After the busyness that led up to last weekend's conference (blog entry to follow), I surprised Dayna with tickets to the Brandon Heath concert at a local church last night. Brandon is her second favorite singer (Toby Mac wasn't in town this weekend...) and she sings his songs all the time. She and her best friend spend hours making their own dance to his song "Give Me Your Eyes." So, I scrimped and saved and bought some tickets for a "girl's night out."
We started with dinner at her favorite Chinese restaurant.
Got to the church early to find our (really great) seats.
And waited for the music to begin.
Matt Maher opened the concert with some really great songs...but I was saddened when he left the stage without singing my favorite.
Dayna was super ready to hear "Give Me Your Eyes" and couldn't stop singing or beaming when she heard the song.
The Church Sisters (16-year-old twins) performed some incredible bluegrass music mid-concert.
Then Brandon came back...in the middle of the audience...not far from us.
At the end of the concert, Matt came back and everyone sang "Hold Us Together" (the one I was so disappointed to have missed earlier in the night) as a finale. (See
this entry to see why the song is so special to me.)
We snuck out during the encore to get in line for autographs. While we were waiting, we visited with Micah Bournes...a gifted artist who uses the spoken word to convey the gospel. He was so kind...and it turns out he has lived in Bend, Oregon for the last two years (and knows where Boring is!) He will not commit to being either a Duck or Beaver fan, though.
This t-shirt will be a great reminder of God's faithfulness this past year. (And it now has Matt Maher's autograph on the left sleeve.)
We got to meet Matt Maher...
...and Brandon Heath got to meet his biggest 7-year-old fan.
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