K-Love Cruise Report

 

It has been a little over two weeks since we have returned from our cruise. We had an amazing time being able to minister to several hundred people on the cruise. This opportunity also gave us a great vacation time as well. Below we will give you more info of our travels and some pictures. Thank you to everyone who prayed for our safety and ministry opportunity. Here is the first photo taken as we entered the ship.  West Palm Beach Spanish Seventh Day Adventist Church Our air travels brought us into Ft. Lauderdale Florida two days before the cruise started on Monday. We have a friend that lives just outside of Ft. Lauderdale who I have worked with for the past 3-4 years volunteering with Youth Specialties National Youth Workers Convention. She graciously allowed us to stay in their home for the two days before the cruise and one after the cruise. Our friend Annie Mercedes asked us if we could take part in their churches grand opening of their new teen coffee house by performing a magic show. We left the airport at 7:30 PM. It was a 45 minute drive to her church. The program started at 8:00 PM and we were scheduled to perform around 8:45 PM. We arrived at the coffee house at 8:20 PM and started setting up our magic props in the parking lot as a comedian performed before us. They took a break to allow us to set the stage or should I say set the small standing area. It was a small coffee house but it was sufficient. We proceeded into a great evening of magic, comedy and ministry. We had a ball. Thank you Pastor Eric for inviting us to minister. Here are some pictures from that night. We were again blessed to attend their worship service the next Saturday after the cruise. It was a wonderful worship service in Spanish. Neither one of us speak Spanish, however we were able to worship God for the first time in another language. It was neat.                       K-Love Cruise Above you will see one of the pages out of the K-Love Cruise newspaper. It was a privilege to be able to perform with some well known Christian music artists such as Mercy Me, Jeremy Camp, Nicole C. Mullen, Natalie Grant, Sanctus Real, Stellar Kart and Bob and Larry! We were able to perform twice on the ship. As we began the second show a couple of the tricks started out wrong. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I thought, “Here we are performing one of the most important shows of our career and things are falling apart.” We continued on and things got a lot better. The audience response through out the show was exhilarating. Near the end, I gave an invitation to accept Christ as their Savior. Two young girls around 11 years old asked Jesus to forgive them and come into their life. Two of the days on the ship, we worked for about 3 hours each day entertaining people who were standing in line to receive autographs from the music artists. Kimberly twisted balloon creations and I performed close up magic to help the time to pass easier. Some people were in line for over an hour and a half. Check out some of our pictures below. You can see more pictures if you go to Vertical Kids Pictures  Other stuff on our trip  We were very blessed to be able to visit with our friend Annie as mentioned above. Here are some pictures of her, her family and us.    Here is the Lounge we performed in and the sign outside of the door. It is the Puttin On The Ritz Lounge.        I hope you enjoyed our Report. We could not have had this opportunity without your prayers and support. Thank you again.Love,Earl and Kimberly