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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! July 2

6:00 p.m. EST

Christian Media Personality

Cheryl Wicker

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! when Scott chats with a gal who’s interviewed even more Christian leaders than he has! Cheryl Ariaz Wicker is a multi-faceted media professional of sixteen years—an award-winning film producer, media personality, and publicity expert. She recently produced the film, Flag of My Father, starring John Schneider, Gigi Erneta, and William Devane. The film garnered the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2011 GI Film Festival and is available on DVD. It has previously aired on Trinity Broadcast Network. Wicker’s previous film, Desires of the Heart, is also on DVD. Her film and television career includes credits in a variety of roles for CBS, ESPN, BET, PAX, and Disney. Wicker is also an award-winning video producer. In addition to producing commercials and promotional videos, she also produced her own Christian music video show for four years and a thirty-minute TV special entitled, Abortion: Why the Controversy? which has aired regionally and on SkyAngel. Her first media job was as a TV news reporter, which later opened the door to working in publicity. As a publicist, she covered the gamut of Christian entertainment, including the arenas of publishing, music, and film—Howard Publishing (now Howard Books with Simon & Schuster), Here to Him Music, and R-Squared Productions. She now owns a Christian entertainment marketing company, Premier1 Studios, which specializes in branding, publicity, and social media. Wicker writes for Examiner.com as the National Christian Movies Examiner and is the producer and host of Christian Movie Connect, a video podcast about Christian movies. The broadcast quality podcast features interviews with top Christian filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals. As a media personality over the past ten years, she has interviewed countless national celebrities. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

July 9 – LaDonna Gatlin, Singer and Speaker

July 16 – Tony Graffanino, Former Major League Baseball Player

July 23 – Tim Shoemaker, Suspense Author

July 30 – Eva Marie Everson, Author

Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern

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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! June 25

6:00 p.m. EST

Christian Recording Artist

Aaron Shust

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! as Scott brings back Aaron Shust to talk about making music for God through family trials and miracles. Hardships generally produce sorrow and heartache, but sometimes there's unexpected joy in life’s trials for those who are willing to look. Just ask Aaron Shust. The past few years have been an emotional rollercoaster for the father of three young sons, yet amongst the challenges, there have been miracles with each trial and tribulation. Each crisis led the Centricity Music recording artist to lean more firmly into his faith and the result is Aaron’s new album, Morning Rises, a potent collection of songs that are worshipful, life-affirming, and absolutely celebratory. Aaron has built a successful career on such songs. The Pennsylvania native earned the Gospel Music Association’s Songwriter of the Year and New Artist Dove Awards in 2007 and his song, My Savior, My God was named Song of the Year. Aaron has developed a reputation as a songwriter of considerable depth and substance, and a worship leader with a passionate heart for serving God and bolstering community. Those qualities reverberate throughout his fifth album, Morning Rises. On Cornerstone, first recorded by Hillsong, Aaron sings: “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.” Framed within a glorious melody and brought to life by Aaron’s evocative voice, Cornerstone is a powerful statement of faith and celebration of God’s sovereignty that has become a favorite at Aaron’s home church in Pennsylvania where he leads worship. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

July 2 – Cheryl Wicker, Christian Movie Connect Host & Film Producer

July 9 – LaDonna Gatlin, Singer and Speaker

July 16 – MLB All-Star Game Mystery Guest

July 23 – Tim Shoemaker, Suspense Author

Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern

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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! June 18

6:00 p.m. EST

Author

Rosemary Hines

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! as Scott shares Rosemary Hines’ testimony of God leading her away from the New Age faith to a faith in Jesus Christ. Rosemary was involved in the New Age movement as a teen and young adult. At age thirty, a family tragedy sparked her search for another spiritual path, leading her to a newfound faith in Jesus Christ. She was a school teacher for twenty years, teaching at a variety of levels including preschool, elementary, and junior high. Most of her teaching career was at middle school level as an English teacher for 7th and 8th graders, where she developed a heart for at-risk students and committed to helping them move toward productive and happy lives. Rosemary is the author of the Sandy Cove series, contemporary faith-based novels entitled Out of a Dream, Through the Tears, and Into Magnolia. She has been published in a variety of magazines and has served as a women's Bible study leader and teacher. She and her husband of thirty-seven years are the proud parents of two grown children and two adorable little granddaughters. Her website is www.rosemaryhines.com and she has an author page on Facebook at Rosemary Wesley Hines Author. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

June 25 – Aaron Shust, Christian Recording Artist

July 2 – Cheryl Wicker, Christian Movie Connect Host & Film Producer

July 9 – LaDonna Gatlin, Singer and Speaker

July 16 – MLB All-Star Game Mystery Guest

Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern

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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! June 11

6:00 p.m. EST

Home School Pioneer

Skeet Savage

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! as Scott shares the life of Skeet Savage and discusses home education as a model to train children. Skeet Savage is the Founder of Wisdom’s Gate Ministries, Editor of Home School Digest, An Encouraging Word, and Brush Arbor Revival Quarterly magazines. She is the author of numerous books including, Choose Wisdom, Homeschooling for Eternity, and Letters to Grandma (volumes 1 & 2). A powerful inspirational/motivational speaker, Skeet makes occasional guest appearances with various internet media, radio, newspaper, TV, and magazines, including a feature in TIME magazine. A fervent prayer warrior with the burden of a prophet and the heart of an evangelist, she is a trusted mentor and dedicated discipler of people around the world. Skeet is the mother of six grown children, and is now a grandmother many times over. Above all, Skeet Savage is simply: The Lord’s Servant. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

