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R.A.M.I. Award "Rockford Area Music Industry" to make your vote for Epiphany in the Christian Artist category.
----------------------------------------------------------------- New CD Release Epiphany is planning to release its second CD this year. We plan to enter studio as early as April. The new CD, probably titled "Brand New View", we hope to have recorded at Barker Studios here in Rockford. We will release more information as it comes. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rockford Helps Haiti On Sunday the 21st of February, Epiphany was one of 20 bands that performed at the "Rockford Helps Haiti" benefit at Giovanni's restaurant in Rockford. Giovanni's opened its doors to this fundraiser at 1pm, and 20 bands played on three different stages until close at 9pm. All money brought in went to three local charities to aid in Haitian relief. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Annual, 2009, Epiphany Christmas Benefit Concert On Sunday the 13th of December at 4 pm, @ Grace Lutheran Church in Loves Park, Il. Epiphany with special guests Jim Waddell and Amy Schultz hosted its 4th annual Christmas benefit concert on December 13 2009 at Grace Lutheran Church. The last three years, we have held this concert at local churches to benefit a person or a family in need. This years concert was for a local organization called "Maya's House". The mission of Maya's House is to provide free, safe, reliable, child-care to homeless families while they are working toward self-sufficiency. I can't say enough about this organization on a page this small, but please click on the blue link to get more information about Maya's House. With the help and donations this year by both private individuals and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, we are pleased to announce that we were able to raise just over $5,900 for Maya's House and the children that use its facilities. Shelter Care and Maya's House Link Maya's House has told me that they are in need of size 4 and 5 diapers, art supplies such as glue sticks - construction paper - easel paper and tempra paint - kleenex - kid friendly food items, 100% juice, batteries of all sizes, paper towels, and cleaning supplies. If you would like to donate materials or time to Maya's House directly, please call Christine Edlen-Korneski at 815-608-7922.
----------------------------------------------------------------- R.A.M.I. Award "Rockford Area Music Industry" We have many people to thank for this award, friends, family co-workers, fans, our parents, and let us not forget Jesus Christ, for He is the one that gives us the ability, and the talent to make Epiphany happen. Vicci, Jim, John, Cheyenne, Mark, and I would like to thank the person who nominated us, and the many people who voted for us. The award ceremony, held at the Tebala Temple, was filled with many, possibly hundreds, of talented musicians from Rockford and the surrounding area. Visit the link below for more information about the RAMI's, and I am sure that they will update the site with some of this years pictures very soon.
----------------------------------------------------------------- Thrive @ Five Thrive @ 5 was a Saturday evening come as you are contemporary service held at the Our Masters UMC campus in Rockford. Epiphany was asked to provide music and worship the second and fourth Saturday evenings from January thru May. Thrive @ 5 is now done for the Summer months and, I hear, will be started again this Fall, possibly on Wednesday evenings. Our last Saturday evening was done outside of the building in the lawn, on a beautiful May day. We thank Christ UMC and Our Masters UMC for the opportunity we were given to provide the service we gave. Remember, a church is just a building. The people must be the church for the faith community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2008 Christmas Concert On Saturday, December 6, 2008, Epiphany performed in its third annual Christmas concert with host Jim Waddell and special guest Amy Schultz. The concert was held at Grace Lutheran Church in Loves Park, Il. as a fundraiser for Rockford local Jenna Stahl who was a random shooting victim by an unknown gunman this past Summer of '08 during a backyard BBQ over Labor Day weekend. Jenna suffered a C5 C6 severe of her spinal cord giving her paralysis below her shoulders with only limited movement of her arms. The concert was free with an offering taken, and was followed by a dinner with tickets sold to raise money for Jenna's benefit. We are glad to announce that with donations of food, and donations of money, we were able to raise 5,410 dollars for Jenna. I am told by her parents that his money, and money from another benefit held at Emmanuel Lutheran, the family was only 2,000 dollars short of purchasing a much needed van equipped to transport Jenna to her needed appointments for her therapy. A special thanks, helping this benefit happen, need to go out to: Grace Lutheran Church 343 Grand Ave Loves Park for use of sanctuary for concert and Founder's Hall for dinner location Famous Dave's BBQ of Rockford for providing us with BBQ dinner Napoli's Pizza of Loves Park for donation of salad 101 WQFL, Christian Radio, for making our commercial the best it could be - commercial to start air on 11/28/08. Anonymous Donation of Brownberry and Thomasville bread and buns for the dinner Anonymous Donation of potato chips for dinner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wildfire Epiphany spent the last week of July with a group of youth from four churches coming from Wisconsin and Michigan that did mission work right here in Rockford. The mission was put together by Wildfire out of Milwaukee Wisconsin. www.wildfireumc.org Every evening of their visit, we provided music an praise for their chapel. Our band members also worked with the work groups during the week on several locations throughout the downtown Rockford area. This group was 90% female, and was one of the hardest working groups I have ever worked with. One of the work sites was re-roofing an older house that three previous groups refused to do due to difficulty. This work is being done with help from the Rockford Urban Ministries.
www.gbgm-umc.org/urbanmin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The basement of Mike and Vicci Gartner, where Epiphany (www.RockfordEpiphany.com) and the GPS band Waypoint (www.gpsfaith.com) practice, is finished. We have finished almost 1000 square feet, of which more than half is dedicated to practice space and recording. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hilltop Ministry Epiphany was given the opportunity to play for a conference called "Parenting for the love of it" put on by the Hilltop Ministry Center in Machesney Park, Il.. The conference offered atleast nine classes to parents, with child care for the kids. The Hilltop Ministry Center is a new facility, a must see property put together by the Roscoe United Methodist Church, Beloit Memorial Hospital, the Harlem Community Center, and other organizations that provide regular day care, family counciling, church functions, and more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epiphany productions has purchased kareoke equipment to be used for your Christian event. Church Functions, Birthdays, you name it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epiphany Productions, the sound company for Epiphany, was founded in December of 2007. Epiphany Productions has purchased a Tascam 24 channel Digital Recorder. Mike is looking to do recordings for small local bands, and events. Please contact us EpiphanyTheBand@Comcast.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epiphaneeds: |
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