Gary sings bass, Gwen sings alto, and Mary has been singing the lead part for Now & Forever Gospel Trio. We are very thankful and appreciative of Mary's willingness to continue singing at some of our functions and music ministries during 2007-2008-2009, but Mary left us on a full-time basis beginning in 2007! We will miss her wonderful lead voice (she has been singing with us since 2000) and her wonderful spirit immensely, but understand her family commitments. Gary and Gwen will be singing as a "duo" for the most part from now on. However, Mary did sing with us at our 2007 & 2008 May concerts and we really appreciated that very much, and she sang at Summerset Baptist Church in 2007 & 2008 (and again last year 2009) and at our 2007 & 2008 Food Pantry Benefit Concerts & Suppers. Needless to say, we are very appreciative of her helping us out even on an occasional basis!!!!!
We sing Southern Gospel music, old hymns, and new favorites. We believe that "today's choice determines tomorrow's reward!" What we mean by that is we believe that there must be a time when you have "knelt at the foot of the cross" and accepted Jesus for your Saviour. It is only by His blood shed and his redeeming grace that we can be saved. Our hope is that the music we sing will bring people to Christ and encourage those who are already Christians. It certainly encourages us to sing the words of those great gospel songs!
We sing at care centers, churches, and community events!We now have recorded 7 CD's/cassettes: "Memories", "Something Old-Something New", "Come Morning", "Back Home" and "Reunion Day", "Climbing Higher" and "It's Still True". The "Climbing Higher" CD includes songs such as: Amazing Grace,America The Beautiful, Blessed Be the Name, This Old House, He Set Me Free, I Need You More Today, Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, Just As I Am, Labor Of Love, Mine for the Asking, and Mary has a solo on this one entitled There's Still Forgiveness at the Cross. Gwen's brother, Roger, also has a recitation "Lord I'm Coming Home" which has a great message! Our last CD is entitled "It's Still True" (which is the title song and also includes songs such as: Damascus Road, I've Never Been This Homesick Before, Thank God for Kids, Wings of a Dove, What a Beautiful Day for the Lord to Come Again, When I Get Carried Away, and more).
Click on "About Us" at bottom of page to learn more about our group and click on "Our Recordings" for listings of songs available on each of our CDs/cassettes.
We had another successful May event on May 3, 2008! That was our 11th Annual Frederick & Marie Metcalf Memorial Concert and Supper On the Grounds (in memory of Gwen's parents). Very generous offerings were received for Children's Square USA (Council Bluffs, Iowa) and for Geon Children's Home (Seoul, South Korea)as well as grocery items for the Pleasantville Food Pantry. The delicious supper was catered by Indianola Hy-Vee! This event started with an attendance of about 50 and then grew to the place we could only do it by invitation only! We had planned to do a 12th May event in 2009, but have decided to end this annual event, so the May 2008 supper & concert was our last May event!
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