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| Mark Lowry |
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| A glimpse of the crowd |
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| Stan Whitmire accompanies Mark |
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| Mark engages the crowd |
It was standing room only (approximately 1100 attending) Monday evening at First Baptist Church in Mountain Home as Mark Lowry gave a great performance for the Senior Adult Night of Encouragement. Before Mark began his concert, First Day, an "a capella" group from Mountain Home, gave a performance that was well received by the crowd. Folks from the White River area churches and across northern Arkansas attended and enjoyed this special night for Senior Adults.
Mark, with his accompanist Stan Whitmire, gave us inspirational encouragement from new musical solos as well as hymns of the faith that Mark sang or led us to sing with him. In addition, Mark helped us all laugh at ourselves and at his antics on stage. For sure, not many persons besides Mark Lowry can take a major auto accident and a motorcycle accident and turn those stories into an opportunity for laughter.
Mark closed the concert with a moving presentation of the song he wrote -- Mary, Did You Know? As he closed, he gave a clear, simple, and complete presentation of the gospel. I was blessed from the first till the last.
This is the 5th year the Senior Adult Night of Encouragement has been offered, and it was Mark's second appearance. In these 5 years, Dennis Swanberg and Buddy Greene have also appeared as guest performers. I appreciate all the preparation that was made by Max Pyron, Senior Adult Minister at FBC, and his senior adult leaders. I am glad that White River association was able to help in a small way to jointly sponsor this event with First Baptist Senior adults.
