Serendipities

Last night my hus­band and I were at din­ner with our kids and two grand­kids (did I men­tion BLISS?). We were at a Mex­i­can restau­rant that we fre­quent and they have live music on Sun­day nights. Except we’ve never been there on a Sun­day night, so when the band came out in their match­ing mari­achi out­fits with gui­tars, a vio­lin, and a pic­colo trum­pet, our lit­tle two-year-old grandson’s eyes got wide with won­der. I was watch­ing him process it all and it was almost as if you could see the rea­son­ing process happening: 1. This is where they serve food. 2. This is not a place where there’s sup­posed to be a band. 3. But look! There’s a band in the mid­dle of this place. 4. That’s strange. 5. That’s awesome! And when the band made their way over to our table, my grand­son couldn’t believe they were play­ing just for us. He laughed and clapped and promptly put a tip into the big gui­tar. Now, that’s pretty much the term ‘serendip­ity’ in a nutshell—something you never expected that is won­der­ful. Or, as Webster’s Dic­tio­nary puts it “an unex­pected pleasure.” Life is filled with unex­pected things. Some of them are dev­as­tat­ing, and I’m thank­ful that God gives us grace to sur­vive them and the abil­ity to com­fort oth­ers with our expe­ri­ences. But many of them are serendip­i­ties— those unex­pected moments where God shows up like a mari­achi band and brings a party to the table of your life. Those moments where many of us react with a very adult-like, “What’s with the noise? I’m try­ing to enjoy my enchi­lada here.” Lots of us never even look up from our plate. After all, that’s what hap­pens here every Sun­day night. It’s no big deal. I love watch­ing my grand­boys expe­ri­ence the world. It’s fresh. It’s won­der–full. That’s how I want to expe­ri­ence life. Not tired, jaded, been-there-done-that. I want to find (dis­cover) and dance (enter in) and clap (cel­e­brate) and tip (give thanks) every sin­gle day! Isa­iah 43:19 tells us, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not per­ceive it?” The God of Serendip­i­ties is full of sur­prises. Don’t miss ‘em!

Central Ohio Radio Station Recognizes Drenda Keesee

Drenda Keesee is a woman you just have to know. At least that’s what the peo­ple at Sunny 95 out of Colum­bus, Ohio think. It’s what a num­ber of vot­ers who voted her one of the “20 Out­stand­ing Women You Should Know” think, as well as what hun­dreds of mem­bers of the church she co-pastors think.

When Drenda began home­school­ing her chil­dren in her small farm­house she was deter­mined that there would be more out there for her­self and her fam­ily. With her hus­band, Pas­tor Gary Keesee of Faith Life Church in New Albany, Drenda set out to make a change. Together, the hus­band and wife duo began study­ing the prin­ci­ples of the King­dom of God out­lined in the Bible. They also started a busi­ness. While still learn­ing the prin­ci­ples them­selves, they began to teach oth­ers how to get out of debt and live free of that bur­den. As they con­tin­ued to build their busi­ness, and later Faith Life Church, Drenda con­tin­ued to pur­sue her pas­sion of help­ing hurt­ing women around her suc­ceed in liv­ing a ful­fill­ing life as godly women, wives and mothers.

In 2010, she fur­thered the vision by author­ing the book She Gets It – a pow­er­ful book about becom­ing a woman who loves her life and who she is as she dis­cov­ers her iden­tity in Christ. Along with the book, Drenda held a top-notch con­fer­ence for women, fea­tur­ing such tal­ent as singer/actress Rebecca St. James, author/speaker Michelle McK­in­ney Ham­mond, and nation­ally acclaimed come­dian Anita Renfroe.

Along with women like Ellie Hite from Project Clause, and the Angel Works Foun­da­tion, and Rose­lyn Beery, a Sal­va­tion Army vol­un­teer and for­mer par­tic­i­pant in USO shows, Drenda was hon­ored at an event held by Sunny 95 radio on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 25 at the Aladdin Shrine in Colum­bus, Ohio. The event fea­tured the 20 rec­og­nized women and the var­i­ous causes they sup­port. Atten­dees were pam­pered with free gifts, hand mas­sages, pho­tographs, and more. With some­thing for every­one – from infor­ma­tion on every­thing from per­sonal health to new floor­ing – the evening had an eclec­tic blend of tastes, sights, and sounds. Drenda’s table fea­tured her book, as well as infor­ma­tion about her church.

