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PASTOR MILLER addresses the enthusiastic CONGREGATION from the pulpit.

                  PASTOR MILLER
     Now that’s what I’m talking about.
     Amen!
                 (turns to GOSPEL CHOIR)
     Y’all are somethin’ else.  When you
     lift your voices in song, I git 
     chills all up and down my spine…
 
                  CONGREGATION
     YES!  YES!  YES!

DOROTHY and VIVIAN, wearing their costumes, huddle in the sanctuary doorway with RUBY awaiting their cue to go on. 

                  PASTOR MILLER
     …And I feel the hand of the Spirit
     tappin' me on the shoulder…
 
                  CONGREGATION
     Amen!  Preach!  Yes, Lord!
 
                 PASTOR MILLER
     …And these big clodhoppers of mine
     git all happy…
              (LAUGHTER, CLAPPING)
 
                 CONGREGATION
     C'mon now!  He's touched by the 
     Spirit!  Praise the Lord!