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Attention: Former Dancers and Staff - Please give us an update on what is going on with you now. If you feel led, we would especially love to hear what God is doing in your lives....examples--- ministry, missions, teaching, service, dancing in other companies, marriages, children etc..Please email us through the CONTACT US on this website to share what has happened, and what you are doing now. Current pictures would be great.
Blessings!!
From Joanna Ahlman, former Trainee and Alpha
Company dancer
 The Lord has been overwhelmingly faithful to
direct me into his purposes. He’s been the voice
behind me saying "This is the way, walk in it".
I have been going to school and teaching ballet,
dancing and choreographing for The Columbus
Ballet since 2002. In 2005, I went to Africa for
the summer with an organization called Overland
Missions. Summer of 2006, I went back again and
helped lead expedition style mission teams into
W. Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. This past
semester, the Lord led me to go to S. Korea to
study art (primarily Korean painting and
ceramics) in Seoul. I also got to get a view of
what the Lord was doing in that part of the
world and connected with several churches and a
variety of individuals.
I am currently in the States working with a
multi-arts production whose vision is to
proclaim the Gospel through the combination of
media, dance, drama and theatrical elements. I
am choreographing and dancing for the production
and love being part of a greater whole. I am
also in school taking correspondence classes in
order to finish my Associates before acquiring a
Bachelors in Theology/Missions. I am also on
staff with Overland and am working to develop a
curriculum for a new branch of the organization
that is called Advanced Missions Training. This
is a intensive three month training that will
train young adults with both the practical
skills (4 by 4 off-roading, GPS navigation,
welding, EMT medical training, cultural
communication, knowledge of political and
religious structures, welding, diesel mechanics,
etc.) and spiritual training along with
theological cementing. I will be helping to lead
this course (teaching the cultural side of it as
well as facilitating and helping disciple) in
Livingstone Zambia from mid-April to beginning
of September. After that, the Lord is faithful
to expertly direct. I am challenged to simply
abide, trust, obey and love him!
Joanna Ahlman
Email:
Joanna_ahlman@hotmail.com or
Joanna@overlandmissions.com
LAUREN ROBERTS KEY
 Hi
everyone!! This is Lauren Key but you
all know me as Lauren Roberts!! I danced
with the Belhaven group from '95 to '98
and was a trainee from '98 to 2000. ( I
think:)
My
life in a nutshell...I have been married
to Harrison Key for 4 years this past
March. He also went to Belhaven and that
is where we met. We have a little girl
named Trudy Simmons Key named after my
mom Trudy who passed away in Feb. of
'03. We call her Simmons and she will be
a year old this May.
We
are currently living in Savannah, GA
where my husband is the speech writer
for the president of Savannah
College of Art and Design. We've only
live
here since Feb. so everything is still
very new to us. I am a stay at home mom
and love every second of it. It is my
calling without a doubt. God had placed
this desire to be a mom since I was
little and I'm so thankful that He has
blessed us financially to where I can do
that.
Ever since the death of my mom, God has
been teaching me to store up treasures
in heaven and not to put so much time
and heart into to things of this world.
He has also truly been the Great
Comforter in my times of loneliness. I have been really
struggling with loneliness lately, being
in a new city and having no friends. I'm
praying that God will bring me friends
through our church and Sunday school and
am trying to wait on His timing.
I was teaching ballet up until a few
years ago but haven't really done
anything in a while. I'm actually going
to take a class this morning provided by
the college. This should be very
interesting being that I'm incredibly
out of shape!!! We'll see how it goes. I
always miss dancing and miss the dancers
figure as well:) Hopefully I'll be able
to get out of bed in the morning.
I miss you all and hope to hear updates
from everyone else.
lrkey78@hotmail.com
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