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Sunday, December 30, 2007
CHI ALPHA-Billy Lord
So Driving in the car the other day Allison and I were talking about youth group. It made me think of CHI ALPHA and the Billy Lord band. Instant google when I got home. Here is what I found. Enjoy!
The band has changed somewhat, but Jimmy Hicks and Tommy Worthington (both with short hair) carry on. Billy did a camp for me, complete with Pharoah Pharoah and all the trimmings in '99 or so. (Darrel Garner led camp for me in '98.)
http://billylord.com/pages/theband/meettheband.html entitles both Jimmy and Tommy honorary memberships to the forum. Jimmy says that his Spiritual Influences are C.S. Lewis, Leonard Ravenhill, Mike Griffin, and Billy Lord. I don't know about that C.S. Lewis guy, but listing Mike and Leonard Ravenhill (our God is a covenant keeping God!) is about as Pea Ridge as they come.
Tommy lists as his first job: Worked on the ballfields at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Tucker, Georgia. Enough said. Come to think of it, my first job may have been in response to a ballfield announcement inviting kids to fill a hefty bag with trash from the ballfields for a coke from the concession stand. Who would have realized that it took a 7 year old 2 hours to fill that bag?
Before Chi-Alpha was Harvest (with Barry Owen, now Ed. guy at 1st Smyrna) and way back we had Frankie Wiley and Skyrider in the Joy Explosion building. Anybody remember those days?
Remember them???? I used to think it was so cool that Skyrider played a song that started out like Billy Squier's The Stroke......of course I also thought Stryper kicked holy butt. The Joy Explosion building was the best....I was young when all that was going on but to a kid it was like getting into a bar under age...except they served Coke and knock off Billy Squier songs. Speaking of Skyrider...I am, in fact, the owner of a Skirider cassette tape with the greatest song ever recorded by the group...Watermark.....I also remember going home and setting up pots and pans all around me and pretending I was Tommy Worthington..the drum set he had that wrapped around him was the coolest thing ever!
And I of course remember Harvest...it was Fresh out Da Box!
We forgot to mention Gary Hollingsworth in there...I think he's a Pastor in Alabama somewhere...I think my dad keeps up with him.
nothing is more Pea Ridge than the old youth building that sat off to the right as you view the church from 29. I worshipped Tommy as a kid because he was a good ball player and because he played the drums. I used to go to Skyrider concerts and sit behind Tommy and all I did the whole time was watch him play.
The drum solo on Watergrave was SWEET!
Update on Hollingsworth: pastor at First Trussville outside Alabama for years, then worked at NAMB and moved back to ATL. He preached at RBC some and I actually got to catch up with him as I did some music there when he was there.
With lots of changes at NAMB, Gary has accepted another pastorate, this time in Arkansas at a huge church out there.
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The band has changed somewhat, but Jimmy Hicks and Tommy Worthington (both with short hair) carry on. Billy did a camp for me, complete with Pharoah Pharoah and all the trimmings in '99 or so. (Darrel Garner led camp for me in '98.)
http://billylord.com/pages/theband/meettheband.html entitles both Jimmy and Tommy honorary memberships to the forum. Jimmy says that his Spiritual Influences are C.S. Lewis, Leonard Ravenhill, Mike Griffin, and Billy Lord. I don't know about that C.S. Lewis guy, but listing Mike and Leonard Ravenhill (our God is a covenant keeping God!) is about as Pea Ridge as they come.
Tommy lists as his first job: Worked on the ballfields at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Tucker, Georgia. Enough said. Come to think of it, my first job may have been in response to a ballfield announcement inviting kids to fill a hefty bag with trash from the ballfields for a coke from the concession stand. Who would have realized that it took a 7 year old 2 hours to fill that bag?
Before Chi-Alpha was Harvest (with Barry Owen, now Ed. guy at 1st Smyrna) and way back we had Frankie Wiley and Skyrider in the Joy Explosion building. Anybody remember those days?
nice Jeebs---we are really going pea ridge now!
Remember them???? I used to think it was so cool that Skyrider played a song that started out like Billy Squier's The Stroke......of course I also thought Stryper kicked holy butt. The Joy Explosion building was the best....I was young when all that was going on but to a kid it was like getting into a bar under age...except they served Coke and knock off Billy Squier songs. Speaking of Skyrider...I am, in fact, the owner of a Skirider cassette tape with the greatest song ever recorded by the group...Watermark.....I also remember going home and setting up pots and pans all around me and pretending I was Tommy Worthington..the drum set he had that wrapped around him was the coolest thing ever!
And I of course remember Harvest...it was Fresh out Da Box!
We forgot to mention Gary Hollingsworth in there...I think he's a Pastor in Alabama somewhere...I think my dad keeps up with him.
nothing is more Pea Ridge than the old youth building that sat off to the right as you view the church from 29. I worshipped Tommy as a kid because he was a good ball player and because he played the drums. I used to go to Skyrider concerts and sit behind Tommy and all I did the whole time was watch him play.
The drum solo on Watergrave was SWEET!
Update on Hollingsworth: pastor at First Trussville outside Alabama for years, then worked at NAMB and moved back to ATL. He preached at RBC some and I actually got to catch up with him as I did some music there when he was there.
With lots of changes at NAMB, Gary has accepted another pastorate, this time in Arkansas at a huge church out there.
Great work.
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