AuburnChick's Adventures

Saturday, Day 2 of the Christian Concert Series, could not get here quick enough for Your’s Truly.  After my horribly sweaty morning (see previous post), I looked forward to having the evening off.

First off, a HUGE thanks to BP – not for the oil spill, thank you very much, but for the mucho-bucko’s that it gave to many local agencies to drum up travel to the beautiful beaches that line our coastline.  My region of Florida relies heavily on tourism, and the oil spill made an already-hurting economy even more so.

I already told you about Point of Grace’s appearance on Friday night.

I had read estimates of 600 people showing up to hear them sing.

Saturday evening proved to be an entirely different ballgame.

By the time I arrived, perhaps an hour before showtime, the crowds were more than double from the previous night.

This time, I did not have to go alone as I sort-of invited myself to ride with another gal and her daughter.

Oops.

Heehee

We took our children, who are both in the band (her daughter is actually on the dance line), along with another young gent from the band, to the concert, where we saw a lot of other people from our church.

We were all there to hear one person sing.

Though the clouds were overcast, and the sky continued to sprinkle down small droplets of rain, people waited…

People lined the pier…

Finally, the wait was over, and I caught my first glimpse of…

CHRIS TOMLIN!!!!

Woo Hoo!!!!

Oh

My

Gosh.

This man can sing, let me tell you!

It did not take him long to get the crowd pumped up.  At times, we were jumping like, in his words, “White boy pogo sticks.”  Other times, people had their hands lifted in praise…

Most touching, to me, was the sight of so many young people.  They often had their arms around each other or their hands raised…

I don’t know why, but the following young gentleman frequently caught my attention…perhaps it was his youth, or perhaps it was simply the sight of him letting his emotions go…

As the evening wore on, Chris continued to play his guitar and sing…

Even his band mate worshiped…

An amazing thing happened as Mr. Tomlin performed.

The dark clouds dispersed, revealing one of the most glorious sunsets I’ve ever seen…

The pictures convey but a snippet of the emotions that ran, unchecked, through the crowd.

I have never, ever seen experienced anything like this.

Every single song was sung for the glory of God.

I believe I caught a glimpse of what heaven will be like, where all believers will stand together and give praise to the One who provides the rain and the rainbows and painted the beautiful sunsets I am privileged to see each day.

The experience took my breath away.

And this was only Day 2.

Day 3 was still to come…

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