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Buffalo Christian: Here at BuffaloChristian.com we get about 20 emails a day! One of them, from Jesse Holka, had this to say and we liked it so much we thought you should read it.
The next time you feel like GOD can't use YOU, just remember...
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> >>> * Noah was a drunk
> >>> * Abraham was too old
> >>> * Isaac was a daydreamer
> >>> * Jacob was a liar
> >>> * Leah was ugly
> >>> * Joseph was abused
> >>> * Moses had a stuttering problem
> >>> * Gideon was afraid
> >>> * Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer
> >>> * Rahab was a prostitute
> >>> * Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
> >>> * David had an affair and was a murderer
> >>> * Elijah was suicidal
> >>> * Isaiah preached naked
> >>> * Jonah ran from God
> >>> * Naomi was a widow
> >>> * Job went bankrupt
> >>> * John the Baptist ate bugs
> >>> * Peter denied Christ
> >>> * The Disciples fell asleep while praying
> >>> * Martha worried about everything
> >>> * The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
> >>> * Zaccheus was too small
> >>> * Paul was too religious
> >>> * Timothy had an ulcer...AND
> >>> * Lazarus was dead!
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> >>> No more excuses now!
> >>> God can use you to your full potential.
> >>> Besides you aren't the message,
> >>> you are just the messenger. God bless. |
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 CNY Crossroads is presenting Christian recording artist Jeremy Camp and special guest Adie in concert at 7pm on March 25th at the Landmark Theatre, 362 South Salina St., in Syracuse, NY. Order tickets ($15-$35) at itickets.com or ticketmaster.com. There is an additional $2 facility charge that the Landmark charges per ticket, so the price becomes $37, $22, or $17. There's a $2 discount for groups of 10 or more. For more info, contact 315-214-7333. |
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 Buffalo Christian: The Newman Center at the University at Buffalo has opened its new, modern building on Skinnersville Road at the university's "North Campus" in Amherst, New York; what makes this special? Well, there was a sign on the site since 1967 saying that the new building was coming! Now it's 2010 and Catholics at UB have a brand new worship space that seats almost 400 people.
The 14,000-square-foot building cost about $2.7 million to build and did not come from university funds, but, rather, charitable donations. Newman Centers are often found on or near college campuses around the country. Named after John Henry Cardinal Newman, a priest who promoted university education, Newman Centers provide a Catholic presence of many campuses, including the University at Buffalo, which has tens of thousands of Catholic students, faculty and staff among its population.
In the "old days," the Newman Center met at a small white chapel on Frontier Rd. or at the Student Union. In the past, the congregation also set up a large tent to hold Masses outdoors in the nicer weather months. The new building, which got its first real use on Christmas Eve 2009, serves hundreds of college students, as well as about 850 families who make the commute from nearby towns like Getzville and Williamsville.
I visited there and would describe the venue as being "like a smaller version of the Chapel at CrossPoint." It has a plain, auditorium feel to the main room, with a kitchen and side rooms for offices, meetings and kids' activities, along with very "now" color schemes on the walls. It's simple, fresh, and new. And unlike many other Catholic communities, it's filled with people. Because the priest, Monsignor Pat Keleher, is what my dad describes as "the smartest priest in the entire diocese," you have a church filled with very smart people-- professors, doctors, lawyers, and others who are well-known and respected in the community. Monsignor Pat is one of the liveliest priests you'll come across in the Buffalo area.
If you get a chance, visit some Sunday morning to check out the new church building and you'll find a Catholic congregation that's distinct and lively, though the music is not yet contemporary Christian/modern in nature. Smartly, the priest asks what prayer needs there are, and then people in the audience stand up and talk about who/what needs prayer, followed by prayer for those needs. Masses are held at 5pm on Saturdays and 9 (mostly older people), 10:30 and 6pm (mostly students) on Sundays. For more info, call the Center at 716-636-7495. Click here to read The Buffalo News article about The Newman Center at UB. --Mark Weber |
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 Buffalo Christian/Christian Music Daily: Kingdom Bound Ministries of Western New York, in conjunction with The Christian Festival Association (CFA), a coalition of over two dozen Christian music festivals across the country, recently announced plans for its 2010 National Talent Search.
