Plans are in motion to bring together British Christian artists from the world of gospel, urban gospel, praise and worship and CCM music to record a charity single on February 27, 2010, at the world famous Abbey Road studios in St Johns Wood, London, to raise money for victims of the Haitian earthquake.
Lawrence Johnson, co-founder of the London Community gospel choir and Les Moir of Kingsway Music have joined forces to organise the recording after being moved into action after watching the scenes of devastation caused by the earthquake that hit the island of Haiti on January 12, leaving over 200,000 people dead and the infrastructure of much of the country destroyed.
Artists that have pledged their support to this charity recording initiative include X Factor finalists Voices With Soul and Beverley Trotman, Amy Stead, Graham Kendrick and Tim Hughes, Britain’s leading praise and worship artists, Ken Riley, LZ7, Simon Brading, Tre Shepherd, MOBO award winners Victizzle and Jahaziel, E-Tizz, New Direction, 29th Chapter, Roger Samuels, Cie, Lurine Cato, Priscilla Jones, Cie, Faye Simpson, Trumpets of Zion, Festival of Light Choir, New Wine Choir, IDMC and the Audrey Mattis Chorale.
Britain’s black majority churches have responded with compassion to the Haitian people following the devastation and suffering caused by the earthquake that struck the island on January 12, 2010.
The New Testament Church of God has put an appeal out to all their churches to collect donations, which will then be sent to their international headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee. The money will then be sent to the head of COG Caribbean region so that it can used to help suffering Haitians.
COG has several churches in Haiti, many of which were destroyed on the earthquake. Their Overseer in the region Dr Elysee Joseph lost his life during the earthquake when the car he was driving was hit by a wall.
The New Testament Assembly in Tooting launched an appeal for funds the Sunday after the earthquake and are collecting clothes, food and medical supplies. Money collected will be donated to Christian Aid, the collectables will be shipped over to Haiti.
Cartoonists across America will draw more than comic relief for the next three weeks as they post their work on eBay in an unprecedented online fundraiser. Spearheaded by former Disney artists Tom Bancroft, director Tony Bancroft (“Mulan”) and Chad Frye, auction funds will help support the family and finances of fellow cartoonist Tim Hodge. Hodge’s son Matthew remains in a coma five months after his car collided with a train.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, the NCSF launched the eBay fundraiser to benefit the Hodge family. 165 treasures from 115 artists like…
• An original Charles Schulz “Charlie Brown” drawing
• An illustration by famous movie poster artist Drew Struzan
• Character drawings by Disney supervising animators of characters from the new “The Princess and the Frog” feature film
• Illustrations of “Po” from “Kung Fu Panda” character designer Nico Marlet.
• A drawing by the 2010 Golden Globe winning director of Pixar’s “Up” Pete Docter signed by actor Ed Asner.
“Art’s coming from all over the country and beyond,” organizer Tom Bancroft said, amazed. “Almost every major animation film studio is represented.”
“Are You Listening” is available for purchase at www.verityrecords.com right now. The single will be available next week on iTunes, Wal-Mart and other major retailers. It’s only a $1.29, please support this amazing single.
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US urban gospel group US urban gospel group 21:03 will be headlining a fundraising concert at
Jesus House,
Brent Terrace, Brent Cross, London NW2 on January 16.
They’ll be joined by Guvna B, Jake Isaacs, Rachel Kerr, Mo Tru and others.
The money raised from this concert will go towards the
Bola Soyoda Educational Foundation, set up to sponsor the education of children who have lost a parent.
Tickets are £10.
www.thebsefoundation.com
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The 29th Chapter in partnership with aid relief Charity Tearfund, release a Christmas classic with a dash of 29’s trademark tongue in cheek antics for what hopes to be a big hit this Christmas.
Mr Prince of The 29th chapter comments, “We are really excited to release the record in partnership with aid relief Tearfund. Tearfund work in over 50 countries to transform lives materially and spiritually through aid, social action and political lobbying. Tearfund’s work has affected the lives of literally millions of the most broken and needy people on the face of our planet. All the profits raised by the single will go towards Tearfund’s life transforming work so please, please, please support the single.”
The track can be downloaded today Click Here
It should begin to appear on other download platforms through the course of this week.
Let’s get Gloria in the charts!
For all of you who have heard and have agreed to support our big chart single ‘Invincible’ next year, this is a chance to prove your commitment to the 29 family. ‘Gloria’ has been set up for the charts in the same way as ‘Invincible’ will be. We are wondering how high up the charts we can get it. Make sure you get online and buy your 3 copies of the radio and extended version. Other ways you could support the song:
- Change your Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter status to: “Download 29th Chapter track ‘Gloria’ get it now at: www.dittomusic.dloadshop.com
- Forward this email to all your friends with details of the track.
