MYO Out in the Community

Mapleton-Fall Creek "State of the Neighborhood" Celebration was held on Saturday, 9/11 at the Raphael Medical Center and MYO was present and accounted for!!

Two of our MYO students, Markeisha Laswell and Justice Vaughn, performed beautiful solo selections before and after city officials touted the importance of neighborhood celebrations like this one! We heard from Mayor Ballard, Sentor Carson, Jackie Nytes and Federal Judge Tanya Walton Pratt. (Ms. Perry is pictured with Senator Carson and Council Rep Jackie Nytes.)

It was an exciting afternoon. Markeisha opened with an inspiring "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and Justice (pictured above) demonstrated her playing virtuosity with a Bach solo and the theme song to The Flintstones. Great fun! Thank you ladies for representing MYO so beautifully!

What did you do this summer?

What did you do this summer? Send us your news and pics and we'll post them on the MYO blog!

Here's an update from the Busch family....

"This summer was a very full one for the Busch family. A major accomplishment came for Evan in May as he ran the Indianapolis 500 Mini-Marathon. Before the day of the race he had only run about 8 miles at one time but he finished all 13.1 miles with a great time of 2 hours 29 minutes. He was not a runner before training for this race but is now training for the Indianapolis Marathon in October. After the race we focused on Lauren's graduation the 1st weekend of June followed by Strings and Jazzy Things camp the next week where Lauren was a counselor and Evan was a camper.

"The rest of June included work and a week of church VBS. Then we headed up to Battleground, IN for the annual Fiddlefest, taking classes and listening to great concerts. We ended the day having fun at the contra-dance. Butler strings scholars camp came at the end of the month. From there Evan headed down to Bloomington where he helped a new church with a summer ministry program for a week. After arriving back home to do laundry and clean up he left for a week in southern Indiana at a wilderness camp with our church youth group: swimming, shooting, football, Frisbee, fishing, paintball were some of the activities he enjoyed while he was there.

"August found us working for Hunter's Honey Farm at the county fair and attending the awesome BBQ dinner with Time for 3. During this time Lauren was busy getting ready to head off to Virginia for college, putting on a lovely bridal shower and preparing to be a bridesmaid for the wedding of her best friend, which was the Saturday before she left. We found our way to Patrick Henry College on August 16.

"We also went to two Indianapolis Indian games, played volleyball, basketball, went boating, attended the 1500 Gun and Knife Show and more Time for 3 events. It has been a great whirlwind of a summer."