When we arrived around 10:00 pm on Saturday night, there were a few people waiting to help take in luggage for us. They also had peanut butter and jelly, cooler full of drinks and snacks waiting for us.
Sunday morning, we had to wake up early due to the men's ministry cooking a full breakfast and they were serving at 7:00 am. Biscuit and gravy, eggs and bacon...yum! After breakfast, we headed to the worship center to get ready for the 1st worship service which started at 8:30. Their student choir, Know Mercy, sang two songs with us. WOW! What a glorious sound they made when they sang together. I think we had about 50 - 60 students up there singing! I loved it! Oh, by the way, Dayton McClean (the young man we've praying for the past 2 months) was there and it was his first Sunday back from being at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. Woohoo! After the 1st service, we headed to their youth building called the Refuge where we hung out for a few minutes and then they went to their Sunday school classes. We helped lead the 2nd service which started at 11:00 am, Know Mercy helped sing with us as well. After the 2nd service, we went to the gym and had pizza for lunch, which Union Valley paid for. After lunch, we had some free time where some took naps and some played Gaga ball at the Refuge. Some of Know Mercy students stayed for the afternoon to hang out with us. At 5:00 pm, we ate at Union Valley's hamburger and hot dog cookout, which was provided for us and probably 250 people (not sure about the total). After we ate, we presented our presentation for the 2nd time this week where Know Mercy sang with us again the same two songs. A wonderful night! Our students are doing so great! I am very proud of each and every one of them. Our chaperones are doing great and I appreciate their help! Union Valley showed great hospitality to us while we were here. As we were pulling out of the parking lot, our students didn't want to leave and were bragging on how friendly everyone was. Thank you Union Valley Baptist Church! As I am writing this, we are traveling down I-30 towards Dallas. We will be stopping in Texarkana, TX at the Randy Sams Shelter to present our program for the 3rd time. Continue to pray for us as we are being witnesses for God! That's all for now! Brian.
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its been a long, but great day at Union Valley in Beebe. I'm going to bed. I'll try to update in the morning while traveling to Texarkana.
Good night! Brian Day 2 has been a great day! The students and adults have been awesome! Traveling has been great and we thank God for traveling mercies as Bobby has been a great driver.
We left Camellia Baptist Church in Prattville, AL and headed to Memphis, TN. We arrived at Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid to do some site seeing. We got to ride in elevator to the top of the pyramid to look at the beautiful across the Mississippi River and downtown Memphis (pictures below). We only had about an hour at Bass Pro, so we didn't have much time to shop, things in there are expensive anyway. We left Bass Pro and arrived at the Union Mission. After we set up our instruments and sound equipment, we helped serve about 150 men their meal. It was quite the set up and they had it down pat to get the meal in an orderly fashion. The students and adults did great! After serving, we had the opportunity to eat as well. We started our presentation and from then on the Holy Spirit began to work. It was great! The students were singing their hearts out and the men were responding great. Bobby got up and spoke a few minutes and everything he said was exactly the right thing to say...we give God the glory! Then as we sang our last song, Every Praise, the men were really getting into it then...and the students were as well. After we got done, they wanted us to sing that song again! And, so...we did! A lot of them were standing and singing along with us the second time! It was awesome! Some of my family was able to be there to watch and I was grateful for that! It was a great way to start our trip! The students are doing great! They are working hard in not only helping load and unloading the bus, but really getting into the program. Tomorrow, we help lead in the two morning services at my former church, Union Valley Baptist Church. And then we do our presentation in the evening, which will be Facebook live on Dawson Street Baptist Church's page. What a way to start the trip! Please continue to pray because they are working! That's all for now. Good night! Brian The day has finally arrived! We are excited about this trip and we thank you for your prayers! Not much went on today, but like the title says, traveling was done! We left Dawson Street Baptist Church at 5:20 pm and arrived at our lodging place for the night at Camellia Baptist Church in Prattville, AL with a stop at good ole' Chick Fil A in Dothan, AL.
We have another big traveling day tomorrow as we head to Memphis, TN with our first stop being at Bass Pro Shop Pyramid and then we will do our 1st presentation at Union Mission Shelter at 6:00 p.m. Bobby Miller, our youth pastor, is our bus driver for the trip and is doing a great job! That's all for now. Brian There will be a parent/student info meeting on Sunday Mar 19 at 4:30 pm.
New season begins!We had a great kick off to our new season as we had 28 in attendance! A great praise to our God!! Now, let's see if we can hold this amount! Let's do this!
Proud of our Four:12 group as they went to FBC McRae, GA last night presenting their program for the last time this season. Thank you to Steve Pilkinton, Music & Youth Minister at FBC McRae and sound man Micheal for hooking us up with the wireless mics and using their sound system so we didn't have to unload/load ours! Thank you FBC McRae for feeding us before making the 2.5 hr trip back home!
We did have a little bus mishap on the way home though. Not long after we left McRae, the bus was leaking anti-freeze. I thought "Oh no", it's gonna be 2 or 3 am before getting home. But, after our master mechanic/youth pastor Bobby Miller looked at it, it turned out to be a clamp that had come loose off the hose. After getting that fixed, we were back on the road in no time. Praise God it broke down on a side of the road that was big enough for the bus to park and Praise God we had extra bottles of water and a gallon of antifreeze! Gonna miss our senior Kacy Jones, our piano player/singer, as she starts college in the fall. Looking forward to a new season starting on August 21 with several new students joining and going on our first tour/mission trip during spring break 2017. Thank you God for your blessings! Four:12 finally presented their program for DSBC tonight! It was also a share time from the M-Fuge trip the student ministry went on last week. I am very proud of what they did through song and drama! We even ended the night with all the students coming up in the loft and singing "Thrive" to see what Four:12 could be. Hopefully, we'll see more join Four:12 in August.
Our next and last time we'll present this program will be Sunday July 24th at First Baptist Church McRae, GA. |
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