As most of you know I am a Christian music fan! I have been called a groupie by some.
I was so excited a few weeks ago when I noticed a contest on my Christian radio station KXOJ. The contest was you had to write about a Chris Tomlin Fan. I wrote about my Mom who loves Chris and his music.
Well we ended up winning 2 tickets to an exclusive concert with just 300 people there. It was amazing! The concert was one of the most worshipful times I have had at a concert. It was great. We got his new CD too. I recommend getting the new Hello Love Cd by Chris Tomlin it is great! My Mom had a wonderful time and she kept thanking me for winning the tickets for us.

The next night after Chris, my Husband Jim and I went to see Bethany Dillon, Shane and Shane and Natalie Grant. Theis concert was AMAZING!! We sat on the second row, and got a free tee(that was cool). Bethany was very good, and she sang my favorite song..Beautiful. She is so cute.
Next out was Shane and Shane. Ok I will admit I had heard a few of their songs before, like He is exalted . I had no idea what I was in for. They sang their first song and I looked at Jim and said WOW!! The Harmony between the Shanes is AWESOME! Every song they sang was so worshipful, and man they can sing!!! Needless to say I went to their merchandise table during intermission, and I bought some CDs. Their CD's are awesome too!
Next was Natalie Grant. She came out on the stage and started singing my song.. I will not be moved. It was awesome! She sang alot of other songs I love. She was great!
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Anyway moving on...Next month in October My mom and I and Jim are going to the Unity Concert with Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith. I cant wait! Its going to be Amazing with both of them together.
In November Jim and I are going to go to see Casting Crowns at Tulsa's New BOK center. I cant wait! Jim bought me front row tickets, for our anniversary. It will be soooo awesome! I LOVE CASTING CROWNS! I just found out Avalon is opening for them! They are cool too!
I got to go to several FREE concerts this summer. Mark Harris, Connersvine, The Afters, Chris Sligh and Meredith Andrews.
If you get a chance to see Meredith Andrews do so. She is awesome and she puts on a very worshipful concert. I saw her at the Riverwalk in Jenks, and there was the Arkansas river behind her. She sang The River (which is on my page) and it was so awesome thinking about the River of God watching an actual river go by.
Anyway... I will keep you posted on other concerts. Thanks for reading
God Bless


Update, The Unity tour was AMAZING!!! STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN- He was so good! I was blessed to get us 7th row tickets. Steven had such a heavy heart. Still mourning the loss of his daughter Maria. Its been a rough year on him and yet the Lord has given him the strength to keep singing. He sang Cinderella and I dont think there was a dry eye in the place.

MICHAEL W. SMITH - He was very good! He sang the songs he is most famous for, and the cool thing was that Steven and Him sang each others songs, and they were on stage alot together. Such a great concert. My Mom was so happy to go with us!

November 20th I got to go to the Creation Festival at the Spirit Bank Center. I worked with the Bible across America gang. It was one of the most awesome experiences of my life. Bible Across America celebrated 30 yrs of the NIV Bible by handwritting a bible to come out next year. People at different locations across America would get an opportunity to handwrite a verse for the bible. It was great! I worked for them and I got the job of writting out certificates for everyone who wrote.It had their name and the verse they wrote. So cool. People were lined up in the room where we were, and the line spread out the door. One testemony that one lady told me was that her daughter who had been diagnosed with cyrebral palsy was told she would never write. That little girl was there and she wrote her verse. It was amazing! God is so good! That little girls handwritting will be in that bible forever. So cool!

I was thrilled because the guys from Kutless came thru and I got to meet them and give them their certificates, along with Fireflight. I got to take some pictures with them. My husband Jim came and he was in line 2 hours before he got to write his verse. I got to write my verse right after his, so we will be together in the bible. We wrote a verse in Samuel. My verse was about little Samuel hearing the voice of the Lord thinking it was Eli. Eli said I did not call you go back and lie down. I love that!
I got my tickets to the concert and our tickets had meet and greet passes on them so I got to meet and take pictures with Thousand Foot Crutch, Pillar and Kutless. The concert was good!

