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2024 Wrap Up! Moving forward through Trials and Triumphs!

Join me on a journey in pictures through the joys and trials of 2024, from Germany & Iceland adventures to Black Mountain recording sessions, vocal workshops, loss of friends, wonderful worship to blessed family times! What a year!

2024 was certainly full of ups and downs for me and mine. We lost some beloved friends like J. Brian Craig, wonderful worship leader, songwriter, artist, evangelist and father, and wrote the foreword to my book, Vocal Training for Praise Singers! He will be greatly missed!

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My mother in law, Gisela, aged 97, scared us when she fell and broke her hip! But praise God, she didn’t need surgery and has recovered well! My own father, Paul (91), has also had some health scares. It is hard to watch our parents age! 

We also watched hurricane Helene attack the Florida coast where Ralph’s sister, Renate lives! And also hurricane Milton ravage the Asheville, NC area where I have spent so much time myself recording my latest album this last year. But Praise God again, Renate made it through and though there was certainly devastation, none of my friends in the Asheville Church Network or the musicians on my album lost their lives! 

But oh the joys of 2024! What a Marvelously Musical Year!

At the end of the year, as you all know, I released my first ever Christmas single, “Our Sweetest Gift” this Thanksgiving (Which now has over 30k streams on Spotify!) 

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Our Sweetest Gift Cover Art by Hannah Kinscheck

And we got an incredible review from CCMMagazine.com! READ HERE

CCM Magazine Review Picture, published November 28th, 2024 “Our Sweetest Gift” was only one of 11 songs we have recorded in Black Mountain, NC (right next to Asheville!) over the last year with producer, Neal Merrick Blackwood!