31st March / 1st April

Well if it didnt feel like i was on tour last weekend, it did this weekend!

Saturday was our March Xalt day.
This was a fairly hectic day all in all, I arrived at Elim at about 3pm to do a bit of setting up, then left Elim at 4:20pm to drive to Bury St Edmunds to pick up my good friend Chesh, a very quick turn around and back to Elim for 6:02pm (pretty good i thought!)
Xalt itself was very good, we had about 80ish people there which gave it a good atmosphere.
Towards the end we did a Fire Tunnel, which are always special occasions, you can see the Holy Spirit resting on people as they walk through, so that was very cool.
Then after Xalt had chinese and then back to Bury! Home at about 1:30am!!

The next morning had the potential to be one of those 'the morning after' kind of mornings, and we were slightly down on numbers because of students being away, but it still was a very good morning.
Then after the service began to pack down the drum kit again, as we were due at St Johns at 4pm.

Dad cooked me lunch, that the afternoon to be abit more relaxing!

Arrived at St johns at 4pm, this was extra special for me because it was at St Johns that I started to pick up drums again, about 4/5 years ago, so i guess it felt abit like a home coming.
Was able to set up right in the middle of the stage, as the regular bands set up over on the far right hand side. So that was good.
The guys doing sound were so helpful, made setting up and practice go so much easyer.

The event started at 7pm, so of course in true church fashion, we started at 7:15pm!

We were so blessed to see that about 150 people had in fact turned up for this evening, just one of those wow moments for all of us i think.
The actual service went very very well, in fact the 1st set was proberbly the tightest and locked in with each other that we ever have been. (I was knackered after the second song!)
We had planned for a big finish with Happy Day, but God had other ideas, and we ended up just inprov for about 30 mins and God just moved through His people.
There was a fantastic moment at about 9pm where Bob said there will be tea and coffee at the back and the band are just gunna keep playing for a bit, and no-one moved...wow.
I know the whole band came away from that event just blown away and so so blessed by what had happened, a fantastic end to a manic 7 days.