Mission Trip
~ Four Tales from a Chicken Bus ~
- Goin’ on a real long trip
- Don’t know what to think of it
- Fear and angst, they pull at me
- Will this week change how I see
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- God is at the wheel they say
- Fam’ at home will surely pray
- Wonder still, do I belong
- As the Chicken bus chugs on
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- Miles and miles of open road
- Saps our strength, makes weary souls
- Late at night we get to bed
- Just as dreams start in my head
Chorus
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
(Guitar Solo)
- Working in the blazing sun
- On a roof since daybreak’s gun
- Sweat runs down my burnt red face
- Stings my eyes and leaves me dazed.
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- Dehydration takes its toll
- Bigger problems yet unfold
- Storm clouds gather in the west
- Puts our team to ugly test
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- Two more hours we could use
- Cell phone rings with hated news
- Rain has turned into a squall
- Time is short, our patience small
Chorus
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
(Piano solo)
- Building Roy a wheelchair ramp
- Hoping he will join our camp
- Ask him if he wants to pray
- Says ‘no thanks’ he’ll pass this day
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- Day by day our love we give
- For this time with him we live
- Share our stories through it all
- Hoping he will hear God’s call
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- Week is up we’re nearly through
- Still he won’t give God His due.
- Have we done this mission right
- Was this just our ego’s plight
Chorus
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
(Base Solo)
- Worn out from the grueling work
- Blisters burn, my muscles hurt
- Now this day is fin’lly through
- Leading worship I must do
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- Straining eyes, they try to look
- For a message from your Book
- Mind is numb, can’t concentrate
- Do not want to bear this weight
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- Kids have gathered for the prayer
- Look to me, it isn’t fair
- On this day why can’t I be
- Just another worker bee?
Chorus – Accelerando
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Sit you down and share the truth
- Free your heart so you can see
- God provides for all your needs
- When the storm clouds gather ‘round
- And your worries just abound
- Tremble not with hopeless fear
- Suffer not one lonely tear
- Answers for your troubled soul
- Are much closer than you know
- Read the Bible every day
- Learn what Jesus has to say
(Drum Solo)
83.a. Drum Solo!!!
- Wake Up! Wake Up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Give you peace and courage too
- Open to Philippians
- Chapter four is at the end
- Verses six and seven serve
- As a path to Heaven’s nerve
- Wake Up! Wake Up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Help you out and see you through
- Look to Hebrews chapter ten
- For a promise stored within
- Come to know verse thirty six
- Yes, impatience can be fixed
- Wake Up! Wake Up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Tell you what you cannot do
- Seek Ephesians chapter two
- Read the truth provided you
- Grace resides there in verse eight
- Spend some time to contemplate
- Wake Up! Wake Up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Share the truth that you once knew
- Find Philippians once more
- Look again to chapter four
- Verse thirteen, it holds the key
- God’s the source of what you need
- Wake Up! Wake Up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- Jesus wants to talk to you
- Wake up! Wake up!
- I…AM…UP!
Bennett, M.J.