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A Personal Word from Pastor Jerry...
Subject Matter: SUPER Sunday with ANDRAE CROUCH!
WE ARE JUST DAYS AWAY FROM GOSPEL MUSIC LEGEND ANDRAE CROUCH COMING TO FIRST FAMILY CHURCH … mark the date, Sunday, January 11, 2009 @ 9:00, 10:45a.m. and IN CONCERT @ 6:00p.m. I can’t wait! I am so excited to host Andrae Crouch at FFC! Crouch stands above all his music peers as a true innovator in Gospel music. His career has been legendary … and many people have come to faith in Jesus Christ because of the gift of God in his unique life. Crouch was born in Los Angeles on July 1, 1942. His twin sister Sandra and older brother Benjamin were both musical, and he is also the cousin of noted jazz critic Stanley Crouch. The three Crouch children sang in a trio at the behest of their father, who had begun to preach in order to strengthen his prayers to God that his son might be given musical talent. One Sunday, when Andrae was 11, his father preached at a church in Val Verde, California, and then called Andréa to the piano to accompany the church's choir in the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Although Andrae, according to his own recollections, had never played the piano before, he performed successfully. Music helped Crouch overcome shyness and a stammering impediment. "I started singing what I had to say," he recalled to People. "People became music to me because everything they said was a song." Indeed, Crouch began composing songs at age 14 and has never really slowed down; he still composes each morning during the prayers for which he rises at 6 a.m. Crouch moved with his family to the San Fernando Valley suburb of Pacoima when he was in junior high school, and his musical talents burgeoned. Crouch's solo career began with the LP Just Andraé; in 1972, and throughout the 1970s his reputation rose steadily. Crouch and the Disciples toured worldwide, and in 1975 and 1979 they performed to sellout crowds at New York's Carnegie Hall. Already they were pushing the boundaries of gospel by introducing features of contemporary R&B styles, and gaining new fans from far outside the usual gospel sphere. Crouch's crossover gospel encompassed several aspects of secular music, including pop-style vocal arrangements, production techniques, and, most important, Crouch's crooned vocals themselves, miles removed from the intense fervor of traditional gospel. Andrae is one-of-a-kind – don’t miss hearing him at First Family – begin inviting guests now!
