
Hi Everyone,
Warm weather is headed our way - and great hot singings are in the air!! We truly enjoyed our April 2004 at lots of yearly repeat singings and also going to new churches and venues to share our ministry in song.
The first weekend found New Ground in our hometown of Scottsboro as part of the Eddie Crook Radio Tour. Our local radio station, WZCT, was the host station for this great night in song and invited us to be a part of the "Singing Celebration". ECC artists included the Rudds, the Gabbards, the Duvall's and ReignSong. It was great to spend a special time with our forever friend Dave Wilcox. Mickey Bell, Morning DJ at WZCT, was the emcee for the night. Mickey has also been honored as one of the Top 10 Nominees in the Small Market DJ of the Year for the Singing News Magazine. Congrats Mickey!! But we have to thank Sue Bell for the beautiful reception! This lady knows how to have cake!!! From Scottsboro it was onto Sand Rock Baptist Church. We truly enjoy our visits to this great singing church. It was good to see Tommy Hester and his family. From Sand Rock was the trek to Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Cedartown, GA. This church was ready for "church"!! Great spirit!! Hope to see ya'll again - real soon!
April 8-10th found us spending our weekend at the annual Gold City/Southmen Reunion. This three day event is sponsored by Solid Rock Productions/Jim Hefner. The Thursday night "Jim Session" found people enjoying music by Southern Image, YoungSong, Bill & Marilyn Flurry, Newlyweds Gordon & Linda Meador and New Ground. The hit of the night was definitely the womanless wedding - there were plenty of UGLY women that night!!! Friday was the first year for the "Friday Frenzy". I chartered a bus to our hometown of Scottsboro and everyone enjoyed the famous "Unclaimed Baggage Center". Have you ever lost your luggage - chances are very good that you can find your contents at "UBC". Make sure that you holler at us when you come to Scottsboro. The concert on Friday night featured Gold City, the Southmen, Florida Boys, the Perrys and YoungSong. The sold out crowd had a great time of enjoying the gospel sounds. Saturday morning was the annual Breakfast and the Bonnet Award. This year's receipitant, Eddie Wallace was a great sport taking all the ribbing!! He can tell a mean Rinderceller story, too!! I always take off on Easter Sunday so that we can be at our home churches. Dale and I were so excited about being at Rainsville Holiness Church on Easter and David was able to spend Easter Sunday with his family at Faith Presbyterian Church. Just a special day to spend with our church families and thank our "Risen Savior" for saving us!! Easter Sunday night we headed to Stevenson First Baptist Church with Brother Derrick Boyd. This preacher loves Southern Gospel Music and we love him!! It was good to see our family and so many of our friends that included Lynee, Metha, Mr. Metha, Lynn and the all kids, Carolyn and the Stanfields. It means so much to see them and hear their words of encouragement.
Calvary Assembly was our first stop on the third weekend of April. It is so weird how we got this booking. Our heat on our motorhome needed to be repaired. Well the guy that came to fix it and got us ready to go - this was back in the winter, or course. When I went to pay him for his services he said, "Aren't you the group that sings?" My answer was yes - well he said instead of paying me would you come and do a singing at my church. So I agreed. We go to his church to sing - and have an awesome singing and then they give us a great offering - I tried to tell them that no - that we were paying for our heating service - and they said - they felt led to give us the offering!! God works wonders!! Great service, heat fixed, offering to help us get down the road - it was just a unbelievable night!! Thanks to Greg Wade for all your help!! We finally got on the road around 10:30pm and had a three hour drive ahead of us - we had to be in Parrish, Alabama for a morning service at 8:00am. We were pooped, well let me say, the guys were pooped. I went to bed and depended on them to get us there!! They did a great job - and what an anointed service. We sang in the morning service then had lunch and came back for the afternoon singing. Most of you know - those afternoon singings will get ya - especially after you have eaten a big lunch. But his afternoon was an exception to the rule - over thirty people came to the altar for prayer and it was the sweetest spirit!! We are already looking forward to being back with them next February.
Well, we made it to the last weekend and it started off with a bang. New Ground was honored to be a part of the big singing held at the Shoals Theater that featured the Boatwright Sisters, New Ground and the Dove Brothers!! Great guys, great songs - love their spirit!! These guys are so easy to work with and they so encouraging!! Love the Doves!! The Boatwright Sisters are new on the scene - they are twin "17" year olds that can forever let it rip - I'm sure that you will be hearing more from the very soon!! Thanks to Jerry Edgil of WBTG in Florence, Alabama for including us on the program!! Saturday night finds us in the "big" town of Weaver, Alabama at the Weaver Congregational Holiness Church. Trish Lacks is the Song Chairperson and this lady can also sing and play the piano - we still haven't figured out why they needed New Ground. Lots of talent in this church. But we are glad that they did include us in their quarterly sing. It was good to see the Lipscombs and the Motes - friends of ours that follow us when we are in the area. Also, Jerri Motes is one of the best cooks you will ever find!! This week she blessed us with a Carmel Pound Cake - just makes your mouth water thinking about it!!! We ended the month at the Cahaba View Baptist Church near Leeds, Alabama. This is a great singing church and we had a fine time meeting lots of new friends. Sure hope we get to visit again real soon.
May takes us to Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and the Cruise!!! Can't wait!!
Also, I want to thank everyone that nominated us for "Horizon Group of the Year" in the Singing News Fan Awards. We are honored!! All praise and glory goes to Him!!
Make sure that you come and see us when you can!! Check out our web site at [url=http://www.newgroundministries.com]http://www.newgroundministries.com[/url]
Until He Comes,
Robbie Maxwell
New Ground
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