Last night my brother and I went to a church and sang with the college quartet. Afterward there was a party at somebody's house (whose name I do not know), but they had food, so we went. They had a volleyball court out back, covered in sand and lined in wood. The problem: my brother and I had no change of clothes whatsoever. So, Stephen took off his boots and socks, rolled up his dress-pant legs and played some volleyball. Meanwhile, I stood back, looking at him and thinking, "What a dork..." as I tried to kill mosquitoes buzzing my head by slapping myself in the face repeatedly. To make matters worse, they started spraying mosquito fogger around the edge of the volleyball court. I think that was their way of saying, "DEATH TO THE ASTHMATIC COMEDIAN!!!" I don't have real bad asthma, just enough to not want to put a straw on mosquito fogger (although I hear it's actuality quite exhilarating!)
Take a look at our schedule page at http://www.foresterministries.com/ to see where we'll be next!
-Joshua
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Website & CD Pics
I have some exciting news regarding our website. We will soon be giving it an overhaul with brand new pictures and features. We recently went to a place called Marion Studios in Brown City, Mi where our older brother Mark Forester has been having Ron Marion take his pictures for years. This guy is awesome! He spent around five hours with us taking pictures all over town. My new CD is featuring old Gospel classics done in fresh, updated ways. To go along with this somewhat old time theme, we went to a motor home park that had a little white chapel that would remind you of Little House On The Prairie. We took a bunch of pictures their and then I went to a couple of different places that Ron new of that had some really cool old 1940s car that I could stand next to for pictures.
While were in the campground, Josh started goofing off near the playground where kids would go, and Ron suddenly found himself climbing into the play area taking pictures of Josh popping up from tires, crawling through tunnels, standing on his head at the bottom of the slide, holding a super-soaker in a James Bond fashion, and hanging upside-down from a rope ladder.
We took over 600 pictures that day. some of them did not turn out so good, but many of them were awesome. Some of these will soon be appearing on our website, and some of them will be featured on our new album covers.
When our website is updated, we will also be adding a new pictures page that we can update ourselves whenever we want to. We be posting many of Ron's pictures, as well as lots of great pictures from recent concerts that we have performed in recently. I'll post an update here as soon as we can get this rolling. Be sure to watch http://www.foresterministries.com/ for these exciting new changes.
-Stephen
While were in the campground, Josh started goofing off near the playground where kids would go, and Ron suddenly found himself climbing into the play area taking pictures of Josh popping up from tires, crawling through tunnels, standing on his head at the bottom of the slide, holding a super-soaker in a James Bond fashion, and hanging upside-down from a rope ladder.
We took over 600 pictures that day. some of them did not turn out so good, but many of them were awesome. Some of these will soon be appearing on our website, and some of them will be featured on our new album covers.
When our website is updated, we will also be adding a new pictures page that we can update ourselves whenever we want to. We be posting many of Ron's pictures, as well as lots of great pictures from recent concerts that we have performed in recently. I'll post an update here as soon as we can get this rolling. Be sure to watch http://www.foresterministries.com/ for these exciting new changes.
-Stephen
Recent ministry news
Hey gang, sorry that we haven't posted any new updates for a little while. That doesn't mean that things have been slow or boring around here,though, because actually things have really been hopping!
On Sunday the 28th of June, we went to Deckerville, Mi for a Sunday morning service that went pretty well. The people were friendly and seemed to appreciate what we did. After the service we chatted with the people, sold some CDs, and even got to talk to the Pastor about something that we don't normally get to talk about with Pastors: What life is like being bachelors!
I know, Josh and I should not be too worried yet about not finding the right girls yet. Honestly, if I did find the girl of my dreams right now, I probably wouldn't know what to do with her! But this Pastor is in his mid-thirty's and is still patiently waiting for God to send him a pastor's wife. While we were tearing down our equipment, we talked and made a lot of funny jokes and stories about people trying to set us up with dates and other silly foolishness.
Oh well, I guess we'll all just have to be patient and wait (though I am taking applications!). In other news, The following Monday (the 22nd) we left for a four day booking at Fort Faith Baptist Youth Camp. They were having a church rent the camp for that week, and they brought a bus full of kids from kindergarten through 5th grade. We were hired to go there to entertain the kids in their chapel services twice a day. We also told Bible stories in the morning services and the host Youth Pastor preached in the evening services. Because the services were between an hour to an hour and a half (and we had five services to fill) we pretty much exhausted ourselves and our material. We tried out a bunch of new clown bits that worked really well. Usually Josh dresses up as Bongo the clown and I play strait man, but that week we both dressed up as clowns multiple times, and appeared as many other crazy characters as well. I went through most of my good magic tricks, and we both did multiple puppet acts. We even helped the workers pull of an impromptu game with the kids by "kidnapping" one of their young lady workers (who was actually an old friend of ours), and hiding her for the kids to find and rescue! We had a lot of fun that week, and we saw at least three people get saved, including the Youth Pastor's youngest son.
We were in our home church, Dixie Baptist Church, for both services this past Sunday. This coming Sunday we will be in Stanton Michigan for an evening service. The following week, we will be traveling with our college quartet to our college president's church to help him promote Midwestern Baptist College and garner some new students. We will also be traveling with the quartet again on Aug. 23.
In the meantime, I will be in the studio killing myself to make my new recording. We pushed back our originally scheduled recording week to help me work on my songs, and I'll be heading back in tonight and for most of next week.
Until next time,
Stephen
On Sunday the 28th of June, we went to Deckerville, Mi for a Sunday morning service that went pretty well. The people were friendly and seemed to appreciate what we did. After the service we chatted with the people, sold some CDs, and even got to talk to the Pastor about something that we don't normally get to talk about with Pastors: What life is like being bachelors!
I know, Josh and I should not be too worried yet about not finding the right girls yet. Honestly, if I did find the girl of my dreams right now, I probably wouldn't know what to do with her! But this Pastor is in his mid-thirty's and is still patiently waiting for God to send him a pastor's wife. While we were tearing down our equipment, we talked and made a lot of funny jokes and stories about people trying to set us up with dates and other silly foolishness.
Oh well, I guess we'll all just have to be patient and wait (though I am taking applications!). In other news, The following Monday (the 22nd) we left for a four day booking at Fort Faith Baptist Youth Camp. They were having a church rent the camp for that week, and they brought a bus full of kids from kindergarten through 5th grade. We were hired to go there to entertain the kids in their chapel services twice a day. We also told Bible stories in the morning services and the host Youth Pastor preached in the evening services. Because the services were between an hour to an hour and a half (and we had five services to fill) we pretty much exhausted ourselves and our material. We tried out a bunch of new clown bits that worked really well. Usually Josh dresses up as Bongo the clown and I play strait man, but that week we both dressed up as clowns multiple times, and appeared as many other crazy characters as well. I went through most of my good magic tricks, and we both did multiple puppet acts. We even helped the workers pull of an impromptu game with the kids by "kidnapping" one of their young lady workers (who was actually an old friend of ours), and hiding her for the kids to find and rescue! We had a lot of fun that week, and we saw at least three people get saved, including the Youth Pastor's youngest son.
We were in our home church, Dixie Baptist Church, for both services this past Sunday. This coming Sunday we will be in Stanton Michigan for an evening service. The following week, we will be traveling with our college quartet to our college president's church to help him promote Midwestern Baptist College and garner some new students. We will also be traveling with the quartet again on Aug. 23.
In the meantime, I will be in the studio killing myself to make my new recording. We pushed back our originally scheduled recording week to help me work on my songs, and I'll be heading back in tonight and for most of next week.
Until next time,
Stephen
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