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. 

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!