If you missed the event, you can get to know Drenda on tele­vi­sion. She cur­rently co-hosts a tele­vi­sion pro­gram with her hus­band Gary. She is also now the host of her own tele­vi­sion pro­gram, Drenda, com­ing this spring.

For more infor­ma­tion, check out drenda.com.

Drake Bell

Are you excited to Between the release of his EP A Reminder and starring role in A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner, Drake and Josh's Drake Bell has had a busy summer. Still, he took time out to sit down with J-14 and let us in on four secrets no one knows about him! Five years after his album It's Only Time came out, Drake Bell is releasing a new EP, A Reminder, on June 28. "I wanted to release these four tracks for my fans," he says. "They haven't had new music for a while."

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Luckily, we don't have to wait until the end of the month to hear what Drake has in store -- his song "Terrific" drops tomorrow! "The song is really about calling someone out on not being themselves," Drake says. "People growing up and trying to fit into different scenes, getting into different things that aren't necessarily good for them or who they are. Trying to be someone that they're not, and maybe shouldn't be, and watching that happen right before your eyes."

Here's the full track listing for A Reminder:

1. "Terrific"
2. "You're Not Thinking"
3. "Big Shot"
4. "Speak My Mind"

Good Moring

How is everyone doing today? I am doing fine and I am going to a high school football game tonight and I cant wait for tonight and see if we WIN. I hope that we win but if not it is just a game:). What are you guys doing for the weekend and what are you doing for the week? Let me know what way we might be able to hang out and talk about some stuff if you don't have anything to do these weekend. I have church on Saturday night at 6 and than again on Sunday morning 10 and True Life Church is the best one in Marion for these guy(Gibby) and for my family and friends i am so happy that i have a good friends there and out of church. The family that I have at TLC are just so good to me and my family i don't know what i would of done if i have never meet these church.Because before i would not do anything that they would say that i would have to do. But know because of me and my pastor and his family are friends and i have a lot of people there at my church that are my friends. They all was watch out for me and my family and everything.If I ask them to do something like pray for someone or something they well do and that is what i like about them very munch. So......... if you are every in Marion,Ohio just post something on my blog and i well see if I can get you to TLC i just love them so munch and i know that they well make you fell like you was there for a very long time i know they have with me (Gibby). I will post some stuff on here for you guys that way you can see what they do and all of that and I love you guys and be bless and have a good day and safe weekend and to see you at TLC sometime love you all. :) <3 The TLC website is these www.truelifemarion.com

Justin Bieber

Biography from Biography Reference Bank (2010)
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The teen pop star Justin Bieber, who was discovered through a series of YouTube videos, became a force in the music industry with the release of two top-selling records--My World (2009) and My World 2.0 (2010). Leah Greenblatt wrote for Entertainment Weekly (March 10, 2010), "Bieber Fever, the heady pop cultural delirium that seems to leave grown-ups untouched while sweeping every susceptible tween in its path, is now a full-blown epidemic--one characterized by shopping-mall riots, Twitpic raptures, and generalized episodes of mass swooning."

Justin Drew Bieber was born on March 1, 1994 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, the only child of Jeremy Bieber and Pattie Mallette. While growing up he taught himself to play a number of instruments, including guitar, drums, piano, and trumpet. In the official biography posted on the Island Def Jam Web site, he explained, "I entered a local singing competition called 'Stratford Idol.' The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place." Two years later Bieber began posting clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, assuming that his extended family and friends would be the only ones to watch. His performances--covers of such pop and R&B artists as Usher and Ne-Yo--proved so popular, however, that a large YouTube fan base began to develop.

After viewing the videos, Scooter Braun, a talent agent and former marketing executive for Jermaine Dupri's So So Def record label, set up an audition for the young singer with R&B star Usher and Island Def Jam CEO Antonio "L.A." Reid. Bieber was flown to Atlanta for the audition, and soon thereafter he was signed to a recording contract with Island Def Jam and RBMG, a label imprint on which Braun and Usher work as partners. Usher, who had begun his music career at a similarly young age, told Monica Herrera for Reuters (July 19, 2009, on-line), "Given my experience, I knew exactly what it would take for him to become an incredible artist."

