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Monday, June 15, 2009

The Newsboys

Rachel and Ethan and I had a really fun day on Saturday.  I met a PW friend at Panera Bread for lunch, and then we headed on down to Cedar Rapids for the Healing  the Heartland festival.  There were some fun activities to watch (like a strong man group that showed their stuff, and some skateboarders that were fun to see), and then a FREE concert.  There were a few testimonials and altar call type moments, but aside from that, the concert was wonderful!  It began with David Phelps.  We enjoyed his music!

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He sang for around an hour.  Next was BarlowGirl.  They were quite a rockin' band, that's for sure.  The crowd really got into their music.  They spoke about purity, and promote not dating.  They were fun to watch.

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Ethan was bored through some of the day...

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Rachel was waiting patiently for the Newsboys to start.

Here is a picture of what she and I saw for most of the day...

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so when it was time for the Newsboys, we went and stood up near the stage.

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Michael Tait.  What a voice that man has!  He was fun to watch and really got the crowd into the event.  He read some Scripture verses, and sang, and sang, and sang!

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We were pretty close to the stage!

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For a while they moved the whole concert out to the "B" stage, but the keyboard wasn't working well, so they moved back to the regular stage.

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just LOOK at those drumsticks fly!

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It was just an awesome concert!  Rachel and Ethan are still talking about it, and we are all still singing their songs!

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