Leon Autrey
- Cowboy Poet
Leon has been a working cowboy and rancher all
his life. Leon poetry is from the heart about the life he has
lived and seen. Leon has been awarded the Salt of the Earth
Awards the outstanding Rancher Award National Goodyear Award.
Leon has had his poetry published in Several magazines and
newspapers and by the National Library of Poetry. He has also
wrote a book of cowboy poetry entitled (I dreamed last night I
Seen Daddy) he has also recorded an album of songs he has wrote
entitled (Melinda) Elida, NM
Russ Ballew -
singer,
songwriter, prison ministry Jesus is my Lord, and I am a
redeemed alcoholic and "everything addict." I can't drink at all.
And I don't want to. Although I had accepted Christ as my savior at
nine years old but I didn't know him as Lord. In my teens I began to
rebel against my parents and authority in general. I was often
depressed and began using alcohol and drugs, which would soon turn
out to be my undoing. It would be ten years before I realized I was
alcoholic, and twenty before I would discover the cause of my
depression was a brain chemistry imbalance linked to A.D.D. I was
jailed five times on drug and alcohol related charges before I
graduated from high school. Russ Ballew
6 Tomahawk Tr. Clayton, NM 88415 800-291-3997
Margaret Basigwa -
House Of Hope
House of Hope Orphanage began at the home of
Margaret Basigwa. Margaret is the Deputy Director of
Child Welfare in Kenya. Though it is licensed as an
orphanage, House of Hope is a family, and that's how the
Margaret refers to it. She is “mum” to the children as if they were always
her own. All of the children bear
the Basigwa name. Those who support House of Hope sponsor the
entire family as a whole, providing monthly
support or
donations.
P.O. Box 696
Bloomfield, N M 87413
(505)-632-0535
E-mail- leroynrhonda@obii.net
Cory
Brooks - Country Singer & Youth Evangelist
Christian Country Music Association Runner up
Male Vocalist of the Year - Nominated for best New Artist of the
Year.
Meredith Bunting - Missionary,
Wycliffe Translator
Meredith Bunting, missionary to Niger,
teaches literacy to the Tamajaq people. She reports that the
literacy training is seeing excellent progress.
She is a member of the
Solar
Cookers International(Meredith
Bunting sends a very nice "How to Make and Use" booklet based on
SCI's which she translated into Tamajaq for Taureg women. She
notes, "The families here spend too much of their food budget on
scarce wood, and the sun is too great a resource to neglect.")
Burson Family
- singers, Guitar, Violin, Mandolin
Dale
is a guitarist in Red
Stegall's band, and is a third-generation rancher
from Channing, Texas who has enough country to run his cows and
yearlings each year. He started playing music when he was 13
after becoming interested in the banjo; not long after that he
learned to play guitar, mandolin, and fiddle. He's played at the
Durango poetry and music gathering as well as the Dick Shepherd
Memorial poetry and song gathering and he's been greatly
influenced by other Texas musicians Buck Ramsey and Frankie
McWhorter. His son, Ross, plays mandolin and his daughter,
Brittany, plays violin. Most of the music they perform are tunes
they have written, or are old standards. The Burson family has CD's, The Burson Family Ranch,
a collection of original cowboy songs with some extra tunes
thrown in and Dancing With Daddy. Becki, Dale’s
wife of 20 years, prefers to stay out of the spotlight, although
she is noted for her beautiful singing voice in church.
Don Compton,
Director and Founder of
Shalom Ministries
and Life Quest
Academy. Shalom
Ministries began in Santa Fe, NM in 1970 as a coffee house
outreach to troubled youth (hippies) in northern NM. The
cry of that day was for an end to the Vietnam war and PEACE,
therefore the name SHALOM. Since its inception in 1970,
Shalom Ministries has been an outreach to troubled youth in need
of answers to personal problems. Today, Shalom ministries
focuses on youth in New Mexico's juvenile detention centers or
who are on probation or parole. In Shalom's
Life Quest Academy outreach, volunteers develop lasting friendships with
hurting youth in detention. These much needed friendships
continue after the youth leaves the detention center.
Shalom Ministries
-"Reaching
Troubled Youth Before They Reach Prison" Shalom Ministries
held a meeting recently with representatives
from Springer Boys' school, CYFD, NMHU
Social Work Program, Luna Community College,
and Director of the Cornerstone Spiritual
Growth Center, Harold Esquibel to discuss
the possibility of a Transitional Home for
boys released from the Boys' School to
attend Luna Community College and using the
same model for the men's home.
