We left on Tuesday morning at 9am in a rented 15 passenger van with 6 miles on it from Capps Van Rental. It was brand new! We drove until 1am (2am their time) in the morning to Atlanta, Georgia. We drove through Louisiana...
Mississippi...
Alabama (you can tell when people are sleeping!)....
Georgia (and when no one wants to get out of the van!)....
We left Atlanta, Georgia at around 11am on Wednesday morning and drove through South Carolina...
and into the state of our destination...North Carolina.
We had service Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights (everything held in the Charlotte Bobcats Arena) and sessions during the day. Each session was designed to minister to the youth and they did a great job getting the point across. We heard that there were over 17,000 in attendance on Friday. It was HUGE.
We took pictures and you can tell that the guys were sick of taking pictures! (above)We ate. (below)
We went to church.
The presence of the Lord came into the service so strong on Thursday and Friday nights. Thursday night, I felt God speaking to me so strong during worship. The worship team stopped and just worshipped for the longest. Friday night we ended up on the floor kneeling before the Lord all over the whole arena. It was awesome!We left at 5am on Saturday morning and drove straight through to Pflugerville, arriving at 1am on Sunday morning. We felt that we needed to be back for service on Sunday as we had all the musicians and all the singers except one with us on the trip. The youth were so willing to make this sacrifice - thank the Lord.
Sunday was a great time in service. Bro. Phillip McClain preached and we enjoyed Mom and Dad being in service again with us. They stayed in our house during the week to watch our dog and then headed home on Sunday afternoon. Thanks Mom and Dad for everything! Our new VBS mom was back in service even though her kids were out of town. We had a new guy visiting as well.
Thanks to all of you who sponsored our kids to able to attend. We really appreciate your love and support. Now - we have to catch up on some sleep.....
4 comments:
Sounds like a lot of fun (except for the driving), but of course, the youth helped make that bearable I'm sure! Glad you all were able to go and be blessed.
Glad ya'll had a safe trip and a great time. I'm sure you had a lot of memories flood your mind of years gone by. LOL!
Sounds like a great time was had by all. I have heard some AWESOME reports coming from NYC. How exciting to see that many young people worship God together.
Great report on the home front too.
Get some rest!
Thanks for your post about youth congress and the pics. Bryce sang in the talent show on Wednesday night and was 2nd place. He absolutely loved being able to go to congress and came home bragging about the praise and worship and preaching. He, too, mentioned how powerful the praise and worship was on the last two nights. Bryce did not have his camera, but I started watching some of the DVD's and haven't got through them all yet. I have only heard fantastic reports about it.
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