{"id":786197,"date":"2012-07-16T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=786197"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:21:46","slug":"luis-palau-festival-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2012\/07\/16\/luis-palau-festival-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Palau Festival 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who are not familiar with the name, Luis Palau<\/a> is one of the world’s most active evangelists. \u00a0Many of our are churches (including our own), teamed up with the Palau Association to bring a festival to Sacramento. \u00a0Our family was so excited for this incredible event!<\/p>\n

It was the hottest weekend of the year, with temperatures topping at 108. \u00a0We decided to go anyway and just stay as long as we could. \u00a0We slathered ourselves with 50 block, and loaded our bags with ice water, hats and sunglasses.<\/p>\n

The first event we watched was the extreme sports. \u00a0Sitting in the bleachers was brutal, but the event was terrific! \u00a0We watched bicyclists, skateboarders, and BMX motorbikes. \u00a0There was a beautiful testimony half way through.<\/p>\n

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After spending a little over an hour on metal bleachers in direct sun, and having used up all our water, we needed to find a cool place. \u00a0DH and I seriously talked about leaving, but ‘A’ and ‘R’ were committed to staying until the very end because Toby Mac was the finale.<\/p>\n

So, we found the shade of some trees and DH tracked down some giant lemonades. \u00a0We sat under the tree for about an hour and a half, listening to the music of Marisa. \u00a0We could hear her, but we could not see her, we were too far from the stage. \u00a0We then walked around to see the booths and pick up dinner. While eating, we heard Phil Wickham play.<\/p>\n

We ran into our friends, the Landons, and they joined us with the rest of the crowd to hear Thousand Foot Krutch play and Luis Palau speak. \u00a0It had started to cool down a bit and became tolerable. \u00a0The gospel is so simple and for those who God has prepared their hearts to hear it, hear it. \u00a0Luis Palau is amazing in sharing the gospel to the masses.<\/p>\n

Jesus Christ wants to have a personal relationship with you. He wants to revolutionize your life and give you hope. He wants to give you a fresh start.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read this<\/a>\u00a0message. \u00a0Typically, in a church setting, heads are bowed, and a prayer is said inviting Jesus in \u00a0to your heart. \u00a0You then raise your hand if you accepted Jesus and the pastor sees who raised their hand, but no one else does.<\/p>\n

Here, Luis Palau had everyone raise their hands with heads up and eyes open. \u00a0He then had them text ‘saved’ and the new believers of Jesus would receive a book. \u00a0It was awesome to witness hundreds of hands raised at one time. \u00a0I wanted to go and hug each and every one!<\/p>\n

Our view of Luis Palau
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We treated the boys to a Toby Mac T-shirt. \u00a0They were thrilled. \u00a0Toby Mac is ‘R’s favorite singer. \u00a0He is second for ‘A’, with Owl City taking that lead “)
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Our good friend, Eric, was a part of the festival planning. \u00a0He and Crystal joined us to hear Luis Palau and Toby Mac.\u00a0
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The Landon clan!
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After Luis Palau, they had to set the stage for Toby Mac. \u00a0There was about a 45 minute break. \u00a0‘A’, ‘R’, and ‘J’ were so excited to see Toby Mac. \u00a0They kept inching themselves closer to the stage. \u00a0They also had no attention span for anything other than what was going on the stage.
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Our friend, Anton, joined us as well. \u00a0Lovely sunset. \ud83d\ude42
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The anticipation is mounting! \u00a0
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This was the closest we were able to get to the stage…
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‘A’ sang so loud and hard, he lost his voice for a few days!
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For those of you who are not familiar with the name, Luis Palau is one of the world’s most active evangelists. \u00a0Many of our are churches (including our own), teamed up with the Palau Association to bring a festival to Sacramento. \u00a0Our family was so excited for this incredible event! It was the hottest weekend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786224,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786197\/revisions\/786224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}