Primera Festival Unido en Cristo

Whoever thinks that Christian music is tranquil was not at the concert we had Saturday night! Moises planned this activity aiming to pull in the young people from various churches of El Crucero, but the event in our school gym was standing room only with over 500 people of all ages there! There were multiple 'Reggeaton' and pop style Christian groups that came and played as well as a Christian rapper. (I confirmed though, that it is not only the lyrics that makes me not like a majority of rap, its the fact that i just can't understand any of the words- and that wasn't because it was in spanish either!) The kids LOVED it, especially the three older girls. If it hadn't ended after 4 hours, they would have stayed longer. It was also exciting because they got dressed up nicely and felt like they were actually going somewhere!

This is all of them before we left, of course we had a long walk of about a 100 yards to get us to the school :)

We all had a lot of fun, especially because there aren't nearly as many things to do on a random weekend night here as in the states, especially things that are free. So they don't get to 'go out' in terms of leave the house, all that often. Only Samari (the littlest one in the blue and white dress) fell asleep while I was holding her. Who knows how you can fall asleep with music blaring so loud, but she did, and of course wasn't content sitting and sleeping, or going back to the house and sleeping, in had to be in my arms :)

Here are some pics of the night:

There was also a group that did some skits throughout the evening (they were really well done), and one of them was the Lighthouse 'Everything' skit, if you haven't seen it, watch it here. It was the first time I have seen it done in person, and while it was almost the same, there were a couple parts that were a little different, and honestly it brought me to tears. Just to see the emotion and really be captivated by it in front of me, was awe inspiring. It didn't hurt that the end switched into the song 'Grace like rain' which I LOVE.

So I pray that the other people who were there loved it to the extent my kids did, because if so, everyone knows that GOD was in El Crucero last night.