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What was the Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries?

Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries (FCCM) was a support group and network for contemporary Christian musicians and artists based in the United States of America. Read more from Paul Baker's 1979,1985 book Contemporary Christian Music Where It Came From, What It Is, Where It's Going.

Read more online from Paul Baker's 1979,1985 book Contemporary Christian Music Where It Came From, What It Is, Where It's Going Paul Baker has authored over four hundred articles on music for Saturday Evening Post, Billboard, Cashbox, Bookstore Journal, Group and other magazines. He was awarded Billboard Magazine's Air Personality Award for 1971 in Top 40 medium market radio. He has been a DJ on radio stations in Tampa, West Palm Beach, Denver, Wichita, Dallas, and Birmingham, Alabama. His one hour radio show, A Joyful Noise, was the longest continuously broadcast show of its kind in radio, airing for eleven years from 1970 to 1981.

More info in a filing cabinet in the The University of California Archives

Preliminary Guide to the American Religions Collection
http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf3779n92n&chunk.id=c01-1.7.5.3&brand=oac

In 2012, the Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries launched a Facebook Page.

Denny Keitzman

Denny Keitzman has been involved with Creation East, Kingdom Bound, GMA Week

Through a series of circumstances, I became a Christian in 1973. A group of friends came to me and said, “You’ve done such a good job promoting rock and roll, why don’t you turn your talents to the Lord?” I thought that was a pretty novel idea and opened a Christian coffeehouse that year, with live music every Friday and Saturday nights.

I got involved with a group called The Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries. Their ministry was music – whether it was radio, a coffeehouse, concerts, record stores. There really wasn’t a “support group” for contemporary Christian music back then – keep in mind that the GMA was mostly Southern gospel quartets at the time.

That association led to friendships with a couple of guys who wanted to start an annual Christian festival. My wife and I were youth leaders in our church, so we loaded up about four vans with kids headed for central Pennsylvania and that was the first Creation Festival.

• Denny Keitzman on LinkedIn.com

• Denny Keitzman on Facebook.com

• Denny Keitzman Interview with Shure Microphones Some of the leading Christian music festivals wouldn’t be the same without his skills and talents. He is Denny Keitzman, the man behind Strait Gate Productions and a true veteran of the contemporary Christian movement. He’s been doing it longer and better than just about anyone else. Denny Keitzman says "You know, you go out on the road and it really takes a toll on you. I’ve got to be committed mentally and spiritually to the message. I’ve got to believe in the message, and what is being left in the community."

• Denny Keitzman - a Personal Story

• Strait Gate Productions was founded in 1973 by Dennis Keitzman, offering public concerts, speakers, and events in the Midwest. Dennis (known as Denny) loved music and enjoyed seeing it performed free of distractions, without problems with sound, lights, and other production factors.
  Strait Gate Productions recognizes the performers, the technical crew, the promoters and sponsors, and the venue all have specific needs requiring planning and decisions prior to each event. Strait Gate Productions is familiar with all aspects of the event and coordinates, through carefully planning, to attend to the details so the day of the event, from load in to load out, runs smoothly and without complications.

Lon Calvin Whitfield

American, Lon Calvin Whitfield was the Northeast Regional Representative of the Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries

August 1980 - August 1982. Planned, organized, and coordinated the development of Christian music projects represented in the Northeastern section of the United States. Responsible for coordinating district meetings and format, compiling news and opportunities from over 10 states, transferring them to a newsletter format for distribution; screening new talent and scheduling showcases for national conventions. Involved with all aspects of concert promotion for nationally known artists for convention attraction such as: contract agreements, ticket sales, radio advertising and

• Lon Calvin Whitfield on LinkedIn.com