It is now 11:30 EST and we have had a full day!! With visiting a church that ministers to the homeless in Birmingham, and singing at an assisted living facility , we have succeeded in ministering to others, and also being touched ourselves. We learned that Birmingham is second only to New Orleans in homeless percentage. The Church of the Reconciler is doing phenomenal work with the homeless. We look forward to performing for them on Sunday.

As usual, it was a total joy to perform at Fairhaven assisted living. The residents were lovely. We had comments about how well behaved the kids were, and how well they sounded.

Now read what one of our youth, Kelsie Shipley, has written about today:

I know it may seem like today has been a quiet, slow day of bus travel, but it has actually been quite the opposite. Everyone was excited to head out and serve God! After a couple hours of bus travel, we stopped at the Church of the Reconciler to learn about the homeless of Birmingham (4000 people) and how the church ministers to them. We then loaded back on the bus and headed to a nursing home to sing. It was a great success, and I could tell that the residents were exuberant. Finally, we headed to the hotel to settle down for the night. Overall, today has been overwhelmingly fun and a blessing to all of us. "If God is for us, who could ever be against us?" - Romans 8:31