November 30th, Jim took me to the BOK Center in Tulsa to see Casting Crowns. We got there really early and we brought food for the John 3:16 mission. We were going to go Christmas Caroling with Natalie Grant. We had to hurry and walk about 5 or 6 blocks, and it was freezing outside. I ended up with a asthma attack right in the middle of walking down there, and had to take off some of my layered clothing. We finally made it down there. I caught my breath and we sang Carols for all the homeless folks. Natalie was great! It was alot of fun! On the trek back to the BOK, I got to walk alittle slower so it was better.

We got back over there and went over by the outdoor ice skating rink. It was really cool! We got to listen to Andy Christman sing out there too. He used to sing with 4 him. He has a wondderful voice!
Inside we ran into a few of my friends from church Charlene, Nancy and Bill. We went down the stairs and went to the usher and they escorted us to our front row seats. I was so excited!! The concert started and we were right smack in front of the stage. Excellent seats..my honey did good!
The one thing about the concert that I loved was the fact that everyone mingled together. For example..Avalon Backed up Natalie Grant, Jana from Avalon sang with Micheal English, it was so cool!
Ok... I have seen Casting Crowns another time, and at that time, Megan was gone because she had a baby. This time Melodee was gone because she had a baby. We hope sometime we can see them all together, the whole group! We wont go unless we can sit in the front row now, we are spoiled. (Ha)

Anyway the concert rocked! Jim thought it was the best one we have been too. Let me tell you Casting Crowns has been the group to help turn Jim around. he used to listen to Metallica and other groups like that. I started liking Casting Crowns, and he listened to my CD one day, and I never saw my CD again. He loved it! He even put Praise you in the Storm on a fire video.
Last week he told me that some of his friends had gone to the Metallica concert, and I asked him why he didnt go. he said he only likes Christian Music now! I was thrilled! He has gone to alot of concerts with me, and if I have anything to say about it we will go to alot more this next year.

AVALON was great in the concert! First of all The all have fantastic voices and their harmony is tight! The new guy who took Jody's spot is doing awesome! Thety are coming to Owasso Dec 18th and 19th I plan to go see them again. I love them! Avalon is a wonderful group! I have seen them several times and come away blessed everytime

I had never seen MICHAEL ENGLISH before. He was very humble and sang Mary did you know...it was wonderful! The boy has some pipes!

PURE NRG did flips and danced, Haylee would have loved them!

DENVER and the MILE HIGH ORCHESTRA, They rock! They were so good! Denver is a young guy who sounds like Harry Conick Jr. He has that crooner voice. He was really good!

CASTING CROWNS was Awesome as usual!!! Mark and Megan and the boys did a great job! I loved I heard the bells on Christmas Day with the little Tulsa Boys Choir. So cool! I love While you were sleeping too. Megan did an awesome solo too! Ok....I am gonna admit it...I love everything Casting Crowns sings...There I said it! (Haha).

Andy the drummer of Casting Crowns came up with singing the Grinch Song. Andy sang the high part it was so funny. Andy can sing higher than me I think .
Even Juan sang a part of the song it was really good!

NATALIE GRANT ...WOW! I got goosebumps when she sang O Holy Night!! Jim and I thought it was awesome!!! She always does good! What a voice she has! Amazing!!

Tiffany Thurston- She is Natalie's back up singer. She is awesome! I met her at the concert back in October when they were with the Shanes and Bethany Dillon. I talked to her then and I told her she sang great! I told her I had sang on a praise team and I was alto and I thought her harmony rocked! She hugged me. Anyway she was at the Casting Crowns Concert and she did Melodee's part for them since Melodee is out with the baby. I thought she did a great job! We did miss Melodee really bad too!

Well I could say a bunch more, but I have got to go.

Till next time... Have a blessed Day