Sunday nights are a special time at Long Beach. We only meet once a month and started out with about 30 – 40 people coming. After introducing our praise band, we now have about 100 in regular attendance (which I find interesting because the nights we don’t use the band, we have about half the people show up).
The last time we met, we had did not use our praise band, but had request night. After singing a few favorite songs, as well as teaching a couple of newer songs, we opened the evening up to “Stump the Praise Team.” We sang a wide variety of songs, both old and new. Some of the old “Stamps / Baxter” style songs were fun to sing again.
One particular request made the evening. It was for ‚ÄúJesus Loves Me.‚Äù We called the children to come up and take the microphones from the praise team and lead us in that favorite song. Coby is four years old and loves Sunday nights … has his heart set on some day playing drums and guitar. When he saw that he was going to be able to hold a microphone, his eyes lit up to match his ear-to-ear smile. He sang loud and off-key, but with all his heart.
I’m sure heaven never heard a sweeter sound. I know I haven’t!