Oh hello internet. It’s been awhile hasn’t it? Feels like a whole year has passed by… :] (sorry I can’t resist obvious new years jokes) Readers, I’m sorry I disappeared for so long! I was at a conference in DC for my job with Cru and my hours were just maxed out. Believe me, every time I glimpsed another photographer’s Year End Wrap Up post or Best of 2013 blog….my anxiety mounted and I wished and wished that I could blog. Ahhhh it hurt not to. And I’m sorry to leave you all hanging. But the end of my 2013 had a lot more in store for me.
Every year Cru has a conference for our region called Radiate that starts up after Christmas and goes until New Year’s Day. It is one of my favorite things that we do all year. I think every year I don’t expect to get much out of it, especially as staff, but I am always wrong. I’ve got a TON of images to show you guys from Radiate, and I’ll tell you more about the conference when I get to editing all 2000 of them…but first a small takeaway and a couple of my favorite images.
The last two years, I’ve gotten to be one of the photographers for the conference. Some people would think it might be hard to focus in and get as much out of the experience with a camera in front of your face, but I kind of had the opposite reaction. Before and after every main meeting, the worship band would play and over a thousand college students would join together and sing out what was in their hearts to the Lord. It was mind blowing to be able to walk around and capture, tangibly, what Jesus was doing in their hearts. I loved getting to see them interact with their Savior and I felt even more blessed and privileged to be working for Cru. One night I was overwhelmed to tears seeing the students from Radford worship God with everything in them. I cannot believe I get to be a part of this adventure in Radford…and that God would use someone ordinary like me to minister to souls just as broken as mine.
These 3 images are my favorite so far because they just made me feel something.
“Hope which was lost, now stands renewed.”
