Pastors Kent & Candy Christmas, Regeneration Nashville Church, invite you to celebrate the best gift of all – JESUS – this Christmas season with a very special television special.

The Christmas Family and Friends Christmas special will feature Candy Christmas, The Isaacs, Higher Ground, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Jasmine Christmas Brady, Burton Gaar, and many more performing Christmas hymns, classics and worship songs.

Additonally, Pastor Kent Christmas inspires with a very special Christmas message.

“Jesus is the true reason for the season and we’re excited to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ with so many friends in Nashville and around the country through the power of television,” said Pastor Kent Christmas. “We pray you’ll enjoy this Christmas Special that we created just for you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Regeneration Nashville!” 

The Christmas Family & Friends Christmas Special will air in the local Nashville, TN area as well as internationally via Daystar Television Networks. In all, the show will air on six different networks throughout the Christmas weekend.

Additionally, the program will be available for on-demand viewing at KCMI.tv and on the KCMI channel on Roku.

Air dates, times and channels are as follows:
Daystar Television Network: December 23, 2022 – 12 MIDNIGHT CT & December 23, 2022 – 11 AM CT

WUXP MY30 Nashville: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – 12 NOON CT & 9 PM CT

WTVF Channel 5 Nashville: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2022 – 8 AM CT
WZTV Fox 17 Nashville: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – 10 AM CT
WSMV Channel 4 Nashville: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – 8 AM CT
WKRN Channel 2 Nashville: Christmas Eve, December 25, 2022 – 1:30 AM CT

About Regeneration Nashville:
Kent and Candy Christmas are the founding pastors of Regeneration Nashville in Nashville, TN. Kent Christmas has been in full time ministry for over 50 years, traveling extensively across the United States and abroad. His passion is to strengthen the local church body and to share prophetic insight. He is a man of prayer and carries an anointing to preach the word with the demonstration of apostolic power. Kent and his wife, Candy, of the southern gospel family, The Hemphills. have been married for 35 years. Candy has appeared on over 60 Gaither Homecoming videos and in 2004 founded The Bridge, Inc., an organization that ministers to the homeless and hungry of Nashville. Kent and Candy are blessed with two sons, a daughter, and five beautiful grandchildren.

Pastors Kent & Candy Christmas, Regeneration Nashville Church, invite you to celebrate the best gift of all – JESUS – this Christmas season with a very special television special.

The Christmas Family and Friends Christmas special will feature Candy Christmas, The Isaacs, Higher Ground, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Jasmine Christmas Brady, Burton Gaar and many more performing Christmas hymns, classics and worship songs.

Additonally, Pastor Kent Christmas inspires with a very special Christmas message.

“Jesus is the true reason for the season and we’re excited to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ with so many friends in Nashville and around the country through the power of television,” said Pastor Kent Christmas. “We pray you’ll enjoy this Christmas Special that we created just for you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Regeneration Nashville!”

The Christmas Family & Friends Christmas Special will air in the local Nashville, TN area as well as internationally via Daystar Television Networks. In all, the show will air on six different networks throughout the Christmas weekend.

Additionally, the program will be available for on-demand viewing at KCMI.tv and on the KCMI channel on Roku.

Air dates, times and channels are as follows:

• Daystar Television Network: December 22, 2022 – 12 MIDNIGHT CT & December 23, 2022 – 11 AM CT
• WUXP MY30 Nashville: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – 12 NOON CT & 9 PM CT
• WTVF Channel 5 Nashville: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2022- 8 AM CT
• WZTV Fox 17 Nashville: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – 10 AM CT
• WSMV Channel 4 Nashville: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – 8 AM CT
• WKRN Channel 2 Nashville: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2022 – 1:30 AM CT

Matthew West invited audiences to “Come Home For Christmas” with a performance of his original holiday track on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week (12/20/22).

