Saturday, July 25, 2009

Well, we've have another great week on tour! :-) Wednesday night we sang at Fellowship Baptist Church in Trafalgar, Indiana where Bro. Jeff Hopson is the pastor. Bro. Hopson's daughters, Amber and Ashley attended Champion and it was so fun to get to see them. Amber traveled with the tour group last year so it was great to sit down and tell tour stories and share a lot of laughs. Church went really well that night! We were able to sing about 8 songs and Bro. Tony brought a good, God-filled message.
Thursday morning we began our journey to Georgia, where we will be singing tomorrow morning. We stopped to spend the night in Nashville, Tennessee where we realized that a girls tour group from Hyles-Anderson College was staying in our hotel. They were all so nice and we were so glad that we got to meet them!
Next week we will be at the Impact Youth Conference in Gatlinburg. There are over 2,000 young people registered for this conference! Be praying now that God will touch the lives of many teenagers during this week...


Us and the girls from Hyles-Anderson


Us and Ashley Hopson...yes, Deanna is in the picture. If you look really close between me and Ashley, you can see an eyeball. That's Deanna...And I'm sorry Amber that we didn't get a picture with you. Next time we will :-)


Yeah, I'm not really sure what Dustin's doing here...who knows...lol


Tuesday, July 21, 2009

CHICAGO!!!!

Wow, it's been another busy week! It seems like the closer we get to the end, the busier it gets. Last Wednesday night we were at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Nicholasville, Kentucky with Pastor Dan Barnes. The service went really well and we got to see our friend Stephanie Helms so it was a great night. :-)
After Wednesday night we drove to Chicago where we spent the next few days walking all over and seeing the sights. Saturday we visited Caleb's hometown in Geneseo, IL and spent Sunday morning at church. We sang during the Sunday school hour and in the main service. It was amazing to see the Lord work through both the singing and the message brought by Pastor Kobernat. First Baptist Church was such a blessing to us and I pray that the Lord allowed us to be a blessing to them in return. We had a great time visiting with alot of our college friends that attend church there, and even a few that drove in from surrounding cities. - Jacob, Brianna, Wes, Amanda, Rachel, Colleen, and Jessica, it was great to see ya'll! :) - Caleb sure was sad to leave his family but Sunday afternoon we had to drive quickly to make it to Faith Baptist in Tuscola, IL for their evening service. This service was a little different than usual because it was a special service held at a park. We enjoyed a potluck supper, an open-air service, and afterwards, a good game of church-wide baseball. We sang a few songs and Bro. Tony brought a message about remembering to praise the Lord for everything in our lives. It was a great night of fellowship with Pastor Garcia and the members there. They have recently moved into a new building as God is continually blessing and their church is growing.
Monday we traveled back to Chicago to spend one more day before Mrs. Dee, Bro. Tony's wife, had to leave us. She flew out last Wednesday to spend the week with Bro. Tony. (And us too I guess) :-) Only one week and two more days left of tour. Please remember to keep us in your prayers!


While we were in Chicago we visited the Moody Church, and go to see the pulpit that D.L. Moody preached from.


We sang "How Great Thou Art" inside the auditorium of Moody Church


Standing outside the churh


Hanging out at Navy Pier




Cool pic, huh?! :)




We couldn't get a picture with every one of our college friends because Sunday is a pretty busy day for all of us, so I stopped for a picture with Brianna Schnurr...She's a nice girl :)




Me and the Sumster mannin' the table before the service Sunday night




The guys settin' up the sound system