Shalom Ministries
505-473-2100
P.O. Box 668
Santa Fe, NM 87505
2450 Mervosh Place SW
Albuquerque, NM 87105
(505) 288-1690
Bruce Das - West Texas A&M Univ. Bruce ministers with The Navigators'
Collegiate Ministries in Amarillo, TX
On April 7 in Iraq, Eric Bruce Das, 30, was
piloting an F-15E Strike Eagle on a bombing mission near Tikrit
when his plane went down. Das and his weapons officer, assigned
to the 333rd Fighter Squadron, were reported missing about 3:50
a.m. (6:50 p.m. April 6 CST).
His parents, Bruce and Rosie Das of Amarillo, soon learned their
son was missing, and their family's private, painful ordeal
began.
On Thursday night, a military liaison officer came to their
Amarillo home and gently broke the news. Eric, a beloved son,
husband, brother and uncle, had been killed in action while on a
combat mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Jim & Judith Fullingim -singer, prison ministry
If you'd like to have
Jim Fullingim's tapes or CDs, just email me
or call (toll-free) (877) 980-2729. Touch Through Me Ministries
28 Brentwood Circle
P.O. Box 98130
Lubbock, TX 79499
After 23 years of service, Ward retired from
Army and moved back to Harding County in 1993. He worked at
various home improvement jobs around the county then went to
work for the NM Highway Department in Roy. He resigned after
2 years with Highway Department and began studying for
ministry and is now an ordained minister with the Assemblies
of God International Fellowship. Ward Garrison
P.O. Box 10-B
Solano, NM 87746
Suzy Gayle Montgomery -
singer In the last five years Suzy has
traveled America singing for her Savior. Compassion in Song has
become her ministry. The membership of CGMA, the world’s largest
Country Gospel Music Association, has now awarded her the Platinum
Heart Award, Four Time International Female Vocalist of the Year,
and International Esteemed Servant.
Myra Green - singer
A New Mexico native, Green has
recorded three albums and received a Country Gospel Music
Association award and past winner of
the Southwest Region Female Vocalist Award.
“Jesus has done so much for me,” said Green. “I am just an
ordinary woman who loves to sing for Jesus. Yet, the work of the
Lord in my ordinary life gives me a reason to sing, a reason to
share. Ray Calcote’s lyrics and music tell about Jesus in a
manner that is clear, uncluttered, biblically accurate and fun.”
“She does have a beautiful voice. People say it reminds
them of Patsy Kline.” For more information call 847-2394 or 757-8406
'Ruth: the Musical'
The drama is adapted from
biblical text and includes seven classical-style original songs
composed by Country Gospel singer Myra Green, who teaches the Christian
home school drama class, has led students in adapting books into
plays, writing scripts and doing everything all the way through
performing the play.
Myra Green Country Gospel Concerts
P.O. Box 14
Glorieta, NM 87535
757-8406
Fred Jobe, Singing Sheriff The Lady and the Law
Fred Jobe and Iris Supan started
singing together about two years ago. From the start their
voices blended into beautiful harmony. When Fred and Iris began looking for a
name for the singing duo, someone suggested the Lady and the
Law. They tried the name out and it stuck.
Iris has been married to Tony
Supan for 27 years. The Supans are a rodeo
family. Iris has been involved in barrel racing, break away
roping and has reigned as rodeo queen for several different
rodeos.
Fred started singing gospel music
when he was ten years old. Fred has been married to Deloris for
41 years. He has been Sheriff of Custer County for the past 17
years in Law Enforcement for 25 years. He is known as The
Singing Sheriff .
Westcliffe, CO
Lora Beth Malloy
- missionary Lora Beth Malloy is
the missionary that takes the gospel to all nations. She
presently is ministering in Ireland and Scotland and
experiencing a great revival in the land many souls are being
saved.
