 Today is Friday November 22, 2024 in Canada.
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Emmaus Road is a music group that embraces the roots of Southern Gospel flavoured with that special Maritime touch. Traveling many miles and logging long hours, this mixed group takes the perils of singing SG across the East in stride. Their members have other jobs as well, and this adds to the many facets of life as an SG artist. Bass singer Burrell Cross says, “The challenges in Canada would generally come from the distances we need to travel to do our ministry, and the costs involved (gas is averaging almost $4.00 per gallon now). Despite the fact that we live in a "Bible Belt" the costs are very high and make it impossible to be full time. Just paying the expense is all we hope for. The other thing is that good gospel music, live, is not in abundance here and many people really have no idea what a good group can do for their assembly until they experience it first hand. Because we work hard at getting better musically constantly and strive to maintain God's anointing, the word is getting around about us and our reputation is becoming better known. This has to be done ourselves because of the lack of quality promoters here... Longer winters make for a short summer season also for traveling considerations. The advantages on the other hand are a general lack of competition from other groups, so it is kind of a mixed blessing.”
This mixed blessing does come with a price, but many wonderful moments as well. “One story that I could tell you about does actually deal with that very topic and a winter trip to Halifax NS…about a 4 hour drive in the summer, but we were booked in November, normally early enough to not have to contend with snow, a least that's what we thought. Well the weather had other ideas and we ended up getting home in a snow storm at 4 AM and our lead singer was driving semi at that time, [He] just stepped out of his car and into the truck and kept on going for another 14 hours. Another time we ended up further away on a Sun night service and wondered why that was happening, but later found out from the pastor that a man in the service that had been away from the Lord for many years came back to him during the service, another one for the kingdom!.”
http://www.emmausroad.ca
Source: article "Music in the Maritimes" written by Lorraine Walker for http://www.sgmradio.com
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Today is Friday November 22, 2024 in Canada. 