- Text all your friends the details of the track.
- Copy the icon above and paste it anywhere and everywhere you can, change your profile pic to this as well.
We need at least 10,000 downloads so get going! We’ll let you know on Friday via the 29 website how the numbers are looking.
Click: TEARFUND
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Women in Christian leadership are being invited by Tearfund to take part in a trip to Malawi next year (February 2010), to spend time with women affected by poverty and HIV.
The trip will include visits to local churches which are reaching out to people in their communities who are affected by HIV, as well as opportunities to stay with a family in a community overnight and shadow them during the day.
‘We know that poverty always disproportionately affects women, and that they are very involved in caring for others and in finding practical solutions to issues in their communities,’ says Yioula Taliadorou, Church Relationship Manager at Tearfund.
‘I know that the women who come on this trip will return challenged, humbled and inspired to share their passion for justice and tackling poverty with their families and churches.’
During the trip, there will be opportunities for the team to work alongside local families and churches and to pray with and for them, as part of Tearfund’s Connected Church programme which helps UK churches to partner with churches in the poorest parts of the world.
Scottish singer and songwriter Yvonne Lyon, who went to Cambodia with Tearfund on a similar trip earlier this year, said: ‘I fell in love with the way church does things. There was an emphasis on the spiritual and education combined. ‘For example, we met a teenage HIV support group and I saw groups of women and children in the village learning about health. I wasn’t expecting to see something so practical which was obviously restoring respect and dignity. I felt really proud and I believe in what Tearfund does.’
The trip runs from 22 February to 5 March and costs £850 plus flight costs.
For information call 0208 943 7868 or www.tearfund.org/News
A 33-year-old preacher’s kid from Atlanta recently raised $30,000 in 18 hours to build a kindergarten in Vietnam...
Jonathan Acuff, 33, is the writer of the satirical Stuff Christians Like blog, which was started as a reaction to the popular blog Stuff White People Like. The Christian blog is less than two years old but the site has drawn hundreds of thousands of online readers and Acuff already has a book deal with Christian publishing giant Zondervan.
Some of his posts include “#654. Staring at someone in the choir during the sermon”; “#327. Conferences, AKA the Christian Prom”; “#39. Giving advice on things we’ve never experienced”; and “#240. Kirk Cameron.”
After more than 600 posts, Acuff took the bold step of pursuing what his 6-year-old daughter inspired. With more than 75,000 readers a month, the blogger plopped on them a fundraising project.
“Right now, right here, you and me and the Stuff Christians Like community have the chance to be much bigger than a blog,” Acuff wrote in his blog last week. “I am growing overwhelmed but the sense that God has given us all a tremendous gift called, ‘being alive on Monday’ and He’s holding His breath in eager anticipation to see what we’ll do next.
“And what’s next for Stuff Christians Like is that we’re going to build a kindergarten in Vietnam. (No segue whatsoever; we just jumped into that, didn’t we?)”
He was challenged by the oldest, Laura Elizabeth, of his two daughters who one year ago was shocked to discover there were kids her age starving in other parts of the world.
While looking through a book together, they came across a picture of a little boy who was starving and whose ribs were sticking out.
Congregation members from various churches across the London Borough of Barnet are getting ready to spread some cheer this Christmas and have started work on putting together thousands of Christmas hampers which will be delivered to families in need living in the borough.
A church spokesperson at Jesus House, one of the churches involved explained, “Last year we decided to touch the lives of local residents over the Christmas season and distributed over 1500 food hampers in the West Hendon and Colindale areas. People greatly appreciated this small gesture, so we felt it would be a good thing to repeat the exercise this year, and distribute hampers to people in need right across the borough.
What is Urbana?
Urbana is the missions conference for North American students hosted by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada. Urbana 09 will be our 22nd conference. The first “Urbana” was held in Toronto in 1946. From 1948 to 2003, the conference was held at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Since 2006, Urbana has been held at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. Generations of college students have come to Urbana to hear about cutting edge issues in missions and to respond to the call to participate in God’s global mission. During the five days of Urbana participants will experience multicultural worship and drama, dynamic speakers, in-depth Bible study and prayer. They will also be encouraged to explore short-term and vocational opportunities as they interact with representatives from more than 300 mission agencies and educational institutions. Attendance at Urbana is usually around 20,000. Urbana 09 will be held December 27-31, 2009.
Survivor: Biadglign Befekadu still bears the scars of the famine to this day.
