{"id":432,"date":"2016-02-07T04:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T04:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=432"},"modified":"2016-03-06T01:57:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T01:57:13","slug":"worship-and-the-superbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/02\/07\/worship-and-the-superbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship and the Superbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to do church on the road? \u00a0I thought we’d be able to listen to podcasts from our church home, Grace Place<\/a>, but it requires iTunes and I’m allergic to iAnything. \u00a0I should probably suck it up\u00a0for God and install the app though. \u00a0Anyway, this week we were in the town of Rockport TX on\u00a0Sunday and I found a church that seemed to have a good website describing their values, service times and it said “come as you are” and had a picture of a pair of shorts….so I was sold!<\/p>\n

Coastal Oaks Church is a Baptist church. \u00a0I’ve only been to a Baptist church once before so my expectation was based more on stereotypes I’d heard about. \u00a0Peter Jenkins spends some time at a Baptist church in his book Walk Across America<\/a>\u00a0and I fell in love with the people of that church alongside Peter. \u00a0Coastal Oaks Church was not what I was expecting. \u00a0There was no organ. \u00a0They had a choir that swayed but no matching gowns or clapping. \u00a0I think I heard one “AMEN” during the sermon. \u00a0All in all it seemed pretty standard. \u00a0But it was good. \u00a0Music was good, the sermon was good, the baptisms were good, the people were kind…I felt very comfortable there. \u00a0Only one other dude was wearing shorts though….whats up with that?! \u00a0And, can you believe, they didn’t have any sort of Superbowl shindig going on as a church!! \u00a0But many people suggested we catch the game at Poor Mans Country Club in town.<\/p>\n

We had a picnic outside the Rockport aquarium before we enjoyed the free admission. \u00a0A man who used to live in Fort Collins was in charge of the aquarium and was really knowledgeable and seemed very happy we were there. \u00a0They had lots of hands-on things and great fish to see. \u00a0There was one little fish that would swim and then stop on a dime….it looked like he ran into something. \u00a0Another one would follow your face…closest I’ve seen to fish tricks.<\/p>\n

It was nice and sunny and we decided to walk out onto the beach. \u00a0“Can we take off our shoes?” the kids asked immediately. \u00a0We told them to keep their clothes dry but the two younger ones got pretty soaked….but they had a BLAST. \u00a0I loved seeing them have so much fun.<\/p>\n

Next stop was the laundromat to do a load of laundry. \u00a0And hey, since we have time, why not disassemble a large portion of my vehicle just to change the headlight bulb. \u00a0Dang, they made that difficult!<\/p>\n

With the laundry\u00a0almost all the way dry we hustled to the Poor Mans Country Club just in time for the coin toss. \u00a0We ordered dinner and watched the game. \u00a0There were some smokers in the place…I don’t think it was that bad, but when you are used to not having any smoke indoors it feels like a lot. \u00a0Every time your team scored they passed out jello shots. \u00a0I don’t drink (or eat\/slurp…whatever you do with jello shots) alcohol but Steph tried one. \u00a0She did not seem to like it. \u00a0I’ll admit, I did not think the Broncos would win, but I was sure excited that they did.<\/p>\n

The drive back home was nice and bright with twice as much light as I’d driven with previous nights. \u00a0It was a full day. \u00a0A fun and memorable day. \u00a0There are a few superbowl Sundays I remember very clearly (interestingly, none of them were spent actually WATCHING the game)….Superbowl 50 is now among those few!<\/p>\n

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Ready to worship!<\/p><\/div>

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They had a choir...that swayed!!<\/p><\/div>

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Strike a pose<\/p><\/div>

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Calling the ocean<\/p><\/div>

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Shell search<\/p><\/div>

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Good talk dad<\/p><\/div>

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A ship<\/p><\/div>

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A dock<\/p><\/div>

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Our mermaid<\/p><\/div>

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Dacen is in a hole<\/p><\/div>

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Crusty hands<\/p><\/div>

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Sand ball<\/p><\/div>

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Jelly fish?<\/p><\/div>

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Fixing the headlight while waiting for laundry<\/p><\/div>

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Superbowl 50 at the Poor Mans Country Club<\/p><\/div>

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Ready to go!<\/p><\/div><\/div>