“I am so excited to bring this song to The Kelly Clarkson Show,” shares West. “I love Christmas music so much, and each year I find myself sitting down at the piano penning a new Christmas tune inspired by my love of this most wonderful time of the year. ‘Come Home for Christmas’ is not just a song, it’s an invitation for every heart to return to the wonder, the peace, the love, and the hope that this holiday season offers to every heart.”

https://youtu.be/wmBstiLtbmE

This holiday season, West has partnered with Great American Family to highlight the endearing carol (listen here) on their channel all holiday season. Looking ahead to the new year, West will be releasing his highly anticipated upcoming double album MY STORY YOUR GLORY on February 17. It is available for pre-order now HERE.

 Keith & Kristyn Getty streamed a preview of their Sing! An Irish Christmas concert.

The show, recorded from The Museum of the Bible, includes the Getty Band, Malcolm Guite, David Platt & more. View the entire concert, for free, and get 30 free song downloads by RSVPing online.

The dynamic, multicultural youth ministry of Planetshakers Church, planetboom, releases You, Me, The Church, That’s Us -Deluxe, today (Dec. 16) to digital and streaming outlets globally from Venture3Media (V3M) via https://planetboom.streamlink.to/youmethechurchdeluxe. The 21-song project includes both You, Me, The Church, That’s Us – Side A and Side B tracks recorded live at this year’s planetboom conference and released earlier this year along with five never-before-released demo recordings.

In addition to the audio, there are 14 companion music videos on the deluxe version from Apple Music, including featured track, “That’s Us (Live).”

Produced by creative director Josh Ham, mixed by worship leader Joth Hunt and written or co-written by Ham, worship leader, vocalist / rapper Noah Walker and planetboom youth pastor, songwriter, author and drummer Andy Harrison, You, Me, The Church, That’s Us -Deluxe captures planetboom’s unique and eclectic sonic identity. The dynamic recordings range from big, broad statements about the church family to intimate, personal moments between individuals and God.

The full You, Me, The Church, That’s Us -Deluxe track listing follows:

Side A Songs:

The Core (Live)

Jesus Got A Hold Of Me (Live)

That’s Us (Live)

I Believe

Nothing On You

A Moment With You (Live)

Back To Life (Live)

– Selah Moment –

Side B Songs:

I Will Follow You (Live)

Word (Live)

I’m Free, I’m Fearless

Résumé Check

I Am Found (Live)

Let My Life Give You Glory (Live)

– Selah Moment 2 –

Move Of God (Live)

Demos:

I Will Follow You – Demo

It’s All About You – Demo

Living For You Now – Demo

Like Nothing Else – Demo

Nothing On You – Demo

The diverse youth culture at planetboom that represents at least 60 nationalities translates the mission of Planetshakers Church into music that creates a unique space for an international audience to find an intimate sense of belonging as part of the church family.

Along with the new music, planetboom is sharing additional resources to equip other youth groups around the world. Podcasts, blog posts, devotionals, song multitracks and more are available online now at www.planetshakers.com/church/planetboom-youth/planetboom-resource.

Recording artist Marvinetta Clay and her label, LeRae Records, are basking in the afterglow of a record release party that morphed into a worship service.

When the label recently honored Marvinetta with a single release party at Hamburger Mary’s in Las Vegas, Nevada, industry executives and fans joined together to celebrate her debut radio single, “God Is So Good.” Few in attendance were prepared to have church, but that’s exactly what happened.

Casting director and film producer Kim Flowers hosted the event, which featured music from Marvinetta, along with fellow LeRae Records recording artists Jack Yates and Fate Kent, who co-wrote her new single, a silky-smooth, jazz-inflected, Gospel-Urban Contemporary synthesis that effectively showcases Marvinetta’s rich, passionate vocals as they imbue the song with a soaring spiritual burst of energy.

“The evening was a dream that came true,” mused LeRae Records’ founder, president, and CEO, Rev. Wilfred Moore, more commonly known as Pastor Wil. Everyone in the room gathered with much conversation, food, and merriment as they waited for the show to begin. As the lights were lowered, a soft hush came over the room, as we all waited with expectancy to meet the star of the show… Marvinetta Clay! The atmosphere was delightful. People were mingling with one another and there was a strong spirit of love and unity in the air.”