Kingdom Bound Christian music festival takes place August 1-4, 2010, at Darien Lake Theme Park, between Buffalo and Rochester.
Now through May 17, unsigned American and Canadian Christian, Gospel and Holy Hip Hop artists can enter one original song into Kingdom Bound's Talent Search online through sonicbids.com.
New this year is the chance for up to 30 artists selected through online voting to participate in a live competition at Kingdom Bound's Park Stage this August. The overall winner of Kingdom Bound's Talent Search will then advance to the national competition, with the potential to win a development deal with Word Label Group.
"What makes this year's talent search the best yet is you or your band stand a good chance of getting to actually perform at Kingdom Bound, live, during the festival," says Mark Weber, of ChristianMusicDaily.com. "In the past, people would enter online, and, for example, one out of sixty artists would get that chance. Now, up to thirty artists will be able to say, 'I played Kingdom Bound,' and that's great exposure for aspiring artists."
Regional competitions will take place at 19 CFA-affiliated festivals this summer, including Western New York's Kingdom Bound, and a regional winner will be determined at each festival. Those winners will be invited to Nashville in September to participate in the national finals. The overall winner will receive a development deal with the Word Label Group family of labels, which includes Fervent Records, Myrrh Records and Word Records.
For more information concerning the National Talent Search, including registration information and deadlines, please visit http://www.kingdombound.org/talent_competition.php |
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Buffalo Christian: In the Buffalo area, recently, both the Buffalo News and radio station WBEN have been quite active in sharing the news of an infamous letter by a Catholic priest in Lockport, New York, who had some choice words to say about the imminent arrival of The Chapel at Lockport in his city. To sum it up, the priest essentially warned his flock-- in a letter in the church bulletin-- that an evangelical church was starting up nearby with "fancy projectors, slick marketing, and a live praise band." He then went on to say "their message is not the truth." He then says, "What are we going to do? WE ARE GOING TO BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN EVER!" You can read the full letter here.
Now this letter got quite a response, as you can imagine. Sandy Beach, the popular afternoon talk show host on WBEN-930 AM, spent two days in a row taking calls on the subject, and he had a hard time finding a single person who could defend the priest's words. Overall, The Chapel at Lockport got a lot of attention, based on the Lockport priest's kind of childish tirade against it.
The Chapel at Lockport is to be an offshoot of The Chapel at CrossPoint. Now, I, like most Western New Yorkers, was raised Catholic. St. Mary's, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Pius were the three main churches I went to as a kid. I made my Confirmation. And I noticed that almost every single kid I made my Confirmation with immediately stopped going to church after it! I did not. However, in college, I saw a poster on the wall advertising "InterVarsity Christian Fellowship." I had never heard of the term "fellowship" used in a Christian context, before, but I went to that group on the campus of the University at Buffalo, and long story short, joining that group is the reason I own and run BuffaloChristian.com and more often than not attend Protestant services nowadays. I still attend Catholic Mass a few times a year, but for the most part, I go to the areas two huge megachurches, The Chapel at CrossPoint and Eastern Hills Wesleyan.
The Chapel at CrossPoint is in an office park in Getzville. It's a huge building, and it's pretty much brand new. Go there on a Sunday morning and you'll feel like you're in the busiest train station you've ever been in when people are gathered in the atrium before and after the actual service. I don't have kids, but if I did, The Chapel at CrossPoint is like "the promised land" for them-- it's clean, spacious, colorful, and full of kids, with lots of eager and engaging adults ready to teach the little ones Bible stories and more. If you've seen the cramped basement rooms at some churches devoted to "children's ministry," and then came to see The Chapel's, it would be like night and day, and at the Chapel the "WOW" factor is there. They even have a cutting edge theater space where they can put on plays/dramas for the kids, involving the kids! If I was say 10-years-old, I'd be begging my parents to go to this church!
