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Many times I found myself sitting in church thinking about what could I do to give back to the Lord for all he has done for me? I realized I had a very talented family….singers, pastors, crafter’s, speakers. The list goes on. Each person in my family used their God given talent to contribute to the church. I really hope that I was blessed with a talent that would aloud me to do the same. So far all I could do was give a helping hand and donate my time. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mind doing either and I’m sure it was well appreciated by the church, but I wanted to do so much more. I wanted to minister in some way. I recall praying out loud one night “Lord you have blessed me with many things. I am hoping the gift of talent is one of them. If it is…I could use some help determining what that talent is. No immediate reply. They say the Lord works in mysterious ways. About two weeks later I received a call from my cousin. She explained how she was putting together a mime group at church. She asked if I would become a member of the group and help her with the kids. My first thought was, what is she trying to get me into now? Of course I said yes. I had know idea what I was getting into.
I remember our first practice; it was my cousin, another young lady and I. We started in the afternoon and practice threw the night until about midnight on a Saturday. We where going to mime Sunday morning at our church. I am a quick study, so I pick up on things very easily. Learning the mime routine was a snap and it came kind of natural for me. We mimed to “Lord help me to hold out” by Rev. James Cleveland. The church loved it and I received lots of positive feedback about my miming.
The next time we mimed I was given the lead and a few solos after that. Our mime group had grown some, so we spent lots of long nights practicing. I really enjoyed teaching the kids and coming up with new routines. It was then I realized my God given talent. I practice at home when I had time, I watch other mime groups when I could, I read books and attended workshops for miming. After a while I started slowly ministering solo and loved it even more. Thank you lord for my gift.
I remember one time after I did a Mime and an elderly lady came up to me and said “young lady God is going to use you in this ministry in ways you could ever imagine”. She also told me to never stop miming because she can tell it was doing good things for me. Not to long after that I took on a new job. This was one of those good things or so I thought. What was not so good was that the new job required me to work lots of late evenings and some weekends. As a result I didn’t go to church as often as I should. I stopped reading my Bible like I use to and I didn’t have much time for Mime Ministry. My life for the moment had seemed to have taken a sharp turn and was heading down the wrong road. Everything was changing slowly. My husband got laid off from work, then I got laid off, we lost our new car and almost our home. We where both miserable. One night I was lying in bed thinking about how I was going to get my life back on track. I cried out to the Lord why is all of this happening to me? With tears in my eyes I laid there waiting for an answer. While I was waiting I thought about how happy I was when I was miming, how good life was then. I also thought a lot about what the elderly lady had told me. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. This made me sad. Made me feel so guilty, I have taken everything that I have been blessed with for granted and I am sure God was not pleased with that. Right then and there I decided to turn things around, re prioritize my life. I started with church. Every Sunday no excuses! I attended Bible study and Prayer meetings on a regular basis. I also began miming again, but this time it was different. Like everything else in my life this to needed some change. I realized it’s not how I mine, it’s why I mime. So I started buying new music and changed the choreography of my movements that would better help tell a story and spread the word of God’s love. It has now truly become a Mime Ministry. I got to a point that I want to go out and ministered to the world.
I am now a mime director for my church. I am part of drama ministry Jesus is coming . I am also part of a ministry called 5th Sunday. In a short time my mime ministry has gone beyond anything I have ever expected. I ministered in weddings, Christian proms, family reunions, Sunday morning services, and other events. I also travel a lot to mime and to conduct workshops for those who have a mime group or those who want to start a mime group.
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