University Heights Baptist Church presents violinist Allison Steiner and fellow musicians.  She is currently a member of the Springfield Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of the Ozarks. She has preformed with the American Symphony Orchestra in the New York, Hong Kong/South Korea Tour, The Jupiter Symphony and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, both in New York, including performances  in Carnegie Hall. She was the first violinist in St. Mark’s Square, a professional string quartet.

The free concert is April 7, 2010 from 12:10pm – 12:50pm in the chapel of University Heights, bring a lunch!

For more information call 417-862-0789

Wednesday, March 31st, 7pm, Joe White will share his illustrated message “The Cross Builder.” at Lakewood Church of the Ozarks in Branson West, Missouri. This powerful message has been shared across America at “Promise Keepers”, “Men At The Cross”, college campuses and other meetings. “The Cross Builder” message is one of the most inspiring and powerful presentations you will see this year.

Joe has been working with teenagers and college students for over 30 years and is a speaker to Promise Keepers, Focus on the Family Radio, Life on the Edge Conferences, Major League Baseball, the NFL, and AFTER dark college crusades across the country. Joe knows personally and loves to share the meaning of God’s amazing grace. Joe has also written 16 books, including Pure Excitement, that are designed to reach teens and their families. In 1991, Joe founded Kanakuk Haiti, which funds the operation of 19 schools and 1 orphanage in Haiti. Joe and Kanakuk Haiti provide food and clothing as well as an education for thousands of Haitian children each year.

Joe White is the President of Kanakuk Kamps and founder of Kids Across America in Branson, Missouri. Each summer, these twelve kamps host 20,000 kampers and over 2,500 college and professional staff.

After growing up in Texas, Joe attended college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he won the Heart Award as a two-year starting defensive tackle for the SMU Mustangs. At SMU, Joe also met and married his wife of 37 years, Debbie Jo. After graduation, Joe coached at Texas A&M University before moving to Branson, Missouri to run Kanakuk Kamps with Debbie Jo. Joe is a proud father of four and a wonderful grandfather of three.

“Joe White knows more about teenagers than anyone in North America” Dr. James Dobson, Focus on the Family.

Joe White of Kanakuk Kamps as “The Cross Builder” at Lakewood Church Wednesday, March 31^st at 7PM. everyone is welcome to be a part of this powerful presentation this Easter season. Lakewood Church is pastored by Cecil W. Todd and is located in Branson West, Missouri at 19585 St HWY 413. For more information please contact the Lakewood Church office at 417.272.9813 or www.ilakewoodchurch.com

The Evangel University Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Michael Kolstad, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, in the Barnett Recital Hall.

There is no charge for admission and the public is invited to attend.

“I’m excited about this concert,” said Dr. Michael Kolstad, music chair and director of the band. “The theme for the evening will be a celebration of folk tunes. In addition to several pieces that are arranged around American folk music, we will be playing a major work for symphonic band set to Armenian folk dances. It will be a fun evening.”

The program includes the following:

• King Cotton March by John Philip Sousa

• Splashes of Gold: A Celebration of Rhythm and Sound by James L. Hosay

• An American Tapestry III Spiritual: Down By the Riverside arranged by Arnold B. Sherman

• Grayson Dance by David R. Holsinger

• Celestial Celebration: Variations on “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks”

• Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed

• Celebration Variations by James Curnow

For additional information, contact Lynne Hall at (417) 865-2815 ext. 7212.

Ozarks Teen Challenge will host its first golf tournament at Thousand Hills Golf Resort in Branson on Saturday, April 24  to benefit the 15-month residential program for boys ages 12 to 17 struggling with addictions and other life-controlling issues. The event is sponsored by Bri Graphics, Skaggs Health & Fitness Center, US Foodservice, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Kayak Branson and Thousand Hills Golf Resort.

Registration is at 8:30 a.m. and the four-person scramble tournament begins at 9:00 a.m. with a shotgun start. Krispy Kreme doughnuts and coffee and will be served at registration and lunch will be catered by Famous Dave’s BBQ.

The cost is $100 per person or $375 for a team of four and includes lunch, golf cart, gift bag, prizes, hole-in-one and closest-to-the-pin contests and a silent auction. A pastor’s special of “bring three, play free” is also being offered.

“Every week we receive calls from parents across the country that are desperate to see their sons break free from addictions and other negative behaviors that have taken over their lives,” Ozarks Teen Challenge Executive Director Jake Lynch said. “We are responding to an overwhelming cry for help on the local and national level by offering these boys hope, accountability and direction for their lives. The golf tournament is a way for us to raise the funds needed to continue the growth we’ve experienced and to offer help to more young men and their families.”