Now for adults, The Chapel is special, I think, primarily because of Pastor Jerry Gillis. Here is a young, hip guy who speaks "our" language. When he "preaches," he combines Biblical stories and themes and scriptures with practical application that's relevant to our everyday, busy lives. He dresses well, he speaks well, and he has an awfully engaging sense of humor-- he's the kind of guy my friends, male and female, are always talking about! "Pastor Jerry said..." is usually what I hear at social gatherings. Now having gone to many Catholic Masses in my time, after leaving the four walls of the Catholic church, I never heard friends quote the priest or even talk about the "homily" afterward. So, there's something about Pastor Jerry and what/how he preaches Sunday mornings that is totally resonating with people, of all ages and backgrounds.
Interestingly, through modern technology, the plan is to "beam" Pastor Jerry's "message" (what Catholics would call the homily) onto the screen at The Chapel at Lockport, so the hundreds gathered inside the Palace Theatre in downtown Lockport on Sunday mornings can hear the exact same message the other couple thousand are hearing at The Chapel at CrossPoint in Getzville, a few miles away.
I suppose the Catholic priest, and indeed most people, would think that's kind of a weird way to "do church." After all, it's not something most Western New Yorkers have ever experienced. But, in other cities, it's common! Buffalo and Western New York have been "behind the times" church-wise for decades!
When I went to Regent University in Virginia Beach, and visited many churches while there, two in particular stood out-- one met in a Regal Cinema and the other in a public high school. To me this was such a novel concept, yet my classmates from around the country didn't seem phased because in other places it's common for churches to meet in unconventional spaces like that.
Buffalo, if it were a person, would be an old lady set in her ways. Meanwhile, Atlanta and Dallas would be young girls with a zest for life and trying new things.
My thought is that the Catholic priest in Lockport, while he may have infuriated a lot of people with his comments, was actually voicing an opinion, emotionally-based, that a lot of people secretly hold around here. It's no surprise that the area is still pretty Catholic, and kind of proud of it, and when the kind of proud Catholics who are older and set in their ways see young upstarts like The Chapel at Lockport "wooing" the young away, like a bear with a cub, he/she gets defensive.
Area Catholics don't want to die out. Who does? Yet, if we're being honest here, the future of the Catholic church in Western New York is not looking that good, judging by how many people under 35 I know who gave up on it. You go to The Chapel at CrossPoint some Sunday morning and see for yourself how many people under 35 are there, and then you go to your own Catholic church and compare the numbers. If you're someone who wants to follow Christ in this cell phone, Facebook age, and you're under 35, chances are you know about, have been to, and/or attend The Chapel at CrossPoint. They're doing something right there, and if they replicate that in Lockport, perhaps many young people will flock to it-- time will tell. --Mark Weber
If you want to read what others are saying about this whole "controversy" of "the priest versus the megachurch," click here for the Buffalo News article and here for the WBEN article. |
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 Christian Music Daily: The 24th annual Kingdom Bound Christian music festival will again take place at Darien Lake Theme Park between Buffalo and Rochester, New York, August 1-4, 2010, welcoming 50,000+ from all over the US and Canada. Headliners include Newsboys (Sunday); MercyMe (Monday); Skillet (Tuesday); and TobyMac (Wednesday). The festival brings together all sorts of people from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New England, New York, and other states, as well as Ontario and Quebec. Though it's a huge event, chances are you'll know someone there, as it's like a summer reunion for many, some of whom have been coming back year after year for the past two decades. Because the festival has been around so long, there are people who were kids back in the 1980s who are now bringing their own kids to the festival in 2010. Indeed, many families make Kingdom Bound “the big event” of their summer. |
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Buffalo Christian: The second annual Mosaic Chapel Singles Intermediate Co-Ed Volleyball Tournament Fundraiser will take place Saturday, May 15, 2010! Organized by Bill Goodine, of Goodine Carpet Cleaning, the event brings together about 10 teams--more than 65 people-- competing all day in 12 minute games on two courts at Christian Central Academy in Williamsville, New York. Teams are co-ed, with 6 players on the court and a minimum of 2 women required on each team. The skill level is intermediate-- you're expected to bump, set and pass (not picnic volleyball); qualified refs will officiate the games. Registration is $150 for a team of six players, $25 for each add'l player, and there's a non-refundable deposit of $25 to register your team. Pre-registration IS required to hold your spot, and checks need to be made payable to: "The Chapel at CrossPoint." To register, email
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 Buffalo Christian: Nathan Salter's Youth Music Camp will take place this June 28th - July 2nd on the sprawling, rural campus of Christ The King Seminary in East Aurora, New York (outside of Buffalo)...and this long-running camp is a time when many young people experience “freedom in worship” for the first time. With about forty campers ranging in age from 7 to 25, this will be the eighth year of Salter's legendary Spirit-filled camp.
