We were able to go see some of our friends in Savannah and catch a minor league ball game. We stopped by Islands, the church I served with in Savannah and saw all the great things they are doing with their building to make it more usable and suitable to minister to larger groups of children. Had breakfast with some friends and headed back to Ormond to start setting up for Easter.
I was one of the lucky ones who didn’t have to come and set up on the beach for the community Sun Rise service at 4AM. We arrived about 6:15AM and were blown away by the amount of people on the beach at that hour of the morning. It was great, people from different church in Ormond Beach, people from the hotel coming out on to their balconies and the pool deck gathering together to fellowship and worship our risen Savior. Worshiping in song on the beach is really cool and during the message we turned toward the water and watched the sun come up over the horizon, we all took communion together at stations and then 21 people were baptized at the end of the service. We estimate that over 500 people were there. Truly amazing.
We then transitioned back to the school to hold our two gatherings and had a lot of new people and because a lot of our normal people went to the sun rise service and not to either of the gatherings we felt low but actually had a good attendance.
We did something with all of our family. Just wish it would have been all together and not go see one, one come to see us, go see another. Made for a long day.