It is twenty five years since news of the dreadful famine in Ethiopia hit our televisions screens with its distressing pictures of orphaned and abandoned children. In the month when the Ethiopian government is again calling for food aid, St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia (SMCF) is launching its Twenty5 campaign, to raise funds for the longer-term investment which is so vital in enabling communities, and their children, to withstand the effects of future famines exacerbated by climate change.
The campaign aims to fund work with a number of poor urban communities throughout Ethiopia so that they can better care for their orphaned and ‘at risk’ children. The work will include promoting urban agriculture and environmental improvement, providing water and sanitation, setting up income generation training, women’s self-help groups and also strengthening the community’s own capacity to care for its members.
Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu
The campaign is endorsed by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu who says: “It is 25 years since Michael Buerk’s groundbreaking reports from Ethiopia which drew the attention of a generation to the devastation caused by the famine of 1984. Since that time the work of organisations like the St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia have done much to alleviate the poverty and suffering in this proud country. Please support the Twenty5 appeal for SMCF and its work in giving children a family, an education and the skills to earn their living in Ethiopia.”
Read the Remarkable Story of Woman with One Leg Serving Sudanese Orphans
Born without her left hip and leg, Michele Perry is no stranger to seeming impossibilities. So when she arrived in war-torn Southern Sudan with little more than her faith in God’s promises she did what everyone told her was crazy: she opened a home for orphaned children in the middle of guerilla warfare territory and has now become “mama” to over one hundred little lives.
“How did I wind up here doing this?” asks Perry. “I began a journey. I said yes to a downward trail of humility to find His heart, to find what is really real. I prayed a dangerous prayer a little over a decade ago: Jesus, teach me how to love.” And He did.
With a deft pen, she recounts unforgettable stories of life in the bush, stories that capture the reader with the stark realities of living in a war zone and the power of God’s love to transform them. “I am no super saint,” says Perry. “There are moments a hot shower would be lovely, but it cannot compare to being in the middle of God’s dreams.”
Her own story is just as compelling as the ministry she is living. From working in the slums of India to finding her home in war-ravaged Africa, Michele’s life has been a journey deeper into the supernatural power of God. A journey she eagerly invites readers to join.
“All journeys that really matter start deep inside us,” says Perry. “Yet no matter where in the world we reside, it is this journey into God’s heart that will lead us home.”
Coldplay have donated £1 million to the children’s charity Kids Company.
The charity, which helps young ex-offenders and disadvantaged children, received the donation from the band, who have generously given the cash to help the organisation achieve its goals.
“They were moved by the tough stories they heard and want to be genuine participants,” said Camila Batmanghelidjh of the south London based Kids Company. “I got the feeling the donation was something they had planned from the start of their careers.”
Coldplay have previously visited the charity’s various centres and, as well as donating the money, plan to give music lessons to the children.
Chris Martin, 32, and his bandmates are keenly involved with Kids Company, which helps underprivileged children who lack adult support.
www.kidsco.org.uk
Article Source: nme.com coldplay
The epic line-up, fronted by man of the moment Tinchy Stryder, includes Pixie Lott, N-Dubz, Frankmusik, Chipmunk, VV Brown, Ironik, Bashy, Mpho and McLean.
The track is a reworking of The Killers’ track All These Things which includes the hook line ‘I got soul, but I’m not a solider’. It was chosen after Coldplay, U2 and Take That joined The Killers on stage at the Brits afterparty hosted by War Child, where they all performed the track.
On being part of the project, Tinchy Stryder commented: ‘As soon as I was asked to be involved with War Child I immediately said yes as I believe forcing children to fight in wars with no choice is completely wrong. I really hope the single is a huge success and it raises lots of money and awareness for the charity.’
I Got Soul is released 19th October 2009 with all proceeds going to War Child.
To help spread the word, slogan bearing T-Shirts for the single release have been designed by über cool fashion designer Henry Holland, famed for his alternative fashion and work with supermodel Agyness Deyn. The T-Shirts will go on sale in Autumn at top fashion retailers.
www.warchild.org.uk
The Young Soul Rebels are:
N-Dubz, Pixie Lott, Tinchy Stryder, Frankmusik, V.V. Brown, Kid British, Chipmunk, Mpho, McLean, Ironik, Domino Go, Bashy, Egypt , London Community Gospel Choir
Michael W. Smith and Jeremy Camp added their voices to the “Hope For Samoa” free benefit concert on October 7th 2009 that was organized by The Katinas to aid their battered homland from the after-effects of the of the 8.2 magnitude earthquake and resultant walls of 15-20 foot high tsunami waves that ravaged Samoa on September 29th. The Katinas lost both family and friends in the disaster. katinamissions.org/ways-to-give/
The Katinas are a Contemporary Christian music group
katinamissions.org/ways-to-give
Orissa Christians in refugee camps told a visiting Living Letters team from World Council of Churches (WCC) that they had begun to rebuild their homes and lives, but added they were afraid to return to their villages permanently in case of further attacks.
