Higher Ground Christian Coffee House

Blog for Higher Ground Christian Coffee House, an outreach ministry of Oakwood Full Gospel Church, Oakwood, Virginia. Higher Ground is committed to creating a positive environment for teens and young adults to enjoy food, fun, and entertainment in a Christian atmosphere like no other!

Monday, September 19, 2005

Saturday the 17th! Score another Soul for the Kingdom!

Score another soul for the KINGDOM!  On Saturday night a young man chose to give his life to Christ at the ‘House!  God is AWESOME!

On Saturday night, Jay Hagy joined us at the ‘House and we were inspired, strengthened, and we jammed out!  We had a great time with Jay, who is a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist with a tremendous voice, great music, great songs and most importantly, a GREAT ANOINTING.  Jay’s soulful, energetic style blew us away and created an atmosphere of excitement and praise.  He performed two sets of excellent praise/contemporary, guitar driven songs, with powerful lyrics and immense energy.  Jay shared some brand new songs on a new 5 song demo that were great.  Jay appeared sans-band since his guys were unable to attend – no matter!  K.T. Vandyke effectively filled in on drums and the result was awe-inspiring!  Great job guys!  We cannot wait to have Jay back and are currently discussing a return date.  Jay is pretty busy, so keep it here for updates.

The Higher Ground House Band was fortunate to have had Jay join us to jam on several songs.  He played drums, bass, and guitar with us.  Emily Ratliff did lead vocals on 2/3rds of our stuff this weekend…WAY TO GO EM!  K.T. Vandyke was our drummer for the weekend and Gene Boyd filled in on Bass (REN!  TED!  We missed you guys!).  K.T. and Gene were outstanding!  We sounded as good as ever!  You guys rock!  

All in all, another “two-thumbs up” performance at Higher Ground!   Give praise unto the Lord for the young man who elected Christ on Saturday night – and pray for him!

Don’t forget – Higher Ground’s next show is scheduled for Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 7:00.  We have two great acts scheduled:  praise band “Harvest Labour,” and Manny & Jessie Elswick.  Tell your friends!  Godspeed…BR