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All in a days work…
Sometimes I don’t know what to say when people ask me if I have a job. I mean, I show up, turn in timecards, and I get a paycheck, but I don’t have an ordinary job. I’m a vocalist on the Bethel College Chapel Band. So basically, I get paid to do what I love- worship through music.
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been listening to BCCB cds. To me, they were just like any other artist that I listened to, Point of Grace, 4HIM, the Newsboys, Michael W. Smith- you know, I had a 90′s Christian childhood. 
I never really thought I’d be a member someday. Even as a Frosh, I didn’t really consider being on the chapel band an option for me. Then one day during second semester, it occurred to me that the current pianist would be graduating that May. On a whim, I asked him when auditions were. “They’re today. This afternoon, actually. You should come by!” Oh, wow. Ok. Today? Hmm… maybe not.
But I couldn’t convince myself not to check into it. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Shawn could tell me I was too late to audition, and I’d move on. It was a spur of the moment whim, right? It’s not like it was God’s plan for my life or anything…
So I show up, unannounced and knock on the door of the studio. I poked my head around the door and asked Shawn if I was too late to audition, half hoping he’d say yes. But he didn’t. So I sat at a piano, between two of the music people that I most respect, and I played and sang the charts they put in front of me. A couple days later Shawn asked me to be an official member of the chapel band.
So, I quit my job on the Bethel Grounds Crew, and spent my time instead in practice rooms and on stage. My time with the Chapel Band has been incredible, but not always easy. First as the pianist and now as a vocalist, God has really blessed and stretched me through the experience. I really believe that though it was “just a whim” to me, it was His plan all along- but more on all that later… 
