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Glory Revealed 2 Pre-Release Give Away!

As you probably know, Glory Revealed II comes out next Tuesday, July 14! Check out the GloryRevealed.com website for the complete song and artist list, a video about the CD, and other great information.

Glory Revealed tour dates will be announced soon! Some of those tour dates are with Third Day! Stay tuned to the tour pages of GloryRevealed.com and ThirdDay.com for details coming very soon!

To celebrate the release of the new CD, I've got lots of GR goodies to give away!

First up, two pre-release copies of the new CD, Glory Revealed II!

This will be a quick contest, so I can get these in the mail right away. To enter, go to the JesusfreakHideout.com Glory Revealed II Listening Party and listen to the songs. Then, in a comment on this post, tell me which is your favorite song on the CD. Sunday night, I'll pick two winners at random to each win a pre-release copy of the CD.

And stay tuned! I have more goodies to give away to celebrate the release of Glory Revealed II!

Deadline for entry is 8:00 PM Central Time, Sunday, July 12, 2009. One winner will be picked at random, using a random number picker. Only your first comment will count as a contest entry. The winner will be chosen on Sunday, July 12, 2009, after 8:00 PM. Comments must be posted on this page, under this particular blog post. No others will be counted as entries. You must include your email address in filling out the comment form in order for me to notify you of your win. If no email address is given, and I don't happen to know that person's email address, another winner will be chosen. Your information will not be shared with anyone else. If you have won a prize from Gomers.net in the past 6 months, you are not eligible to win, to give others a chance. But please post your comment anyway. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Get Your Official Gomer Shirt While They Last!!!

We've waited a long time, and they are finally back! The official orange Gomer shirts are in the ThirdDay.com store! And not just shirts, but hoodies and other stuff, too!

Not only that, but THEY ARE ON SALE! You can get your official orange Gomer shirt for just $10! (Regular price is $25, you save more than half the price!) The brown Gomer hoodie, which I personally love to wear all winter long because it's so comfy and cool, is on sale for $25, that's $20 off the regular price!

Check out all the Gomer stuff in the ThirdDay.com store and show you support Third Day as a member of their fan family.

But don't think about it long. At these prices, they will go fast!

(And the bottom of the page says they won't be re-ordered. When they are gone, they are gone.)

Glory Revealed II Set to Release July 14

As a follow-up to their multiple Dove Award-winning 2007 release Glory Revealed: The Word of God in Worship, project visionaries Mac Powell (Third Day) and David Nasser (author/speaker) announce the release of a second CD in the award-winning series, titled Glory Revealed II: The Word of God in Worship. Set for a July 14 release, the Powell-produced project again blends roots-driven worship music with Biblical truth designed to musically stamp the word of God on the heart of listeners. Glory Revealed II features vocals from 21 different artists including Mark Hall, Amy Grant, Sara Evans, Shane & Shane, Natalie Grant and Brandon Heath, among others.

“When David and I talked about doing a second record, I really had a vision of us making music together,” Powell said. “I wanted it to really be a retreat time where we could sleep late if we wanted to and spend some time in God’s word together. I was hoping that it would naturally work, that people would go off on their own and start writing songs. It totally happened, and it was amazing.”

Photography Contest - Win Art Prints/Third Day Retro Pack

Every year, Third Day message boards moderator Jason Mitchener holds a photography contest in the Creative Arts forum of the boards. This year's contest is starting soon and is open to anyone with a camera!

Each round of the contest will feature photos of a specific subject:

Flowers
Landscapes
Animals
Creepy Crawlies
People
Inspirational
Concert

Board members will vote for the photo they like best. The winner of each round of the contest will receive one of Jason's art prints and be entered in a drawing for the grand prize at the conclusion of the contest.

The grand prize is an artwork print of your choice and a Third Day "Retro Pack" full of rare Third Day goodies:

Live Wire DVD Gomer Edition pack
Third Day Wire enhanced CD sampler
Radio promotional single of Third Day's hit Sing A Song
Come Together & Worship EP featuring Third Day and Michael W. Smith
Wherever You Are bonus EP
3 retro 8x10's
Live Wire Tour poster

Photos for the first round of the contest, Flowers, must be sent to Jason between Monday, June 15th and Tuesday, June 16th. Specific instructions and contest rules will be posted by Monday, June 8th in the Creative Arts forum.

To participate, you must be a certified member of the message boards. (Have registered and have had your first five posts approved by the administrative staff.) If you aren't yet a member of the boards, you have time to join and become certified before the contest starts. It's free!

Enter the contest and let us see your best photos!

Why Do You Love Being a Gomer?

Thank you all for your beautiful comments about why you love being a Gomer. They are too lovely to lose. I want to start a new page on this site full of people saying why they love being a Gomer. If you have any thoughts on the matter, please post them here! I want to share them with the world!

Gomer Anniversary Present Winner!

