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Christian singer Lowry performing at Second Baptist
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The sounds of Christian
music entertainment will
ring loudly Oct. 27 at the
Second Baptist Church in
Warner Robins as Christian
recording artist, songwriter
and comedian Mark Lowry
brings the God Is Crazy
About You Tour to the city.
Lowry, who has spent the
past 25 years on the road
full-time, has recorded six
comedy and music videos,
four of which have reached
gold status, with two addi
tional recordings achieving
Platinum recognition.
He has been featured on
more than 60 of the popu
lar Gaither Homecoming
Videos, and his own video,
“On Broadway,” soared to
the top of the Billboard
Charts after its release.
Joining Lowry on the tour
will be master pianist
Stan Whitmire, and multi
talented trio Lordsong.
A presentation of Premier
Church Briefs
Home buyers’
seminar
There will be a seminar for
home buyers from 10 a.m. to
I p.m., today, at New Hope
International Church, 2440
Highway 127, Kathleen.
Experienced representa
tives will be on hand to dis
cuss and answer your ques
tions on buying your home,
mortgage, insurance, inspec
tion and credit checks.
For more information, call
Love Burnsed at 987-7893.
Pumpkin patch
time
The 11th Annual Pumpkin
Patch of Christ United
Methodist Church is now
open. CUMC is celebrating
II years of this popular com
munity outreach.
The patch is an attraction
for kids of all ages, offer
ing face painting, a beanbag
toss, a tic-tac-toe board, and
a maze.
Story time with preschool
ers and elementary age chil
dren is also very popular.
Last year over 900 chil
dren visited the patch as
part of pre-school or elemen
tary groups, as well as hun
dreds of families who visit
during the month.
The Pumpkin Patch can
be found at Christ United
Methodist Church Pumpkin
Patch, on 511 Russell
Parkway on the front lawn
of the church until Oct. 31.
The Patch is open from
9 a.m. until dark, Monday
through Saturday, and on
Sundays from 1-6 p.m.
Call the church office at
922-0211 to make a reser
vation for preschool, ele
mentary school, or daycare
groups.
Annual health
day
The Union Grove
Missionary Baptist Church
will host their Sixth annu-
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“There’s something for
everyone at an event host
ed by Mark Lowry,” states
Gary Gentry, President of
Premier Productions. “It’s
an event the entire family
can enjoy.
Obviously the music is
Christian based, but there’s
a lot of variety, as all three
artists perform individually,
and then come together on
stage at the end of the eve
ning.
You never know what’s
going to happen when
Mark Lowry is on stage.
There’s great music, com
edy and thought-provok
ing insight, as he shares
from his heart. It’s always
fresh and exciting.”
All seats for the God Is
Crazy About You Tour stop
in Warner Robins are gen
eral admission.
Tickets are available at the
Valley View Church office
and select area Christian
al Health Day and Brunch
at the Vision Center, 1231
South Davis Drive, Warner
Robins, Saturday.
Physicians will speak on
good health practices and on
HIV-AIDS.
A healthful meal will be
served, and there will be free
testing for glucose, blood
pressure, HIV and choles
terol.
Flu shots will be available
for $25 with Medicaid, S4O
without. Hospice volunteers
will be on hand, and there
will be vendors with give
aways.
For more information on
this free program, call 922-
5514.
Divorce recovery
workshop
A divorce recovery work
shop is being held at First
Christian Church, U.S.
41 N. and Perry Parkway.
Meetings will be held every
Thursday for 10 weeks,
starting at 7 p.m.
The workshop and child
care are free. Call 956-4800
to sign up.
Celebrate
recovery at Unity
Baptist
Need help for a hurt,
hang-up or habit? Celebrate
Recovery meetings are at
Unity Baptist Church of
Bonaire every Wednesday
at 6:30 p.m. Children’s pro
gram is available.
Unity Baptist is located
at 79 Highway 96, between
Houston Lake Road and
Moody Road.
