Braving the near freezing temperatures of the upper elevations inherent to the Appalachian Mountains, Stereoreel traveled to Frostburg, Maryland to participate in a campus-wide, genre-crossing worship event at Frostburg State University. That was the easy part.

Have you ever tried to find a specific building on that campus? Better question: Have you ever heard of this college? Due to my humble upbringing in a small town about 40 minutes away, I had heard of it. I also had the full understanding that nobody else outside of a 20 mile radius knew or cared about its existence. Whether or not you know about a place of higher learning has no bearing on its academic offerings. You can almost guarantee that the educational experience you will be subjected to is only as good as the campus’ road signs. If you can’t put in the time and effort necessary to point people traveling your roadways in the right direction, how can I expect you to put any more passion into the curriculum you offer to the future leaders of the free world?? Maybe you’ve come to the conclusion that you won’t be churning those out anytime soon…

Seriously, we spent nearly 45 minutes trying to find the building we were supposed to play at! It’s not because we are horrifically stupid, either! We offer this as evidence: everybody else who was supposed to play that night spent 45 minutes trying to find the same building. No joke. One sign sported an arrow pointing in the supposed direction of the place we were looking for, which brought us to… a random house.

After some slight maneuvering through one way streets, with every new turn a new exchange of the phrase “Your guess is as good as mine,” we eventually came to the Lane Center. Once we manage to find the parking lot (colleges make you PAY for parking on weekdays!?!?), we got down to business.

We rocked the house for God, and had the pleasure of enjoying several worship acts which included a worship team from Johnstown, PA, and a pretty cool Christian rap artist. We all agreed that he had the flow.

Glory.

Tags: Frostburg, Lane Center, sad future