Our band was scheduled to play at 4:00. We were told we had 45 minutes to play, and so we picked ten songs and we worked really hard on them and had them all memorized and everything. They all went well, and when we were done they asked if we could play again at 5:00 because one of the other bands scheduled had cancelled. I had brought my big book of songs, so we picked out several more that we thought we could play cold and played again. It went fairly well, although not as well as the first round since a lot of them I didn't have memorized. We had brought one music stand and had positioned it so all the band members could see it if they needed it, but since we'd worked on memorizing them it was really there "just in case." When we played the second set of songs, we were a lot more dependent on it!
My friend's band also did well. It was neat to see him again and meet his wife and kids.
The main group, Altared, is really, really good. They could really go somewhere.
There were a lot of testimonies and our pastor preached, and he said that 12-15 people responded to the invitation at the end.
Throughout the evening, we watched the storm clouds come in. Behind the band they had a TV set to the weather channel, and it showed a storm cell moving in right on top of our town. We didn't have any sort of tent or awning over our equipment, but we all just believed it wasn't going to rain. The storm came, turned, and went right around our town. A half mile from us it stormed and put down about a half an inch, but we watched it go right by. We never even got a drop of rain until it was all over and everyone went home. God is so good!
At the outreach, a friend of ours (the one who is interim pastoring the church we resigned) let Erick and I ride on his motorcycle. It was fun, but kind of scary since Erick has very little experience. He nearly hit a cop.
But we survived the
experience, and it's something I could definitely get used to. 
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