Humbled.

I had not planned on posting again today... but, the material for the content of this post was too good to pass up.
First off, I neglected to mention that Amber got the Dumb Quack today for thinking that we were singing with the same choir last night as we sang with the night before, even though we were two hours away.

What I really wanted to get at was our concert tonight.  We were all a little unhappy with the circumstances for the concert because we are all tired, we've had concerts every night so far, and the concert itself was really late and was going to run pretty long; however, the love and appreciation that we were shown from the audience was absolutely overwhelming.  They were enthusiastic and grateful for our music.  One man in the front row yelled "Amen!" every time after we would finish a song! When we left for a brief water break, the applause was astounding, and even more so at the end.  As we progressed through the concert, we went on to bigger and better "crowd pleasers," which was smart because the energy from the audience continued to build, and support us as we sang.  At the end of our concert, we sang "Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying," which has been a consistent favorite, and we also did "Psalm 23" which was sung in Korean.  This Psalm is one of the most well-known Korean tunes, and from the stage, you could see the people in the audience mouthing the words and closing their eyes to soak in our sound.  This was incredibly encouraging since the choir is still a little nervous about the quality of their Korean.  At the conclusion of the set, we exited to tumultuous applause and then we were called back for an encore.  One of the two encore selections that we did was "Spring of Hometown," which is a song that embodies remembering peaceful times of old. What's unique, and special about the selection is that North and South Koreans alike know the song and take meaning from the song even though there is turmoil between the countries.  Brittany Pitts sang the solo and completely blew the audience away.  There was nothing more inspiring and humbling than seeing the faces of the Korean audience light up over familiar songs, and nothing more rewarding than the hospitality and thankfulness that they lavished on us.  This audience set the bar high, but I think that there's a renewed sense of excitement and joy in our performance, which will hopefully translate into the concert series that will resume next week!!

A picture of the WHOLE group at the mountainside grotto from this morning!