AN EVENING WITH SCOTT MACINTYRE

It's Saturday night. We just got back from a wonderful performance by Scott MacIntyre of American Idol fame. He wanted to thank his church family for the support he has been given. We got to the church building about 20 minutes early, but when we got there the parking lot was full and we thought, Huh oh, we should have come earlier. When we entered the church there was standing room only in an auditorium that seats about 2,000. The overflow crowd (which included us) went to two other buildings on campus. Each one seats 400 to 500 people and was set up with closed circuit TV monitors so it was all shown on giant screens. 

Since Scott will be on the summer tour, he is forbidden to give concerts before the tour -- but, he is not forbidden from leading worship so there he was, up front giving his testimony and singing and playing the piano. His brother, who is as good or maybe a better singer than Scott, sang a couple of songs with him. His story is truly amazing. He started playing the piano at about age 3. He went to college at ASU at age 14 and graduated at 19. After that he studied in London. Classical piano is his specialty and he played a Chopin piece for us.  I don't know what all God has in store for this talented young man, but I'm eager to find out.