Alright this is where I'll begin my saga. Me and my mom got there at 2pm and a few minutes later my cousin, Tori, came with her dad, so it was the 4 of us for about an hour, then Liz and Colleen (two ladies from my church) came up. They wanted to see the Point of Grace bus behind the sanctuary; me and Tori had taken a peek at it earlier, very hopefully, but nothing happened so we gave up. With no enthusiasm, I took Liz and Colleen back to the bus, and lo and behold there's Denise!! Her little boy, Spence, is so cute and she was awesome! I can't believe I kept my composure :o) Anyways I said "Hi, Denise, I'm Missy Van Meter." As soon as I said my name her face lit up and she was all "Oh, hi!! It's so great to finally meet you!! I've been thinking about that phone conversation..." (it's a long story; she called me on the phone a year ago because of a fax my mom sent her) and we chatted for a few minutes, like 5 minutes, and she said she had written a devotional for the Steady On book that was all about our conversation (tha aforementioned phone thing) because we had really encouraged her and everything, but they cut out that devotional because there were too many!!

Okay so finally about 4 hours later (no exaggeration) they open the doors and we all flood into the sanctuary. By this time I had told the whole "encounter with Denise" to Ben (my brother), my Dad, Ashley (my friend), my mom, etc. Little did I know that was NOTHING yet.

So finally meet and greet time comes and there's a ton of people. We're almost first in line so we walk into the room and I'm standing in the doorway just thinking, "God, look at me. I'm five feet away from Heather. Thank You, this is so amazing." So Denise recognizes me and gives my mom a huge hug and says to the other girls who she is. Then Shelley, Terry, and Heather are all "Oh! This is the family you told us about Denise? We were talking about you guys on the plane! It's so nice to meet you!" So we got autographs, took pictures, gave hugs. It was so cute when I hugged Heather I just whispered "Heather, you're my favorite." She was totally blessed by that and said "Aww, thank you Honey!" So I had to tell her shh, don't tell the other girls.

Then my dad had trouble with the camera and we were all posed so I said "Take your time, Dad, I can stay here as long as it takes." They all laughed because when I said that the four of them were gathered around me and Ben and my mom :o) Okay so after the concert they're walking to the autograph table with security escorting them or whatever and people yelling so I squeezed my way through and said hi to whoever passed by me. Denise wasn't there but all the other three saw me and waved, but Heather totally recognized me and gave me this big smile. So then for the next hour or so my mom was in line and I was hanging out at the front and Heather winked at me a few times, then I asked her to sign something for Ashley and she was all "Hm, just getting tons of signatures tonight." Because she had signed my book and poster already :o) She gave me a huge smile, it was so rad! I asked Heather if her hand ever hurts after signing that crazy signature all night. And her response was "No, actually, I get so used to it that it doesn't start to hurt or anything. I mean I sign it so many times it just gets natural."

As for the songs they sang, I was amazed. I came so close to crying a few times hearing them sing songs I've listened to a thousand times. It's so different to watch Terry sing out her heart with her hands lifted and a tight throat than to listen to her on a tape. It was amazing. For the second half I was up in front and both Shelley and Heather looked at me during their songs and smiled :o) But when they (or rather Terry) sang Who Am I? I was so on the verge of tears. She was worshiping, not singing. It really clicked, and I loved it. A few other songs were so beatiful, like Drawing me Closer, You Are the Answer, or Gather at the River. I started laughing when they sang Dying to Reach You because that's the song that made me love Point of Grace and I was sure they wouldn't sing it.