Good afternoon High Places!
I hope you're excited for our first "Chili Dog Days of Summer" concert and gathering happening Saturday night at the Grove. We have some great bands lined up. Check out The Afternooners on Spotify. They are from Chattanooga. Or Blue Willow from Nashville for a taste of what we have coming. Also, our own Greg McPeak from the local band Silver Trailer will be playing us into the late hours, so if you like Psychedelic Hillbilly Rock (think Pink Floyd on steriods), be sure to stay late and enjoy them!
Of course we will have our own Robbie Lewis, alongside his friends and family, providing fun throughout the night, as well as a set of newcomers from Coalfield called "Suite 101."
If I can find a light weigh television, we could stream the Olympics from a Roku stick in the lobby too, so no one would have to miss out if that is more your jam. We will have chili dogs and snacks enough to keep you well fed (expect them again on Sunday afternoon if we don't sell them all! haha!) and beer is availalbe for 21 & up with valid ID.
Invite your friends... volunteer to make a pot of chili, bring a jug of ice tea or lemonnade if you can, anything to help the night run smooth. Most of all bring yourself and a friend! Plan to make new friends too because there will be plenty of new faces around. We even caught a corporate sponsor today who's paying the way for all their employees!
It's going to be hopping Saturday night, so please come support this event and pour some more heat on the dog days of summer with post-pandemic jams. Share our on social media as soon as you can. Tell your co-workers and help us spread the word. All donations go to helping us continue our work in and through the Grove Theater.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
TONIGHT (Wednesday) -- Jesus Stories Bible Study continues, 7:00 PM. I was genuinely excited by the turn out last week. We had six attend with almost no promotion and me forgetting to announce it or put it in News and Notes. If it fell off your radar, or this is the first time you are hearing about it -- come on down! 7:00 PM in the movie room at the Grove tonight.
This Sunday we will pick the theme back up after a GREAT summer camp Sunday last week. Thank you Chad, Orion, Jackson Linn, and all the folks that made last week possible. It was definitely our highest attended Sunday post-pandemic. More importantly the spirit was truly contagious and I am certain everyone had a wonderful experience at High Places last week.
Hope to see everyone back for another round of Jesus Stories this week!
Love to you all!
David
“This is what you shall do;
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons
and with the young and with the mothers of families....
re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
-- WALT WHITMAN