Thursday, August 26, 2010

Tornado Aftermath & Ministry News

We'll, as Josh wrote about in his last blog, we survived a tornado last week! We never actually saw a twister, but they were spotted near us and some of the damage to our surrounding trees point to that idea! We live back in the woods off of our road, and I can't remember a storm of any kind that has taken down so many trees! One pine tree was completely uprooted and fell across our driveway! Dad, Josh, and I all were outside after the storm broke, slicing through it with two chainsaws and hauling everything aside so we could go to work the next day. There was a lot of mess, and we were without power for almost two days, but God was still so good! We thank Him that there was only minimal damage to our garage, and nobody was injured!

In other news, Josh and I will be heading out this weekend for two very exciting concerts. We are returning to the gospel music barn where our concert video was filmed last year, and this time we will be doing a kid's show and a gospel music concert, both on Saturday night. The next night, we will be singing at a church that is practically next door to the Gospel Barn for an evening service. I actually sang there back in January along with my brother and sister-in-law, Mark & Andrea Forester. I filled in on three dates for Mark that weekend when he was very sick with almost no voice left, but he came along on Sunday night to sing a few songs with us, and we had a great time. Josh is really looking foreword to both evenings, since the crowds in both places are usually excellent laughing crowds, which is great for a comedian.

I'm also hard at work, looking up new places to send demos to for new bookings.......in Florida! We are tentatively planning to book a Florida tour from February 1st - April 3rd, and I'm getting a late start because we weren't sure that we could go, plus booking will become more difficult when college starts again in a couple of weeks. WEEEE!

Pray that God will bless this weekend
-Stephen

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