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Hi, and thanks for spending a few minutes with the Barnes Family. We are Terry, Gwen, Jimmy, Sandra and Daniel. We spend a lot of our time listening to southern gospel music and go to concerts when there is one within reasonable driving distance. We live in Armada, Michigan in an 1890 colonial house in the village. Armada is about 35 miles north of Detroit and is home to the best county fair in Michigan. Armada is also well known for its orchards which produce some of Michigan's best apples and peaches. We are members of Calvary Baptist Church in Armada. See below for more on Calvary Baptist Church. All of us have asked Jesus to forgive our sins and we have accepted His free gift of salvation. We believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God and as such shows the only way that men can be saved from eternal separation from God and Heaven. If you are not sure where you will spend eternity, PLEASE CLICK HERE to see from the Bible how you can know where you will spend eternity. It does not matter how good or bad a person you are, or what church you belong to. etc. God has already provided the way for us to be saved - and best of all it is free and simple enough that everyone can understand His plan. My wife Gwen and I met when I was visiting Gwen's brothers at her house. She started coming to my church and we eventually dated and fell in love. We were married on July 8, 1978 at Gideon Baptist Church in Warren, Michigan. We have three wonderful children, each special in their own way. Look at there pages - just click there names on the menu at the left. Jimmy will be 19 on October 31 and has a very rare condition called microencephaly. Be sure to read his page - you will be blessed. Sandra is 16 and goes to Armada High School. She is an honor student and does very well in math, but her real talent is in Art. She got to go Adrian College this summer on a full scholarship in art. Daniel is 9 and goes to Calvary Baptist Church School. He just finished writing his first web page! Click his name to see it! He tells about his hobbies and favorite southern gospel groups. Gwen is a very good artist, too. Gwen likes to work with pen and ink and pastels. She likes to play our rather large collection of southern gospel tapes while she does housework and everything else around the house. Her personal favorite southern gospel artist is Karen Peck & New River. Gwen's father passed away a couple of years ago and Karen Peck's song "Daddy's Home" has really touched her. I am Terry - that's me. I am 41 and am deeply involved in southern gospel music. I spend a lot of my time keeping up with news about southern gospel groups and the industry in general. We have an online store offering exclusively southern gospel music CD's, cassettes. videos, songbooks, sheet music, accompaniment tracks, Bibles and Bible study aids, stereo equipment and supplies, lot's of information including charts, new releases, etc. The store is called Southern Gospel Music Central and because of our wonderful distributor, we are able to offer significant savings on all of our products. I also sing quite a bit at church and am in the CMI concert choir and a member of the ensemble. We perform traditional and sacred Christmas songs and second half of our performances gives the story of Jesus' birth. We have members from many states that come all year long to our rehearsals and our director, Thurlow Spurr, lives in Florida. We have been invited by the Israeli government to return to Jerusalem again to perform our musical "David" at the citadel of David. My real dream is to sing in a southern gospel group, and Lord willing, someday I will. I work at Henry Ford Health System in network services as a wide-area networking and router specialist. We support around 85 sites in the metro-Detroit area including 6 hospitals.

We have a separate genealogy page with 1600 individuals related to our line with primary surnames including Barnes, Byrd, Carnes, Davis, Fillers, Gray, Hammons, Mills, Townsley, Warren Go to the Barnes Family Genealogy Page

Our favorite Southern Gospel groups are Gold City, Kingsmen, Karen Peck & New River, Cathedrals, Weatherfords, the Singing Cookes, Jeff & Sheri Easter, Squire Parsons, Greater Vision, Robert Winecoff and the early Statesmen, Blackwoods, Chuck Wagon Gang, Doug Oldham and the Speers. We also enjoy the Gaither Videos. I am sure there are some I have forgotten to name. Why Southern Gospel? You had to ask that question - didn't you. You can really get me going on this one! To put it simply, christian music should be like christians themselves. Separate from the world and a "peculiar" people. Peculiar? Absolutely! If I listen to a "christian" song and don't hear the message of Jesus Christ, something is wrong! If I listen to a "christian" song and can't tell by the music that it is christian, something is wrong. Why should christians lower their standards to those of the world and actually try to imitate the secular music sounds? What an oxymoron "christian rock" is! The very industry leaders of the rock and roll industry refer to the music as the "music of the devil". So should "christian rock" be called "christian music of the devil"? Southern gospel music has endeavored to stay true to it's roots by only using songs that tell the gospel, uplift the spirit, and give praise, glory and honor to the only name worthy of such, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Concerning contemporary christian music - there are a few artists in this genre that stay pretty true to good christian music principles, but the vast majority of them do not. Many of them actually show signs of satanic influence in their music and concerts. Find this hard to believe? There is an excellent source of information on this at Dial the Truth Ministries . They have researched many of the leading artists in contemporary music and have many graphics and sound clips to illustrate their point. They also have a very well written page devoted to determining what is and what is not acceptable music for christians.

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