Pray For The McClurkin Family

Donnie and his family needs our prayers right now :(

According to a story posted on the Yolanda Adams Morning Show Website, Donald Andy McClurkin, sr., Donnie's father just passed away. He was hospitalized last week after having an emergency surgery. Earlier this year Donnie announced during the taping of the Stellar Awards in Nashville that his mother had passed away.

In 2008, the family also suffered and endured the loss of their sister Olivia.

Please lets pray that affliction will not rise the second time.

Today Is My Mentor's Birthday!! - Karen Clark Sheard

 

Karen Valencia Clark-Sheard was born  November 15, 1960, she's an American gospel four-time Grammy Award winning singer, musician and songwriter, she was a member of the Grammy Award winning, gospel legendary female group, Clark sisters and the youngest daughter of pioneering gospel choral director Mattie Moss Clark. She's also the mother of the promising contemporary gospel singer and actress Kierra "Kiki" Sheard.

Her Elder Sister(Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark-Terrell) also shares the same birth day with her but different year(obviously).

We wish both of them the very best on this special day, happiness to welcome each morning, laughter to make your heart sing, friendship, and all of the joy birthdays can bring and above all that you make it to heaven on the last day. We Love you!!!

Here's Kierra's birthday messages to her mum...

Mayor of DC Un-invited Donnie McClurkin From The Civil Rights Concert At The Washington Mall!

Grammy award winner, songwriter and minister, Pastor Donnie McClurkin was uninvited form the civil rights concert in the most embarrassing way..

Here's what he had to say about this turnout..

Hey everybody, am sending out this socialcam a little disgruntled but more than anything else to rectify something That’s been done and address it so this way you’ll know my heart.

The mayor of DC; Vincent C. Gray uninvited me from a concert that I was supposed to headline today in the Washington Mall commemorating and commenting on the 50^th anniversary of the civil rights movement, I was asked not to attend, although am considered the headliner for the concert and advertisers have been circulated, and the churches as well as the community are prepared to come up in tens of thousands into the Washington Mall area. And last night on the way to the airport we received the telephone call from the promoters who have received word from the mayor’s office as well as the art commission that I was not welcomed and uninvited (The night before the concert).

Quite unfortunate that in today a black man/artiste is uninvited form a civil rights movement; depicting the love, the unity, the peace, the tolerance. The platform was entitled "From Gandy to King"; the peace movement, the love movement and dignitaries from India as well as ambassadors from America and the church community, the peaceful element of the community will be coming together to comment and commemorate this wonderful move; an evolution, and they waited until the last moments to demand that am taken off of the concert. Discrimination, Bullying is still a part of this. It’s bullying, its discrimination, its intolerance and it’s depriving someone of their civil rights when they’re told that they cannot come to an event and by coming it will cause a disruption, yet they haven’t spoken to 15 to 20 persons who protested, compared to thousands, who’re coming out to worship Jesus and to hear the gospel in music. 

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Donald Lawrence Unveils The NEW Artwork For His 20TH Anniversary Album!!

Donald Lawrence, a Grammy Award winning gospel artist, songwriter and producer, recently unveiled the cover of Volume 1 of his new 20th Anniversary album.  The CD cover showcases the clothing designs of Phineas Cole for Paul Stuart and marks the first time Stuart has collaborated with a gospel artist.  Available on September 24th, Best for Last is a jubilant celebration of Donald’s 20+ successful years in the music industry, which was recorded live at Living Word Christian Center in Chicago.  The Best for Last recording boasts the vocal stylings of the legendary Karen Clark Sheard, Natalie Grant, Kierra Sheard, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Faith Evans, Lalah Hathaway, Coco (from SWV), Kelly Price, Bishop Hezekiah Walker, Rudy Currence, Ted & Sheri and The Co., on new songs and some of Donald’s chart-topping classics.  

Kim Burrell Loses Her Elder Brother

On Monday, vocal queen Kim Burrell posted on her Facebook page that she lost her elder brother...
Please lets extend our hands of fellowship to the Burrells, they need our prayers and encouragement..