All proceeds will benefit Ozarks Teen Challenge. For more information or to register, please visit www.tournevents.com/ozarkstc or contact Ozarks Teen Challenge at (417) 272-3784.

Celebrating individuals with Down syndrome

Borders Bookstore
3300 S Glenstone
Springfield

Sunday March 21
2-4pm

Meet Louie from the Springfield Cardinals!

Book signing by June Rae Wood, author of The Man Who Loved Clowns

Buy a “boot” to support the Down Syndrome Group of the Ozarks and your name will be entered into the drawings for great prizes.

Find out about the Step Up for Down Syndrome walk (formerly known as the Buddy Walk) to be held on July 10th at Mediacom Ice Park & Hammons Field.  Registration for the walk includes a Step Up t-shirt and a FREE ticket to the Springfield Cardinals game that night!

www.ozarksdsg.org

The Crane Ministerial Alliance Presents:

An area Good Friday Celebration.

Featuring New Anointing in Concert

In association with:

Christian Associates of Table Rock Lake

At the Crane Christian Church Community Building, 100 E Edgewood, in Crane Missouri.

Starting at 7:00 pm on Good Friday, April 2^nd

Come join in on the fun!

For more information go to newanointingmusic.com

Tristin Wilson, daughter of Wayde and Sonya Wilson of Dillsburg, Pa., will be performing her senior voice recital at Evangel University on Saturday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m., in the Barnett Fine Arts Recital Hall.

There is no charge for admission and the public is invited to attend.

The program will include ‘Ridente la calma’ by Mozart, ‘Gretchen am Spinnrade’ by Schubert, ‘Beau soir’ and ‘Nuit d’étoiles’ by Debussy, ‘O mio babbino caro’ from “Gianni Schicchi” by Puccini, ‘Think Of Me’ from “The Phantom of the Opera” by Webber, and others.

In addition, Wilson will be performing ‘Duetto buffo di due Gatti’ by Rossini with senior Chelsea Smith, ‘Tenderly’ with trumpet solo by Wayde Wilson, and the hymn ‘Take My Life and Let It Be’ by Malan with Wayde and Sonya Wilson.

Wilson is a student of Jane Munson-Berg. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in music with an emphasis in recording technology and a Bible minor at Evangel.

For additional information, contact Lynne Hall 417-865-2815 ext. 7212.

Evangel University theatre students will be performing Shakespeare’s classic magical tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, April 8-10 and 16-17 at 7:30 p.m., in the Barnett Fine Arts Theatre. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, the 17^th.

Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for children under 12 and groups of 8 or more. To view available seating, visit www.evangel.edu/TicketSales.

Tickets can be purchased online and at the box office during performance weeks. The box office is open Monday through Wednesday 4-6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday 4-7:30 p.m., and for the Saturday matinee 1-2 p.m. Box office phone 417-865-2815 ext. 7134.

The play is directed by David Smith, associate professor of theatre arts.

For additional information, contact Elaine Tate 417- 865-2815 ext. 8641.

Synopsis

One of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream will delight audiences with the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest.

The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and is set simultaneously outside the city of Athens in a forest surrounded by a realm of fairies or immortals.

When the play begins, quarrels among the mortals in Athens’ court and between the forest’s Fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania are causing havoc. The young lovers flee the Court in order to seek happiness together and find their love strangely twisted by Puck’s fairy mischief and tricks. Only Oberon can set things straight.

Other visitors to the enchanted forest include Bottom (the weaver) and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince, and Flute (the amateur actors who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe).

Cast

Oberon: Nathan Griepp, ’06 Evangel graduate and admissions counselor

Titania: Anesa Beilfuss, junior theatre major from Branch, Mich.

Puck: Salvatore Marchione, senior theatre major from Union, N.J.

Theseus: Denzel Billy, freshman theatre major from Houston, Texas.

Hippolyta: Erin Jacobs, senior music and theatre/speech education double major from Charlotte, Mich.

Egeus: Brad Mapson, sophomore social studies major from Nixa, Mo.

Hermia: Amber Gathright, senior theatre music major from Reeds Spring, Mo.

Lysander: Ben Gathright, freshman history and social studies education double major from Forney, Texas

Demetrius: Nick Longo, sophomore criminal justice major from Alexandria, Va.

Helena: Bethany Blevins, junior theatre/speech education major from Daingerfield, Texas

Bottom:  Jordan Thomas, senior theatre arts major from Ozark, Mo.

Quince: Zachary Kidder, junior film major from Plymouth, Wis.

Flute: Allison Drewitz, freshman intercultural studies and English double major from Louisville, Ky.

Starveling: Sarah Drach, junior theatre/music major from Manitowoc, Wis.

