Today we celebrate the birth of Dr. Mark Lee! We Gomers hope that this is an awesome day for you, and that God blesses you BIG this year!
We've already been celebrating Mark's birthday for a few weeks on the Third Day boards. Check out the Mark Lee Treasure Hunt threads here.
Happy Birthday Mark!
In this post on the Third Day blog, Mark talks about his top ten Third Day shows. He lists the 2004 Great Gomer Gathering in Houston, Texas, as his third favorite show. I started to put my comment there, but it started to get a little lengthy, so I decided this would be a better place.
That "sea of orange" in the audience was quite a sight! I'll never, ever forget it. I sent KSBJ email after
email telling them that this was going to be the first Great Gomer Gathering, and could they help us surprise Third Day with a "sea of orange" by having everyone, all 14,000+ audience members, wear orange. How awesome that would be!!! Third Day would take the stage and be totally amazed at the love and support from the 
audience. It had been my fantasy for years (still is) that there would be tons of people at every show wearing Gomer shirts. This idea was just an exaggeration of that fantasy. I had no idea it could be as awesome as it was! At the concert, Dan and I walked all around the Pavilion, up on the grass hill, just looking at 12,000 or so people dressed in orange (there were about 2,000 hold outs). This may sound silly, but 
I cried. It was so beautiful! There was so much love poured out to this band I loved, our chance to give back a little of the love Third Day had given to us for so many years. Later, Third Day's manager told me that when Tai exited the stage he told her, "It don't get no better than this." Mission accomplished!
Of course, now I have the problem of trying to figure out what the Gomers can do to top that! Any ideas?
I told you all about the new Gomertopia before it was opened. The time is here to come join! We have a lot of your friends and fellow Gomers on there already! So come join at www.ThirdDay.com/Gomer ! We're waiting for you! (Even if you don't consider yourself a "Gomer", come join us anyway! We'd love to have you!)
This is hilarious!
There's a thread on the boards wherein people are sharing the dreams they've had involving Third Day. (Mac even replied to the thread.) I don't usually dream about Third Day, but last night I did, and it was bizarre. Well, the dream itself wasn't so bizarre, but just the way my brain took a little tiny fact, created this whole scenario around it, and presented it to me in a dream. I thought you might find it amusing, too.
So in this dream, my husband Dan, son Asher, two friends Debbie and Lori, and I are at a huge church to see Third Day. It's before the show and Debbie and I are running around lost in this church. The line at the ladies room was too long. Debbie had gone to this church before and found another one for us to use, and now we were trying to find our way back to where the concert was held. So we're running around lost, worried that we'll miss the beginning of the show, and we see Tai Anderson. Well, we don't want him to think we are where we aren't supposed to be, but we figure that he will be going back to the concert area, so we decide to stealthily follow him. (In real life, I would have just asked him to point us in the direction of the concert!) So we're ducking around corners, trying not to let him see us. And then Debbie figured out where we were, and that we could get where we needed to be if we went through the nursery/school area.
Third Day just finished touring with Jars of Clay on the Christmas Offerings tour. The shows were wonderful! And we Gomers, always showing our support for Third Day, wore orange Santa hats to the shows, to celebrate the season Gomer style! To the left, you will find a new photo album full of pictures of the Gomer festivities during the tour.
If you have photos of Gomers gatherings during the Christmas Offerings tour, especially photos of Gomers in orange Santa hats, please email them to me, so I can add them to the album. (Most of the Gomers in the photos must be wearing orange.)
And it's only slightly Third Day or Gomer oriented, but these guys are just so sweet to do this for me that I had to share it! Okay, let me back up a little. This is DecembeRadio. They are touring with Third Day next year. They are really good friends of mine, and I think you'll love them once you give them a listen. Debbie aka Aunt Gomer came to Texas for the Third Day/Jars of Clay Christmas Offerings shows in San Antonio and Houston. (Pictures going up from these shows soon! Look for new photo albums on the left.) I had a surprise party for her (which was also our Houston Gomer Christmas party). At this party, I played a DVD with birthday wishes from about 8 Gomers who couldn't be there. It was so sweet of everyone to do that! And of course, it made Debbie cry (goal accomplished!) This is the video the guys sent me for Debbie.
Besides having DecembeRadio sing to her, and having a surprise Gomer birthday party, and seeing two Third Day shows back-to-back, Debbie was also blessed by having everyone at the WIRED Meet and Greet after the San Antonio show sing to her! I think this was a birthday she will always remember! I know I will!