June 18 – Rosemary Hines, Author

June 25 – Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolina’s Authors

July 2 – Cheryl Wicker, Christian Movie Connect Host & Film Producer

July 9 – LaDonna Gatlin, Singer and Speaker

Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern

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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! June 4

6:00 p.m. EST

Former MLB Player

Mickey Weston and Wife, Lisa

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! when Scott McCausey talks baseball and faith with Mickey Weston and his wife, Lisa. Mickey Weston joined the ministry of UPI in 1996 after playing fifteen years of professional baseball. He had the privilege of playing parts of five years in the majors with the Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies, and the New York Mets from ’89-’93. He joined UPI part-time in the fall of ’96 and coached the next three years in the New York Mets’ minor league system. Mickey came on staff full-time in the fall of ’99 as the Associate International Director and in 2003 assumed the role as International Director. Mickey ministered with UPI while he was a player taking his first trip overseas to South Korea in 1986. Since 1986, Mickey has worked in almost forty different countries around the world. With a passion for different cultures and peoples, Mickey utilizes the international trips for discipleship with current and former players to give them a greater worldview for Jesus. UPI works with missionaries and national churches to proclaim Jesus through the game of baseball. Mickey and his wife, Lisa, have four children: Erica, Kayla, Drew, and Marissa, all of whom have been home schooled up until high school. The Westons live in Valparaiso, IN., where Mickey is the chaplain for the Chicago White Sox. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

June

June 11 – Homeschool Pioneer and Author Skeet Savage

June 18 – Rosemary Hines, Author

June 25 – Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolina’s Authors

July 2 – Cheryl Wicker, Christian Movie Connect Host & Film Producer

Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern

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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! May 28

6:00 p.m. EST

Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolina’s Authors

Cleo Lampos &

Barbara Warren

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! for another double header with Cleo Lampos and Barbara Warren. Cleo Lampos was born in Colorado, but grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin. She earned a Bachelors in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and a Masters in Education from St. Xavier College-Chicago. After twenty-six years of teaching in regular and special education, Lampos retired from the classroom to her second career as a writer. The magazine articles she has published reflect her experiences as a teacher, mother, wife, gardening assistant to her husband, and avid biography/history buff. An interest in the orphan train led Cleo to attend an orphan train reunion and meet four former train riders. With her husband, she contributes to Share the Harvest, Children’s Hunger Fund, Pantry Kitchen, and Bibles for Missions Thrift Shop. Her goal is to write about "teachers and other everyday heroes." Lampos is represented by Diana Flegal of Hartline Literary Agency. Her book, Teaching Diamonds in the TOUGH, was published by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in 2012. Barbara Warren and her husband, Charles, live on a farm in the beautiful Ozarks where they raise beef cattle. Barbara has had short stories, articles, and devotions published in magazines such as Home Life, Mature Living, and Journey, and is a member of the writing pool for Open Windows, the Southern Baptist devotional magazine. Barbara’s mystery, The Gathering Storm was published by Jireh Publishing and was later brought out in e-book by Eddie Jones of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. Her romantic suspense, Murder at The Painted Lady, was published in hardback by Avalon Books. It was then brought out in paperback by Amazon Publishing. She has taught in her church for several years. She is a former youth leader and enjoys working with young people of all ages. God and church are very important parts of her life. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

June 4 – Former MLB player Mickey Weston and his wife Lisa

June 11 – Homeschool Pioneer and Author Skeet Savage

June 18 – Rosemary Hines, Author

Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern

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Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! May 21

6:00 p.m. EST

ApologetiX Lead Singer, J. Jackson &

Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! with the crazy BRMCWC mystery interviews followed by J. Jackson of the parody band ApologetiX. Influenced by a steady diet of Mad Magazine, Wacky Packages, novelty records, and comic books, ApologetiX lead singer and lyricist J. Jackson started writing parodies as a kid. He became a born-again Christian in January 1988, and his newfound interest in the Bible had a profound influence on his parodies. A journalism major in college, J. worked in the public relations field before going full-time with ApologetiX. He started getting together with some other like-minded Christian musicians in 1990, and this loose-knit group eventually played its first concert as ApologetiX on March 27, 1992. Like many other rock and rollers, J. is surrounded by beautiful women—his wife, Lisa, and four daughters, Janna, Heather, Kelly, and Natalie. They also have a dog (Skippy), three mice (Gracie, Cookie, and Chocolate), and a fish (Diamond). They make their home in Pittsburgh, PA. If you know someone who would be a great guest on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! contact Scott@christiandevotions.us.

2013 Schedule

May 28 – Cleo Lampos &

Barbara Warren, Author

June 4 – Former MLB player Mickey Weston and his wife Lisa

June 11 – Homeschool Pioneer and Author Skeet Savage

June 18 – Rosemary Hines, Author

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