Lora Beth Malloy
Calvary World Missions
P.O. Box 601
Hominy, OK 74035
(918)885-4561
Joe
Leathers
- Preacher
Lay preacher and manager of the Dixon
Creek Division of the 4 Sixes Ranch in Panhandle, Texas
P.O. Box 698
Panhandle, TX 79068
Loren (Doc) Mayer - Poet
Doc Mayer lives and works on the Morning
Star Ranch west of Roy, N.M. where the Canadian River escarpment
cuts down through the caprock. He's been an artist for twenty
odd years and has lived on his ranch since around 1985. Doc got
a Ph.D. in physiology at the University of Texas at Austin and
taught in the Texas A&M College of Medicine before coming to the
Land of Enchantment. With dreams firmly based in the late 19th
century, he found a place where his philosophy of life and
attitudes fit in nicely. "I love this area because the people
have more contentment and beauty in their lives than in any spot
where I've lived. The people are as open as the horizon and as
real as the grama grass."
Singer/songwriter Chuck Milner
has been involved in the livestock industry for over twenty
years. He's been singing as long as he can remember. As a ten
year old Texas kid, he received a horse and a guitar from his
grandfather. He spent the next twenty years weaving those two
interests into his craft. He has worked as a cowboy and ranch
hand in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado, spending several years
running his own handful of cows.
Having served as an Artist
-in- Residence for the Oklahoma Arts Council, he has taught
cowboy songs and poems in the Oklahoma Public School system. In
2001, the Academy of Western Artists awarded him the WILL ROGERS
award for Western Music Song of the Year, DOAN'S CROSSING.
The native Texan now resides
on the Texas/Oklahoma border near Reydon, Oklahoma where he
oversees the cattle grazing program on the Black Kettle National
Grassland. Chuck, his wife Beth, children Hallie and Cody Ray,
are fourth generation Oklahoma ranchers, running a cow/calf
operation and Paint and Quarter Broodmares on their place on
Rush Creek. They also own the
Smoot/Hood
Ranch in Greer County which was awarded an Oklahoma
Centennial Ranch award in 2003, having been owned and operated
by Beth's family since 1901.
In 2004, Hallie and Cody
joined their dad playing traditional music. Hallie, age eleven,
plays the fiddle while eight year old Cody plays the mandolin.
Gary & Suzy Morton -
Artist, Speaker
Suzy was healed of blindness and now testifies and speaks.
She is sometimes used to give a word of prophecy.
Western painter, Gary Morton, sometimes likes to joke about
breaking into the art business by saying, "I've been turned down
by the best". While that could have been a truthful statement
early in his career, Morton can now talk about the flip side of
the coin - the fact that his work hangs in the most prestigious
of locations. For instance, a four foot by eight foot oil
entitled "The Simple Pleasures of New Mexico" was commissioned
by the New Mexico State Legislature for inclusion in the
permanent collection which hangs in the State Capitol Building
in Santa Fe. Morton is also a regular participant in the Wyoming
Governor's Invitational Show in Cheyenne which is held as a part
of their "Frontier Days Celebration", and a number of his
paintings were recently displayed at the Museum of the Big Bend
in Alpine, TX as part of their "Trappings of Texas" exhibition.
Morton is primarily a self-taught artist who has
honed his talent by spending numerous hours drawing the images
he has experienced first hand. A cowboy at heart, Morton earned
his livelihood as a ranch hand for more than ten years,
wrangling primarily on the Bell Ranch in Northern New Mexico,
where he eventually earned the position of wagon boss, the
number two job on the spread.
Although he is now a full time artist, Morton
still spends at least six weeks out of the year working as a
ranch hand. "My greatest joy in the art business is going to
these ranches", he relates. "It gives me a chance to enjoy the
camaraderie of these special men, and to keep the images of
their work sharp in my mind".
Multi-talented, Morton also enjoys
participating in Cowboy Poetry Gatherings. He has written four
or five of his own poems, but for the most part he likes to
recite other poet's works.
Las Vegas, NM
GaryMunden - singer, songwriter
Choir Director - First Baptist Church of
Cimarron, NM
Host of the Christian Broadcast on Tuesday night on KRTN 93.7 FM
Pam Newberry
- Retreat Speaker
Starfish Kenya began April 2001 as a
response to the cry for help from the Body of Christ in
Kenya for the orphaned and abandoned children of that
country. During their first visit to Kenya, Roy and Pam
Newberry were overcome with the despair and hopelessness due
to the ravages of the AIDS virus leaving 2 million children
orphaned and hopelessness due to the ravages of the AIDS
virus leaving 2 million children orphaned and abandoned in
that country.
