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st. joseph confirmation retreat
placentia, california
Sep 13-23 speaker/worship leader
various ministries
glasgow, scotland, united kingdom
Sep 25 speaker/worship leader
st. columbkille
papillion, nebraska
Sep 29 speaker
high schools, st. monica parish
edmond, oklahoma
Oct 2 workshop speaker
st. patrick parish, 10am
moreno valley, california
Oct 2 benefit concert
servite high school, 5pm
anaheim, california
Oct 16 speaker/worship leader
youth track, diocese of raleigh
raleigh, north carolina
Oct 17 speaker
diocese of arlington youth day
arlington, virginia
top 10 cool spots of 2009
To see the countdown to jackie's top 10 favorite
cities, countries and sights of 2009, click here
fun spring concerts
for some odd reason, a bunch of my favorite worship
leaders and artists came to southern california this
spring--and even more amazing was that i had
never seen any of them in concert and was able
to go to all of them! i was stoked when
chris tomlin came to san diego a few months
ago. then i got to see phil wickham and
charlie hall in concert, where, to my
surprise, the guy who played electric guitars on my
cd (taylor johnson) was playing for phil wickham that
night. my friends and i dropped by charlie hall's
booth to say "hi" and give him kudos for his awesome
music. his beard makes me want to chop a tree down!
then hillsong united (my favorite band) came
to san diego. my friends and i got to go to a
pre-show event, where the hillsong peeps were, and
got to meet joel houston, who is a stinkin'
amazing songwriter! then, even better was that brooke
fraser was singing with them!!! i about peed my
pants, since she is my absolute favorite female
singer/songwriter/worship leader ever. it was so
awesome to worship God for two and a half hours
without a guitar in my hand!!! and i love
hillsong united. that concert was probably the most
worshipful/prayerful concert i've ever been to.
finally, matt maher and shane & shane came to
anaheim. i ended up seeing 25 other friends at that
concert, who came to support matt. only recently
(january) did i start listening to shane & shane,
and they have become one of my favorite groups! their
harmonies are so tight and amazing. after the
concert, matt maher introduced me to them and i
snagged a pic with them, too. they are quite the down
to earth/jolly guys. what a cool spring this has been
musically!
hopenspace, turin, italy
hopenspace was a first-time event where five
international christian artists were paired up with
five different italian composer/artists. we sang
their songs with them and they sang our songs with
us. (i sang a song called "una giornata di sole"
with/composed by a young man and woman named ruggero
and francesca. it was very cool to sing part of it in
english and then sing part of it in italian with
them!) what a great weekend! this time in italy was
definitely different than the last three times this
year, since it was less about the food and location
and more about the amazing people i met and hung out
with for three days. i especially grew close to jnr
robinson, a jamaican british gospel singer, and his
gf, justyna, a lovely polish girl. on sunday, with
our free time, we even took a little side trip to
milan, which i had never been too! the other artists,
suzan and bryan, were just as fun to hang out with,
and it was great to see fifito again! and of course,
all the italian peeps that i met the previous two
times (like nuccia and claudio, mauro, massimo, and
marco) were just as lovely this time around! all in
all, i had a "massive" time!
religious education congress
re congress is the largest 3-day gathering of
catholics in the united states (40,000 people). every
year they gather right in my backyard at the anaheim
convention center. being in ministry, this conference
is like a huge reunion, cuz i always see youth
ministers that i've ministered with, music ministers
that i've sung with, speakers who i've listened to,
etc, etc. i got to give two workshops at youth day
(15,000 teens), which i had never done before, and it
was awesome to see teens in my workshop that i had
spent a week with at camp last summer in arizona! the
spiritandsong.com prayer jam is always one of my
favorite events, since before i was one of their
artists, i used to attend this saturday night worship
event every year. this was my third time singing at
it, and it was one of my favorites, since matt maher,
tom booth, josh blakesley, jesse manibusan, steve
angrisano, sarah hart, valimar jansen and santiago
fernandez were there.....those are some heavy
hitters! it was so much fun!
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