10.23.11
We believe it is about time for another update from the group! Lots of things have been happening with the group, so we are going to try to update everyone. First, our latest project "Joy In The Journey" was released in March 2011! This project has some great songs from the group, and our first radio release "When Faith Steps In" was sent out. The song came on the Singing News charts at Number 44, but we just recently learned that this wonderful song has reached Number 8! This is a wonderful song talking about when faith begins, when faith steps in, and when faith will end. Be sure to call your local radio station and request this wonderful song if you haven't already heard it, or you can order your copy of this CD directly from The McKameys!!
Then in June of this year, we had The McKameys Hometown Singing! WOW! What a wonderful time of revival and refreshing. We believe this was one of the best years ever! We are looking forward to next year. Don't forget to mark your calendars, June 8th and 9th!! We will be having The Inspirations and The Primitive Quartet! Tickets will go on sale the first Monday in April, 2012. We would like to personally invite all of you, our friends, to come and experience Revival in Clinton, Tennessee!! In August of this year, the group went on a 12 day trip to the mid-west! We were in some new territory, meeting some new friends, and seeing some beautiful country. We were in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Texas! WOW! We really had a wonderful time. In September at The Singing News Fan Awards, Peg McKamey Bean, was awarded and given The Norcross-Templeton Award! This award is one of the most prestigious awards. This award is given to a person or persons that show great love for God, their church, and their family. Everyone that knows Peg, knows that this is how Peg is. We CONGRATULATE Peg for this well deserved award!! Also in September the group recorded a brand new live DVD - "The Journey"! We did this at TBN in Hendersonville, Tennessee. This DVD includes some songs from the latest 2 projects, "The Message" and "Joy In The Journey" as well as a couple of old songs, and a couple of brand new songs! Be watching a little bit later for the release of this DVD! The first of October, The McKameys were honored by their hometown of Clinton, Tennessee with the Lifetime Achievement Award!! What an honor! We were humbly surprised. A lifetime achievement award for 31 years of full-time and faithful service in traveling and singing Gospel Music and Telling the Story of Jesus Christ! What an honor to be recognized by your own home-town! We believe that catches you all up to date with the group. Just one more thing, Eli just celebrated 4 years since his kidney transplant, and he is doing great!! Sheryl is back on some of her meds, but for now she is doing good! We also want to ask that you all pray for our pastor, Rev. Luke Kidwell. He was diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. We do not know what God has planned for Pastor Luke, but we are praying for healing! We would appreciate your prayers for our Pastor and our Church! We will try to keep you posted on his condition! We appreciate all the prayers you all have prayed for us. Keep praying that God will keep us safe and give us traveling mercies so that we can continue to tell HIS wonderful story! We love you all!! 1.31.11 Hello again! We believe an update from The McKamey's is far overdue!! We didn't realize how long it had been. Everyone is doing great, health-wise! Eli continues to have his check-ups and he is doing great. Sheryl, on her last check-up, was told that she was going to be weaned off of another one of her medicines. Praise God, He is THE Great Healer! The McKameys have been very busy!! We had a few weeks off during December for the Christmas Holidays with our families, and that was wonderful. However, the week after Christmas the group was back on the road. We enjoy time with our families and some "down-time" to just chill; however, we do miss seeing all of our friends. The first week in January we were in the studio working on our new CD, "Joy In The Journey"! We finally finished up the vocals for this project last week, and we are very excited! Sheryl has written 4 more new songs for this project and we believe we have some great songs that will encourage and be uplifting for our friends. We have a couple of "new" arrangements on this project that The McKamey's haven't done on a project before. We are expecting this project to be released in March of 2011!! Remember, "Joy In The Journey"! Be watching for this from The McKameys!! We would like to say we appreciate all of you that have supported The McKameys this past year, whether with your coming out to the singings, your financial support, your prayers and your emails and letters of encouragement. We love you all and appreciate all of you. We are family and we need to continue praying for each other! Don't forget to check out our schedule and come and see us when you can and be sure to check us out on facebook too! |
