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Driving into Elevation Churches parking lot.
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| Bill waiting in the lobby |
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| Me waiting in the lobby for the doors to open to the sanctuary |
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| Going in |
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| We sat in the 5th row |
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| We sat next to our new CMA friends, Becky and Gary, who we met while we were waiting in the lobby. They are good friends with our good friend Ziggy. We exchanged numbers and became facebook friends. They go to CMA Colors in Arkansas like we do each year. They were so nice! |
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| Me and Billy |
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| Right before worship started |
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| Pastor Furtivk sang the last worship song with the worship band |
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| Vikki watched the service online and found us. She sent this picture. I had sent her a picture and she also recognized Bill’s CMA patch which helped her to find us. |
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| When we entered Virginia |
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| Bill reading the Bible in our hotel room |
They had a sign for first time visitors (VIP’s it said) to put their flashing lights on, then directed us to the closer parking lot. A nice church volunteer came up to our car and talked to us and told us there were going to be 125 baptisms after the service, told us Pastor Furtick would be preaching today, and shared about classes we could join on line if we wanted to. He walked us inside where many people greeted us, then had us go into an area where new visitors were waiting to go in. He told us they
Wanted first time visitors to be able to sit close up. We sat in the 5th row from the front. They sure showed the Love of Jesus!
The morning service at Elevation Church was amazing with awesome worship and an amazing message on the Holy Spirit and how we need Him, who the Bible says He is, and what He does. We all have a story and the Holy helps us tell it. We need to see our life through His lens so we can see how God has moved through what we go through. The girl who sat next to me was so sweet, had such kind gestures and was so on fire for Jesus. God had prepared ahead of time who we should sit by. It is very cool, that I just started reading Acts when we came on our trip and read the same scriptures a couple of days ago. I ha
D read in Luke too on Goid Friday. I love how God does that. In my Bible at home I have been reading the Old Testament.
I only took a couple pictures and really short videos because I just wanted to worship with them and then listen to the message. I will watch this service again online when we get home! I couldn’t wait to call and talk with Vikki after the service was over. It was so amazing. I sent all of the girls pictures.
We stopped and got foot long subs at Subway for lunch and saved our other halves for dinner so we could just keep traveling. We are staying at the same motel as Melissa, Bruce and the boys. They stayed there last night too. We talked on our way and then talked again when we were 15 minutes from the hotel. Melissa, Max and Vader met us in the lobby, then we went and looked in the pool room and saw the other boys swimming. Bruce was in there too and came out to talk for a minute. Max and Melissa walked us to our room and came in to look at it. After we unpacked a few things, we went to their room and looked at it and also looked at the boys attached room. Melissa showed me the nice pictures they took at the zoo today and a video of two leopards, one who was very interested in following Vader. It sure growled at the other one when it started looking at Vader. She also had the coolest picture of a polar bear swimming where they watched it under water.
We came to our room, Bill read his Bible (I read mine this morning). Tomorrow we are all going to Bob Evan’s for breakfast.
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