Christmas Gospel concerts!

Christmas is only a few weeks away and I am in no way ready! It doesn't even seem like November let alone almost December. But it's coming, unless the Lord comes back first!
So, with the Christmas season upon us we can find several evenings of great gospel singings here and there. A couple of "Gaither Homecoming" style singings in our area are as follows:
December 8th - Hopewell Baptist Church, Corbin, KY
December 12th - Knox Co. Middle School. Benefit for the Angel Tree (for the kids).
Barbourville, KY
Several groups and soloist will be at both events. If you or your church are having any kind of special singing or service let me know and I will post it for you. Whether in Kentucky or clear across the globe.
This is a holiday we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Go out and celebrate His birth, support your local gospel groups. Help their causes. Share the good news about a living savior and His promise of eternal life. Go out and spend an evening or two, sit back and relax and enjoy some good old Gospel Singing.

Ahhh, remember those homecomings?

Well it's that time of year again.....you know, when all the singers out there put on a few pounds from all the homecomings! Yeah, it's homecoming time again and that means good food and great gospel singing! Just about any where you turn there's a church having homecoming. You don't have to look very far. And that's one advantage of living in small towns in the south. Everyone either knows mostly everybody at the other churches in the county or is kin to them. So you don't have to be invited, just go on over and fellowship!
The only thing that I have noticed about homecomings over the years that is different, is now days we start at 11, sing till 12, eat and go home. As soon as we've eaten we are in the car and gone! Gotta get back to the recliner, or the football game on TV. Shoot, we gotta get up in the morning and go to work. I've noticed several times that seems like before everyone has even finished, the women are cleaning up and packing up. LEAVE THOSE DISHES ALONE. LET WHOEVER BROUGHT EM, TAKE EM HOME AND CLEAN EM THEMSELF! Enjoy your self!
Now back in my childhood days (a couple years ago, lol ) Sunday school started at 10, preaching and singing at 11 , broke to eat, then came back for more singing afterwards. Sometimes the men played horseshoes, sometimes we ate more or cut a watermelon, then got home between 4 and 6pm. People visited with one another. This was a time of fellowship, visiting with neighbors, and friends we hadn't seen in a while and familly who came home from up north. No one got in a hurry to leave. We didn't have anywhere we needed to go. There was no such thing as WalMart. Town was closed on Sunday, we didn't go shopping. Nothing much on TV. We only got 2 or 3 channels anyway. It was more fun being with our friends. OUTSIDE!
What has happen? Do we not remember how to fellowship anymore? Are we too busy for one another? Do we just go to eat? What do you think?

Dolly and Max

Have you found that as we get older, we also get lazier. Well maybe not lazy but we find ourselves not wanting to tote all that equipment in, singing after singing after singing. That's the only thing about singing that I DO NOT enjoy. Carrying Equipment!
Donnie and Lloyd have sung together for about 18 years and I just joined them about 5 years ago. Since then we have bought new speakers (light), a new spot monior (small and light), a new dolly and a wheeled tool/utility box. This thing looks like a tool box on wheels but opens to 3 large compartments. We can load all the cords, cord reels, mics, keyboard paddle, duct tape, batteries, patch cords, etc inside and still have room. I can pull it wherever I need to and presto! I love it. It's a Stanley Max and we found it at Lowe's for around $60. So I guess you could say we have two new members in the group. Our roadies, dolly and max. Now if we could only come up with something to carry ALL of Jared's drum pieces!!!!!

Why couldn't he have learn to play a harmonica? LOL