The Living Letters team travelled recently to Kandhamal district in the eastern Indian state of Orissa to show solidarity with the victims of the violence that broke out following the murder of a hard-line Hindu leader in August last year. Hindus blamed Christians for the killing even though Maoist rebels publicly claimed responsibility for the murder.
Historical Event
Largest Christian Concert Ever Streamed Online
Watch Event Live Online – FREE
(Tue Oct 13 @ 1.30am British Time)
Godbeat.com, HearItFirst.com and 316Networks.com, in support of the Gospel Music Association (GMA), have agreed to offer a live web broadcast of the October 12 concert event featuring some of Christian and Gospel music’s most renowned artists.
The concert will be aired at www.ConcertoftheDecade.com and feature notable performers Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Casting Crowns, MercyMe, Natalie Grant, Kirk Franklin, Point of Grace, Fisk Jubilee Singers and The Booth Brothers.
The collaboration between these two websites and 316Networks.com, a video platform provider, will create the largest Christian concert ever streamed exclusively online, according to the website executives.
“We are thrilled to be able to offer our services and website to the Gospel Music Association to allow fans a chance to attend this once-in-a-lifetime concert event,” says Jeff Myers, president and founder of Godbeat.com and Godbeat Media.
“To have these artists on one stage together is utterly amazing. This may never happen again. The GMA has been the backbone of the Christian Music Industry for years and we are glad to partner with HearItFirst.com and 316Networks.com to help make this concert a great success.”
The concert is a fundraiser for the Gospel Music Association and will be $1000 per ticket for those attending the event at the Loveless Café & Barn in Nashville.
Reserve a Viewing Ticket
However, there will be no charge for the world-wide live stream, although fans will need to reserve a ticket at www.ConcertoftheDecade Although attending the concert online is free, tax-deductible donations to the GMA Foundation, will be encouraged during the broadcast. The artists involved as well as the websites have all donated their time and expenses to support the GMA Foundation.
“This will be a concert that will appeal to Christian music fans across the globe,” says Eddie DeGarmo, President, EMI CMG Publishing and member of the GMA Executive Committee. “I can’t remember another occasion when so many marquee artists appeared on the same stage together.”
WHO ARE WE?
Model4Jesus is a fashion show ministry for women and teenage girls that uses fashion shows as a tool to reach today’s generation, demonstrating that a woman does not need to conform to the world’s concept of beauty. Our fashion shows let women show off their feminine side without compromising themselves. In this way, their truly best assets can be seen by the world , the image and character of Jesus Christ and His calling on their lives.
Model4Jesus shows that a woman can be a positive role model in today’s world without having to excuse her beliefs (a belief in Christ). Our motto isBe a model, don’t just look like one. It is about learning to be modest and using our beauty to glorify God instead of pleasing the world and being exploited.
How did Model 4 Jesus Start?
Mayra Gomez is the founder of Model4Jesus. God inspired her to start this ministry through her experiences as a professional model and host of Salsa Mania, a secular latin music video program. This former Army soldier is a wife, mother of four, and working model in Tampa, Florida. God touched her heart in 1999, after years in the modeling industry. Wanting to combine her new found faith with her passion for women and modeling, in 2005 Model4Jesus was born.
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In aid of the Fountain of Peace Children’s Foundation, LCGC will be peforming at Epping Hall on 6th and 7th November. Join them for two nights of foot-tapping, soul-energising and upbeat gospel music and help the children in Uganda at the same time!
In 1982 a dream and a vision came alive. Revd. Bazil Meade, with the help of Lawrence Johnson, Delroy Powell and John Francis, made a mark in history pioneering the first concert gospel choir in Britain – the London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC). Trying to fit LCGC into a neat slot is virtually impossible. They are adaptable, flexible and create dynamic melodies with rich harmonies whether they are performing as an octet or a 30-strong choir. LCGC is known for their funky gospel flair, swing-beat, R’n'B, traditional and soulful arrangements, with invigorating choreography and vocal gymnastics.
TICKETS
Go to www.fountainofpeace.net or call 01992 575035
Fountain of Peace are LCGC’s dedicated charity. www.lcgc.org.uk