During the year, Salter runs a thriving Christian music school on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, and each summer he likes to gather together talented singers and musicians in a camp setting for a time of intense practice, instruction, encouragement, and performance. |
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 BuffaloChristian.com presents
9 questions with...
Kyle Patterson
1) Why did you start THRiVE magazine in Buffalo? To serve the community of Buffalo with a positive source of media. I felt that Buffalo had gotten a bad reputation and we wanted to focus on what was positive and build on that momentum.
2) What has been your biggest challenge with doing a magazine? Deadlines are tough to hit while juggling ad sales, articles, artwork and photography and the editing process makes it a little hectic as we are getting ready to go to print.
3) What has been your biggest accomplishment with THRiVE so far? I would say expanding our distribution to retail sales at Wegmans and Barnes & Noble has helped because we are targeting a more mainstream market with our publication and this is a great step toward that end. |
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 Christian Music Daily: James Kibby had the look of a total rock star at his band’s CD release. Long hair, partly covering his eyes? Check. Black shirt? Uh-huh. Guitar? Yep. Everything was in place for a rock show.
While they do rock, James and his band, Immanuel, are quite specific, lyrically, about Jesus’ love and other Biblical ideas that help communicate what their band’s name means: God with us. Immanuel is essentially a church worship band from a formerly Episcopalian/now Anglican church which meets in a former Jewish temple in suburban Buffalo, New York. The group is overseen by Deacon John Reitz, and is more in it for ministry than money or fame. If you’ve heard Casting Crowns, and chances are you have, then think of Crowns as major league (millions in sales, headlining major festivals) and Immanuel as their younger, scrappier farm team.
Diversity is the name of the game when it comes to where Immanuel is coming from, both spiritually and musically. In concert, they’re open to the idea of covering a Radiohead or U2 song and adjusting the lyrics to their liking in order to connect with listeners the idea that Jesus loves them and wants to have a relationship with them. If you’re familiar with Chris Rice and Newsboys, Immanuel is kind of like those Christian mainstays, but also for fans of 1990s rock legends Nirvana and Pearl Jam. |
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 Primo PR 716: BuffaloChristian.com's Mark Weber has written a song called "Haiti, We Hear Your Cry." A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the song, available via download at meetmarkweber.com, will go toward rebuilding the "H.I.S. Home For Children" orphanage in Port-au-Prince, after the devastating earthquake left much of the island nation in rubble recently. For more info about the orphanage, visit hishomeforchildren.com.
"I have friends in Kingston, Jamaica," says Weber. "I saw both the tropical beauty and utter poverty there when I visited this past April, so I have some sort of idea what Haiti looks and feels like having visited its neighbor. When I saw the 'Hope for Haiti' TV special, I was inspired by fellow recording artists Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, and Beyonce to write and record my own song to touch the hearts of people affected by this tragedy. I'm so glad Radio Balade FM is playing my song in Haiti so the people can hear it and know they're not forgotten. And the lyric proclaims, 'Haiti must be strong.' I expect the song will rally the people to be strong and press on during this tough time."
