DCC’s Praise In The Park Report

Delmar Christian Center served up some hot dogs, Pepsi, music, and drama for free for three hours at the State Street Park in Delmar, DE on Saturday September 22nd. I played a lot of music with our Praise Team, as well as providing some support to our guitarist Mike Brown during his sets.

Our drama/dance team Illuminate provided the visual demonstrations of several songs. We had the adults and the children performing during their time.

While being tied to the performances, I didn’t get out to do much else. I got to sit with my wife and kids, make some last minute adjustments to our sets, down a hot dog and water, and say hi to Howard from Delmar Dustpan. I understand through the course of the day some of our members prayed for 30 people, several of which crossed the line of faith and became Christians. I thought we had a great group of people attend. Hopefully we’ll get to do this again.

I almost forgot. Right in the middle of things, there was a fender bender out on State Street. The funny part about that was the crowd’s response to the accident: everyone said “Oooo” on cue. Someone did slip over to the cars to check on them and hand out some hot dogs and prayer while they waited for the police.

Behind the scenes, a lot of prep work went in to getting everything ready for the event. I wasn’t able to help much with the setup because of my shoulder surgery, although two of my sons were there helping with some of the grunt work. I was told that we cleaned up everything and got it off the grounds within 30 minutes. That’s a stage, sound equipment, tables, grills, etc.

Here’s a link to Delmar Dustpan’s coverage. Always a pleasure to see you Howard. Salisbury News stopped by and snapped some photos. Sorry I didn’t get to say hi, Joe.

 

The crew handling the hot dogs: Mary, Dwayne, Steven D. Whyte, and Johnny.

 

 

Illuminate’s first performance.

 

 

The “Illuminites” - the kids on the team.

 

 

The Praise Team musicians (I’m on the keyboard). Lin’s on the bass, and Mike’s on the guitar.

Perry is on the drums, but he’s hiding behind Mike.

 

 

Our Praise Team vocals, Jayme, Lou Ann, and Alanna. Unfortunately, you’ve got to look at Mike and Perry’s drums again.

 

 

Lin and I join Mike during one of his sets.

 

 

 

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