Please leave a prayer of encouragement for the Burrells on the comment box down below...

Sound Of Heaven With MK

Double Edge events in Collaboration with PHYNE WHYNE RECORDS presents MK in SOUND OF HEAVEN – Sound of Heaven is a highly anticipated worship concert that will move the city of Lagos….

Its happening LIVE on the 25^th of August 2013, RED carpet and main event start @ 4pm.

Venue: David’s Christian Centre, Victory Dome behind PHCN office, fatgbems bustop. Amuwo Odofin Lagos.

Performances by: SAMMIE OKPOSO, PITA, EBEN, KENNY KORE, FREKE, EFE, ACCAPELLA, AKPORORO, SAKO, THE ROCK IMAGE and more….

Tickets: N1,000

Tables are available to buy your tickets, reserve a table, book stands and advertise your products in our magazine , please call: 08069241784, 08167000842, and 08182244477. Spaces available are limited, so hurry.

Brace up for the concert guys..

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Byron Cage - Troubles Away Lyrics

Troubles Away lyrics

Verse 1

Soloist: So you say you don’t do something

              But you can’t do nothing

              Well I got news for you

Choir:   It will be safe

Soloist: So try to hold your head up

              Things would get better

              Sooner or later

Choir:   Make it today

Soloist: So when you’re going through

Choir:   when you are going through

              Tis what you can do

Chorus

Soloist: You got to wave them off

              Wave them off

              You can wave your

Choir:   Troubles away

Soloist: You can dance them off

              Dance them off

              You can dance your

Choir:   Troubles away

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Byron Cage, Drops Brand New Single, “Troubles Away”

Byron Cage, prince of praise and worship, is taking the excitement of the live church experience and melding it with contemporary and stirring melodies, Cage has presented songs heard in choir stands week after week. With the release of his ninth CD, "Memoirs of A Worshipper" fans have been lifting their hands to the spirited, Top 10 Billboard hit, “Great and Mighty”. Now Gospel music lovers can “get their praise on” with the brand new single, “Troubles Away”. The retro cut has believers “dancing their troubles away”.

Listen to song after the cut...

Deitrick Haddon, Married Again!!!

Deitrick Haddon (40) tied the knot with girlfriend, Dominique Mctyer (29) in a private ceremony held in Los Angeles. Some of the guest included the Haddon family, and some Pastors soon to be featured on the Pastors of LA.

What a world..

Check this out: After Service Improvisation

For the musicians, i thought i should share..

I want to know what you think about the improvisation..
comments down below...

Tye Tribbett’s New Album, “Greater Than” In Stores August 6

According to uGospel, Motown Gospel recording artist Tye Tribbett’s new album, Greater Than hits stores on August 6. Greater Than pre-order link is available now, please visit http://www.tyetribbett.com.

This week, Tribbett’s new single “If He Did It Before…Same God” is the fourth most downloaded gospel song in the country. The single has been performing well at gospel radio with an accumulative listening audience of over 10 million. The single also entered at #1 on iTunes.

Motown Gospel will launch Tribbett’s Greater Than promotional tour with several high-profile events and activities this summer, including a concert at Greater Grace Temple in conjunction with Radio One and the Word Network in Detroit (Monday, August 5); promotional visits in Charlotte, NC and Columbia, SC (Tuesday, August 6); a series of activities in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA (Wednesday, August 7); New York’s WBLS City Parks Concert in Harlem, NY(Thursday, August 8); an album release concert, free and open to the public, at Greater Allen Cathedral in Queens, NY(Friday, August 9), and Radio One’s Praise in the Park in Atlanta, GA (Saturday, August 10). Motown Gospel will be announcing additional promotional dates in the coming weeks.

In addition, to the Greater Than promotional tour, Tribbett will be perform a series of concerts dates with Mali Music and Jessica Reedy in Salisbury, MD (Thursday, August 1), Orlando, FL (August 15) and Raleigh, NC (August 16)

Le’Andria Johnson is Officially A Pastor Of A Church In Atlanta!!

