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2008 Fanfair Awards
We have some wonderful news! Once again, we have
received nominations by fans and peers for the fan awards to be held at
the Southern Gospel Music Fanfair. This year we are very pleased
to have nominations in the following categories:
Favorite Mixed Quartet
Favorite Band
Favorite Musician (Matthew Epperson)
Favorite Album (Then and Now)
Favorite Baritone (Joshua Epperson)
Favorite Bass (Lynn Epperson)
Young Excelling Individual (Matthew Epperson)
As voted by the fans (you wonderful people) The
Singing Echoes once again were named the Favorite Mixed Quartet, and the
Favorite Band in Gospel music for the year. Lynn was also named
the favorite Bass Singer in gospel music. Although Matthew and
Josh did not win their nominations, they would like to respectively
thank each and every person that voted for them, and would like to
congratulate the winners in those categories. We would like to take this
opportunity to thank everyone that voted. More importantly, we
would like to thank God for the talent and abilities that we have been
blessed with. We can only hope that these blessings will further
the cause of Christ, and open new doors for our ministry.
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Attention!!! We have a very
urgent request that we would like to make everyone aware of.
The Singing Echoes have been very proud of the transportation that
God has provided our group with. Over the past nine years our bus
has served a great purpose. We have traveled over a million miles
in that bus! In December we had around $5,000 dollars in
repairs that we have had to do to keep the bus rolling down the road.
Our wonderful mechanics (Burl and Janet) came upon a once in a lifetime
opportunity that will be very beneficial to our ministry. They
were able to acquire a new engine and transmission with less than 10,000
miles from a bus that has been salvaged, so all the accessories
that we needed were included to convert over to the upgraded engine and
transmission. We want to let everyone know that this will be very
beneficial to our ministry and we count it a blessing from God.
Here's how you can help. We are setting up a way for you to donate
to the cause of Christ here at the Singing Echoes Website, to keep this
ministry on the road. You can also donate by phone, just by
calling 423-472-2421. With your help and prayers, we can be better
stewards of the funds that God blesses us with. "He that is
faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much" (Luke 16:10).
Rather than spending money on an out of date drive-train, we will be
putting money towards a more reliable motor and transmission that might
keep us from missing dates, or pulling in too late. We appreciate
our fans, and know without God leading them to support our ministry, we
could not continue to sing. Please prayerfully consider giving a
love gift towards the repairs made. Dr. Jacob Gardenhouse once
said "Sympathy without relief is like mustard without beef...very hard
to swallow!" Please put feet to your prayers and help us in this
urgent matter. (By the way...for you gear-heads out there...Burl
and Janet put a Cat in our Eagle...WOW!) And a special thanks to
Steve Williams for his wonderful hospitality. Steve donated his
garage and resources that made the job so much easier. The people
that helped will never know what you mean to The Singing Echoes!
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