Richard’s Blog

It’s almost the end of Oct and we are finally home from our western tour.  Wow what a trip it was. We covered over 3500 miles in the motor home. We started out in Kansas City Ks, then on to Nebraska, back into Kansas, then on to Colorado, then back into Kansas and finally, Branson.  God was so good to us on this tour and even though we drove a lot of miles, we were able to minister to a lot of people.  I want to share just one of the more special stories of what happened on this trip.  While we were in Kansas City, I played with some guitarists at a Jam session.  There was one man who came in and played bass guitar.  He talked about enjoying my playing and that he would love to own one of my CDs but could not afford to buy one, so i gave him one.  Now a month later, I had a concert at a church in Independence Ks.  After the concert an 82 yr old lady came up to me with tears in her eyes.  She said the moment I began to play she knew it was me……..  I asked her what she meant.  With tears she told me that two weeks before she lost one of her sons in death.  She then went on to tell me that her only remaining son came to her from Kansas City and brought her a CD and told her she needed to listen to it and consider using it in her sons funeral.  She did use it in the funeral and it was the CD that I had given the young man in KC. God is so good  in how he allows my music to be used to minister. For that I am very thankful. Anyway, that is but one of the awesome testimonies as to His faithfullness.   Please continue to keep us in your prayers.  We will be living at home until mid Jan.  The concerts I have between now and then are all going to be just a short drive from home.  Thanks for all your prayers for my ministry.  Will post again soon……….. GOD BLESS….RICH

Well, im still lousy at this blogging thing but its time for a new update.  I’m going to try to do better I promise. Right now we are in Longton Kansas. This is the fifth week of the tour and it has been a good one. So far, we have traveled over two thousand miles in the motor home and over two thousand miles in the car. God has been so good to us, tomorrow, i will be ministering to the third public school program, talking to kids and sharing my music. We played at the Brush Cowboy church last weekend and it was an awesome crowd, almost two hundred people and the service was held in a Sale Barn. At another concert I did the very next day, I shared my testimony about the hunting accident and my recovery from PTSD.  A lady came to me after the service in tears and told me that I was sent there just for her. I am always so honored that God will use me in this way. There have been so many incidences like this that have happened over the past few weeks.  Next week we will be at the CGMA convention in Branson, and then to western Ky to play and speak at a fund raiser for Gods Outdoors Diciples which is an outreach ministry for kids.  We had a cancellation of a concert to be held last night so we ended up having a good old fashioned Jam session with some friends here in Longton.  I’ll be adding more real soon.  Keep checking this site.   GOD BLESS        RICH