Weber, who has been the publicist for Kingdom Bound Christian music festival for several years, recently decided to record three albums with producer Joe Secchiaroli (This Day & Age, More Than Me, The Reign of Kindo). "Haiti, We Hear Your Cry" was written on January 24th, and recorded on January 25th in Secchiaroli's Buffalo-area studio. It features Weber on piano and Secchiaroli on guitar, with a unique tropical/Indian drum beat.
"I heard there are almost 400,000 orphans in Haiti," says Weber. "And I can't even imagine what it would be like if one day all the buildings collapsed around me, killing my friends and family. 'Haiti, We Hear Your Cry' is a song that came to me quickly, and is meant to let the Haitian people and their relatives abroad know that the rest of the world cares about them and our prayers are with them now, as well as in the months and years to come."
To see the "Haiti, We Hear Your Cry" YouTube video, which had several hundred views within its first 24 hours on the web, and/or download the song, please visit www.meetmarkweber.com. |
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 Did you get your tickets yet?
Christian Music Daily: The Christian Musician Summit, a two day international conference offering over 120 workshops for Christian musicians, audio-visual technicians, and church staffers, will return to the Buffalo area on May 14th and 15th, 2010, at The Chapel at CrossPoint. Register now to spend time with Phil Keaggy, Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown, Rick Cua, Will McFarlane, Rita Springer, NewWorldSon, and many others. |
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Christian Music Daily: Brandon Gollwitzer plays guitar for Lift, a modern rock band that makes music to worship the Lord. And for Brandon, it's a miracle he's able to play the guitar, because he sawed off his finger while doing a home remodeling project two years ago.
After being rushed to the hospital, it took a team of 12 people in the emergency room to do a three hour surgery to reattach Brandon's index finger. Would it function like it used to, or would he not be able to bend it? Would he be able to play guitar? |
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 Christian Music Daily: Dusty Knapp has just released his first CD, titled "Reflections of Worship." Featuring the piano, his album is a beautifully arranged and performed mix of solo instrumental hymn/praise and worship favorites with a couple originals that will draw you closer to God, soothe your soul, and relax your mind.
"This CD project came from a family emergency," says Dusty. "My mom had asked for a copy of my playing to get to my dad; he had just gone in the hospital for a possible heart attack, and she wanted to give him something from me that would help him to relax." |
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 Buffalo Christian: Nathan Salter, a Gospel recording artist, has expanded his repertoire from music to inspirational speaking with the release of his 14-CD teaching series entitled "Maximizing The Season Of Singleness." With a Christian worldview, Salter, who is single, talks to and with other young single people in the series designed to offer singles a Biblical perspective on singleness. Topics covered include learning to be content as a single person, dating versus courtship, and "cleaning the dirty windows."
"Maximizing The Season Of Singleness" is available for purchase at www.nathansalter.org, where a free audio clip preview is also available. |
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BuffaloChristian.com's Mark Weber is connected with a lot of people and organizations; here are some of them.
RADIO? www.wdcxfm.com, www.wufoam.com, www.totallygospel.com, www.joy1250.ca, www.wctl.org, www.fln.org, www.gracefm.ca, www.lifeonline.fm
MAGAZINES/PAPERS? www.maranathanews.com, www.thrivebuffalo.org, www.beaconmagazine.ca, www.christianherald.ca
Here are some churches Buffalo Christian recommends:
Love Joy Gospel Church
5423 Genesee St.
Lancaster, NY 14086
comments: Spirit-filled, the kind of place you go for healing, intense prayer, prophetic worship
Elim Christian Fellowship
70 Chalmers Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14214
comments: multi-cultural, black Gospel, stylish-dressing church
Blessed Sacrament
263 Claremont
Buffalo, NY 14223
comments: on the edge of the city Catholic church with a priest who sings (and records CDs)
CenterPointe Community Church
Elks Lodge
Lancaster, NY 14086
comments: full of creative, artistic young teens and twentysomethings
Randall Baptist Church
Main St.
Williamsville, NY 14221
comments: still appeals to older, traditional folks, but also open to younger, contemporary-focused people and their ways
First Trinity Lutheran
Niagara Falls Blvd.
