Greg Bares - Bass, Ron Higgins - Tenor, Dodd Meadows - Baritone, Steve Sam - Lead

Praise Incorporated’s Tenor, Ron Higgins and his bride to be Sharon Bradfield will be married on March 13th 2010. It is a joy to see the love God has given these two to share for the rest of their lives. Congratulations to Ron and Sharon as they begin the rest of their lives together.

Lambakiah is our new Puppet Ministry character for our childrens ministry. Children and adults alike enjoy the antics of  Lambakiah. Ron, Steve and Lambakiah present stories from the bible to children in a way that will make everyone laugh and there is always a “moral to the story” to send children home with. Lambakiah is often a part of our Sunday morning services and our evening services if time allows and children are present. Stay tuned in for some audio and video clips of our “Lambakiah”.

What a joy to minister with Brian Free and Assurance, Wendy Word + Forgiven, Shannon Bunch and Mark Sargent as we celebrated our 5th Anniversary in full time ministry. Thank you to all who came out for this wonderful event. What a great turnout we had. We look forward to seeiing youall again next year for more celebration as we continue spreading God’s word where ever He opens the door. We love you all.

Our new project “It’s All About Him” recorded at the Mansion Recording Studio in Branson, Missouri, is one with a touch of bluegrass flavor. Southern Gospel music that will bring you to your knees in worship and stand proud as you honor God the one who deserves all praise and honor. We think it is “Mighty Tasty”.

We were blessed to be with LuLu Roman in concert at Garland Texas last week. What a testimony she has. We hope to see her again soon. We love you LuLu.

Praise Incorporated with LuLu Roman

The South Texas Gospel Music Association hosted their 10th annual convention April 24th and 25th in San Antonio, Texas. Praise Incorporated is proud to be a member of this association, who’s sole purpose is to bring honor and glory to Jesus Christ.

Praise Incorporated is humbled and honored to have been awarded the STGMA’s Group of the Year award for 2009.

We want to thank all the members of STGMA for their confidence, fellowship and support of Southern Gospel Ministries through this association. You are an encouragement to us and we applaud your dedication.

I wanted to share with you an intense experience that we had at a recent concert. We had finished with the equipment and product table setup and Steve and I were at the back of the sanctuary. Steve was visiting with the Pastor and I was waiting to offer comment/prayer request cards to those entering for the service.

There was a hall at the back of the sanctuary, on the right side that led to the fellowship and classroom area. A young man showed up in that doorway. He stood there for a moment surveying the room. He had an angry look on his face and his eyes looked wild. There was an instant feeling of spiritual darkness and a sense of urgency in the room. He looked at me and I smiled and nodded to him, saying “Hello.” He looked at the Pastor and said “Are you the Preacher?” The Pastor said “Yes.” The young man said “We need to talk. You got an office?” The Pastor said “Yes I do,” and walked toward him and went with him down the hall.

After about 10 minutes, the young man came into the sanctuary and sat in the rear pew as close to that doorway as possible. He picked up a Bible and began to page through it. I walked over to him and greeted and welcomed him. I offered him a comment card just as I was doing for other people coming to attend the service. He did not smile; he simply nodded to me, took the card and looked back down at the Bible.

He got up after about 5 minutes and came toward the front door, at the rear of the santuary, where I was standing to give cards to those who entered. I asked him if he was leaving, he said “I will be back” and walked out the door. I watched him light a cigarette and go around the side of the church.

The Pastor came back to the sanctuary from the back hall and he was urgently looking around the sanctuary. I assumed that he was looking for the young man and I said “he went outside to smoke and he said he was coming back.” The Pastor said “Good, I hope he does.”

The young man came back in from the side door and entered from the hall and took his seat at the rear of the church again. The service began a few minutes later.

After 2 or 3 songs had been sung the young man got up from his seat and walked up to the front of the church and sat in the very front pew where the Pastor was sitting. He remained there for the duration of the concert and during the time of our alter call, he got on his knees and prayed for a long time with the Pastor.

After the service was over he came and told us that he had given his heart to the Lord and he stated that he really did not want to hurt anyone, but that was his intention when he came in. He stated that he was on the way to rob a liquor store and he saw our big bus in the front of the church and he decided to come into the church instead.

The Pastor later told us that after visiting with the young man in his office for a few minutes, the young man pulled up his shirt and gave the Pastor a 10″ knife that he had strapped to his back in a sheath. He had intended to use it to hurt someone and steal and he had a history of being in prison several times for doing the same.

We thank God for His hand on this young mans life and guiding through the Holy Spirit to this service. We thank God that we had no fear in the midst of this situation and we were able to boldly proclaim His truth. We thank God that he can use these unworthy vessels to reach a lost and dying world.

The U.S. is one of the biggest mission fields there is and time is short, therefore, we will continue to travel where ever God opens the door and boldly proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, without fear.

Thank you for your continued prayers for this ministry. I am quite sure that there will be more and more of these kinds of experiences as people become more desperate and are in search of hope.
Until the whole world hears,
Sharon Bares
Product Manager
Praise Incorporated

We have returned from the Revivals we had in Kansas and Oklahoma. We met a lot of great people and we ourselves were blessed by you all. Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

We sure enjoyed our time in Dover. We love you all.

 Tessa, Randi, Brittany, Leah, all the ladies of the church and all the rest of our new friends in Dover, OK. Thank you so much for your hospitality, meals, baskets of snacks and best of all - the hugs. We appreciate all youdid for us. May God specially bless each of you. We are praying for you.

Dodds Friends

We were blessed to be with you in Oswego KS for Resurrection Celebration. We look forward to seeing you all again.

When we were in Oswego Kansas doing a Revival, Pastor John and his wife Maggie took us to see Big Brutus, one of 2 of the world’s largest Electric Shovels. The guys are checking out the accoustics inside the shovel on Big Brutus.

One of 2 largest electric shovels in the world -the guys and the Pastor and his wife are standing inside the front wheel track to show how big this thing really is!

We look forward to being able to let you all know where we are and what we are doing. Please look over the whole new website and let us know what you think. Tell us what you like, what you don’t like, what is missing or what is messed up. Feel free to leave a comment. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Steve, Ron, Dodd, and Greg.