Sunday

(I'm sure you can tell I'm writing this post on Monday morning as it was late when we got back to the cabin last night.) The morning started with cold temp's once again down in the middle 30's. After our extra hour of sleep we rolled out to hot cups of coffee and green tea. We did our quiet times then had our bowls of oatmeal with wild blue berries and a banana before getting ready to head out to Cornerstone for worship. We were sad to think this day would be our last time together with these great folks for another 6 months or more but excited as well with the thought we were helping with the Big Daddy Weave concert the rest of the day and evening.

The worship was of music with our own home grown Blue Grass Gospel Band, Priority Blue. They were awesome, very inspiring and just blessed your heart as well. We had a shortened service as the big band tour bus and trailer was already in the church parking lot. We broke up around 11 AM then started in with the many chores that needed to be completed to make this a successful event. The concert was sold out with 650 tickets distributed and we made possible for an overflow as well. I would estimate we had another 100 church folks working the event along with 40-50 youths from Cornerstone as well.

After completing many of the last minute chores we took off for the The Pines Restaurant with the Dalton's and Hearl's for lunch. Afterwards we stopped by the Dalton Farm to see their 5 new Alpaca's they acquired from Tennessee. We headed back to church around 2 and it was determined some of us wouldn't be needed until 4 PM for our jobs so I headed back to the Dalton's too watch the Panthers whup up on the Redskins for only their second win of the season. (I learned the Bucs won in Oakland after getting home from the concert).

We headed back to the church and I met up with Nancy who stayed and they were starting to grill a couple hundreds hot dogs that I was to help prepare along with the youth for their fund raiser.All of the food that included dogs, chips,drinks and home made baked goods were donated by the church members and the refreshments were for the patrons at a donation only cost to them. I think they raised over $1200 dollars for next years youth misson trip. Anyhow we offered the refreshments up until the concert started then again at intermission and then we gave away everything after the show. You could see your breath as we did our thing outside beside the church entrance; it was down right chilly and when we left the temp was 38 degrees, yikes!!!

The concert was awesome with inspiring testimonies and the music left you feeling wonderful. We had several youth groups from various church's through the mountains area even some from as far away as Charlotte. The concert ended somewhere around close to 10 PM but the artists stayed to pray with many who came forward with issues they were dealing with and afterwards many came out for pictures, to sign autographs and generally mingle with the crowd as they left. I had the opportunity to speak with Aaaron Shust and shake his hand and learn he was married in Sarasota, Florida when he found out we were heading back there on Tuesday. He seems a down to earth fellow who is dedicated to his ministry as a contemporary christian artist. This was the third time he has been here to Cornerstone and once again honored us as a venue that has real passion for reaching the community for Christ and for our great down home cooks. We do have some great dedicated folks who know how to please with food.

It was going on 11PM by the time we broke down our area and there were still many folks mingling as we left. We left with many hugs and well wishes as we headed out for the last time this year, LATER