Dream Center Sunday

We had only planned saying here at the dream center for 3 nights so sunday was time to leave, but not before we went to Angelus Temple in the morning and a great bit of teaching by Matthew Barnett. He once again had an amazing message and introduced us to a program this guy in New York is running called charitywater.org. They build wells in Africa where there is no drinking water and the amazing thing about it is every cent you give to them goes straight into building the well, not a cent for administration.

After the service Celia and I went to introduce ourselves to pastor Matthew and he is a lovely, down to earth guy. We chatted to him for about 5 minutes and he said how much he wants to come to South Africa and speak there which would be a treat for many.

Later that afternoon we went with Justin to a meeting of Red Eye, down at Dr. Tea's in West Hollywood. They were meeting with the head of the 'Beverly Hills Times' who gave a bit of a speech about his involvement in the organization which was a little confusing as he seems to want to create an army of alcoholics and drug addicts, not young people expressing their talent in a safe environment. It was so funny as he was saying he will take them all to these social function to network with others at the the Viper Room, Mercedes Benz event launch, etc. You could see all these peoples faces light up, mine not excluded, but he's completely missing the point here and only jumping on the bandwagon of high profile people giving to a charity that they don't understand.

One of the highlights of my day was meeting Adrian Grenier, the main actor from Entourage. He saw the group of people meeting up at Dr. Teas and came to see what was going on, I introduced myself and chatted to him for a couple minutes and them he was off. I must say I was a little star-struck, but at that point I knew it was time to leave LA as I had seen a celebrity so we could head off.

With the afternoon almost up, we decided to head back down to Newport to this little church called 'Newport Church', makes sense doesn't it. It's along the marina next to Joe's crab shack if anyone's interested. Now they have the services in this old nightclub there which is an amazing venue as you feel like you are at this intimate gig watching a wold class band (which is actually what they are). The problem with it is that its so small you can only fit, I'm guessing, about 80 people in it, this leads to the problem of them having 2 services on a Sunday morning and 4 in the evening. We stayed for two of them, both great messages by Matthew Barnett who was inspiring as always.

We clearly couldn't leave the Dream Center tonight so we stayed another evening and said goodbye to all the great people we had met the following day over another questionable, but free Dream Center canteen meal.