Tonawanda, NY 14150
comments: working on staying relevant in this day and age, offering unique speakers, artists and singers to encourage visitors
Sword of the Spirit Ministries
300 Kensington Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14214
comments: the kind of place to go for Spirit-filled prayer and healing in the city of Buffalo
City Church
210 E. Main St.
Batavia, NY 14020
comments: Batavia went from being a wasteland to becoming a nice place to be nowadays, and this church is perhaps one of the reasons why
Wesleyan Church of Hamburg
4999 McKinley Pkwy.
Hamburg, NY 14075
comments: Hey, if it's good enough for Jim Kelly's wife, Jill, this suburban mega-church is good enough for you
Eastern Hills Wesleyan
Greiner Rd.
Clarence, NY 14221
comments: the place to see and be seen in the Northern suburbs of Buffalo, this megachurch is welcoming, friendly, active, and modern yet a bit traditional; all the former Catholics in the area go here now
St. Joseph's R.C. Church
Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14214
comments: lively, artistic, city church with a white choir that does black Gospel music at the Sunday 11:30am Mass
Pendleton United Methodist Church
6864 Campbell Blvd.
N.Tonawanda, NY 14120
comments: like First Trinity, this is one of those old school, mainline Protestant churches making the positive transition to modern society and its needs; has an indoor prayer labyrinth which may or may not be a good thing
Akron Free Methodist Church
6 Scotland Rd.
Akron, NY 14001
comments: for a rural church in the middle of nowhere, this modern church is impressive with all it offers as well as its Biblical heart and welcoming attitude
Elim Gospel Church
1679 Dalton Rd.
Lima, NY 14485
comments: another rural church, yet it draws people from near and far with dynamic preaching and music
End Time Deliverance Miracle Ministry
144 Edinburgh St.
Rochester, NY 14608
comments: black Gospel church with friendly people and leaders
The Meeting House
2700 Bristol Circle
Oakville, ON
comments: this ultra-modern warehouse-turned-church thinks outside the box to welcome people who don't normally like church |
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 Christian Music Daily: The band Relevant Worship is a mainstay at Kingdom Bound each summer. Along with the CD release for Stephen Kulu's holy hip hop outfit, known as Christ Records, Relevant recorded their first ever live DVD on Sept. 25, 2009 in downtown Buffalo at the Town Ballroom. Here's BuffaloChristian.com's Mark Weber's interview with Matt Poulsen, one of Relevant's guitar players:
Q) Why did you choose the name Relevant Worship?
A) Relevant was the name of the college ministry group where all the guys in the band used to hang out and also lead worship. We also felt that it fit with the idea of our worship also being art of our life style hence the name “Relevant Worship” as in worship that also is active and Relevant in our everyday lives.
Q) Describe your music in two sentences.
A) I would describe our music as a big indie rock sound with folk and alt country flavor; we are influenced by bands such as Pedro the Lion, Leeland, U2, Ryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Sunny Day Realestate and Counting Crows. |
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Buffalo Christian: Want to help out with a community-enriching event? "Takin' It To The Streets" community rally on Buffalo's East Side is free and open to the public. The annual event offers free food and clothing giveaways August 14th and 15th, 2010, in Buffalo's Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. |
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 BuffaloChristian.com presents 5 questions with...
Benji Cowart
1. What is it that you do? I am a worship leader and essentially I have the responsibility of figuring out what songs and what song order will take someone who walks through the doors of our church (The Chapel at CrossPoint in Getzville) on a journey that goes from where they are (maybe they just had a fight with their spouse on the way to church or just lost their job and are really angry with God, etc.) to encounter God's presence through worship and being ready to respond in obedience to His word and voice as it is presented through the message.
2. How would you describe the spiritual climate around here? Having lived all over the country (Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Las Vegas, Georgia, and now New York), I would say that this is by far the most thriving spiritual climate that I have experienced so far. It's amazing to see changed lives over and over again in response to hearing and receiving the good news of man's opportunity for reconciliation to God through Jesus. It is also amazing to see churches of different denominations working together to make sure that every man, woman, and child has repeated opportunities to hear and see the gospel.
