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In July Praises Unlimited was blessed to have the opportunity to travel to the Orange County area for the Betty William's Road Trip (more on that story here). Recently, Betty moved on to her Heavenly home and we thank God that He allowed us to share our love and music with her before her address change. We know her friends and family miss her terribly and our hearts and prayers go out to Ed and all who had the joy of having Betty in their lives!

Praises Unlimited is excited to announce the availability of additional concert dates for our Celebrate Jesus! tour. If you are interested in booking one of these dates, let us know.

Also, we have just announced available dates for our 2010 Christmas Tour! These dates will book quickly, so get your reservations in now to guarantee Praises Unlimited at your facility for Christmas!

Praise God for blessing our Betty Willams Roadtrip so richly! After several weeks of planning, we began this roadtrip early Saturday morning, July 24th! Thirty-five hours, 3 concerts, 150 residents and 205 miles later we completed our roadtrip, tired but excited about what God had allowed us to do! Read more about it below!

Listen to Praises Unlimited perform a great song called "Comfort Ye". Click HERE to have a listen!

In 2009, Praises Unlimited presented 18 musical programs to 9 different Assisted Living/Retirement Communities, served 3 Sundays as the temporary Praise Team for a local church and performed 2 concerts at local churches! What an exciting year! We are having a great time and the blessings we get back from the residents at the communities we visit feel like they far outweighs the gift we are sharing with them.

We are looking forward to seeing where God takes us in 2010 and have already completed our Early Bird 2010 Gospel Truth Tour and Road to the Cross Tour!

You can hear music recorded live from our Rediscover Christmas Tour! Click Rediscover Christmas Music and sing along!

What happens when we include a song called "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas!" in our Christmas Tour? People get a little bit crazy! Need proof? Take a look at the picture below!

Praises Unlimited is an independent Christian Praise Team. Our mission is to use our musical talents to share the message of salvation anywhere, and with anyone we can! Sharing Christ through Christian Music is our motto and we strive to give the first fruits of our talents back to the Glory of God in everything we do.

We are a self-contained unit which means we are able to come to your facility with our own instruments, sound and video equipment. This helps us ensure the highest quality performance possible and minimize impacts to your facility and your budget.

Typically, we do not charge to come to your house of worship, nursing home, assisted living facility, school or other non-profit organization.

We understand that we are bringing our program to folks of many faiths, and various beliefs. We have found that almost everyone enjoys the content and quality of the programs we present regardless of their personal beliefs. Our programs feature Christian Music, video and readings from the Holy Bible presented in an entertaining and comfortable style. After our programs we always take time to meet and greet each resident and thank them for spending part of their day with us. We never force any material or literature on the residents, but we do offer them a small remembrance of our visit and make available a large print copy of the Gospel of John. Each resident is free to accept or decline whatever we may offer.

If you are interested in having Praises Unlimited visit your facility, send Mike an email at mike@PraisesUnlimited.com . If you would like to be on our emailing list, just say so in your note.

Jesus loves you! He paid the price of your salvation by dying on the cross and then rising again! Because He paid this price, you can live forever with Him! Hallelujah

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Here's something fun! Praises Unlimited normally books locations within about 30 minutes of our home base. But by the grace of God, we ventured out to the southern Orange county area on what I like to call the Betty Williams Roadtrip! Betty is a dear friend of one of our members and by default, that makes her a dear friend of our entire team. After we booked at Betty's home, she pulled a fast one on us and moved to another retirement community! But we fooled her and booked that home as well!

Well......after several weeks of planning, we began this roadtrip early Saturday morning, July 24th! Thirty-five hours, 3 concerts, 150 residents and 205 miles later we completed our roadtrip, tired but excited about what God had allowed us to do!

The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose" That means that if we have faith in God, He will use our times of trouble and sorrow for some good purpose. Betty had faith in God and although God certainly did not bring affliction upon Betty, He used Betty's affliction as an opportunity to witness to Praises Unlimited, and as an opportunity for Praises Unlimited to witness to not one, but 3 communities in the Orange County area!

Praises Unlimited closed out our 2010 Road to the Cross Tour on April 3rd and we praise God for the wonderful reception we received at all of our tour locations. We already visited some new locations this year and made some new friends!

We are very excited to be on tour with our brand new program called

"Celebrate Jesus!" This program features 19 songs including some that folks may find familiar such as: Jesus Loves Me, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Holy Holy Holy and Because He Lives!

Video, Sing-a-longs, Gospel readings and other narrative round out the program delighting and engaging your residents! As always, residents are encouraged to sing along with any songs they may know and the display of song lyrics on our 8 foot video screen give them the confidence to do so!

Tour dates are limited and are filling quickly,

so be sure to let us know if you are interested in this tour. If you are interested in a date that is not published, please feel free to contact us as we may be able to open additional dates based on availability of the Team.

At each performance of Celebrate Jesus! we are making a large print copy "The Gospel of John" available to residents at no charge. We also offer each resident a small memento of our visit! Can't tell you what it is, that would ruin the surprise! However, I can tell you that it has been a very popular item!

Click the Play button below to see clip of us at Our Savior's First Lutheran Church!