We have a winner in the Gomers' 8th Anniversary contest! Congratulations to Tasha Chinnock! You have won a copy of the CD that won the Gospel Music Association's Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year, Third Day's Revelation! You've also won an autographed copy of Third Day's DVD/CD Live Revelations. They will be winging their way to you as soon as I get your address. I know you will enjoy both!

Miss the Fun Last Night? Listen Here Now!

Last night's interview on ObscureGenius.com was great! Thank you to everyone who called and wrote in with questions, and to all of you who supported me with your prayers. I'm always nervous about interviews, but once we get going, it's a lot of fun!

If you missed the interview you can listen to it here or just click below. (When the window opens, right click and do "Save As..." That will download the MP3 to your computer.)

Stream or Download a recent 1 hour phone interveiw with Mama Gomer on ObscureGenius.com

Be sure to visit ObscureGenius.com to listen to their other interviews. They have a lot of good ones archived and some interesting ones coming up on the schedule.

Join Us for a Live Event Tonight!

Tonight's the night! There are two ways to join us on the live interactive event.

Here is the direct link to the interview/Gomer party: http://obscuregenius.com/mama-gomer/

You can listen online from that page. An audio player will appear shortly before the event. Or you can call in and listen via conference call.

Phone-Number to Dial:  404-260-0037
Use Conference ID:  661706#

I think we'll all have a great time tonight!

Starts at 9:30 Eastern Time. Hear you there!

Take Part in a Live Online Gomer Party!

Don't forget to go to ObscureGenius.com and sign up on their email list, so you can participate in the Live Interactive Online Event tomorrow night!

I told you about this earlier here. It's a call-in show with me, and we can talk about Third Day, Gomers, GMA Week, anything you'd like (within reason, of course.) I think it's going to be a Gomer party! I hope lots of you will listen and call in!

Info from the ObscureGenius.com website:
EVENT: Corrine aka Mama Gomer - Live Interactive Interview
DATE & TIME: Thursday, May 14th at 9:30pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT, SIGN UP ON THE MAILING LIST

Hear you there!

Gomers on Twitter

I've just set up a Twitter account for the Gomers. You can see the feed there on the right. Come follow us for Gomer & Third Day updates! www.Twitter.com/3DGomers See you there!

Happy 8th Anniversary Gomer Family!

It was eight years ago today that our little family of Third Day fans started. Happy anniversary fellow  Gomers! I think that since this is our anniversary, a present is in order! So in a comment below this post, tell me what you like about being a Gomer to enter. I'll give a random commenter the prize package in the photo: a copy of Third Day's CD Revelation and an autographed copy of their DVD/CD Live Revelations!

Deadline for entry is noon Central Time, Friday, May 15, 2009. One winner will be picked at random, using a random number picker. Only your first comment will count as a contest entry. The winner will be chosen on Friday, May 15, after noon. Comments must be posted on this page, under this particular blog post. No others will be counted as entries. You must include your email address in filling out the comment form in order for me to notify you of your win. If no email address is given, and I don't happen to know that person's email address, another winner will be chosen. Your information will not be shared with anyone else. If you have won a prize from Gomers.net in the past 6 months, you are not eligible to win, to give others a chance. But please post your comment anyway. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

The contest is now closed.

Upcoming Interview on ObscureGenius.com

I'm being interviewed on ObscureGenius.com a week from today, Thursday, May 14, at 9:30 PM Eastern Time. It's an interactive interview, meaning you can call in and ask me questions. To be eligible to participate, you much sign up on the website's email list. Sign up and read more here. They've interviewed some really cool people like Kevin Max, Phil Joel, Audio Adrenaline, Ginny Owens, Bob Smiley, and former Third Day keyboardist Billy Wilkins. You can an listen live online or on your phone! Hope to hear you there!

(And if you wouldn't mind, say a pray for me. I tend to stutter when I get nervous! Thanks!)

Nashville 4 Africa

Back on April 22, when I was blogging from my phone from GMA Week in Nashville, I had pecked out an entire post from the halls of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. It was all about Third Day appearing with some of country music's most popular artists in the Nashville 4 Africa concert that night. (I told you about this concert here.) Right when I finished it, a friend that I had called earlier in the day . . . well, he butt-dialed me. That is, he must have had his phone in his back pocket while he was driving his car and somehow, through the normal posterior movements one makes while driving a car, accidentally hit the redial button. I said, "Hello? Hello?" but all I could hear was his car radio. And as a result of his call, I lost the post I had typed out.

My plan was to retype it from our seats inside the hall, and to post it with lots of photos from the show. Alas, inside the hall, those dreaded words appeared on my iPhone screen, "No Service." I thought maybe the hall had some sort of jamming device to keep cells quiet during performances, but friends on other carriers had service. So anyway, I was unable to send blog posts and photos from the concert, and this is the first chance I've had to catch up with it.

