A couple of thousand people gathered in Happy Valley Park for our all-church worship service last night. We had a blast getting to see everyone, playing together, worshipping together, learning together.
The event kicked off with Jessie and Cary Samsel, father and son, bringing us some preservice music. These guys are great, and a blessing to our worship team.
A part of the pre-service activities was a "duck drop" from a fire truck extension ladder. It's nice to have Jamie Karn of the Fire Department around to pull stuff off like this... Everyone had the opportunity to buy a duck, then they were dropped from the sky towards a bucket on the ground. The banter was hilarious as Jamie climbed the ladder with a wireless mic so that he and Dave could talk back and forth. At one point Dave urged Jamie to stop talking and start dropping ducks. The first place winner went home with a new Ipad. Nice.
The music was great, and the voices of our church family filled the valley. The kids got up and lead us in some of the songs from their week at Super Summer for Kids, and taught the rest of us the motions. We had all three of our worship leaders, Scott, Dustin, and Devon, on stage. What a treat.
Josh Galgan brought the message on James 1:19-25 and demonstrated getting rid of filth in our lives by having us shoort finger rockets across the crowd as fast as we could to get rid of them.
Other elements included bouncing white beach balls and blowing soap bubbles to encourage us to do our devotional every day using SOAP (Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer).
Wow, what an evening. If you missed it, you really missed out. You can get a taste for the evening by taking a look at the photo album on the right!
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