Newsboys!

12/10/14

Today our big event was the Newsboys concert.  It was something we had been looking forward to for a while now.  We went to the early Advent service and then off to the Advent dinner.  After that we meet up as our group and headed out towards the Mayo Civic Center.  We weren't able to see entirely as a group but we were in large chunks together.  The anticipation built as we waited for the event to start and different things played on their screens.  Finally Moriah Peters came up to start everything.  She sang us some songs and got us going for the beginning part.  I have to say that hearing her music live really got me interested in some of her songs.

After that Nick Hall, the MC, came out.  He introduced Moriah a bit more and then did some talking about the reason of Christmas and why we celebrate each year.  It was a good set up for the night.  Then a bit later on the Newsboys came out for their first set.  They played some secular Christmas songs and then Michael Tate talked with Nick Hall a bit.  We had some more stuff by Nick Hall including a cool presentation about Compassion International.  Then the concert ended with the Newsboys second play set of a lot of their normal songs.  The whole thing ended on a great moment singing Silent Night.  It was a pretty awesome event to be a part of.

Today I learned that there are many little things to help an event run smoothly.  The concert was a great time and success but I did learn some detail stuff that could improve similar events that I run in the future.