We were able to rent out a local theatre for our Good Friday service this past weekend. the same theatre that NEEDTOBREATHE played in just the week before... then Friday as a collective we are in there praising JESUS!? I love it. Royal Oak is this cute trendy little local city, swarming with young adults... perfect right!? the day started out with lots of running around between church, the grocery store, and the theatre [but I do LOVE my job :) ]. our awesome band did a really speedy sound-check & rushed over to other campuses to play for other Good Friday services, just hours before the LH service -- we were so thankful for their long hours & hard work all day. after hanging out at the theatre all day trying to take care of the band & crew with Linds, some lovely ladies and I grabbed dinner & coffee... the service started at 10 pm, so we had to get caffeinated! Right before the service, about 30 of us gathered for a really crowded/sweaty/powerful time of prayer, it was such a good way to start the night! Everything about the night went even better than I was expecting! We had around 1,100 people come out for really powerful worship & life-changing teaching. I don't know how people could have sat through, the almost three hour service, without leaving changed! the presence of God was so tangible in that place. it was seriously a good Friday, mainly because the story of what Jesus did for humanity is so GOOD!
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. - EPHESIANS 2
*photos by Randy Floresca
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