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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Christian singer Lowry performing at Second Baptist Special to the Journal 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- THESE SERVICE PROVIDERS x , „ AVESfONSOREDTHIS Chu r ch & Re igion,..., Support Your Local Religious Institution And Place Your Ad On ThisPage~C Calling 478-987-1823! YOUR AD COULD 4 BE HERE! Arnold's Auto Servid 1202 Main St. Perry, Ga. 31069 Complete Car Maintenance Pick-up & Delivery “Road Servi( it 'ri . /i . n Call Thomas Call C 987-9439 no Productions, this event begins at 7 p.m. “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. Sacred Heart Fall Festival Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 250 South Davis Drive, Warner Robins is L^ ne 1 • 7perry florist 734 Main Street Perry, Georgia 31069 987-1656 800-516-1004 bookstores. To charge tick ets by phone, call 1-800-965- 9324. Complete information may be obtained by calling 478-923- 7101 or by logging onto www.pre mierproduc- tions.com <h 11 p: // www.pre mierproduc- tions.com. Lowry has been mak- I p LOWRY 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. 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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 Serving Houston County Perry • Warner Robins Member FDIC CBST I 00037528 Bank of Middle Georgia Perry DrugiC«mpjtny friendly. Professional Service Ben Bartlett & Hubert Bennett, REGISTERED PHARMACISTS Mtt /nt unmet Pf»»s Aeetpttd 1036 MACON RD. • PERRY, GA 988-1144 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- ——irrm — LONGHORN BUTCHER SHOP Your homitown Burcm Sink 1976 1207 Sunset Ave. • I’erry Plaza Perry. GA 31069 00037530 Lei* I .avseter Greer Lasseter 'Tlecv 'Pewuf (ZleanenA, 736 Main Street Perry, Georgia 31069 Jackie & Terry Mullis 987*1965 000375421 100037544 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006 ♦ ‘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 Supreme 1812 U. 41 Nil Perry, GA 987-1112 Q-hX‘£'k:s FlooringAMßHGA 00037531 00037539 478-987-5711 Perry Antiques Mall 631 Courtney Hodges Btvd. 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