DAY FOUR...Music City USA!

After an evening of fun and swimming, we woke up and headed to the historic RCA Studio B. It is the same studio that Elvis, ROy ORbison, Eddie Arnold and DOlly PArton....among others....recorded over 25,000 songs. The piano is the same one that HArry Connick, Jr and ELvis Presley played to record songs. We recorded a CD of two songs which were really great!

We then headed to the Country Music Hall of Fame for a tour and concert in front of the building. IT was really hot, but fun. I have gotten an entourage that helps set up and tear down the drum set. WE have done it NINE times already! It is done in less than 5 minutes each time....

After the Museum we headed to the Wild HOrse saloon for a BBQ lunch, a chance to listen to our CD played in the entire place and line dancing lessons. The day wrapped with a concert at an inner city youth center/day care and play time with the kids. A great italian dinner was had at Spaghetti Factory, then back to the hotel for fun and swimming.

More tomorrow. Keep us in your prayers!

Day Three Busy, Busy and HOT outside!

Day 3 was a busy day of work projects and singing! The day started with helping Habitat for Humanity and the local Housing Authority. Different groups painted, did landscaping and helped kids with learining how to play musical instruments. The evening was spent doing a benefit concert for the local Habitat to raise some money. Chris Caffee spent much of the day taking several choir members to the doctor for various ailments. By the next day they were all doing fine!

I also included a wonderful picture of the group with a little boy who has undergone 6 heart operations since he was born. He was sooo exciting with the singing and was clapping his hands and bouncing all around. The good news he will be going home in a few months finally! Another great example of the NHYC mission outreach to others with singing and praise.

STay tuned for the DAY FOUR recap!

Day 2, A Busy day!

It was hot when we headed out for Graceland this morning. We were still revelling in the excitement of the previous day and the morning at Graceland was really fun. We spent some time on Beale Street in the historic part of downtown. Then off to the Children's Hospital for a concert for the children who were staying there. IT was another great performance by the choir. HOT HOT HOT here for sure. DInner at Cracker Barrel then a relaxing night at the hotel. It is also raining very hard tonight.

Oh, and Chris Caffee finally found some decent glasses to read the music.....

Tomrorrow we are off for Habitat for Humanity projects. Look for another post tomorrow night.

Keep us in yoru prayers.

Hard Rock Cafe TONIGHT!

After an encredibly moving day of mission feeding bodies and souls, we enjoyed an evening at Hard Rock Cafe. Great fun and fellowship with everyone. It was followed up with a group discussion on the increibkle days events led by Chris Caffee and John Cravens. More discussion accompanied tears of happiness and the kids recall their feelings from the day. This was a day that we would all remember for a LONG LONG time!.

It is 11:45pm, so off to bed! More posts tomorrow night when I get more internet access at our next hotel! Keep us in your prayers that we may continue to deliver incredible mission like we did today! I will share your comments with the kids if you choose to leave any.

Mission Work and a VERY Spiritual preformance!

We started the day by heading to a Methodist retirement home to pereform for about 50 residents. They had a great time singing along to our songs and the kids had a great time visiting with them afterwards.

It was then off to the Memphis Union Mission Center, which is run by the Methodist Church AND REFUSES ANY FEDERAL OR STATE MONIES. (pictured above). The kids served dinner as shown to about 200 men.

After dinner we presented a 30 minute concert and Chris Caffee led the group in prayer. There was an incredible spiritual experience during the concert. The group sang like they never, ever have before. It was like the holy spirit was singing and not the actual persons in the choir. Men who are experiences the hardships of life had many brought to tears during the singing. We received several incredible standing ovations. Evan Billings and Sarah Stenger were angelic in their singing. You could literally feel the holy spirit move across the room. Amber Corjay and Karin Feight explained that they had NEVER felt an experience like that before. John Cravens explained to the kids later in the evening that he was drawn closer to his deceased father as a result of the incredible experience. Words cannot describe what happened tonight in that concert.


On to the Hard Rock Cafe...next post

We Have Arrived!

After a relatively uneventful bus ride we arrived in Memphis around 6pm last night. We stayed the night on the gym floor at Bartlett UMC. They had a huge youth building with work-out room, indoor trash and raquetball court. We had a few flashbacks to New York last year while sleeping on the floor of the gym. Only for one night this year thank goodness! While everyone slept a group of boys and I jogged about a mile to the local McDonald's for breakfast and back. Certainly a workout in 90% humidity and 80 degress in the morning. The choir sang at the early service this morning and then enjoyed a great lunch served at the church by the youth group.

Off to Mission work...next post

The bus snack bar is set up! and daily money info

We have prepared the snack bar for the bus going and coming on the trip.

$1.00
cans of Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper and Orange Crush
Also, bags of Chex Mix, Frito Lay chips, candy bars.

50 cents
peanut butter crackers, airheads, honey buns, bags of Cheez-Its, Quaker Chewy Granola Bars and Rice Krispy Treats.

profits from the snack bar go towards a special treat on the ride back home on Friday.

It will be appreciated if the kids come with some small denomination of money as we will not have a lot of change in the beginning.

DAILY MONEY clarification...

If you want an adult to monitor the spending of your child please divide their spending money into indivudl envelopes for each day. PLease refer to the schedule to determine which days they need to buy meals. The meals will be fast food type meals and well under $10 each.

YOu can email me or Chris Caffee if you have any additional information!

Thanks

Rick Neudorff