For information call 922-
0063.
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ing people laugh, cry and
think for over 26 years.
Singing publicly and record
ing albums and videos since
age 11, you could say that
he has made this most of
his life. Lowry attended
Liberty College (now Liberty
University) in Lynchburg,
Va., from 1975 to 1980 where
he first intended to gain a
Business degree.
In 1976, he felt God was
calling him to a music minis
try and, when he graduated
planning its annual fall fes
tival Oct. 21 from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., with free concerts,
Radio Disney live on stage
all day, a hot air balloon,
rides, games and a flea mar
ket.
Premium auction and lot
tery raffle with raffles of
SI,OOO, vacation trips, enter
tainment packages, outdoor
life extravaganza, and much
more
Free concerts will include
country music star, T.
Graham Brown, Josh Graf
and Company and the
Buttercats.
There will be an arts
and crafts show and sale.
Carnival food as well as food
by local restaurants will be
available.
First Baptist
Kathleen fall
festival
First Baptist Church
Kathleen, 101 Bear Branch
Rd., will hold a Fall Festival
Oct. 28 from 6 p.m. - 9
p.m. There will be hotdogs,
chili, marshmallow roast
and hayrides.
Also, there will be booths
for all ages and plenty of
candy.
Bring your children and
have a Christian alter
native to Halloween.
All Saints
Episcopal Church
holding sale
All Saints Episcopal
Church, 1708 Watson Blvd.,
Warner Robins is holding its
annual frozen casserole sale
now through Monday.
Orders can be placed by
calling the church at 478-
923-1791 and picked up on
Nov. 11 from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the church. Crafts
and baked goods will also
be available at the time of
pickup.
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RELIGION
in 1980 with a Youth degree,
he began performing at inde
pendent Baptist churches
around the country. His first
booking agent, Roy Morgan,
booked him in 43 cities in 41
days. As Mark put it, “This
boy could book a pork chop
into a synagogue.”
In 1988, he was offered
the baritone part in the
Gaither Vocal Band. Mark
remained with the Vocal
Band for 13 years, perform
ing dozens of solo concerts
each year, as well. His antics
on stage were an instant hit
with Vocal Band audiences
and their comedy became
the highlight of the evening
when the Homecoming tour
was born.
He has been featured
on each of the Gaither
Homecoming videos - now
numbering more than 60 -
often in the co-hosting role
with Bill.
In 1984, Lowry wrote the
lyric to a song that would
establish his status as a
Put things in the past and more on
lam impressed with
the thought planted in
Isaiah 54:4: “for thou
shalt not be put to shame;
for thou shalt forget the
shame of thy youth .. ~” It
has a lot to say, especially
to those who find it diffi
cult to forgive themselves
of past mistakes. Also, to
those who fail to release
memories of mistakes made
by others.
Wouldn’t it be wonder
ful for people to forget the
undesirable phases in lives
of self and others? However,
it seems that the majority
finds it easier to hang on to
things, which would be best
forgotten than to turn loose
and let go.
We sometimes find our
spiritual vision being
blurred by things oft he past.
Things God has already for
given and forgotten. Our
The first man with a belly button
I enjoy the study of enig
mas. For example, which
came first the chicken or
the egg? Without a chicken,
you cannot produce an egg
and without the egg, you
cannot birth a chicken. On
my desk is an ape figurine,
with a quizzical look on his
face, holding the skull of a
human. The ape apparently
is wondering how man pre
ceded him in the evolution
ary chain.
Then there is the ques
tion of the umbilical cord.
Did the first man created
by God have an umbilical
cord? Here again you get
into the question of what
came first, a man with an
umbilical cord or a man
without an umbilical cord.
Webster describes the
umbilical cord as “a cord
like structure connecting
the navel of a fetus with
the placenta (structure that
houses fetus within the
mother’s uterus) and serv
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songwriter forever. When his
church asked him to write
a Christmas play, he wrote
down a series of questions
that he would like to ask
Jesus’ mother, Mary.
