Jess gave me a present today.

It's a choir.
They're mine now. To do with as I want. As long as I maintain the aims and values.
I'd like to share them with you now.

Aims
To be a Christian-based Rock-Gospel Choir incorporating other performing arts.
To create a choir where people can build friendships, draw out hidden abilities and be accepted for who and what they are.
To develop this concept throughout institutions of higher education worldwide.
Values
Everyone in Revelation has an equal role to play, and is loved and accepted as such.
We believe that performances and concerts are a means to an end, not an end in themselves.
There are no prerequisites to joining Revelation.
Revelation is run by the group, for the group.
Freedom of choice is respected at all times.
We are all beautiful people loved and accepted by God and each other.

These simple words, the people they bring together, the safe space that it's provided for me, I cannot being to express what it all means and the terrifying thought that next year it's me who has to be in charge of making sure it offers that beacon of hope and opportunity to everyone else. Shortly after coming to uni I got very sick. I was utterly miserable and lived for my Tuesday evenings with Rev, I found myself somewhere I truly belonged, surrounded by people who made me keep fighting. They made me feel like I mattered right from the minute I walked through the door, and more than that, they made me laugh when things were very dark.

I feel like this is a huge task ahead of me, to be 'President' of Revelation, when I owe a lot of myself to this choir. I don't know where this year's going to take me, but you're going to see, I'm gonna be a stronger and a better me. I'm gonna make it because I said I would, and do all the things you said I never would.