THE JOURNEY CHURCH

With Easter being tomorrow I thought it was a good time to tell you about our church. We have been attending The Journey Church since last April. (click photo on right to go to the Journey website) In June of last year I joined the staff as a member of the media production team on a part time basis. I was brought on the staff to work 1 day a week in the office and all day on Sundays. Leah is a member of the dance team. She is dancing a solo this Easter Sunday to U2's Grace. The Journey started 6 years ago on Easter Sunday in 2002 so we don't have our own building like the older churches in the city. We hold services at The Manhattan Center Studios on 34th St between 8th and 9th avenues in the Grand Ballroom. (click top photo to go to MC studios website) They hold numerous concerts here as well as conferences, dance competitions and even wrestling matches! It is also a recording studio. Since we rent the space we have to setup and strike our equipment every Sunday. I arrive at 6:30am to setup. Then we have services at 10am, 11:30am, and 1pm. Next, I catch a quick lunch with Leah before she goes to work at the restaurant and then I go back to the church for the 6:30pm service and strike. I leave around 8:30pm most nights. Yep, it's a looong day, but a good one. You can listen to podcasts of our services by clicking on the podcast icon to the right. We have a great worship team with backup singers, lead vocals, and an awesome variety of instrumentalists that all rotate Sundays so the sound varies depending on who is singing and playing. Best of all, we have made friends here and our church family makes us feel like we have a home here. If anyone ever wants to come to church with us you have an open invitation. Happy Easter! (map of Journey location below)

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VIDEOS FROM TRIP TO RALEIGH

Ana swings with Papaw, Leah, and Jeremy

Ana's POV swing

Dennis teaches Ana about the Wammy Doodle

David and Ana with new bib, blanket, & CD

Ana walks with Leah and Jeremy

VISITING THE ANDERSONS IN RALEIGH, NC

This past weekend we took off to Raleigh, N.C. to meet our new nephew, David Keith Anderson, for the first time! He is about two months old now and pretty much eats, sleeps, and poos, but we still had a great time seeing him and the rest of the fam: Leah's parents, brother, sister-in-law, and our niece. Check out the slide show for pics from the trip. If you mouse over the slide show the control bar appears and you can pause the show and change the pics at your own pace. If you click on a pic in the slide show it will take you to the Picasa website where you can view the slide show in full screen mode. The highlights of the weekend were singing and dancing to Ana's (2yr old niece) CD we made for her, delicious home cooking, a big birthday bash for Connie, Erin, and Keith (Leah's mom, sister-in-law, brother), and watching U23D at the IMAX! (Oh yes, it rocked!!! Check it out!!) More to come so stay tuned in!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW BLOG!

Well, I finally got around to updating our blog since the truncated New Zealand adventures. First of all, take notice that our blog address is different than the New Zealand site. There is no longer an 'nz' at the end of our names. The new address is just 'leahjeremy.blogspot.com'. For those of you that don't know, Leah and I are now living in New York City, pursuing a career on Broadway and hopefully in film, TV, and/or music. We live in Sunnyside, NY, which is just over the East River from Manhattan. We are about a 20 minute subway ride from Times Square so it is a double blessing because we are outside the city where it is much quieter, but we are close enough to make it easy to audition and work in the city. We have lived here almost a year now and just signed our first lease on a great apartment that we have been subletting since last June. Since this is just an introduction I will end it here, but check again soon as I will continue to fill you in on more details you've missed out on in the last year. Upcoming topics will include: jobs, shows we've done, our church, and plenty of fun NYC pics of all the visits we've had from our friends and family over the past year! Ya'll come back now! Ya hear?