When my friends and I heard that Third Day had been added to the Nashville 4 Africa concert, we determined to go. The night was hosted by Big Kenny (of Big & Rich) and Damien Horne. The rest of the line up included Keith Urban (who included his version of Third Day's song "Call My Name" as a bonus track on his new album Defying Gravity), Faith Hill, Dierks Bentley, Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down), Ashley Cleveland, The Steeldrivers, and Jars of Clay. And I love Ashley Cleveland and Jars of Clay, so I was looking forward to this show!

Third Day on stage now!!

They are playing Revelation!!!

In Other News

My friends DecembeRadio's awesome record Satisfied won the Dove Award for Rock Album if the Year!!! Third Day's own keyboard player Scotty Wilbanks produced the album!

Watch the 40th GMA Dove Awards Live Now!

The broadcasted portion of the awards have started! Watch it live now on the Gospel Music Channel!

Third Day Wins Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year!

That's Third Day on the stage accepting the award for pop/contemporary album of the year for Revelation!!!! And Revive got to present it to them! Woo hoo!!!

When Mac accepted the award, he said, "No thanks to Mark Hall fir wearing the same jacket. First the gotee, now the jacket! What's next? The hair?" And then he got serious and thanked their families, all the official people, and the fans. Thank you, Third Day for making such an awesome record!

Third Day's First Dove Tonight!

Revelation has just won the Dove Award for Album Packaging! And this is me saying "Ha!" to everyone that said they ripped the cover off from Radiohead.

Dove Awards Pre-show

I'm here at The 40th Gospel Music Association Dove Awards! We like to sit up in the balcony, because we can see all the artists in the floor. I don't see Third Day yet, but here is DecembeRadio sitting right behind The Blind Boys of Alabama, who are all in blue.

I will try to keep this up, but no promises. :)

Chatting

We met up with Grant Norsworthy from the Paul Colman Trio. They are thinking of dping a reunion tour of Australia. Hopefully, they will make it to the states as well!

Grab Every Cell Phone You Can and Vote for Third Day! Time is Short!

There is still time to vote for Third Day for the Dove Award for Artist of the year! We just learned that over 200,000 fans have voted. Let's pray they are mostly for Third Day! But more than that, let's make sure they are!!! If you have not voted, PLEASE go to www.GospelMusicChannel.com and vote, then then vote by every cell phone you have available to you (the president of the GMA just said that wasn't cheating, but creative!) So text DOVE THIRDDAY to 72648! Please get everyone you know to do the same! Voting ends during the Doves tomorrow night.

GMA Artists' Symposium

This morning we are at it early, at a panel discussion. It's about artists crossing over to different genres. The panel includes Christian artists who have had mainstream success and mainstream artists who have recorded Christian records. On the panel is Amy Grant, Dan Haseltine from Jars of Clay, Brian Litrell, Michael Sweet from Stryper and Boston, Trey from P.O.D., Brad Arnold from Three Doors Down, Dr. Cedric from Take 6, and members from Diamond Rio and Shiny Toy Guns. Wow, what an amazing group! Moderating is Deborah Evans Price, who writes for a lot of publications and websites, including GospelMusicChannel.com and Billboard. Very interesting group from all walks of music. Very interesting discussion.

People Watching

Just dropping by to say we just talked to Revive! I should have snapped a photo of them. They were heading out to yet another interview. They were tired, because they've been doing interviews all day. Talking is exhausting, especially shen you are pretty much answering the same questions over and over. But they are enjoying meeting all the radio, TV, magazine, and website people.

Speaking of interviews, my friend John Dibiase from www.JesusFreakHideout.com interviewed Mac today, so be looking for that on his website very soon. (He gets things up on there really quickly.) John said it was a fun interview. (He also said Mac was sick, so please be in prayer for him. He has a big week ahead of him.)

Saw this Guy

Mac stopped by the KSBJ booth for an interview. This is my local Houston station, and we happened to be there to talk to some peeps we know. He's being interviewed while I type this, and I have to lean against a wall by a speaker to listen. He's talking about wanting to go home, and the Big Chicken. Seems like we are hearing a lot about that chicken lately. I don't know why. Maybe these guys are hungry. Let's see if I can get another picture if him for y'all.

Mac just challenged Mark Hall to Dance Dance Revolution. This I gotta see!

GMA Week in Nashville

I'm in Nashville for the annual GMA Week. It's the week preceding the Dove Awards, and it's full of seminars, showcases, meetings, lunches, more showcases, seeing old friends, meeting new friends, and most of all FUN! This is my seventh year to attend. I look forward to it all year!

I'm going to try to blog a little from here, but it will be a very little, because we have no Internet connection in our apartment and I have to peck it all out on my phone. So short posts with lots of spelling errors. But I will try to post photos of things as they happen, like Third Day playing the Nashville 4 Africa concert Wednesday night. (See post below for details.) And Dove Award updates Including pictures (if I can sneek some. They patrol our balcony like guards in a prison!) So stay tuned as I try to let you on on a little of the fun!