3. What's the best advice you've ever been given, spiritually? I don't know if I can figure out what would be the "best" advice, but I can give you a couple of bits of wisdom that have been passed on to me. One is that we have to be willing to bring everything into the light. the greatest power that sin has over us is in the secret. We were never meant to overcome sin by ourselves; we are called to struggle honestly before other believers...our battle with sin is one that is only won in numbers...another bit of advice, in your "quiet time" make sure that your goal is always to meet with God. Transformation comes from meeting with God whether that comes through His Word, through worship, or through just sitting and knowing that He is there with you. |
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 BuffaloChristian.com presents
5 questions with...
Renee Brown
1. What is it that you do? I am the overseer for the Spiritual Equipping Ministry of Western New York. I equip Christians in developing their spiritual gifts according to 1 Cor. 12 and train in prophetic evangelism via the teachings of Jon Paul Jackson and Streams Ministries International. I am a certified teacher with Streams Ministries.
2. How would you describe the spiritual climate around here? It's beginning to catch on to the wave of God's glory in preparation for the last days. The people of God in this region truly need to learn to hear God and try to understand the language of the spirit to be prepared to be released by God for strategic spiritual warfare. These basics can be learned in The Art of Hearing God that Streams offers in Buffalo on occasion-- go to streamsministries.com for info.
3. What's the best advice you've ever been given, spiritually? Keep the main thing the main thing. |
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 Primo PR 716: If you need help choosing, setting up, stocking, moving or cleaning an aquarium in the Buffalo-Niagara region, fish expert Jon Krupski is your man! Krupski, the owner of Aquarium Essentials, serves about 25 clients in Erie and Niagara Counties, at diverse places including hospitals, churches, and offices. |
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 BuffaloChristian.com presents 5 questions with...
TeQoa Robinson-Cornelius
1. What is it that you do? Promote Christ without compromise.
2. How would you describe the spiritual climate around here? Stale, but ready to be remade by God.
3. What's the best advice you've ever been given, spiritually? Everyone's emergency is not your emergency. |
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Buffalo Christian: Imagine if Stevie Nicks was singing about Jesus. That's what local teacher-by-day Lynne Jacob of Pendleton, New York, sounds like when she assumes the role of lead vocalist for the band Wing And A Prayer, a musically-tight group playing Christian music in Western New York.
Seeing Wing And A Prayer perform live makes for a refreshing, entertaining evening out. I recently enjoyed their diverse original music with a couple covers at a coffeehouse at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in North Tonawanda. The place was packed-- standing room only-- and with good reason. Wing And A Prayer has been playing together since the mid-1990s, and over time they've not only built up quite a following, but also musically matured along the way. |
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 Primo PR 716: If you have an event coming up that needs live music, consider the pop-jazz trio, Uptown. Playing love songs and more from the 1920s - 1960s, Uptown provides either great background music or an entertaining, interactive show depending on what's needed. Some of the songs Uptown does include: "Fly Me To The Moon," "Dream A Little Dream Of Me," "When I Fall In Love," "What A Wonderful World," "Bye Bye Blackbird," and "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue." If you'd like more information about booking the band for an event in Erie or Niagara Counties, email
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Primo PR 716: VIVE is an interfaith organization which serves refugees, defined under the Geneva Convention of 1948, as “people who have a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or social group.” VIVE assists world refugees seeking asylum both in the U.S. and in Canada. |
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Buffalo Christian: Amy Betros has been called the Mother Teresa of Buffalo. She is one of the co-founders of St. Luke's Mission of Mercy, serving the destitute, battered and broken, poorest of the poor people on Buffalo's East Side since 1994. |
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Christian Music Daily: Ablaze Radio is doing something unique: broadcasting a live show each week of rhythmic Christian/Gospel music on a secular college radio station heard throughout the city of Buffalo AND on an online 'round the world. DJ Fluent and J. Clarke co-host Ablaze, where "it all starts with a spark," and they bring their Queens/Long Island/New York City flava to your ear with music and interviews to lift people up and edify their spirits. |
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