Snout: Britney Kelcher, sophomore music education major from St. Peters, Mo.

Snug: Katie Johnson, sophomore music performance major from St. Charles, Mo.

Philostrate: Leah Zielbauer, sophomore theatre music major from Golden, Colo.

Peasblossom: Gina Moran, freshman theatre/speech education major from Long Island, N.Y.

Cobweb: Ruthy Lowenberg, junior digital arts major from Nairobi, Kenya.

Moth: Lexy Brown, junior theatre/speech major from Lee’s Summit, Mo.

Mustardseed: Jeanette Schaaf, senior digital arts major from Orlando, Fla.

Male Fairy 1: Josiah Austin, sophomore music education major from Hazel, S.D.

Male Fairy 2: Jacob Brechlin, freshman theatre/music major from Newburg, Mo.

Male Fairy 3: Doug Reed, freshman music education major from Keokuk, Iowa.

Evangel University theatre students will be performing Shakespeare’s classic magical tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, April 8-10 and 16-17 at 7:30 p.m., in the Barnett Fine Arts Theatre. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, the 17^th.

Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for children under 12 and groups of 8 or more. To view available seating, visit www.evangel.edu/TicketSales.

Tickets can be purchased online and at the box office during performance weeks. The box office is open Monday through Wednesday 4-6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday 4-7:30 p.m., and for the Saturday matinee 1-2 p.m. Box office phone 417-865-2815 ext. 7134.

The play is directed by David Smith, associate professor of theatre arts.

For additional information, contact Elaine Tate 417- 865-2815 ext. 8641.

Synopsis

One of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream will delight audiences with the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest.

The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and is set simultaneously outside the city of Athens in a forest surrounded by a realm of fairies or immortals.

When the play begins, quarrels among the mortals in Athens’ court and between the forest’s Fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania are causing havoc. The young lovers flee the Court in order to seek happiness together and find their love strangely twisted by Puck’s fairy mischief and tricks. Only Oberon can set things straight.

Other visitors to the enchanted forest include Bottom (the weaver) and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince, and Flute (the amateur actors who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe).

Cast

Oberon: Nathan Griepp, ’06 Evangel graduate and admissions counselor

Titania: Anesa Beilfuss, junior theatre major from Branch, Mich.

Puck: Salvatore Marchione, senior theatre major from Union, N.J.

Theseus: Denzel Billy, freshman theatre major from Houston, Texas.

Hippolyta: Erin Jacobs, senior music and theatre/speech education double major from Charlotte, Mich.

Egeus: Brad Mapson, sophomore social studies major from Nixa, Mo.

Hermia: Amber Gathright, senior theatre music major from Reeds Spring, Mo.

Lysander: Ben Gathright, freshman history and social studies education double major from Forney, Texas

Demetrius: Nick Longo, sophomore criminal justice major from Alexandria, Va.

Helena: Bethany Blevins, junior theatre/speech education major from Daingerfield, Texas

Bottom:  Jordan Thomas, senior theatre arts major from Ozark, Mo.

Quince: Zachary Kidder, junior film major from Plymouth, Wis.

Flute: Allison Drewitz, freshman intercultural studies and English double major from Louisville, Ky.

Starveling: Sarah Drach, junior theatre/music major from Manitowoc, Wis.

Snout: Britney Kelcher, sophomore music education major from St. Peters, Mo.

Snug: Katie Johnson, sophomore music performance major from St. Charles, Mo.

Philostrate: Leah Zielbauer, sophomore theatre music major from Golden, Colo.

Peasblossom: Gina Moran, freshman theatre/speech education major from Long Island, N.Y.

Cobweb: Ruthy Lowenberg, junior digital arts major from Nairobi, Kenya.

Moth: Lexy Brown, junior theatre/speech major from Lee’s Summit, Mo.

Mustardseed: Jeanette Schaaf, senior digital arts major from Orlando, Fla.

Male Fairy 1: Josiah Austin, sophomore music education major from Hazel, S.D.

Male Fairy 2: Jacob Brechlin, freshman theatre/music major from Newburg, Mo.

Male Fairy 3: Doug Reed, freshman music education major from Keokuk, Iowa.

Indoor Garage Sale

Nixa General Baptist is having an indoor garage sale on Fri March 26th 7am – 6pm and Sat March 27th 7am – 2pm. All proceeds will go to our youth group.

Nixa General Baptist is located at 1101 N Main,right behind Casey’s at Aldersgate and Main in Nixa.

If you have any questions or need further directions please call me, Heather at 417-522-5592 or e-mail me at jarrodmama@gmail.com. Thank you and God Bless you all!!