Steve Hurst School Of Music

 The past week has been a stretching, wonderful time of learning for the penners. We arrived at the Steve Hurst School of Music on sunday and by tuesday evening we all agreed our minds were about to blow up with all the information. :) The end of the week really flew by though and we're excited about all we've learned! There was a total of 24 organized singing teams, along with many vocalist, piano, songwriting, and sound board students. The week ended on friday with a graduation concert where Julia, Steph, and Tania helped sing in the 150+ member choir!

Julia and Steph ready for another day of classes!

Private group lessons.... "Raise those eyebrows"

"Now drop that jaw..."

"Sing with angel voices..."

The girls with Lauren Talley

TJ and Lonita with one of our teachers -Matt Karnes

Worship in the morning

One of the buildings that classes were held in

The whole family with Steve Hurst!

Lonita cheesing it before class begins :)

"For Thou, oh Lord are a shield for me... my glory and the lifter of my head"

Upcoming Concerts:

July 31 (am) - Living Waters Mennonite Church, Goshen IN

                                    July 31 (pm) - Pleasant Grove Mennonite, Goshen IN
                                    August 7 (am) - New Life Christian Fellowship, Stevenson ON
                                    August 7 (pm) - Cornerstone Community Church, Lemington ON
                                    For full schedule go to http://www.gospelexpressonline.org/ministry-events-calendar/team-schedules/

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On the road and blessed!

  Well, it's been a week now since we pulled out our driveway and our status changed from "at home" to "on tour". We had a prison service scheduled for thursday afternoon, and got there in time, only we needed a place to park to get ready. We soon realized we weren't anywhere near a Walmart (normal parking spot), but we spotted what we thought was a park. We decided to pull in... as soon as we turned into the driveway, a man comes walking up to us. Dad stopped the bus, and talked with him for a bit, and He graciously informed us that we were more than welcome to park there. To make a long story short, him and his wife had been praying for 1 1/2 years that somehow they'd find some connection to get them involved in prison ministry. Needless to say, they came to our service that afternoon and again that evening. They were overwhelmed at how God had brought us there at that time an place in answer to their prayers... What a "God thing"!

They gave us this basket of freshly picked strawberries - so delicious!

The girls ready to go into prison

After the prison service that afternoon, we had a concert in a church in the evening. This sweet, native family serve us a wonderful supper of moose stew!

Scenery along the way!

Tyrell and Lonita like to take advantage of every opportunity to get off the bus and get some fresh air

Little old church, extremely hot weather, but very friendly, hospitable people

The kids all "costumed" and ready for "Faith in God"

As a reward for singing in 95f weather (and no AC) they served us banana splits after the concert :)

(yes, we like this kind of people)

                                                                       "Bless our God, O peoples;
                                            let the sound of his praise be heard"
                                                           -Ps. 66:8

A few weeks at home!

Tania enjoying her friends at home again :)

Babysitting cute little (or not so little anymore) Braiden

L-R: Tania, Allison, Julia, Chelsy, Steph

(The Bontrager family had a few days at our house - we enjoyed them to the fullest!)

The "Tortillaria" in progress!:) (We made lots of home-made tortillas for the Bontragers to take with them on the road)

Tyrell and Lonita with friends in Kenora, ON

Tania's beautiful cake decorating skills

Tyrell and Lonita are finally enjoying alot of "outdoors" at home.

 Here they're picking chamomile flowers for Mom.

Lonita runs inside to give her mom and sisters some Poppy flowers...

We've enjoyed lots of baking during these few weeks - def a favourite thing to do among the Penner Girls!

Preparations are already being made for the next tour... the few weeks at home seem awfully short, yet we're excited to "hit the road" again.

Please keep us in your prayers!

"This is the day that the Lord hath made, let us REJOICE and be glad in it"

A number of requests have been made for a blog of the team so here goes... we'll give it a try and do our best to actually keep it up to date and interesting :)

The sisters enjoyed a day of hiking when on tour in Kenora, ON.

In my little corner of the field, Lord make it a bountiful yield.

Don't let me bruise one, I pray I won't loose one

In my little corner of the field!

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