I am in Houston Texas this week to photograph my friends’ wedding.
Lakewood Church, says Wikipedia, is the largest congregation in the US – what they call a mega-church. The services are held in a converted basketball station that seats about 16,000 people.
I attended to the 11am service. Seeing as my last visit to Sunday church was probably with the boy scouts,this was quite an experience. I pretty much had to lie down in a dark room afterwards to recover.
The pastor Joel Osteen preaches with his wife Victoria. They have an internet TV channel here.
Nice set Tony. I’ve been looking for that Scripture Candy everywhere. Great omiyage!
seek, and ye shall find
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Hi Tony,
hope you`ve full recoverd from the “experience” – nice images …. Mr.Osteen remindes me of Max Headroom ….and I`m wondering how many “zero`s” he has in his bank account?
Cheers
Keith
Hi Keith. Yes, he was a bit android-like. Incredible speaker though. Almost too perfect.
Scary that spo many buy so completely into this. Great set of images though
Damon
Thanks Damon. I think I was half-moved half-disturbed by the experience. Very glad I went though.