We make no claims of perfection or special talent, just a
hunger for more of Jesus in our lives and in His church. Why
God chose to do what he has done is more that I even knew to
ask Him to do. What happened to us, God placed in my heart
when I was just a teenager. As I pursued that dream for a
lifetime I discovered God's power to be very real and all
things do happen in His time. I pray that which God has
placed in your heart is coming to be as well.
Tom
Perry - fiddle, guitar, singer,
preacher Tom Perry performs
Southwestern Christian Concerts
and other Southwestern Music for Church Services,
Barbecues, Fairs, Festivals & Special Events. Tom is also licensed minister, available for performing
weddings, and plays classical music, love songs, and other
requests. He lives with his wife, and their two children
in Angel Fire, New Mexico. Tom Perry
P.O. Box 1424 Angel Fire, New Mexico 87710 505-377-3667
Ray Perryman
- preacher, singer Short Round Ministries Ray & Kim Perryman
8119 County Road 5800 Shallowater, TX 79363
Congressman was a Representative from New
Mexico; born in Chicago, Ill., January 28, 1955; attended Gage
Park High School; B.A., 1979, Lincoln Christian College in
Illinois; M.Div., Lincoln Christian Seminary, 1988; attended
Murray State University, Ky.; United States Army Reserve, where
he participated in the Army chaplain candidate program; special
education instructor, 1980-1983; teacher and administrator of a
group home in the late 1980’s; minister Santa Fe Christian
Church; author; teacher at University of New Mexico-Los Alamos;
member, New Mexico Republican State Central Committee; delegate,
New Mexican Republican pre-primary convention; managed, Santa Fe
Youth and Family Roller Rink; elected as a Republican to the One
Hundred Fifth Congress on May 13, 1997, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Bill Richardson and served from May
13, 1997, to January 3, 1999; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the One Hundred Sixth Congress.
(505) 662-9214
1640 16th St.
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Randy Rich -
preacher, Denver Bronco
Randy graduated from the University of
New Mexico in 1976 with a Biology degree. He went on to play
in the National Football League (NFL) as a defensive back
and special team’s player. During his five year career, he was a member of the
Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, and Denver Broncos,
including the 1977 Broncos Super Bowl XII Team.
He
started working for the International Cooperating
Ministries, (ICM). ICM broadcasts the Gospel through
TransWorld Radio and provides resources to build Churches,
Bible colleges, and Orphanages in third world countries.
Randy is the Western Regional Director.
John Sandager
- Lawyer John and Susan Sandager are members of
Bridges for Peace, a Jerusalem-based Christian organization.
Susan does a re-enactment of Corrie Ten Boom, who rescued many
Jews during the Holocaust and then was sent to the prison camps. John Sandager
8801 Spain Rd NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87111
(505) 823-1314
Susie
Sandager – BFP USA Associate Director
– Community Relations
Susie has been with BFP since 2002. Prior to this, Susie and her
husband John co-founded the ministry Yad b’ Yad (Hebrew for hand
in hand.) In 2002 Yad b’ Yad merged with Bridges for Peace.
Susie is the developer of a one woman show based on the life of
Corrie Ten Boom. This moving drama recounts the efforts of one
family to stand for God, and to stand with and for the Jewish
people during the darkest days of the Holocaust. This one woman
show is a perfect presentation for either a Christian, Jewish,
or combined audience. Audiences are constantly surprised that
the 80 year old Dutch woman they see on stage is really the much
younger Susie.
Susie’s topics include: Corrie Remembers
– A one woman presentation
My story – how a Baptist girl from Kentucky came to love the
Jewish people
Everett
Smith - Pastor
Everett Smith has been pastor of
Valley Gospel
Tabernacle since 1951. He has ministered in South America,
England, Israel and Hawaii. He has been instrumental in
training about 30 people who are in full-time ministry all over
the world and currently has 3 assistant pastors who are being
trained for ministry. Everett Smith
1824 Valley Rd. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87105
(505)877-1161
Tom & Karen Walters
Tom was injured in a car accident as a youth and has been
confined to a wheelchair . He has a prison ministry and
speaks to schools to help prevent drunk driving. He owns a
construction company in Amarillo and was the contractor who
remodeled the Mosquero Community Church. Karen plays the
violin beautifully and is usually joined by Glen Spiller. Tom Walters
Rt. 1 Box 93
Clarendon, TX 79226
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