Life on The Road

Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving with family, friends and lots of food. I wanted to give you all a little update on what has been going on in the past few weeks.

This past weekend we held an event at the Tingley Colliseum in Albuquerque, NM. Although it was a bit colder than expected, the weekend started out just fine. Friday night was amazing. The drama went well, the speakers were wonderful and we even brought in a hispanic band called Rojo to end the night (most of our attendees were hispanic, so they loved it, as you can tell in the picture). As we headed into Saturday quite a few members of our team began to feel this overwhelming need for prayer. Of course, we should always be praying but this felt different. Things were running smoothly as we headed into the afternoon session of concerts and youth pastor training. In the middle of the session we were told we needed to evacuate the entire colliseum. Local police were made aware of suspicious packages in the parking lot of the venue. Upon further investigation we found out that there was a pipe bomb and a container of cobalt-57. Apparently when they took radiation readings it gave off some signals of radiation, which triggered the evacutation. We were evacuated from the colliseum itself and then from the state fairgrounds that it was on. We were taken across the street where we were bussed to a local community center. Nearly 5 hours later we were given the ok to go back it. Since it was already so late we just began to pack up our things to leave. I believe this was an intense spiritual attack. Acquire the Fire hadn't been to Albuquerque in over 9 years. All in all everyone ended up safe, which is something to be thankful for.

This weekend we have off due to the holiday, but we jump right back into the swing of things next weekend with an event in Glendale, AZ. I'm actually staying in Phoenix, AZ with my Aunt and her family. Thanksgiving was wonderful. I was able to see my 7 year old cousin perform in her first parade and we went out for thanksgiving dinner (which means all the good food, no preperation and no clean-up!) It was hard to be away from the craziness of the Feldman Family thanksgiving, but I am anticipating that Christmas will make up for it! Only 19 days until I arrive home. I look forward to seeing all of your beautiful faces this Christmas.

Until Next Time...

ps- If you go to www.acquirethefire.com and watch the video that plays automatically you can catch a glimpse of me onstage as Victoria. Enjoy!

Hello Friends and Family!
I know what most of you are thinking... what happend to Courtney? We never hear from her anymore... Well, you're right. For nearly 2 months now I have been touring North America with Acquire the Fire Ministries. I live on a Coach Bus with 37 other young people. Leisure time is hard to find on the road, so I find it hard to keep in contact with everyone. Rather than send out mass emails or support letters I thought that it would be more interesting and convienient to keep a blog of my life on the road for my faithful supporters to read. I hope this helps me to keep in touch with all of you.

This past weekend we had an ATF in Cleveland, OH. Being from Florida I havn't really adapted to the cold weather that well. Just this past Thursday during a late night drama rehearsal it began to snow for the first time this year. It was the first time in my life that I have ever seen snow fall (i've seen snow twice before, but it was already on the ground). I quickly jumped on the oppurtunity to go out and play in it. Before I knew it my socks and shoes were soaked and my hands were nearly frozen but I had such an amazing time!

The event itself was actually the first event that we have done on our own. The first five events were done with the blue ministry team. I was excited to get back to my normal job. We had over 4000 young people in attendence this weekend at the Wolstein Center. Despite a few audio glitches (which have become quite normal really) this weekend went amazing. At the end of every event I get the oppurtunity to speak with some of the young people that attended the event. This weekend I spoke with this group of amazing young women. I asked each of them what they learned throughout the weekend. I challenged them to make a list of practical things they could do so that they would not lose what they learned. I encouraged them to hold each other accountable to actually doing those things. I prayed with them before they left. The girl on the far left, Anna, told me that before this weekend she was far from God. She said that this weekend she realized how easy it was to come back to God after drifting so far away. It is because of people like these precious girls that I do what I do. Please keep Anna and the rest of her friends in your prayers.

I will be hanging out in Cleveland, OH until this Wednesday. We will then be heading to St. Charles, MO for our next event. Hopefully there will be more snow there :)

Until Next time...