The service was held in a temporary facility given the actual church is still under renovation, much respect to Pastor Le’Andria because in spite of she was determined that the ministry shall come forth on June 16, 2013.

Praise and Worship begin with the one and only Angie Stone! Angie also shared some intimate moments with the audience one being of how she survived heart failure.

Pastor LeAndria thanked her husband. She shared that her husband saw an imperfect woman with 3 children striving for perfection and he chose her to be his wife (it was a special moment).

See more photos after the cut..

Smokie Norful Writes An Open Letter To His Sons

Rev. W.R. "Smokie" Norful, Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist, best known for his 2002 album, I Need You Now and his 2004 release, Nothing Without You, which won a Grammy at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards for the best contemporary Soul Gospel Album in 2004.

Smokie Norful is also a wonderfully talented committed family man what he cherishes most is cultivating a loving relationship with his wife, Carla, spending time nurturing their two sons, Tré and Ashton, and empowering his daughter,Ashley.

Read the Open Letter from Pastor Smokie Norful to his sons Tre & Ashton:

People Go Eyeball Licking To Show Affection In Japan

People sure do strange things for love, but Japanese students are taking love-induced madness to a whole new level - and putting their health at risk in the process.

This is the latest craze sweeping through Japan;  'oculolinctus' - eyeball licking as an expression of affection between young lovers.

Teens are using the act of licking one another's eyeballs to show affection, like some would do with hugging or kissing, ABC News reports. This act may have been inspired by the Japanese band Born, which features eyeball licking in a music video.

"It's a very dangerous trend, says Dr. Robert Cykiert.

Yolanda Adams Introduces Skin Care Line

Grammy-award winning singer Yolanda Adams introduces Simply Yolanda, a line of nourishing home-spa, paraben-free products. 

She says  “I love feeling moisturize, feeding my skin the right things. We’re in this skin until we leave, so I’d like to protect it. We created this line to improve the quality of people’s lives.” And  “I always do things I’m passionate about,” that’s why she ventured in this line.

New Video: "Ready Aim" By Mali Music

Mali Music has finally released the video for his current single "Ready Aim", the song is the first trak from his coming album...


tell us what you think about the song..

How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years

These people have have started again..can you imagine what they came up with this time?
Read this article from Forbes and it's about how the human face will look in the next 100,000 years ...

Nickolay Lamm, a blogger collaborated with Dr. Alan Kwan, who has a PhD in Computational Genomics from Washington University, to hypothesize what we may look like in the future. The following is written by him…

While the future remains unknowable (for now), Nickolay Lamm produced one set of possible changes to the human face in one possible timeline where, 100,000 years in the future, through zygotic genome engineering technology, our future selves control human biology and human evolution the way we control electrons today. In this future, humankind has wrested control of the human form from natural evolution and are able to bend human biology to human needs. This future scenario and these figures are envisioned by Dr. Alan Kwan, PhD Computational Genomics from Washington University.

As our understanding of the universe increases, I predict that the human head will trend larger to accommodate a larger brain. But instead of some orthogonal evolutionary path that ends up with the 210th century human a la Futurama’s Morbo the anchor-alien, the rule of viable human biology will still apply and so the entire head will trend larger, though with a bias for a greater cranium growth than facial growth; the human 20,000 years from now would look to us like someone today except we would notice the forehead is subtly too large.

Four out of Five Pastors Resign From The Same Church At The Same Time

I've never seen or heard of anything like this my whole entire life..

Four out of five pastors of the Richmond Outreach Center megachurch in South Richmond resigned Wednesday afternoon following a Board of Directors meeting and after news of the specific sexual assault allegations against the church’s founder.

Three of the resigning pastors had also served on the ROC’s board of directors.

Gone are “Pastor G” – Geronimo Aguilar – the 12-year-old church’s founder and board member; executive Pastor Jason Helmlinger, also a former board member; Pastor Andrew “Drew” Delgado, another former board member; and Pastor Matthew Aguilar, Geronimo’s brother.