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We Survived The Holidays

Hi Everyone,

We survived the Holidays and are looking forward to getting back to singing His praises, but not without a few scares along the way. In case you haven't heard, we were on our way to Gainesville, Georgia to sing at a Homecoming and Dale began to experience severe chest pains. We had not picked up David yet - so needless to say - it really scared me - because I've never driven a motor home and I sure didn't want to learn how on the spur of the moment. We began to pray and he began to feel better. In about five minutes - they started again - I tried to get him to pull over so I could call 911 - but you know how men are - LOL - so we began to pray again - well the pains eased again. When the third time they hit we were very near a hospital and I got him to pull over and go into the Emergency Room. Before we knew what was happening - he was on a gurney, they were running EKG's, getting blood, and a Doctor was over him in just a matter of minutes. First indication was a Heart Attack. His EKG was showing spikes, and his blood pressure was 148/103 and his heart rate wasn't really good either. After they got him settled they put us in an ambulance and rushed us to the Cardiac Care Unit of Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. They started all over again with the tests, then added stress tests, more blood work and he had to spend the night for observation. They found that it was not an actual heart attack by a stress heart attack (???) and that he had all the symptoms of a heart attack but not the damage. So we were blessed to get the good news - but so many of you were praying and we feel sure that the prayers were what brought him through. Now get this, we were on our way to a singing in Georgia on that Friday night - well, of course we had to call and say we couldn't make it - but we were scheduled to sing on that Saturday night in Hanceville, Alabama at 6:00pm. We check out of the hospital at 3:15pm - drive straight to the singing and he is on stage at 6:00pm - go figure!! But he is doing great! We are blessed.

The month of December also found us in Gatlinburg, Tennessee with the Sonshine Group having an awesome time with about 500 Southern Gospel music fans. We absolutely love doing this yearly retreat - and I have said many times before - the Lord needs someone to carry His Word in song to Gatlinburg and I'm sure glad that He chose us. If you would like information about this yearly event - call me at (256)574-0138 and I will get you a brochure in the mail. From Gatlinburg we headed to Pell City, Alabama to be at the Arbor Baptist Church. Whitt Hibbs and his congregation were so great to sing to and it was good to see the Hawkins, Dot Thompson, the Hefners, Kay Meacham and some of the bestest fans in the world - Bobby & Dorothy Byrd. I wish every group had friends like the Byrd's!!!

Our final weekend of the month we were able to stay close to home. We sang at the Cave Springs Baptist Church in Owens Cross Roads, Alabama. Patrick Johnson, that sang with New Ground for about two years, is the Music Minister at this church and it was so good to see him, his wife and Mom & Dad. Also, there were 17 members of my family that came for the morning service - it just made my day!! Our final singing night for the 2003 season was at the Macedonia #2 Baptist Church in Geraldine, Alabama. The Williams, the Bailey's and Dale's family joined us as we closed out our final singing before the holidays.

We have enjoyed being home for a few weeks and being able to attend our home church on a Sunday morning is quite a treat. We are already looking forward to New Years Eve night in Jasper, Alabama with Gold City, the Landmarks and the Music City Boys. I know we will have a great time.

Hope all your holidays were as special as ours and we hope to see ya'll at a singing in the coming year. Please check out our schedule at [url=http://www.newgroundministries.com]http://www.newgroundministries.com[/url]

Until He Comes,

Robbie Maxwell
New Ground
[url=http://www.newgroundministries.com]http://www.newgroundministries.com[/url]

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