We use

V-Session Drums and a

VS-2480 Digital Studio Workstation on all of our tours! Why should you care? Because we were blessed to discover that Roland Corporation and Roland's Dennis Houlihan: Happy to be number 1,000.

Roland's Dennis Houlihan: Happy to be number 1,000.

Dennis Houlihan, President of Roland US stand behind their products and can be counted on to provide assistance in a crisis. That means that Praises Unlimited will be at your location as agreed and able to provide you with a quality program that sounds great!

Here's our story: One week before our first tour date, our Roland VS-2480 goes on the fritz. This is bad because all of our audio runs through this board and it also has multiple pre-recorded tracks on it that are integrated into our show. If the board does not work, the show does not go on. After a call to Roland Support and a couple of days working on the board to confirm the problem, it was determined that a replacement part and general health check was required. At that point, both cost of the replacement part and repair turnaround time became critical issues.

A call to Roland's US headquarters and Mike was talking directly to Dennis Houlihan, President of Roland US, who promised to look into assisting with both issues. The next morning, Mike received a call from Roger, a member of Dennis' team who set-up a priority service call for Friday morning. Early Friday morning, Clarke and Mike drove to the Roland repair center. They were greeted by Roger who personally interfaced with the support team to ensure our repair received top priority. By 1:30 that same day, the board was repaired (at a reasonable cost) and back in our hands!

Mike and Clarke decided to stop by and thank Dennis for his support and drop off a Constant Disciple Hat and CD as a token of our thanks. Much to our surprise, we found ourselves being thanked by Dennis for giving Roland an opportunity to stand behind their product and help us in our time of need!

Frankly, we feel God has blessed us by leading us to use Roland products and we also thank God for allowing us to be connected directly to Dennis who without hesitation provided an exceptional level of support!

Dennis and Team, Thanks for your support! May God bless you and thank you for keeping the music playing on our Gospel Truth Tour!

An Independent Christian Praise Team Praises Unlimited! Sharing Christ through Christian Music!

