Hello world!

 We had a great weekend and a lot of great singing here in the sunshine state of Florida. We started the weekend in Sarasota at the Faith Baptist Church on Fruitville Road at 6:30 and sang till almost 10:30 pm. We had the Puffers from New York, a comical and yet talented gospel group with every kind of stringed instrument that could be played. Bob and Darlene Puffer and base player Dick Everrson entertained us with songs that they wrote from his library of songs through the years and truly blessed our hearts. We had the Dartts from California sing and bless our hearts, Tracy Dartt, has written over 500 songs and many well known songs that have hit the gospel charts by some well known artists. Songs like “God on the Mountain” made popular by Linda Randle that sings on the Gaither Homecoming tours and “The Last Sunday” made popular by the Cathedrals.  Ofcourse, our son, BJ Speer, sings in the quartet and that makes it fantastic, amen? We have enjoyed so much their ministry over the last several years. We had the Weatherfords, Lily, Steve, and Cody with us for the weekend. What a great line up of talent. Lily Weatherford is one of the legends of Southern Gospel Music today still singing on the road now for over 62 years. Wow! I just hope I can live that long, eh? the Weatherfords come from Oklahoma. Special guest, Dave Harney, a former music and youth director from Dayton Ohio joined us along with special soloist John White from Cleveland, Ohio and yours truly, Billy and Paula Speer from good old Central Florida.

We left Sarasota on Thursday night and sang at the First Baptist Church of Orlando, Florida, my home church and had a great crowd of Southern Gospel fans join us for another wonderful evening of music with all these great freinds. It just kept getting better as we sang on Saturday night at the well known Word Of Life Bible Conference in Hudson, Florida and had the biggest crowd of the weekend. What a great time of fellowship and reunion with friends and lovers of gospel music, singing and praising the Lord! We look forward to next year to another Jubilee Extravaganza. We have reserved the date March 7, 2008 in Orlando and hope we can repeat Sarasota as well. We will keep you posted on our calendar of events.

If you are interested in hosting a concert in your area, please feel free to contact us and we will be glad to discuss all the details. You can email us at billyspeer@aol.com or check out our web site at www.billyspeer.com

Because HE lives,

Billy and Paula Speer

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