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Hi everyone!

its natascha!

i would just like to share something with you all if ya'll dont' mind ;)

some of you may already know, but recently i have organised a charity concert within my school. It was called the United Concert!

40 people from different year groups all made it happen, AND HALF OF THEM WERE PERFORMERS THEMSELVES! the whole concert was organized by these 40 students and 1 teacher!

ok so before i go any further, here's a few things you should know about my school:

Back to the story! (:

Auditions were held in september right after i went to my principal

with the idea right after i came back from my trip to singapore! Why? Because when i was back in singapore i attended a service in church which i felt was super powerful on a personal level with me.

When i first moved to pakistan, i had only just joined church for 3 months and i thought, what can i do here? church is all the way back in singapore and there arent any here, WILL I SURVIVE? However, soon enough as i kept on praying simple prayers and reading the Bible i felt God slowly revealing to me that he was going to use me to impact lives in a big way! So, with my new found faith in God's promise, for those two years i was there, i just kept praying and praying knowing that God had sent me here to impact lives in a huge way, praying that i would be able to know when it is God who is trying to speak to me.

That service was super powerful because i recieved a vision so strong and clear i jsut knew it was from God. I saw myself on stage with at least 20 more of my school mates, spotlight shining bright on a huge crowd who were there on a friday night, despite what other plans they may have, to support a cause. From then on i just prayed and prayed that my vision will come to pass, knowing that with God i cannot be stopped.

40 people from the secondary section volunteered as musicians, dancers, backstage crews. What really surprised me wasn't really the number but how they were just able to see what i saw and went with it.

In less than 2 months we were ready. Despite a few setback such as having to postpone the concert because of the India/Pakistan conflict in december what with the country being on the verge of war and everything and the issue of not being able to sell enough tickets after that, we stayed strong.

On the first day we sold 14 tickets (and my principal had made us a deal: if we could sell 100 tickets the concert is a go or else she was going to cancell it!) That same night, Cindy Teo asked me about the concert and i told her about the tickets issue and she suggested why not fast and pray (and that she would pray for me too!)

Immediately the next day, we sold a staggering 50 more tickets. But it was still not enough. So i prayed to God i told him that tomorrow was the deadline to sell 100 tickets and that it would have seemed that selling 50 tickets in such a small school in a day seemed impossible but since he has done it today i believe he will do the same tomorrow. My friend had asked me what were we to do if we didnt sell enough tickets, i told her we didnt have to think about such a scenario because we WILL sell 100 tickets.

The next day, right before i reported to my principal how many tickets i have sold i managed to sell 2 more, making it a total of 101 tickets sold!

After the concert, my principal had decided, why stop there? She said she was so inspired that she was going to create a student council fund where profits from all school events will be kept and by the end of the school year will be emptied out and donated to a charity we were supporting that year, and would start from scratch again each year.

So far we have raised about 45,000 rupees which is like about singapore $1000 (and we're only 4 months into the school year)

And i'm really excited because this year i'm pretty sure the fund is going to be donated to the Raast School. It is a school which runs only on the money it receives from donations to teach kids who can't even afford to pay a school fee of less than 3 cents!!! and i'm really excited because i can start to see people in my school being more eager to change lives after the concert! hahaha that definately means more charity bake sales and fanfares :D

so i just wanted to share this with you guys, and hope you all can see that a litte faith and constant prayer can go a LLLOOOONNNGGGGG way! (:

and here's just a little pic of some of us :D