutless this thursday. Then, thanks to stan the man.. i found out that there's a HILLSONG concert!! thats like all i listen to now cause of the trip to the philippines. i've always had all their 34872935629458 songs, but never really listened to them. then in the PI, all they have is hillsongs.. i felt sorry for them cause they dont have b429, mercy me, kutless and the such.. but i realized that hillsong music is the music for me cause you could sing it forever.. STAN IS THE MAN freal!! those are only the free concerts cause im so cheap, but theres more.. like Houston Worship 2006 which is desperation band, worship leader of hillsongs, and paul baloche..
man.. takeout was awesome.. i'll post later with pics and testi maybe It was a blessing to be able to go with FPBC. it was great and we had lots of fun. i cant explain though.. pictures might :]]]
Takeout Asian Youth Camp was awesome. This is my testimony of the camp. it sucks really. because i have so many things in my heart: how can i put that in typing / paper?? Whatever is pure in your heart, cant be fully understood, nor can it be written perfectly to how you want it because it's in your heart. and to be able to type it, you have to think about it with your brain and is transfered to your fingers to type, and is our brain / fingers / body perfect? no they're not, so those things really hinder what you want to express. and im writing this in a hurry just to get others to read it. :P And if you read this, think of me as i cry baby. I was: I cried so hard that i had no tears, that it hurt when i closed my eyes.
First of all, I went to camp expecting to feel something. To feel God's voice speaking to me. I had so many questions in my life, though I didn't think much of them which surprises me at the end of camp.
I was expecting the camp to be better than Baylor campus.. i didn' like it. We said "there's no privacy in the dorms, food's not so good, the worship leader isn't a band so its not as good" and so so.. I was expecting that God answers me of my sins which I still am too ashamed to tell of. I got disappointed because what I wanted to feel never happened. Don't get me wrong, the sermons were intense and I liked them and learned much from them. But i didn't feel anything.
To make it short, everything came together the last night; not during the sermon, but during the time of invitation. The night before Ryan stood up and cried. i was touched. Peter invited people to kneel and pray. I kneeled face down and prayed. i prayed about what i wanted to feel. Still, nothing. Then Peter invited us to be with our siblings. I stood up and walked over to alec and sat with him. We started to pray quietly and then i dont know why but we cried like crazy. you could really feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in the room that night: everybody was crying and praying. Me and alec hugged and just clenched onto eachother. it was the very first time we actually cried on eachother's shoulders. During that time, God spoke to me. To my surprise, he answered the little questions that kinda bugged me (referring to the beginning of my blog). He led me to realize that having a sibling is a privilige and i should really be glad for it. especially my twin. He also led me to realize that, not the sermons but the courage to tell the testimonies of Helen and Peter, touched me. It taught me that i should share with others the sin that i have or problems that i have because you'll feel better after. Though God brought me to this realization, i still find it hard to do and it will take time. I used to go to PTBC, i missed the youth dearly because we broke apart. This Takeout we went with FPBC. We played ball, played mind and magic games, ping pong, ate with eachother, slept together or stayed up together. During the time we had together, we really grew with eachother and became closer even though we didnt go to church toghether. God showed me that just the fellowship, not only with them but with IBCH boys and some of the other churches, comforted me. It showed me that even though im not with my old youth, there's other young people that i can get along with and fellowship with; just be there with eachother. After that one night we just went to the room hugging eachother, which really touched, and made me cry more. After being with siblings, Peter asked if there are any that are committed to serving the Lord fully in ministry. This has been in my heart for a while now. I've always said "i'll be a nurse or a pt when i grow up cause being a doctor is way too long". And since i go to DeBakey, i feel forced to become a professional in the medical field, and having my parents both the highest paid physical therapists in houston doesnt help me much in my decision in becoming a minister. For the last year i guess, i've been thinking of doing something in the ministry. i said the same thing though, never mentioning about my want to serve the Lord as my profession. Also more background that made me want to become a minister is that my mom said many of my cousins are nonchristian. I hated to hear that because I have no cousins in the states except for one in jersey. I just came back from the Philippines too, and even though we haven't talked in forever, we had that instant feeling of love, friendship, security, i dont know how to explain it but all i know is that i love them and i want to be able to be with them one day in heaven. Also, in the past, I've had some experiences with sharing: it felt great, yet i'm still a little timid most of the time. But i feel convicted to not only follow the Great Commission, but LIVE it. Well, that night, Peter said to stand up. I stood up and Darrel next to me also did. Helen walked to us and put her hands on us and prayed for us. That made me cry more. I decided that I will serve the Lord. I don't know what yet, maybe a pastor or missionary or youth worker. i dont know, but i know that i want to share the sweet feeling i have whenever i stand up, lift my hands and voice to the Lord. I want others to have that same feeling as i have. Also, about the worship, i said that earlier it wasnt as good. well we sang a lot of songs that i really like to sing along with on ksbj. very contemporary. i liked that. Then, there was song writing workshops with the worship leader. i didn't join but friends did. they made 2 songs and i was really touched by both. after that prayer with helen, we sang one of the songs, which made me cry more. it really spoke to me that time we sang. I also learned that the feeling that i expected from this camp that i had every other takeout asian youth camp doesnt have to be there to be on fire for God. In fact, I learned that it shouldnt be a feeling, but a deep part of your heart that you live with. because a feeling is temporary and that it will die down. but if something is in your heart, it wont. Just know that you live your life for God and that is what it means to be on fire for God.
that's amazing how everything i ever needed to be answered was all answered at the same time. It was CRAZY!! TALAGANG CRAZY freal. now i'm home trying to do this.
These are only some of my pics. I have more, and so do a lot of other people. welcome to takeout 06 on the way to highland lakes the lake front this is our view when we play basketball this is the place where we prayed every morning. beautiful. this is our dorm.. it was packed as in my team.. LIGERS!!! this is us playing ball shirtless :P some ice game darrel made up some of us the other filipinos that werent active.. just jammed for free time.. which i wanted to do to... we always played ping pong, some mind game, dice games, or magic ping pongs haha some of the workshops the annual mudfight!!!!!!
as you can tell.. i got too lazy to put them in order or put a caption..