“And then the atmosphere changed as Marvinetta ministered to us under the power of the Holy Spirit.” continued Pastor Wil. “People were standing up, rendering much applause and praise to God, shouting out ‘He’s good…. My God is so good!’ Even after the song was done, the audience kept singing a cappella. “Oh…so good!”

“The celebration was remarkable, exciting, and blessed,” said Marvinetta. “I am humbled by the experience of seeing those who came to enjoy the music leave with an experience of a lasting, impressive move of God in that place.”

Host Kim Flowers was effusive with her praise as the evening ended. “I’m so grateful to have been present at such an outstanding event!” she declared. “The artists on the LeRae label are truly anointed. Marvinetta is absolutely marvelous, Fate Kent has the voice of change, and it goes without saying that Jack’s gift from God is on another level.”

“Congratulations, Marvinetta!” said Jack Yates. “You have done what great artists do. You have taken this song to an incredibly high level. You’ve convinced us that God is so good!”

Fate Kent added, “What an emotional night full of gratitude and blessings. To God be all the glory!”

Multiple award-winning singer/songwriter, Jekalyn Carr, will spend this holiday season gracing the cover of Pandora’s Christmas Spirit mode for one week beginning December 16 and concluding on December 22, 2022. Carr will also be featured as host of the Christmas Spirit Mode on Pandora’s billboard in New York’s Times Square (Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets) for one week.   

On December 10th 2022, Carr performed in New York City at the famed Carnegie Hall, in a sold-out event titled “Night Of Inspiration,” which was produced by Ray and Vivian Chew of Chew Entertainment. Carr performed “Mary Don’t You Weep,” with the legendary gospel singer, Shirley Caesar, and took part in a tribute to Richmond Smallwood singing, “Total Praise,” but the highlight of the night, was Carr performing an original piece of her own music, “It’s Yours,” with the Carnegie orchestra.

On Friday, November 4, 2022,  Carr released her new holiday single titled, “Great Christmas,” which has reached # on the Billboard Gospel Airplay Artist Chart, #2 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay Song Chart, and #7 on the Mediabase Gospel Airplay Chart. 

Northern Ireland worship band Rend Collective is planning to hit the road in the new year. The band has officially announced a spring leg of their “The Whosoever Tour.” The early 2023 dates will feature Sean Curran. A pre-sale is underway now. For more information, visit https://rendcollective.com/.

In August, Rend Collective released their newest album, Whosoever, available now. The album features 10 tracks including the recently released radio single “Plans,” and the vibrant anthemic song, “Let It Roll.” The record is about God’s vast, generous embrace – wide enough, for the prodigal sons, cynical older brother and any other label we might apply to ourselves or others. As the title of the album clearly states – the gospel is for everyone.

Three-time GRAMMY nominee Danny Gokey has announced a spring leg of the Jesus People Tour. The 2023 dates will feature the return of special guest Jordan Feliz and the addition of Blanca. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 16th at 10am local time. For more information, visit https://www.dannygokey.com/tour/.

Gokey’s live shows are full of non-stop energy and music that crosses both genres and cultures. Jesus People, his last studio album, debuted at No. 1 with messages of love, gratitude, and truth that are reflected in the tour’s title and mission.

Cedarmont Kids, the leading children’s brand in Christian Music was recently surprised with a reception at the Provident Entertainment offices with the announcement that the video “If You’re Happy” had surpassed one billion views on YouTube – a rare accomplishment shared by few videos worldwide.

In addition to being added to The One Billion Views Club,Cedarmont Kids owners Mike and Sue Gay were also presented with plaques recognizing One Million YouTube Channel subscribers and a RIAA Platinum Single certification for “The Wheels On The Bus.”

“What incredible milestones reached by Cedarmont Kids,’” shares Provident Entertainment President Holly Zabka. “The number of young lives the music and ministry have impacted is immeasurable, and Provident is honored by our 29 years of partnership with Cedarmont Kids and Mike and Sue Gay.”

At press time, the number of Cedarmont Kids’ YouTube subscribers is now 2.64 million, and the video for “If You’re Happy” has reached 1,004,153,791 views. Cedarmont Kids is happy to announce that new videos and audio content will be released throughout 2023, which also happens to be Cedarmont’s 30 anniversary year.