Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries
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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 In 2012, the Fellowship of Contemporary Christian Ministries launched a Facebook Page. Denny KeitzmanDenny 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.
Lon Calvin WhitfieldAmerican, 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
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