Not 100% sure how this is going to turn out but here goes nothing! My name is Dylan Armistead I have a first name but thats on a need to know basis only! I love to make videos. I was in a TV Production class for 4 years in high school and we produced the typical "daily news" show, but our studio was special because that was just the tip of the iceberg the was FPCTV! We where run by the great Mr.Carl Brazell and he treated us like employees in a company. You have your higher up officials who basically ran the place and your underlings who did tasks to obtain a goal. I worked my way from TV 1 and graduated a TV 8 or 9 (I truly lost count!) But we used to do what we called MCRs (Mulit-Camera Remote) basically we had two different studio set ups, one was our in house never moves permeant set up; and one was what I called the "Studio in a Box!" We would go and record concerts, plays and all kinds of other thinks with this set up! I learned a lot back then and took it all and applied it to real life. I want to go to study Live Event Production and Motion Graphics. But thats enough about the past. I am about to start one of the best journeys of m LIFE! I am a 2011 BigStuf Intern. Now if you know anything about me at all you will know that this has been a dream for me for a while now! And its still hard to believe that in just a few more days I am going to FINALLY meet the other interns and start this amazing life changing trip that is called a BigStuf Internship! We "report for duty" if you want to call it that on May 20th! And then on May 23rd we go to Haiti! This is something I have been looking forward to since I found out I was an intern. I know Haiti will not be what I expect and I am going to be changed from it but I cant wait! I am so excited to get down there and just serve the people. The Haiti people suffered a huge loss and are still trying to get over it! On Jan 12, 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti. This changed Haiti forever. And I am just so blessed to be able to go down there and help these people. Then the Interns and I will make our way to Panama City Beach Florida! We are going to be used by God to help change students lives over the course of 8 weeks. I feel I am so blessed to be able to work with these great people! They are all so cool and I havent even met them face to face yet! But thats my life. Now let me tell you why I named this Here am I, Lord send me. Now if you know me before I make a point I like to tell a story so here we go. A few years ago my friend (and one of my best friends might I add) Kayla Hendricks gave a lesson at a church for their youth sunday and in the message she used Isaiah 6. It was when the Lord came to Isaiah and in this passage it really explains a lot of (in a spiritual since and at least the way I see it) Salvation. It says
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
To me this totally sums up how I feel sometimes. You see back then the took the Name of God to be something beyond Holy! The scribes just to write the name God had to go throw a cleansing process and when I think of how bad I have messed up on God and then I think of how Holy Holy Holy He really is, my earth shakes! For I am so unclean and have seen God's greatness! There are storys in the Bible about how God's holiness literally set people ablaze and for me, a lowly sinner to see God's grace is astounding! I know I am rambling but follow me here. It goes on to say that a seraphim went and took a coal from the alter and placed it upon Isaiah's lips and made his guilt be taken away and his sins atoned for. Then God looked at him and said
“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
and instantly Isaiah said
“Here am I. Send me!”
And I cant help but think thats what God is asking. He sent his son to take away my guild and make my sins atoned for. Now he is asking who shall I send? And I want to respond with a shout of Here am I! Send me! Thats all God is asking for. He has saved you and all he wants to do is send you! Will you be willing to go where he sends you? I know as for myself and the other BigStuf Interns, we are saying back to God Here WE are send US!
Glory to God and in HIS name,
Dylan
