For those of you who are not familiar with the name, Luis Palau is one of the world’s most active evangelists. Many of our are churches (including our own), teamed up with the Palau Association to bring a festival to Sacramento. Our family was so excited for this incredible event!
It was the hottest weekend of the year, with temperatures topping at 108. We decided to go anyway and just stay as long as we could. We slathered ourselves with 50 block, and loaded our bags with ice water, hats and sunglasses.
The first event we watched was the extreme sports. Sitting in the bleachers was brutal, but the event was terrific! We watched bicyclists, skateboarders, and BMX motorbikes. There was a beautiful testimony half way through.
After spending a little over an hour on metal bleachers in direct sun, and having used up all our water, we needed to find a cool place. DH and I seriously talked about leaving, but ‘A’ and ‘R’ were committed to staying until the very end because Toby Mac was the finale.
So, we found the shade of some trees and DH tracked down some giant lemonades. We sat under the tree for about an hour and a half, listening to the music of Marisa. We could hear her, but we could not see her, we were too far from the stage. We then walked around to see the booths and pick up dinner. While eating, we heard Phil Wickham play.
We ran into our friends, the Landons, and they joined us with the rest of the crowd to hear Thousand Foot Krutch play and Luis Palau speak. It had started to cool down a bit and became tolerable. The gospel is so simple and for those who God has prepared their hearts to hear it, hear it. Luis Palau is amazing in sharing the gospel to the masses.
Jesus Christ wants to have a personal relationship with you. He wants to revolutionize your life and give you hope. He wants to give you a fresh start.
Read this message. Typically, in a church setting, heads are bowed, and a prayer is said inviting Jesus in to your heart. You then raise your hand if you accepted Jesus and the pastor sees who raised their hand, but no one else does.
Here, Luis Palau had everyone raise their hands with heads up and eyes open. He then had them text ‘saved’ and the new believers of Jesus would receive a book. It was awesome to witness hundreds of hands raised at one time. I wanted to go and hug each and every one!
Our view of Luis Palau
We treated the boys to a Toby Mac T-shirt. They were thrilled. Toby Mac is ‘R’s favorite singer. He is second for ‘A’, with Owl City taking that lead “)
Our good friend, Eric, was a part of the festival planning. He and Crystal joined us to hear Luis Palau and Toby Mac.
The Landon clan!
After Luis Palau, they had to set the stage for Toby Mac. There was about a 45 minute break. ‘A’, ‘R’, and ‘J’ were so excited to see Toby Mac. They kept inching themselves closer to the stage. They also had no attention span for anything other than what was going on the stage.
Our friend, Anton, joined us as well. Lovely sunset. 🙂
The anticipation is mounting!
This was the closest we were able to get to the stage…
‘A’ sang so loud and hard, he lost his voice for a few days!
