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Limited seating is available, get your tickets
as soon as possible.
Business sponsorships are available. Click
for more information.
Doors will be open to the public at 5:30 PM.
The concert will start at 6 PM. We will also have a silent
auction. Check out the silent
auction list. Also, we will sell raffle tickets for a 7
night vacation at a luxury
5 star resort in Antigua at the event. If you are not able
to come to the event and you would like to purchase a raffle
ticket, go to this link.
Date & Time: Saturday, August
22nd 6-9 PM
Location:
Haywood Community College
Auditorium
185 Freedlander Dr.
Clyde, NC 28721
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Michael
O’Brien (http://www.michaelo.org)
is a much-accomplished 20-year music veteran—perhaps most
notably for his 7-year tenure as lead singer of the Christian
band Newsong—that revelation changed the trajectory of
his life and career. He left Newsong and came home, having been
gone more than 225 nights a year for years, to seek the affection
of his wife and children again. They reset their priorities,
made huge adjustments to the calendar and began focusing on
reconnecting spiritually and as a family.
“My true calling began
25 years ago, on March 3, 1989,” he says, of the day he
and Heidi married. “It was to love my wife as Christ loved
the Church, and lay my life down for her. My gifting has always
been music. But now my gifting doesn’t take precedence
over my calling. It never should have.”
“It’s such a beautiful
thing, how marriage works,” says Michael. “We have
learned so much, how hard it is to fight for your marriage and
how rewarding it can be when you quit looking at yourself and
stick it out. You hear people say how, after years of struggling
in their marriage, they love each other even more. It so easy
to focus on the negative, but that commitment is worth fighting
for.”
Not that his gifts have been
languishing. As so often happens when God ushers in season of
change and growth, Michael’s true calling and his talent
have converged. Two albums—2007’s Something
About Us and 2010’s Be
Still My Soul—capture the rebirth of romance in their
marriage, as well as their renewed sense of hope and healing.
Christ’mas,
released in 2012, celebrates the sacredness of the season. He
also has a new album, Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs coming
out.
Doors of opportunity have opened
for Michael to share his music and his and Heidi’s story
of restoration. In addition to leading worship at various events,
including Extraordinary Women Conferences and Wildfire Men’s
Conferences, Michael has launched his own marriage enrichment
date nights and weekend events called Tour De Romance. |
