Tuesday, Feb. 27 / Colmesniel, Texas

The original plan was to meet Brad at 4 at the church and be in C-town in time to work through the set w/ Cameron Fowler, our guest guitarist. I, of course, was running late, so I ended up calling Brad and asking him to just swing by my house on the way to Huntington.

Brad and I got on the road around 4:30 and made to Colmesniel just a little after 5pm. Cameron was there, ready to go.

Mark showed up right after us, so we all set up and started talking through the set. Cameron picked right up on “Everything to God,” which caused me to change directions and go with “Sing Like The Saved.” We did “Unchanging” with very few problems and then “Holy Is The Lord.” Cameron took a bit of time to figure out the timing on the bridge, but we got it worked out. Just for peace of mind, we ran the set again, which ended up landing us somewhere near 6:30pm.

The band went back to the kitchen to eat while I got the Powerpoint ready to go. After that, I went and freshened up. (I am the star, after all) and then came back and ate with the guys.

There were almost 60 kids there, which was quite a nice jump from the 30 on Monday night. It took forever to get them involved in “Sing Like The Saved,” mostly because we apparently were hosting some of the coolest kids in all of Colmesniel. They didn’t tell me they were cool, but they stood there with their eyes squinted in a weak James Dean impression and looked disgusted at their friends as we tried to have some fun.

When the speaker came up, I walked around the church to check out the other activities. We’re actually playing a thing called “Colmesniel Crusade for Christ.” This is a yearly event were FBC puts on 3 three-night revivals. While we played the youth revival in the fellowship hall, the church held normal revival services in the sanctuary and the kids met outside in this large circus tent complete with clowns, popcorn, snow-cones, etc. I wandered back to the youth room.
We played during the commitment time, then headed home. We stopped at the Dairy Queen in Huntington and rapped a bit, then drove the rest of the way to Lufkin, Texas, the best city in the state of Texas.