Set aside for a time such as this…
Dear Friends…
Well, I didn’t get to walk home with an award for Inspirational Country Music Album of the Year…but I won in a big way when I lost to Alan Jackson!!! And a really good man, incredible singer/songwriter and new friend of mine…Russ Murphy… took home the New Artist of the Year. I am also honored to be mentioned in the same category as him!
This years convention was fantastic! I met so many new friends there. God gave me so much favor with everyone! If you have not heard of the Christian Country Music Association, please take a look at their website and consider joining. Faith , Family, and Country is what their founded on. The Power Source magazine is an incredible publication that will keep you in touch with what’s going on with the artists/music ministries in this exciting and growing genre.
Let me share with you what God has done with us this past week…as you know, we plan on turning this whole effort into a non-profit organization so that we can then help other special needs families. Great idea…right? Well God has turned it into more than a great idea…it is now a burning passion with us!
Everytime that we have had to go into the hospital these last nine years with one of our kids…God has sent His people to provide for us! EVERYTIME! Our church family has shown us such an incredible example of Love and servitude. We have now been reminded of this and now are so driven to take this example and pay it forward. When a family has to take their child to the hospital…they need to see God’s love in action! It is such a testament when you show up with provision for a family in a situation where they can’t even think about work or paying the bills…
Any way…we are so excited to move forward with all that we can in order to turn this whole thing into such an important ministry. Still waiting on the final paper work and building permit…but believe me when I say that I know that God will reveal His perfect timing…
We had an awesome time in Texarkana with Becky Braun and Greg Gilbert at the Old Liberty Church this past Friday night. Thanks to all of the dear people that we met there. Please keep in prayer about a family that we met there who have an eight year old son diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. He has not done so well this past year or so…this is the very situation that we want to help with our non-profit organization…we could go in with an inspection of the home and with our own experiences and perhaps a testing for mold …perhaps help to identify if there is something in their home that is causing trouble. This family is in trouble…please lift them up…
Christa, Linda, Emily, Anna, Sadie, Hannah, Allie, and Kamryn ( FaithFive)…
We will never forget the incredible event that you put together for us down in Graham, Texas! The venue was incredible…( Memorial Auditorium ) FaithFive completely blew us all away with their sincerity and talent! If you are reading this…just know that God showed us a miracle in Graham this past weekend and He set aside an awesome group of people to help get it done. Thanks to the churches that invited me to sing and were such gracious hosts. Thank You to Jerry and Linda Kelley for all that you are…for all the care that you showed to our family…for the incredible plane ride in Mineral Wells, Texas!
( Thanks Linda for holding our girls while they were sleeping )
When my boys got off of the plane…I believe it was Sean that said…’ well…now I know what Texas looks like…”
What an awesome time we had on… really, my first big weekend… that was for all intents and purposes…the beginning of this music ministry. This ministry is simply God’s way of sending us out to begin the non-profit ministry. As different groups invite me out to sing and share our story, it gets us in the door for fund raising…which leads to the means for helping other special needs families…which leads to sharing the Gospel…( sometimes, we may have to use words )
The duet project is in the last stages of getting done…there are still a few artists that I am hoping to get on there…Tammy Cochran sang on ‘Loving You’ last week. She was incredible. The Bellamy Brothers and the Oak Ridge Boys have sent their parts back to us for mixing. Mary James is singing with me on a song called ‘Dancin’ Shoes’. Tommy Brandt is singing the title cut…’Try a Little Kindness’. Branded is on an old Ricky Skaggs song…’If You Don’t Believe the Bible’. Randy Kohrs is singing and playing on a song called ‘The Great Commission’. This is a song that I sang on a project called Bible Tunes for my friend Ronnie Smith years ago. Hey…Ya’ll go find him at CrossPoint ministries in Utah. Maybe send a little support his way…
Mr Mike Hammock is singing with me on a song that my Aunt Mamie wrote…’I Owe My Life to the Lord’. Mr James Payne is singing ‘ Livin’ by the Book’ in a way that only Mr James Payne can… Melanie Walker is singing the old Dottie Rambo classic…’I just Came to Talk With You Lord’. Mike Rimmey so graciously spent his own money to fly down here and sing the second verse and Chorus on ‘The Light House’. Several of the artists on this project also participated at their own expense! Thank You! I am still hoping to have as many other Christian Country Artists on this as possible…I hope I get to…
Thank You to Vic Sumerall and Mike Sosin of Hand In Bridge Management who came with determination and investment money to get this project done! Thank you to Robert Jason, Jon Conley and Brad Vosburg. To Robert and Jon for vision, professionalism and just raw talent as producers…and to Brad of Fox Mountain Productions for an awesome recording studio and a real class act…as an engineer!
If you are reading this…please know that God has turned all of this into a way bigger thing than us! Please pray about partnering up with us to fund such an awesome and urgent mission once we get the non-profit organization set up. Also please consider partnering with us for our house to get built for our kids sakes…buy lots of CDs!…All of this is more than we can get done ourselves. I am still putting on a tool belt to do home repair and remodeling each day to make a paycheck. I am finding that harder and harder to do each week as this thing turns more and more into a juggernaut of an endeavor. I feel like the CEO of four corporations…just trying to move it all forward. God continues to make a way and to bring each new piece of the puzzle. Please pray and ask God if this is something that He would want you to support. Whether it be our kid’s special house…( which will be built ) or the non-profit organization to help other special needs families… or simply to be a part of helping to launch and support a new music ministry aimed at sharing our story of God’s grace in our lives. We want to see lives change the way ours has… ever since Jesus Christ came in! He told Peter…” If you love me…than feed my sheep”
You can help us to go out and feed His sheep.
We’ve been set aside for a time such as this!
God Bless!
gregmcdougal@ahouseformykids.com
PO Box 1756
Mt Juliet, Tn. 37121
615 668-3908
For the house for our kids or the non-profit organization to help other special needs families…make checks out to…ahouseformykids
to support Diane and I as we launch our life’s work…make checks out to Greg McDougal
PS….we do not have the non-profit organization set up yet…it is pending…any funds sent to ahouseformykids, will go toward building the house…once that is done, we will launch the non-profit and the leftover funds will go to that. I am in the process of becoming a 501C3 corporation for the music ministry. Please contact us if you have any questions. Thank you! God is raising his people up for a mighty work!