Many of you have probably seen some of our photographs that
we’ve been sharing on facebook and have up on our church website (www.redemptionindelraybeach.com)
of Delray Beach. A few people have inquired about them and some people have
even asked how they can see more of Delray. First, I just wanted to say that we
have grown so excited to be in this town—there is so much to enjoy and
experience. In sharing some of our pictures, I am hoping to give you a taste of
what it is like here. Also for those people following our blog who live in
Delray with us, it is fun to share our perspective as well.
We are sharing with you a brochure published online by the
City of Delray that does an excellent job of highlighting the history of Delray
as well as a great line up of events taking place here. It’s a really good
resource for anyone interested in learning more about the heartbeat of Delray. Hope you
can take a few minutes to check it out!
Last weekend, we were so BLESSED to be able to attend and
participate in the ONE Conference in Miami. Before we even knew that we were
going to be living in the southeast region of Florida State, Daniel found out
about this conference that was going to be happening over my birthday weekend
in 2012, and we decided to register to attend and do whatever was needed to get
there! By God’s grace, we are living only about an hour North of Miami so going
to the conference was easier than we had imagined. Why were we so excited to be
a part of this conference?? Let me (Laura) tell you a little bit about it. :)
We had listened to and watched sermons by Pastor Pedro
Garcia who pastors Calvary Chapel Kendall in South Miami while we were still up
in Washington. For a time we even considered moving to Kendall just to serve at
his church until God directed us where He wanted us to go. His passionate
preaching of Jesus Christ and the Gospel message is so real and compelling. The
LORD had placed the vision for this conference on Pedro and his wife, Lourdes,
for the uniting of the CHURCH as a whole in the city of Miami. The vision of
the conference was to UNITE the Church, IGNITE a passion for Jesus, and IMPACT the
world with His Gospel! There were over 10 speakers who shared over the course
of 3 days including Francis Chan, Franklin Graham, Bob Coy, James MacDonald,
Greg Laurie, and others. They PREACHED IT UP! It was a weekend that brought
together over 200 churches and 6,000 people from the Miami area, and we all
worshipped our Savior, saw many people come to Christ for the first time, and
were challenged to put our faith into action.
This conference was so inspiring to us partly because of our
involvement in REPOSSESS in Olympia. That movement was very similar as the
heart was to bring unity in the Body of Christ in Thurston County. It is so
beautiful to see that God is moving not only in Washington State, but across
the country to bring His Body together as ONE! We had a great time together
getting to worship Jesus with such a crowd of believers.
Side note: It has been a particularly cool thing that God
has also allowed our path to cross with Pastor Pedro who we have known about
since before our move to Florida. Daniel met Pedro shortly after moving here
last summer and has been able to build a friendship. It’s been awesome to see
God’s hand at work in Kendall. Our friend, AJ, met his fiancé through this
conference last September (she was one of the directors for the conference), so
we can see how the LORD had been directing us toward this conference before we
had any idea how great an impact it would have on our lives personally. We were
also able to host Hillsong United and serve them throughout the conference--which
was really cool. :) And we had no idea about any of this when Daniel registered
us last Spring!
We are trying to get more of our music out there for people to hear so this is another live song called Narrow Road for you to check out. We are writing and working on some new songs as well to put up so stay tuned:) Hope to see you soon!
We wanted to share a video from a show we played at Mother
Earth Coffee Shop in Lake Worth—about 15 minutes north of Delray Beach. We have
had a wonderful time getting to perform together all over the Delray area. We
will try to post more video of us performing together. This is a song called “Moments.”
Hope you enjoy it!
