Fellowship Church delivers the News(boys)

by Erik Lane 28. August 2005 08:50

My wife has already posted about it but I wanted to too.  :-)

Have you ever heard of the band called Newsboys?  I started listening to them after I heard "Shine" on TV one time back in the early 90's.  Anyway, I've always liked them and it was pretty neat when we were visiting Fellowship Church that Ed Young mentioned the song called Breakfast.  Then one of the church's bands came out and played it.  It was really cool.

Anyway, long story short.  Saturday night we went to the 6:30 service like normal but when it was time for the music to start Ed walks out on stage.  This wasn't normal but hey, it's Fellowship.  Ed says that he has his favorite band here to lead us in worship...the Newsboys!  Yep, the real deal and it was awesome!!  They played 3-4 songs, Ed came out and spoke, then they closed up with one last song.

One thing I took away from the Newsboys was that they were there to worship and help lead in the worship...not to take center stage.  When their closing song was coming to an end, front man Peter Furler turns the mic around to the crowd and gets us to sing...then the band just casually walks off stage leaving us to worship and finish the song.  It was great!

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The Wife
The Wife United States on 8/28/2005 12:48:00 PM

It was great!  So glad we went!

Joel Ross
Joel Ross on 8/28/2005 4:46:00 PM

I saw Newsboys at Ichthus in 1999 (http://www.ichthus.org/timeline/1999.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ichthus.org/timeline/1999.htm">http://www.ichthus.org/timeline/1999.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ichthus.org/timeline/1999.htm). They're a great band. I saw them when I was first getting into Christian music, and they had a great show!

My wife is a huge fan of Christian Music - she's responsible for me liking most of what I like today. We even just went to a concert with Steven Curtis Chapman as the headliner, and my wife's favorite group - Jars of Clay was there too.

But we've never had something like that happen. That's pretty cool!

eriklane
eriklane United States on 8/29/2005 3:49:00 AM

Joel,

That is great!  I've never seen any of them in concert but I can tell you that I'm planning on seeing the Newsboys in concert next time they're in the area.

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