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What church do you attend?

Joanne Newton, Jeff Park & Laura Hoffa: CRC Ministries
Greg Jenkinson: Lansing Trinity
Dave Bell: Salvation Army Flint Citadel

Are you involved in your local church ministry?

Laura Hoffa: I'm on Staff at church as the Minister of Music and Worship and am a part of a
weekly Small Group Ministry.
Jeff Park: Yes - I'm on the Worship Team playing percussion/drums
Joanne Newton: I'm on the same Worship Team with the former two "Ye-who's"
Dave Bell: I am the Youth Band Leader, Asst. Choir Leader, a member of the Songsters, and a
Tuba player in the SA Flint Citadel Band
Greg Jenkinson: Worship Team

What ministries do you support?

Laura Hoffa: Open Arms Foundation in Medellin, Colombia, Right to Life, Every
Nation Ministries, Vineyard Missionaries in Russia
Joanne Newton: My local church and Right to Life
Jeff Park: My local church and Open Arms Foundation
Dave Bell: My church and NON

Do you have a family?

Joanne Newton: 1 husband, 5 kids, 1 daughter-in-law, 2 fish, 1 old dog and a hamster
Laura Hoffa: I have a husband and two kids - they are my world!
Jeff Park: No wife or kids, yet, but a large and loving family.
Dave Bell: A wife (Jane) and 4 great sons
Greg Jenkinson: Yes -- a wife (Stacey), son Eli, and we just had a baby girl (Josie) in September, 06!!!

Where is your favorite place in the world?

Laura Hoffa: Besides home, my favorite place in the world is Ely, Minnesota - "God's Country!"
Joanne Newton: I haven't been enough places to know yet!
Jeff Park: The virgin growth redwoods in northern CA - I spent an extended amount of time recording a project in Mendocino, CA and fell in love with that area.
Dave Bell: SA Music Camp

Who has influenced you the most musically?

Laura Hoffa: First would be my Grandma. We would visit her for two weeks every summer and she
didn't have TV, so we listened non-stop to great music. She introduced me to all different kinds of music. Another would be my piano teacher at MSU, Albertine Votapek. She influenced me in many wonderful ways both personally and musically!
She never let me give up, which I am very thankful for.
Joanne Newton: Singer/ songwriter/ worship leader Matt Redman, and Hillsong music of Australia.
Also, some of the folk-rock of the 70's & 80's, and of course all my classical training.
Jeff Park: Impossible to say - - - - musically there are so many areas that have moved me. I guess the most important person was my friend Jim Duncan who taught me about the importance of a great song.
Greg Jenkinson: My Dad

Who has influenced you the most spiritually?

Laura Hoffa: Joyce Meyer, Jack Hayford, my sister Sara, my Mom, Joanne N. & Connie Minarik (my Worship Team partners)
Jeff Park: Other than the Word itself, (in particular the Gospels), Billy Graham, Jack Hayford, Dick Blank (a former Priest), my parents and family
Joanne Newton: Joyce Meyer, Darlene Zschech
Dave Bell: Bill Cooke & Jack Smith

What's your favorite album(s) of all time?

Laura Hoffa: U2, Joshua Tree - Joni Mitchell, Miles of Isles - Simon & Garfunkle, Bridge over Troubled Water - Eva Cassidy, Live at Blues Alley - Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
Jeff Park: The Who, Live at Leeds - Deep Purple, Made in Japan - Led Zeppelin II - Miles Davis, Kind of Blue - B.B.King, Live at Cook County Jail - Old and In the Way featuring Vassar Clements & Jerry Garcia (stunning!!) - - - - - - - -the list goes on, and on, and on!
Joanne Newton: The Folksmen, Pickin'
Dave Bell: Deep Purple, Who Do We Think We Are
Greg Jenkinson: Neil Young, Harvest

What's your favorite TV show?

Laura Hoffa: Fox and Friends (every morning!)
Jeff Park: Tiger Baseball, for now
Joanne Newton: Project Runway -- although I might not watch next year after suffering through Jeffrey!

What's your favorite movie?

Laura Hoffa: Too many to name, so I'll go with present day~~ Shakespeare in Love, The Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings (all three), Braveheart, A Mighty Wind (hilarious!), Zoolander (which, I might add, is Laura Bush's favorite movie!), Places in the Heart, Fever Pitch, the list goes on~~and on~~
Joanne Newton: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Zoolander, Waiting for Guffman, Dumb & Dumber, Mr. Bean, Sound of Music, Joshua, Raising Helen
Jeff Park: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Casablanca, or A Mighty Wind, TLOR
Dave Bell: Bladerunner, Twelve Monkeys, Alien, Ferris Buellers DAy Off, The Princess Bride
Greg Jenkinson: Shawshank Redemption

What's your favorite junk food?

Jeff Park: Shearer's Jalapeno Kettle Chips - they're like the heroin of junk food!
Joanne Newton: CHOCOLATE - what else?
Laura Hoffa: I don't eat junk food - - - - it's poison! OK~~Cheetos (crunchy, of course)
Dave Bell: McDonald's QP with cheese!

What's your favorite scripture?

Joanne Newton: Ephesians 1:12 - "In order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory." That sums up my desire - simply to BE for the praise of HIS glory!
Jeff Park: Luke 1:37 - ". . . for nothing is impossible with God."
Dave Bell: Philippians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me"
Greg Jenkinson: The book of James

What book have you read most recently?

Joanne Newton: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Jeff Park: Laura Hoffa: I try to read books with my kids -- David's 10 now and he loves to read.
We read some greats this summer -- 'The Giver', 'Treasure Island', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', etc. He's already read TLOR trilogy, all of the 'Chronicles of Narnia' and he's reading the 5th Harry Potter right now. Janie is 8 and has just begun reading chapter books now. It's fun to watch them enjoy to read. I guess right now personally, I'm striving to read the Word more than anything else
 

Who is your hero?

Laura Hoffa: John the Baptist - he didn't give a rip what anyone thought and everything he was from "the womb" until his death was solely for the purposes of God. Present day ~~ Laura Bush -- what a lady!
Jeff Park: My Dad
Joanne Newton: Janet Smith, my friend
Greg Jenkinson: Ramblin' Sandy Pitnick
Dave Bell: Anwar Sadat - Although not a Christian, he stepped out to help bring peace between Arabs and Jews, and was killed for it.

What are your goals and dreams?

Laura Hoffa: To love and serve the Lord with "gladness and singleness of heart" - the rest will take care of itself.
Jeff Park: To sell millions of records and save millions of souls
Joanne Newton: To write and play music that will draw people and that would enable them to have an encounter with God.

What song or music moved you the most on first hearing?

Joanne Newton: Claude Boling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
Jeff Park: The Peppermint Twist by Joey D. and the Staflighters - I LOVED that song when I was a kid - 2 or 3 years old! We played it until it was unplayable.
Laura Hoffa: There are so many - they run the gambit from Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme from Paganini (from my Grandma's influence) to Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I'll never forget the first time I heard that song - time stood still. I remember flipping through the stations trying to find it anywhere so that I could hear it again. I had no idea what the song was saying, but there was definitely something about it that changed me. It was a real awakening to me -- something about it that changed me. That was an awakening to me that something as simple as a song really can have a tremendous immediate impact - thus the desire to impact for God and for good.

Dave Bell: In Quiet Pastures - a SA Band song
Greg Jenkinson: Neil Young, Tom Petty, Dire Straits
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