07/31/09

07/31/09 This is the listing in Christian Happenings... The concert is free but a love offering will be taken up for Elena as she prepares to return to Liberia with Orphan Relief and Rescue...

Gems from the Jewelry Box

Gems from the Jewelry Box

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This Friday will be the benefit concert for Elena Freas as she prepares to go back to Liberia and bring the Light of Christ to the orphaned children who desperately need to know they have been adopted!!!

A love offering will be taken and I will be donating a portion of the proceeds from any merchandise that is sold to Elena and her ministry.

It is an exciting time for me, as I prepare for this concert. God laid this event on my heart many months ago...long before the CD was even done.

I will be offline until after Friday, so if anyone needs me, hit me up the old fashioned telephonic way!!

PS - You may hear a commercial on WBYN 107.5 for this Friday's event with me speaking and The Reason accompaniment track behind it. Thanks Jen and Kathy for the time of fun and fellowship! Thank Kerry Crespo for that BEAUTIFUL arrangement on my performance track! It made a wonderful music bed for the commercial!

PPS - Join with me if you will...Please pray for this Friday's event - for Elena as she prepares to go, for her provision, covering and protection.

PPPS - I'm praying for The Band, including a horn section and a string section to bring the music from the CD fully to life for the outreaches that are coming! Where ever you are musicians, I'm praying for you!

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Crazy Love Block Party & Missionary Benefit Concert 7/31

The Crazy Love Block Party was crazy cool bringing the love of Christ to the peeps of Reading! It was an amazing time of ministering in song to all who were in earshot of the stage. The word is that 28 new souls surrendered to Christ for the first time and 2 people rededicated their lives as well. It was an amazing time of sharing the songs that God has blessed me with and lifting up His Name!

The missionary benefit concert "Bring the Light of Christ to Liberia" approaches on 7/31/09 7:30 pm, at Hope of the Nations, 134 N. 5th Street, Reading, PA. It is the third stop on the Gems Tour and I am anxiously anticapating this event. It was on my heart many months ago to help my missionary friend, Elena Pellizzaris-Freas as she endeavors to return to the orphanages in Liberia.

I once was an orphan of sorts myself and can relate to the rejection and complete abandonment that the children of Liberia face, though my biological mother and father did not leave me due to illness or civil war. Though being poor in America as a child, living in the campground for a bit before I was school-aged, is a far stretch from the Liberian poverty, I somehow feel connected to the children when I look at Elena's photos.

I thank God that missionaries are called to be the salt and light for these children so that they know that Jesus loves them, no matter what else has happened in their lives. I praise God that there are Godly people to tell them that they have an identity in Christ that surpasses any circumstance that they face in the physical.

I feel the call to be a missionary musically, and to take the Light of Christ forth through music and my testimony to all who would listen! I will shout about what God has done in my life and how He has restored me wherever He opens the doors for me to go, even to the ends of the earth!

I want to support Elena and her ministry as she has such a heart for the abandoned and lost! Please join us at the benefit concert at the end of the month!