BTA @ The HYAMP

[Justincredible]

Hey Wisdom or anyone else in BTA...

I'm hoping to catch the tour at the HYAMP in huntington WVA. So hopefully I can meet you guys. Here's the deal...

Right now I live in VA, and like I've mentioned a couple other times on here, I just came on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ and my assignment is Marshall University... which is IN huntington, wva! As a matter of fact, the HYAMP is just outside of campus. SWEET!

So i just finished raising my support and hope to move in on Feb.9-10. Therefore, I WILL be there to see the show, i'm so stoked. Now here's the deal.

Campus Crusade for Christ holds weekly meetings on campuses, that have skits, live praise and worship, and a speaker who talks out of the Word. At Marshall, they bring out about 100-150 students each week for our weekly meeting. Since I'm on staff, I'm going to see if its OK with my director to announce that there's gonna be a sweet metal show with a bunch of Christian themed bands playing at the HYAMP in town. That way, the students involved in CCC can invite their nonbeliever friends and whatnot. When I was at college at ECU... one of the people who I eventually led to Christ became one of my best friends b/c i invited him to see a Norma Jean show at ECU... and we hit it off from there.

Also, what I'd like to do is print up some fliers advertising CCC's movement at Marshall, so the local students can grab them at the show. I don't know what the venue's response to that will be, but i'm assuming they're gonna say "no soliciting". Would the bands be upset if i asked if i could leave them on the merch tables... so kids could swipe them up as they shop?

[Wisdom]

thats amazing dude. i really hope to see you there. make sure to introduce yourself. (im the ugly guy that sings and plays bass).

[Justincredible]

i will gladly introduce myself. i'm looking forward to meeting ya'll. when i found out that the HYAMP was right near campus i was so stoked, b/c i could see that it could be a great opportunity to meet people from marshall and kind of build up some contacts there. My hope is that over the years i'll be able to get to know the owners and become like the "regular dude" there who just happens to be Christian and likes to talk about Jesus. haha. And hopefully that way it becomes just a ministry breeding ground. maybe there will be other ways that the HYAMP and our CCC movement can get connected... like put on our own shows or whatnot. Anyway, thats long term vision.

I just have a passion for this type of music, and a passion for ministry. I know that when i was at ecu... there wasn't anyone really reaching all the indie, hardcore, punk kids. Lets face it, they aren't the typical "college Christian" faces. So I hope to be able to do SOMETHING utilizing my love for the "scene" music and combine it with ministry somehow. I think at first this could just be as simple as handing out fliers for our weekly meetings at shows.

[Justincredible]

So... I just talked to my director the other day. We were getting the moving details down. I'm moving in three days to my new home in huntington! Woo hoo.

I brought up the show. He thought that it was such a cool thing, and didn't know that there was a venue in town. (He's only been there a year). He also mentioned there were a couple guys in the CCC movement there at Marshall who were into metal and hardcore.

Still so pumped to see ya'll and meet ya too.