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What You Need To Know To Host a Concert

Team Needs

1.) Sign the concert Agreement and fax or e-mail back to The Fellowship as soon as possible (fax: 480-838-9187, e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) If possible, send 1/2 of the concert fee to The Fellowship. The balance is due on the day of the concert. Some churches have chosen to have Thrivent match the offering. We strongly encourage asking the local Thrivent Chapter if they will vote to match the concert offering, with the understanding that all proceeds benefit scholarship funds for Shepherd's Canyon Retreat. Dave Anderson can send you Thrivent "Care In Community" linformation found on the Thrivent.com website.

2.) We ask host congregations for $250 plus a free-will offering. If the $250 is not available, we will come anyway! The "church fee" should be made out to: Shepherd's Canyon Retreat.

3.) One non-smoking 2-bed motel room for Dave and Kelly. The motel should be as close to the church as possible. Moderately priced. Please put the motel name, address, phone number on the returned Concert Agreement. If a motel room is too expensive or not available, Dave and Kelly are fine with staying in a private home or homes.

4.) Dave and Kelly will bring along their sound system and keyboard.

5.) We need a contact person who we can call enroute to open the church and familiarize Dave and Kelly with the church or concert site. We will send you a detailed concert tour itinerary which will include arrival/departure information. Dave's cell phone is 602-538-4066.

6.) We will need an 8' table set up in the narthex on which to display CDs and books.

7.) Would you please provide 2 pitchers of cold--not iced water--and 2 glasses by the front pew before the concert.

8.) Please have ushers available to pass out handouts as people arrive...and to receive the offering.

9.) Bulletin announcements and a press release are also available here.

10.) Posters will be sent to you separately.

Biographies of Dave and Barb Anderson

Dave and Barb Anderson After 35 1/2 years of concert ministry, Barb Anderson has retired from "living out of a suitcase" as she has done for 1/3-1/2 of every month. Barb is now working in the ministry's home-office and living a more normal life. Here is the "Dave and Barb story" as it has been stated in the past: Dave and Barb Anderson are ministers of the Gospel in song and the spoken word. Dave is President of Fellowship Ministries, based in Tempe, Arizona. Fellowship Ministries is a non-profit, para-church organization, founded in 1975, which serves as a resource for the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ through worship and music. Fellowship Ministries sponsors worship and music conferences and seminars, publishes worship resources (including The Other Songbook, now 500,000 copies in print and The Best of the Best in Contemporary Praise and Worship, 180,000 copies in print), and sponsors the Anderson's concerts.

Beginning in 1975, Dave and Barb's concert ministry has included well over 5,000 evening worship concerts and weekend worship services in churches throughout America and in a number of other countries including Russia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, New Zealand, and more than 20 times to Australia.

Press Release Sample

News Release

For Immediate Release

Local Contact: (name and daytime phone)

Arizonans Dave Anderson and Kelly Patten will present a concert at (time), (day of week), at (location). The concert is sponsored by (host).

Dave and Kelly's music is a blend of contemporary, gospel, hymns, and lots of old-time Sunday School songs. The audience will be invited to sing along but, as Dave says, "so long as it's the same song."

Dave and Kelly are from Arizona, but Kelly grew up in Stanley and Velva, North Dakota and Dave grew up as a Lutheran preacher's kid in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Dave has been involved in lay ministry in the Lutheran church for 48 years first in youth ministry (Dave is the founder of Lutheran Youth Encounter) and then music ministry including concerts and worship resources.

Booking a Concert

Dave Anderson and Kelly Patten are available to lead weekend worship services and weeknight "worship concerts". Dave points out that their evening presentations are not performances in the sense of entertainment. Since Scripture says that "God inhabits the praises of His people", Dave and Kelly believe that God's Spirit is very present in the midst of their singing and speaking.

The congregation is invited to join Dave and Kelly in singing....so long as it's the same song. The "worship concert" will include hymns, gospel songs, old Sunday School songs, and what Dave calls "message songs".

Bulletin Blurbs

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

1.
On (date), Dave Anderson and Kelly Patten will present a worship concert at (church name) at (time). Dave and Barb have presented over 5,000 concerts in America and in 17 other countries since they were married in June, 1975. Come prepared to sing a long... Dave says, "so long as it's the same song". Kelly Patten, originally from Stanley and Velva, now lives in Arizona. Two men coming from Arizona to North Dakota for concerts in January!

2.
Mark your calendar for (date). That's when Dave Anderson and Kelly Patten will be presenting a concert of gospel music here at (church name). The program will include gospel songs, hymns, old Sunday School songs, some contemporary praise and worship music plus some of what Dave calls, â€œmessage songsâ€. Dave will also tell The Rescue Story, the story of he and Barb and five others surviving a plane crash in the Bering Sea. Visit www.TheRescueStory.com. This is an evening you will enjoy.

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