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We ask that you please pray for Peg and the McKamey family that God will comfort their family during this time. On Friday, July 16th, 2010, Peg's brother, Edgar "Bud" McKamey went home to be with the Lord. Peg and the family were singing in Jackson, Tennessee when she received the news. Bud is the brother that Peg has requested prayer for that had "scleroderma". Bud was 61 years old. The family is receiving friends tonight from 6-8 and Holly Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton, Tennessee and the funeral will be tomorrow. Please pray for Bud's wife, Karen, and their children. Bud was diagnosed with this disease 18 years ago, when the doctors gave him 5 years to live. God saw fit to give Bud 13 extra years, and to God be the Glory. Bud was a great Christian and a great inspiration to all of us. Again, please keep all The McKameys in your prayers. 6.16.10 WOW! What a great weekend and a great week we have had! GOD is so-o-o-o-o good to all of us!!! Our 27th Annual Hometown Singing was wonderful! We were encouraged, revived, and refreshed! We had one of the most spiritual hometown singings we have ever had! It was like being in revival!! The Holy Spirit showed up, and showed off! It was just an incredible time in the Lord. We thank each and everyone of you that attended this year and all of you that had a part in our Hometown Singing this year. All of you that worked behind the scenes, even our secretaries that sold the tickets from our office. We couldn't have had the freedom to just sing and follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit without all of the behind-the-scenes work. God blessed us with some great help, and all the hard work was really appreciated. Those of you who missed this year, you really missed a great Blessing!!! The Inspirations and The Primitive Quartet really out did themselves, and Rev. Allen Farris brought a wonderful message during the prayer breakfast! We have truly been uplifted, revived and refreshed from this past week-end. Don't forget next year, the dates will be June 10th and 11th, 2011!! You will not want to miss this wonderful weekend with The McKameys and their friends!! Also, some great updates to report: Sheryl went back for her check-up this week, and received a great report!! Her doctor told her that all of her bloodwork was in the NORMAL range!! Praise God! All of you that have been praying for Sheryl's health - she said to tell you "Thank You, and that the prayers ARE working!! " She is currently off of one of her medications that she was taking once every 6 weeks, and she says she can't tell she is not on it anymore! She feels really great!! God is doing a great work with her health, and we want to praise HIM for all HE is doing! Eli is still doing great! If you were at the Hometown Singing, you got to see Eli featured on a guitar duet with his dad, Roger! WOW! He is really doing good with that guitar!! Everyone else is doing good! Continue to pray for The McKameys that we will continue to give GOD the praise in everything that HE accomplishes through us! We won't to never forget where our blessings come from! TO GOD BE THE GLORY, FOR EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE!!! 5.18.10 Hello from all The McKameys! It seems like it has been a while since our last update, but we have been quiet busy on the road. What a blessing!! We are all gearing up for The McKamey's Annual Hometown Singing coming up June 11th and 12th, 2010, in Clinton, Tennessee at The Second Baptist Church. We are looking for a great reviving, refreshing, and a great time in The Lord! We can hardly wait to see what God has in store for the singing this year. Also, Peg always comes up with something "different" just for those present at The Hometown Singing. Make your plans to come to Clinton, Tennessee, June 11th and 12th. Check out the Hometown information for more information concerning tickets, motels and talent! Also, we are offering a new "VINTAGE" item on our order blank! It is a DVD - Sing Out America, featuring The McKameys back in 1982!! What a classic! If you are a McKamey fan or friend, you will want to have one of these for your collection! You will be able to see where we have come from, enjoy some classic McKamey songs, and see how we have changed!! These will be sold for the same DVD price of $20.00 each! Be sure to check out the store to order yours today. Back on May 6th, the Christian Voice Magazine Awards were held in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and The McKameys were awarded the Mixed Quartet of the Year for 2010 from their voting fans! "We were truly honored", and very surprised." "We thank you who voted for us, again we were very humbled!" Also, our song "I Keep Praying" went to the #1 position on the chart in the Singing News Magazine for the month of June, and we just learned that it will be #1 on the Christian Voice Magazine chart for July! Thank you all for calling your radio stations and requesting this great song! We need to be reminding each other to pray for each other, pray for our churches, our leaders, and our country! We need to pray about everything!! Keep Praying!! Until next time.....
12.27.09 Marie Bean (Rubens' mother) passed away Saturday, Dec 26 around 5 o'clock pm. Marie Bean, age 88, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, December 26th around 5:00 p.m. Clinton, Tennessee. Ms. Bean had 12 children (11 living), 36 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren. 12.14.09 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The McKameys!! The McKameys are currently taking a few weeks off to spend the Christmas Holidays with their families. Ruben and Peg are gearing up for a few days before Christmas for a trip to New York with a couple of their good friends; Roger, Connie & Eli are spending quality family time together with other son, Brad, wife Ashley, and grandson Tyler; also Eli recently got to attend a youth retreat with the teens from their home church (the first time he has been off the road to be able to go); and Sheryl and her husband, Allen are back home after their recent trip to Rochester, Minnesota for her 2 year check-up at the Mayo Clinic. Sheryl recently told us -- "Many of you are aware that I was scheduled to return to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in December. Allen and I made the trip and saw over a foot of snow! It was great. Travel was challenging, but we had fun. But the greatest news of all is that I am doing great, the doctors have made a recommendation to decrease the dosage of some of my medication. I truly thank you all for the many prayers that have gone up on my behalf. And I thank God for the opportunity to be able to sing again and to be a testimony to the greatness and goodness of our God!" -- God has been great to The McKameys and their families and to God we are grateful! HE deserves all the praise. Thank you for your support in the year 2009 in coming out to the concerts, purchasing our product, sending gifts and donations to the group, and most of all your love and your prayers for us! We love you all and we appreciate you all as our friends, and our family in Christ! We look forward to seeing you all again in 2010!! Keep Praying!!! 10.1.09 Just a quick update on everything that is going on! First, let us say Praise The Lord for HIS goodness to each and every one of us! Everyone is doing great and to HIM we give all the praise!! Tomorrow, October 2nd, will be 2 years since the kidney transplant for Eli and Roger. WOW, time has really flown by. They are both still doing great. I look at Eli and I can't believe what a difference the last 2 years has made in his life. God not only worked a miracle with the transplant, HE also changed his outlook on life! Eli stated the other day that "2007 was one of the greatest years of my life". When I asked why was that, (I was thinking of the kidney failure, and the dialysis, etc...) he said that is when "God gave me new life". Eli is so full of positive energy, and I believe when you see him, those of you who remember the pre-transplant days, you will see the difference in his life. On the new project coming out in a few weeks, Eli has selected a song that Sheryl wrote several years ago, that he rearranged to fit his "style"! The song says, "This Is My Story". Every time I hear Eli sing this, I am blessed because he tells everyone, there is nothing as sweet as telling what God has done for me! WOW, GOD certainly has been good to him and our family!! Be watching for the new release "The Message" from The McKameys, coming in a few weeks! We are very excited about this project, we believe there will be a song that will be your favorite! We sure have several.... Until next time.... |
