Just Off The Las Vegas Strip

Yep, that's right...the How Great Is Our God Tour landed within a few blocks of the strip Monday night and it was a beautiful sight. 2100 people packed out what may be one of the largest Christian concerts ever for Vegas and all I can say is, among many other anthems, the song of redemption is rising up from the glittering strip.

The night is built around the idea that though God is big enough to create the Universe, he is also intimately involved with the smallest (and biggest) details of our lives...and promises to hold us together no matter what circumstances we face. Months ago, as we were praying about the night, we had a deep desire to serve people in the most desperate places in life.

We have met some of those folks along the way, but others we may never know about are in the crowd each night. This came the day after our Vegas stop....

How Great Is Our God??? Let me just share - Our kids gave my husband and I tickets to what I thought was a Chris Tomlin concert. We were very excited, but when our 22-year-old son, Joshua, was involved in a car accident Saturday evening and admitted to the hospital unresponsive (he remains in a coma), we weren't sure whether we would attend. Though we know nothing is outside of God's hand, after two days in ICU, we were in need of a breather so we decided to attend. I was speechless to find Matt Redman and Louie Giglio. You see, "How Great Is Our God" revived us, refreshed us and freed our hearts to worship. The music (my son does a lot of what we heard for worship at church) and the message (about this great God's involvement all the way to Laminin) just confirmed what we have been saying since the accident - God is in control!!! We have had God's unexplainable peace throughout, and last night in Las Vegas encouraged us to continue to "run and not be weary". He truly lifted us up on eagle's wings last night! By the way, it appears Joshua began recognizing voices while we were at the concert (his brother, a friend and one of his sisters were with him) and this morning he opened his good eye! We are thrilled at the miracles of God, too numerous to recite here (this is long enough already). The story Louie told of the mother with her young disabled son in a wheelchair worshipping spoke profoundly to me. Thanks, Louie, Chris and Matt and the band and the tech guys for an amazing night!

I've been in touch with Joshua's mom and he has quite a long road ahead with operations this coming week and the process where they will try to wake him up. Please keep them in your prayers and we will attempt to let you know how things progress.

God knows who is walking through the doors each night and what they need most. Thank you to all who are praying for our journey. We feel your prayers, as do countless others like Joshua's mom and dad who are worshipping with us.