In 2009 Bieber had four Billboard Hot 100 hits: "One Time," "One Less Lonely Girl," "Favorite Girl," and "Love Me." He became the first solo artist in Billboard history to see four singles enter the Top 40 of the Hot 100 list prior to an album's release. My World appeared on shelves in November 2009 and became the biggest-selling debut of the year. It has since been certified platinum in both the U.S. and Canada.

Bieber's follow up, My World 2.0, featured 10 songs and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Andy Kellman wrote for the All Music Guide Web site, "The two [Bieber] releases are certainly of a piece, filled with upbeat R&B-flavored pop songs with a few ballads that might be termed adult contemporary if the singer happened to be of age. Bieber makes all the right, charming moves for a teen, and he covers all the bases. The dance-pop songs are light on the ears yet memorable; the unrequited material sounds deeply felt; the ballads have all the necessary us-against-the-world teen-love dramatics. . . . Everything is age-appropriate. 'She says she needs a little company,' sung with the slightest wink in the eye, is as racy as it gets, and even then, Bieber projects an image that is utterly harmless."

Older journalists sometimes liken the fervor of Beiber's fans to that of Frank Sinatra's or the Beatles'. In November 2009 such a large crowd showed up to see Bieber at a Long Island mall that police instructed Braun to cancel the appearance, for fear that a mob scene would ensue. When it took Braun too long to do so, five people received minor injuries, and he was later brought up on charges of reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance. In April 2010 Bieber's mother was knocked over when a group of fans rushed her son at a New Zealand airport. Although his mother was not injured, Bieber wrote in a post on the social-media service Twitter: "Not happy that someone stole my hat and knocked down my mama. Come on people." (Bieber has more than 2 million Twitter followers.) Later that month Bieber was forced to cancel an Australian concert when a stampede broke out among the more than 4,000 fans who had camped out overnight to see him. "With his floppy bowl haircut and adorable lisp, the teenage pop star Justin Bieber may not seem like a dangerous figure," Dave Itzkoff wrote for the New York Times (April 26, 2010, on-line). "But make no mistake: his public appearances can be battlegrounds."

Suggested Reading: New York Daily News (on-line) May 6, 2010; New York Times (on-line) Apr. 26, 2010; People (on-line) Apr. 19, 2010; Us (on-line) May 10, 2010

Selected Recorings: My World, 2009; My World 2.0, 2010


Citation:
Original source: Biography Reference Bank
Original publication date: 2010
Original publication type: Online
Publisher of original publication: The H. W. Wilson Company
Database publisher: The H. W. Wilson Company
Database: Biography Reference Bank

Jeremy Camp's Family

These is Jeremy Camp's family

Hello

I know that I am a little late today lol well i have been busy with the students and everything and my mind is going crazy a lot and I have a lot on my mind right know and I need to have some help with my weekend planes because I want to go to the thing tonight with a freind but i cant because i have a class that I have to go to tonight and my and my new freinds have been texting him a lot today and we might be going to a football game together on friday night and I might stay the night with him on friday night and go to the popcorn thing that is in Marion,Ohio and than he might been coming to my church and I hope that he well come.Then we are going to be going ot the same school then about other people than and it is a BIG school wiht MTC and OSUM together so I am going to hope that I can find my way around the school like fast and that way I can get to my class a lot faster than what I need to have to do. I hope that you guys have a good day and weekend if i post something I well tell you what i am mgoin g mto be doing these weekend.I am going to be going crazy by the end of the day and week because of all of these kids that are not doing what the teacher tells them to do and they just need to SHUT UP and listen to me and the teacher all day and some of them just don't care crap about anything that we are trying to teacher in schools.

These is my day 2 at south

Today the kids are all wild and talking very loud today.There are some of them that do nto know how to long on to a computer but we are working on that.They do not what to listen toda and it is driving me nuts.


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These is jeremy Camp

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Hello

Good Tuesday Morning everyone how are you doing and i am doing good but i kind of fell bad because one of my new friends was over to my house and we was playing a game and we lost track of time and is not allowed to text or do anything because of it what should i do go to his mom and talk to her about it or what please help me ? I really need your guys help thanks a lot


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