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Featured picture (above): The Johnsons, a household singing group, carry out on the Christian Acappella Music Awards.
FLORIDA
JACKSONVILLE — A cappella fanatics lately gathered at a Jacksonville lodge to honor those that create and produce this style of music.
John Edmerson
Established in 1992, the Christian Acappella Music Awards — often called CAMA — is the longest- working occasion of its variety, stated John Edmerson, the occasion’s government producer.
“The visionary behind this inspiring occasion is elder Aldanzo Pratt of the Hallandale (Seaside) Church of Christ in Florida,” stated Edmerson, affiliate minister for the Figueroa Church of Christ in Los Angeles. “Elder Pratt’s love for a cappella music started in 1979 when he obeyed the Gospel.”
Pratt later managed The 4 Christian Stars, younger males who traveled nationwide and recorded an album with the late a cappella artist Johnnie Wilder Jr.
At CAMA, artists are acknowledged with honors corresponding to Music of the 12 months and Music Video of the 12 months. The newest celebration featured performances by Straight Firm, Terri Mays, The Lancasters and different artists.
To accomplice with CAMA, e mail [email protected].
For extra info, see NACAMA.com.
TEXAS
HOUSTON — A kids’s Bible class on the Church of Christ in Champions lately raised practically $2,000 for Haitian kids.
College students recurrently carry their change to class to sponsor a Haitian little one often called Child Love by means of Hope for Haiti’s Youngsters, elder Alan Reed stated. With $36 a month, they assist present meals, training, clothes and well being take care of the woman.
Cece Johnson speaks at a fundraiser that she organized for Hope for Haiti’s Youngsters.
However one 8-year-old church member wished to go additional.
“My mother and I had been speaking on an extended automotive journey in the future,” Cece Johnson stated. “I had a thought of caring for others and the way I might do one thing.”
With the assistance of her mother, Cece Johnson arrange a fundraiser for Child Love, organizing a meal, making a program and designing invites.
On the fundraiser, girls and boys from the category competed to boost essentially the most cash, promoting student-made artwork initiatives. The women received.
For Johnson’s efforts, Hope for Haiti’s Youngsters introduced her with a backpack and hoodie on the finish of the occasion.
The $1,900 Champions kids raised will present further assist for Child Love and different Haitian kids in want.
NEWSMAKERS
BAPTIZED — ASHLEY BEVINS and ABBIE BROWN of the Paintsville Church of Christ in Kentucky. MICKAYLA LANDON and EVAN, CARSON and GABBI LEWIS of the North Terrace Church of Christ in Zanesville, Ohio. EMMA GROGAN of the Glendale Street Church of Christ in Murray, Ky. JORGE HINOJOSA, LIZBETH LUNA and JAVIER REYNA of the Bridge Avenue Church of Christ in Weslaco, Texas. SEAN JONES of the Baisley Church of Christ in New York. TAELER RIDDLE of the Prattville Church of Christ in Alabama. ALLYSE RINAE of the Dalraida Church of Christ in Alabama.
Allyse Rinae rejoices with school minister Nate Kidwell after Rinae’s baptism in Dalraida, Ala.
HONORED — ANGIE NORDIKE as P.B. Smith Elementary College in Warrenton, Va.’s Trainer of the 12 months nominee. The fourth grade trainer “units excessive expectations for her college students, whereas encouraging and motivating all of them to satisfy these expectations,” directors stated. She worships with the Manassas Church of Christ in Virginia. TANA PALAFOX, Spanish trainer at ATEMS (Academy of Know-how, Engineering, Arithmetic, and Science) in Abilene, Texas, as LIFT (Management and Innovation for Future Applied sciences) and ATEMS Trainer of the 12 months. She worships with the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene.
From left, Angie Nordike, Tana Palafox, Dayne Brown and Melvin Jones.
NAMED — DAYNE BROWN as head soccer coach at Faulkner College in Montgomery, Ala. He has served in roles at NCAA Division 1 faculties together with Northwestern, Southern Miss, Kent State, Kansas and Troy. ERIN ENGELKE as one of many 50 Ladies Making a Distinction within the state of Oklahoma by The Journal Document. She is a member of the Memorial Street Church of Christ in Oklahoma Metropolis and a former trustee of The Christian Chronicle. MELVIN JONES as pulpit minister for the Oxon Hill Church of Christ in Temple Hills, Md. JOVAN SAVIĆ to Sloga Kraljevo, a staff within the Basketball League of Serbia and Adriatic League. He’s a graduate of Oklahoma Christian College.