These questions were
used as a ‘filler’ between
the scenes of the play. Six
years later, after two other
writers had already tried,
Buddy Greene wrote music
to Mark’s lyric and the song
was born... Mary, Did You
Know? This song, which has
become a modern Christmas
standard, has been recorded
by over 30 different artists
including Michael English,
Kathy Mattea, Kenny
Rogers, Wynonna Judd, Billy
Dean, Natalie Cole, Donnie
Osmond and Clay Aiken.
In 2004, Mark released his
first Christmas CD, featuring
10 Christmas songs, includ
ing Maty, Did You Know?
He has recorded six comedy
and music videos - four of
which have gone ‘Gold’ and
two of which have achieved
blurred vision prevents us
from seeing the new crea
ture He has created through
His forgiveness. In all prob
ability we each have, with
God’s help, overcome hab-
Earline Cole
Reflection*
we can help each other rise
above undesirable experi
ences by remembering that
no one can claim to have
a faultless life. As long as
we live upon this earth,
we are subject to making
decisions that do not reflect
ing to supply nourishment
to and remove waste from
the fetus.” When the baby
is born, the doctor carefully
cuts the umbilical cord at
a point close to the baby’s
Billy Powell
Columnist
Creator made man from
the dust of the earth and
breathed life into his inert
body, we can reason that
God had no reason to con
figure his first creation
with a navel. Since the first
man did not originate in a
woman’s womb, he would
not have a navel. That’s
because there was no umbil-
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‘Platinum’ status. Mark
Lowry on Broadway debuted
at No. 1 on the Billboard
music video chart and stayed
there for five weeks.
His latest video, Mark
Lowry Goes To Hollywood,
was released in September
2005.
In 2006, he continues to
travel across the country
with Lord Song and Stan
Whitmire on the God Is
Crazy About You.
His latest album, Be The
Miracle, was released in
January. Considered by many
to be his best work yet, Mark
is joined by Michael English,
Lord Song and Susan Ashton.
Mark Lowry was born in
Houston, Texas on June 24,
1958.
He has a ‘perfect’ older
brother, Mike, who lives in
Lynchburg, Va., with his
wife and four children, as
well as a ‘perfect’ younger
sister, Melissa who also lives
in Lynchburg with her hus
band and two children.
Christian standards.
Nothing is to be gained
by stirring up errors of the
past. We need to cling to
memories that cultivate
love and understanding.
Remember the song that
came out a few years ago
. . . “He’s Still Working
On Me?” and the slogan,
“God ain’t finished with me
yet?”
If you are thinking lowly
of yourself or of someone
else, just remember that
God is not finished - He
is constantly molding our
lives to make us what He
wants us to be. God can do
anything but He allows us
to be in partnership with
Him.
Don’t be put to shame
and don’t put others to
shame. Let the past remain
in the past and the future
will be a brighter for all.
its that
hinder
our being
what He
wants us
to be.
B y
keeping
our mind
open
and our
vision
focused,
ical cord connecting him to
his mother. God could have
given the first man a navel,
strictly for cosmetic pur
poses, but it would not have
resulted from the scar of a
severed umbilical cord.
If one subscribes to the
evolutionist point of view
that man descended from
the ape, then he must con
clude that the first man did,
in fact, have a navel. That’s
because an ape fetus, like a
human fetus, is nourished
by an umbilical cord con
nected to its mother’s pla
centa.
According to the Bible,
God created the first man,
Adam, and the first woman,
Eve, in the Garden of Eden.
Their first son was Cain.
Although neither Adam nor
Eve had a navel, their first
child, Cain, was the first
human to boast of a belly
button. As a fetus, Cain
was connected to his
See POWELL, page 6B
abdomen.
The scar,
which
remains
through
out life, is
called the
navel. If
we hold
to the
theory
that a
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