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<p>Gary had arranged for us to sing for the Home and Family Relationship Seminar Series at the Duluth SDA church in Duluth, Georgia. &nbsp;The speaker for the day was Dr. Neil Reid, founder of Hope Fort Ministries, an organization that helps families find solutions to modern social issues.</p>
<p>Gary and Ryan were in Spartanburg, South Carolina for a youth event for Southern so they arrived there on Thursday. Tim and I decided to take my Taurus, and left Collegedale on Friday around 5:00. We had a good drive on the way…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099500/seeking-out-a-higher-purpose">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>We’d been asked to sing for the annual Michigan Academies Reunion of the Collegedale Tennessee Chapter. This is the Annual Tennessee Reunion of the Lake Union Academies for all area graduates, attendees, and former staff living in the Tennessee-Georgia area. Since the quartet had last been on tour, my wife Charity and I had gone to North Carolina to pick up her daughter Lori who had decided to come to Tennessee and live with us. And since this was a local concert, Charity and Lori decided they’d spend the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099499/bowties-are-cool">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>After a successful trip to Richmond, Virginia with our friend Jaclynn Huse, she invited us to sing with her at two churches not far from the Collegedale area at the end of February. The Jasper SDA Church has an outreach called “The Potter’s House” where people in the local community are invited to come for a free meal and a concert. This time Jaclynn would be able to bring her daughter Shelby who is also a very talented vocalist and violinist.</p>
<p>The meal started at 6:00 PM with the concert being shortly…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099498/the-born-again-bel-air-of-woodstock-georgia">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>We haven’t traveled to Virginia in several years, so we were excited to have the opportunity to go to Richmond for a four-concert weekend at three churches we’ve never visited. Our good friend Jaclynn Huse recently embarked on a solo music ministry journey and since her parents recently moved to Richmond, she suggested that we all travel there and sing together. I worked with Jaclynn’s sister Judy to put together two concerts at local SDA churches and two Sunday morning concerts at a Richmond Methodist…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099497/winter-weather-and-the-midnight-caller">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Since Gary joined us in May I had been working on booking tours for the end of 2012. After a couple of successful tours and several local special music numbers, Gary was doing great job and each time we got up front we all seemed more comfortable together.</p>
<p>Pastor Jose Nieves, a long-time friend of the quartet, was the associate pastor at the Ooltewah church when we re-formed the quartet in the early 2000’s and he now pastors the Athens, Georgia church with his wife Debbie. For whatever reason, I hadn’t…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099496/brotherly-love-and-mistaken-identity">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>For our October tour I contacted Pastor Paul Carlson from the Ladd Springs Church near Cleveland. He also pastors the Village Chapel Church, so as we talked, we went ahead and scheduled the quartet to come to Village Chapel in January.</p>
<p><br>Since Ladd Springs is very close to the Collegedale area, my new wife Charity was able to come with us. She loves being able to come hear us sing and help with the product table. Another one of her favorite things is to provide us with snacks for the journey. On our first…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099494/the-cookie-wife">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Over the years we’ve all seen God’s leading in the quartet’s existence. There have been many miracles and providential circumstances that just can’t be explained away and we know without a doubt that God is leading us and is in control. When we needed a new lead singer, and had no idea where to look, God showed us once again that He has a plan for The Emmanuel Quartet.</p>
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<p>Gary Sewell has been a friend of Ryan’s for many years and providentially was moving to Collegedale to accept a position at Southern…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6099495/blame-it-on-the-new-guy">Read more</a></span></div>
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