	What's new on our website? Last updated 9/1/10 In July Praises Unlimited was blessed to have the opportunity to travel to the Orange County area for the Betty William's Road Trip (more on that story here). Recently, Betty moved on to her Heavenly home and we thank God that He allowed us to share our love and music with her before her address change. We know her friends and family miss her terribly and our hearts and prayers go out to Ed and all who had the joy of having Betty in their lives! Praises Unlimited is excited to announce the availability of additional concert dates for our Celebrate Jesus! tour. If you are interested in booking one of these dates, let us know. Also, we have just announced available dates for our 2010 Christmas Tour! These dates will book quickly, so get your reservations in now to guarantee Praises Unlimited at your facility for Christmas! Praise God for blessing our Betty Willams Roadtrip so richly! After several weeks of planning, we began this roadtrip early Saturday morning, July 24th! Thirty-five hours, 3 concerts, 150 residents and 205 miles later we completed our roadtrip, tired but excited about what God had allowed us to do! Read more about it below! Listen to Praises Unlimited perform a great song called "Comfort Ye". Click HERE to have a listen! In 2009, Praises Unlimited presented 18 musical programs to 9 different Assisted Living/Retirement Communities, served 3 Sundays as the temporary Praise Team for a local church and performed 2 concerts at local churches! What an exciting year! We are having a great time and the blessings we get back from the residents at the communities we visit feel like they far outweighs the gift we are sharing with them. We are looking forward to seeing where God takes us in 2010 and have already completed our Early Bird 2010 Gospel Truth Tour and Road to the Cross Tour! You can hear music recorded live from our Rediscover Christmas Tour! Click Rediscover Christmas Music and sing along! What happens when we include a song called "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas!" in our Christmas Tour? People get a little bit crazy! Need proof? Take a look at the picture below! Clarke & Jen want a Hippopotamus for Christmas! Oh yeah...and world peace too! What are we all about? Praises Unlimited is an independent Christian Praise Team. Our mission is to use our musical talents to share the message of salvation anywhere, and with anyone we can! Sharing Christ through Christian Music is our motto and we strive to give the first fruits of our talents back to the Glory of God in everything we do. We are a self-contained unit which means we are able to come to your facility with our own instruments, sound and video equipment. This helps us ensure the highest quality performance possible and minimize impacts to your facility and your budget. Typically, we do not charge to come to your house of worship, nursing home, assisted living facility, school or other non-profit organization. We understand that we are bringing our program to folks of many faiths, and various beliefs. We have found that almost everyone enjoys the content and quality of the programs we present regardless of their personal beliefs. Our programs feature Christian Music, video and readings from the Holy Bible presented in an entertaining and comfortable style. After our programs we always take time to meet and greet each resident and thank them for spending part of their day with us. We never force any material or literature on the residents, but we do offer them a small remembrance of our visit and make available a large print copy of the Gospel of John. Each resident is free to accept or decline whatever we may offer. If you are interested in having Praises Unlimited visit your facility, send Mike an email at mike@PraisesUnlimited.com . If you would like to be on our emailing list, just say so in your note. Jesus loves you! He paid the price of your salvation by dying on the cross and then rising again! Because He paid this price, you can live forever with Him! Hallelujah CLICK A BUTTON BELOW TO HEAR PRAISES UNLIMITED! What are we up to lately? *The Betty Williams Celebrate Jesus! Roadtrip - July 24 & 25* Here's something fun! Praises Unlimited normally books locations within about 30 minutes of our home base. But by the grace of God, we ventured out to the southern Orange county area on what I like to call the Betty Williams Roadtrip! Betty is a dear friend of one of our members and by default, that makes her a dear friend of our entire team. After we booked at Betty's home, she pulled a fast one on us and moved to another retirement community! But we fooled her and booked that home as well! Well......after several weeks of planning, we began this roadtrip early Saturday morning, July 24th! Thirty-five hours, 3 concerts, 150 residents and 205 miles later we completed our roadtrip, tired but excited about what God had allowed us to do! The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose" That means that if we have faith in God, He will use our times of trouble and sorrow for some good purpose. Betty had faith in God and although God certainly did not bring affliction upon Betty, He used Betty's affliction as an opportunity to witness to Praises Unlimited, and as an opportunity for Praises Unlimited to witness to not one, but 3 communities in the Orange County area! Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Praises Unlimited closed out our 2010 Road to the Cross Tour on April 3rd and we praise God for the wonderful reception we received at all of our tour locations. We already visited some new locations this year and made some new friends! We are very excited to be on tour with our brand new program called "Celebrate Jesus!" This program features 19 songs including some that folks may find familiar such as: Jesus Loves Me, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Holy Holy Holy and Because He Lives! Video, Sing-a-longs, Gospel readings and other narrative round out the program delighting and engaging your residents! As always, residents are encouraged to sing along with any songs they may know and the display of song lyrics on our 8 foot video screen give them the confidence to do so! Tour dates are limited and are filling quickly, so be sure to let us know if you are interested in this tour. If you are interested in a date that is not published, please feel free to contact us as we may be able to open additional dates based on availability of the Team. At each performance of Celebrate Jesus! we are making a large print copy "The Gospel of John" available to residents at no charge. We also offer each resident a small memento of our visit! Can't tell you what it is, that would ruin the surprise! However, I can tell you that it has been a very popular item! *2010 - The Celebrate Jesus Tour!* June 12 - 1:30pm - Glen Park West, Glendale, CA June 13 - 3:00pm - Vintage Simi Hills, Simi Valley, CA June 19 - 2:00pm Evergreen Retirement Home, Burbank, CA July 24 - 2:00pm - Sunrise of Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, CA July 24 - 5:30pm - Brighton Gardens of Yorba Linda, CA July 25 - 2:30pm - Sunrise Villa Valencia, Laguna Hills, CA July 31 - 2:00pm - Solheim Lutheran Home - Chapel, Eagle Rock, CA August 21- 1:30pm - Brighton Gardens Assisted Living, Northridge, CA August 22 - 2:00pm - Emeritus at Chatsworth, Chatsworth, CA Dates just announced! September 11 September 12 September 25 - 1:45pm - Pacifica Senior Living, Northridge, CA October 16 October 17 October 23 October 24 No dates for November as we will be rehearsing for our 2010 Christmas Tour. *2010 Christmas Tour -* December 4 December 5 December 7 - Evening only December 11 December 12 December 14 - Evening only December 18 December 19 December 21 - Evening only December 26 Click the Play button below to see clip of us at Our Savior's First Lutheran Church! We use V-Session Drums and a VS-2480 Digital Studio Workstation on all of our tours! Why should you care? Because we were blessed to discover that Roland Corporation and Dennis Houlihan, President of Roland US stand behind their products and can be counted on to provide assistance in a crisis. That means that Praises Unlimited will be at your location as agreed and able to provide you with a quality program that sounds great! Here's our story: One week before our first tour date, our Roland VS-2480 goes on the fritz. This is bad because all of our audio runs through this board and it also has multiple pre-recorded tracks on it that are integrated into our show. If the board does not work, the show does not go on. After a call to Roland Support and a couple of days working on the board to confirm the problem, it was determined that a replacement part and general health check was required. At that point, both cost of the replacement part and repair turnaround time became critical issues. A call to Roland's US headquarters and Mike was talking directly to Dennis Houlihan, President of Roland US, who promised to look into assisting with both issues. The next morning, Mike received a call from Roger, a member of Dennis' team who set-up a priority service call for Friday morning. Early Friday morning, Clarke and Mike drove to the Roland repair center. They were greeted by Roger who personally interfaced with the support team to ensure our repair received top priority. By 1:30 that same day, the board was repaired (at a reasonable cost) and back in our hands! Mike and Clarke decided to stop by and thank Dennis for his support and drop off a Constant Disciple Hat and CD as a token of our thanks. Much to our surprise, we found ourselves being thanked by Dennis for giving Roland an opportunity to stand behind their product and help us in our time of need! Frankly, we feel God has blessed us by leading us to use Roland products and we also thank God for allowing us to be connected directly to Dennis who without hesitation provided an exceptional level of support! Dennis and Team, Thanks for your support! May God bless you and thank you for keeping the music playing on our Gospel Truth Tour!