Today was
Heaven Fest, a huge worship festival north of Denver, featuring 80 bands on 8 stages, with the main event being glorifying God and seeking revival in Colorado. We had the incredible opportunity of opening the main stage at noon (so now we're saying that we've shared the stage with the likes of Kutless, Seventh Day Slumber, Skillet, and Third Day :o).
(pic above is from sound check Friday evening, I'll post day-of pics when I get my hands on some)
Our whole band was giggling at the chance to make so noise on the biggest sound system we'd ever seen! But the sound and porfessionalism of the sound crew wasn't even the biggest highlight of the day.
Before we got on stage we met with the stage pastor who prayed for us. Everyone in the group shared various personal struggles, it was really powerful. We prayed together, coming to Jesus with our struggles and pain cause we had nowhere else to go. That set the tone for our day, we weren't playing for the crowd or the hype, but were humbling ourselves before God together as a family to worship him.
Personally, as Anna and I embark on this road of pregnancy, we realize our desperate need of God's grace daily to sustain and grow this little life inside of Anna, and our dependence on Him hit home as we prayed.
We took the stage under the noon-time sun, in front of a couple thousand people (they were expecting over 20,000 later in the day, and we saw the miles of backed-up traffic of people still driving in hours later), kicking off this year's Heaven Fest with worship and praying for what God was going to do the rest of the day.
Thanks to the thousands of people who made this thing happen. We're grateful we were able to play a small part of everything.
