2010 has been a great year, and I'm eagerly looking foreword to the meetings that remain in Dec, but I'm already looking ahead to 2011. I've always kind of been a go-getter, and I have some big ideas that, if the Lord will allow them to come to pass, will bring great new things to our ministry, see more people saved and saints encouraged, and so much more! I've already begun to make these following items a matter of prayer.
In 2011, we want to:
1.Double our number of ministry dates.
We've booked about 63 concerts this year, but next year, I would like to push for over 120! This will be much easier for me in 2011, since I'll be done with college this fall and have no classes next year!
2.Host our first annual Homecoming concert.
Although we've been traveling since June 29, 2008, we have not yet hosted a big homecoming concert. I'm already planning it!
3.Release Josh's new comedy CD.
Josh has not released a new CD since his original in 2008. We had trouble finding a good way to record him live in front of an audience again. Now that I have found a way, we are currently recording him little by little in our concerts to piece together a great new CD!
4.Record my new solo CD.
I did not record a new solo album in 2010 because we had already released the DVD and instrumental CD so close together. I'm already pulling songs together and setting up studio time for this.
5.Get onto Christian radio.
Christian radio stations in various parts of the state are already playing our music, but I will be aggressively pursuing radio in a campaign to let more people know that we are on the planet!
6.Record a live CD in concert. One of our all-time favorite churches to sing for has already booked us back next year, and agreed to let us record our first live CD featuring singing, instrumentals, comedy, puppets, and more!
7.Help to build the MGMA. We recently joined the Michigan Gospel Music Association. This organization has been around since 1975. It promotes gospel music by bringing together gospel singers for fellowship, conferring for new ideas, and puts on a few concerts to promote gospel music in Michigan. We would like to help them recruit new members, book concerts, and lend our various talents and skills to them. This will help bring the MGMA to new heights, promote gospel music in Michigan, and help to build and encourage our ministry and the others represented by the MGMA.
8.Become promoters in gospel music.
I especially want to be more than a singer and musician. I want to do more to keep gospel music strong. It is a music that does much good in the lives of many people. One way that I wish to help it is through the MGMA, as mentioned above. The other way is that I want to put together concerts of my own next year, not just plead to pastors and booking people for concerts. I hope that next year I will be able to set up some concerts, promote them myself (with some help from others involved), and be responsible for how it comes together. This is perhaps the riskiest goal I have, but if it is done properly, it could be one of the most rewarding!
Finally, as a goal that I'm considering for either 2011 or 2012,
9.Begin building my recording studio. My older Mark Forester (Mark & Andrea Forester Ministries) has been running his own recording studio since around 1999, and has used it to do many great things for his ministry, ours, and in so many others. I wish to follow in his footsteps. It will cost a great deal of money, and I will be piecing it together over time. I don't know yet if I will start assembling it in 2011, or wait until 2012, but it is coming!
I hope that you who read this will join me in prayer for the Lord's direction in our lives and ministry in 2011.
-Stephen
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