First of all I'd like
to say I was amazed at the size of the Church. No,
it wasn't big. It was an average sized church,
and the inside looked even smaller. The room where
the concert was held looked like the Church gym,
and that wasn't all that big ... what amazed me
about all this is the fact that here's these two
AWESOME musicians coming to a small town in
Indiana ... just to perform to a average sized
audience. It touched me. It really did. Paul
Coleman and Matthew West definitely have their
hearts in the right place. They're NOT doing this
for the money.
Matthew West was first to
perform. And he only performed for 35 minutes. I'm
not sure why. But nevertheless, he was great! At
one point during his performance, Paul Coleman came
out to give Matthew a Starbucks coffee. He said
"Thanks Paul" Then he turns to the audience and
says, "Yeah that's Paul he works for me." He was
constantly cracking us up. He talked about what
inspired him to write his song "More" (My personal
favorite of his) He said a friend of his has a
little boy and one night while putting his son to
bed, his son said to him, "I love you more than ice
cream." (How cute is that!)
Then Matthew's friend
said to his son, "Well I love you more than cookies,
but you still gotta go to bed."
The son then says, "Well
I love you more than Buzz Lightyear." And this
progressed into a little game about how much they love
each other. Matthew then explains how God loves us
like that and how we should love our Lord like this.
And so his song "More" was written.
Paul Coleman came on next
with his band and he ROCKED my ears are still
ringing. He performed for about an hour and a
half. There was this one song he sang called
"Crooked Mirror" and I'm not sure it's even on any of
his CD's. He said he only sang it once before on
stage years ago. He wrote it for his sister on her
birthday. It's about how sometimes girls don't think
they're pretty, but Jesus sees beauty in all of us.
It was an excellent song. Near the end of the
concert, Paul sang Happy Birthday to 2 girls. One
just turned 18. The other turned 10 and she got to go
up on stage while we all sang Happy Birthday to her.
It was adorable. Paul really got involved with the
audience. He was a riot.
The whole event seemed
really intimate and personal. A very comfortable
atmosphere and lots of fun. Several young girls ran up
to the front and were jumping around and dancing all
night. It was so cute! and Paul was chatting with
them often. (In the picture you'll see one of the
little girls near the stage)
I had a great time! I'm
definitely seeing them again when they're in town!
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