Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you're well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more

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maybe that notification bell too, let's crack on. Today's first story comes from a throwaway account

and is titled My 51 Nephew Male 12

caught stage fright that prevented him from playing piano in church, but received permission

to try again from the youth pastor.

His dad won't allow him to play though.

I'm writing this regarding a situation that happened at church surrounding my 12-year-old

nephew and a situation he told me about over the phone.

Every few months, his church has something called a Youth Sunday, where the youth pastor

gives the sermon to the adults, and the youth band do the worship to give the regular worship

team a break.

The youth also do the church announcements and pass tithe baskets.

And someone usually sings a song as the baskets are past.

That person was going to be my nephew, on the 15th of the 6th, who was going to play a worship

song on piano, and this would be his first time playing in an adult service.

He's not part of the youth band, but he's taken piano lessons for a few years.

He's played in recitals, but never for as many people as their church, who has two services

with over a thousand capacity.

But when he was about to play, he got nervous and started crying on the piano bench.

One of the youth leaders went over to try and comfort him, but he couldn't muster the energy

to try after crying slash feeling embarrassed.

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