Name:
Laura Elizabeth Sanders
UpStreet Role:
11:00 Warehouse host
Family?
Mom, dad, younger sister
Where did you grow up?
Born in Jacksonville-FL, but grew up since age 5 in Woodstock, GA. So pretty much I consider myself a GA girl.
How and when did you get involved with UpStreet?
May of 2007 through my super fabulous friend Beth Pilgreen!
What’s your favorite thing about serving on UpStreet?
Performing for the kids and getting good reactions out of them!
What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?
This is really tough for me, since ice cream at my house has always been a food group in itself, but I’m going to have to say…. Ben & Jerrys Coffee Heath Bar Crunch or Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. They are the bomb!
Could you tell us about one UpStreet moment you’ll always remember?
When Beth Pilgreen and I had to play “mind-readers/mad scientists” and wear these crazy wigs and goggles! OR the one time that Mike had to come onstage during performance and check my mike and I totally didnt notice he was there for like a whole paragraph of my lines. OR that time when a small group volunteer was supposed to eat ketchup mixed with baby food mixed with onions and the leader let a kid come up onstage and eat it instead! Crazy stuff happens at UpStreet!
What was the first concert you went to?
Third Eye Blind in 9th grade. I thought Stephen Jenkins was so dreamy.
What’s your favorite message or series from “big church”?
Probably the series Voddie Baucham did on relationships. The whole who he must be/who she must be series. But I also thought the one Louie Giglio recently did on Hebrews 6:19 “this hope we have as an anchor of the soul”…was really good too.
What’s your favorite Bible verse or Bible story?
I really like Hebrews 12:11 “All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
Laura… you rock! You host an amazing group of kids who are really engaged during large group (I should know… I’ve had the honor to “be you” a time or two in the 2nd/3rd grade room and see the energy in that room), and you have a huge part in creating that type of environment for them.