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Monday, October 8, 2007

A Plea for Purging

We had a great weekend! I've mentioned several times before that my son plays drums in a band called A Plea for Purging. Their new CD came out last week and is in some stores now, and Saturday night they had their CD release show at Rocketown in Nashville, Tennessee. Our daughter came home and went with us up to Nashville for the big show. We always like to support the band and watch them play whenever we have the opportunity, so that's why we went all the way to Nashville. The guys did great as always, and it was so special to get to spend some time with both of our kids during the weekend. After the late night Saturday, we got together with Aaron on Sunday and spent the day in Nashville. Below this post I will add a couple of pictures and videos that I took at the show.

I realize that some Christians are not able to accept the type of music this band plays. It is loud and you can't understand the words and the band members have tatoos and piercings. I didn't understand it either before I got involved. You need to know, that I am one of the most traditional type people you'll ever meet. But since my own son's life revolves around this type music right now, I've had to open my mind to some new things and new ways of taking the gospel to the world. There are kids out there who love this kind of music and won't set foot inside a church. But they will go to a heavy metal concert. Then bands like this one get the opportunity to tell these kids about Jesus. If you are a praying person, I would ask that you please pray for these guys. They are on the road every day. They pretty much live in the van and stay in homes of whoever will give them a night's shelter. We always let them stay in our house when they're in our city, along with one or two others bands. Our house isn't big but sometimes we'll have 15 or 16 people sleeping all over the place. They are just so thankful for a floor to sleep on and a bowl of cereal to eat. But we get such a blessing every time because we've met some awesome people who we would not have met otherwise.

This is a picture of Aaron at the drums during the show. It might be too dark to see well.


This is a picture of the band during the show.


It was great to see so many friends and to meet some new ones in Nashville this weekend....Julie, Blake, Andy, John, Lyle, Josh, Nick, Kim, Wendy, Killeen, Lauren, Alyssa, Allison, the guys in Once Nothing, and new friends Sarah and Megan.