Absolutely nothing to do with Third Day or Gomers, unless you consider that I was checking the Gomer MySpace when I found it, but I thought this was so cool that I had to show you. Half-way through, I realized that my mouth was hanging open in amazement. I haven't tried it myself yet, but if any of you do, please tell us if it worked for you or not.
So have you ever wondered how much exercise you can get dancing at a concert? Well, I have, and I found out. But first a little back story. Three months ago, I decided to get serious and lose some weight and get into shape. Towards that end, I started wearing a pedometer everyday. The idea is to walk about 10,000 steps per day. The average person walks this much, and it's equal to about five miles, depending on your stride. So I wore it to a couple of concerts. I went to see Family Force 5 one night and TobyMac another night. At the TobyMac show, I danced 6,000 steps!!! Now that was a rockin' show! At the FF5 show, I danced 4,000 steps. That show super rocked, but I think my pedometer was hampered by the fact that I was standing on a couch the whole time. Much easier way to see, but not as easy to move. Now you may think that that wasn't really walking steps so it doesn't count, but movement is the goal, and I can tell you I was moving! Anyway, all this to tell you that if you are interested in losing weight, there are a group of Gomers that are encouraging each other in that goal. If you are moving toward that same goal, please come join us. I've lost 18 pounds so far, and it's kinda fun! Come read my weight loss blog to see how I'm doing it! You can also see what five pounds of fat looks like there. Yuck!
What does the well-dressed Gomer wear to a Third Day Christmas Offerings show? Why an orange Santa hat, of course! We are ordering them from www.TeamSantaHats.com. It's the only place I've found on the web that will make Santa hats in orange. They have many colors to choose from for each part of the hat, but we are going with a traditional white pompom on top, and white fur brim, with the orange body. You can have them embroider your Gomer name right onto the brim of your hat, or save $5, skip the embroidery, and use glitter glue to put your Gomer name on for yourself. For the embroidery, I’d suggest black, orange, navy or royal blue. I like the blues, because that’s the color I’ve always associated with Third Day, and because the Christmas Offerings CD cover is blue. You can order your hat(s) here, but hurry so you will get them in time for the show.
If you are crafty you can buy some orange fur and sew your own Gomer Santa hats!
Take pictures of yourself and your family and Gomer buddies in your orange Santa hats and send them to me. I’ll put them up in the Gomer Family Album to the left! Let’s show our Gomer colors and have some fun this Christmas.
Two years ago, I shot this video of a hummingbird in my backyard. I don't know what her deal was, but she was just sitting on a branch, bobbing up and down. It was so weird and funny. So I video'd it, thinking that it would sound great with music put to it. I was right. (There's another version, a Family Force 5 version, here.)
Another Third Day birthday, another Third Day Fear Factor! Brad Avery's birthday is August 20. To celebrate, we are having the Brad Avery Fear Factor. (In case you missed them, check out the Mark Lee Fear Factor and the Tai Anderson Fear Factor. They were great fun!)
Sign ups for Brad's Fear Factor are August 2-6. You can sign up here. We've got a really awesome prize, straight from Brad himself, and out of Third Day history. Hint: you can see it in the rockumentary Inside Third Day: The First Ten Years on Chronology Volume Two (2001-2006). To get you psyched to play the BAFF, we've got a little video for you.
Our friends at JesusFreakHideout.com are having an awesome Third Day contest with some really cool prizes! In support of Third Day's latest project, Chronology, Volume One (1996-2000), they're giving away 10 autographed copies of the album! But one lucky Grand Prize Winner will receive their name on a Wherever You Are Gold Record plaque! Now there's something you can't buy in stores. Go to their website to enter! While you are there, check out the other cool contests they are having, including a chance to win 13 CDs by the artists on the Glory Revealed project!
Chronology Volume One comes out next Tuesday. Third Day doesn't want you to forget. They would like to call you on the phone to remind you about it! Sign-up to receive a phone call from Third Day on March 27th. Essential Records has teamed up with HearItFirst.com to let you hear from the band on the street date of their new album. So sign up now and get a phone call from Third Day next Tuesday!
Have you heard about the contest? If you win, your video will be on Third Day's Chronology Volume Two, which comes out July 24! All you have to do is to make a 60 second video telling why you love Third Day so much, post it on YouTube.com, and then fill out the entry form. Go to www.ThirdDaysBiggestFan.com for details. Here is Jason, one of the moderators on our message boards, to tell you more.
I got an email today from MusicChristian.com. They are having a limited offer on the Live Wire CD/DVD Gomer Edition Fan pack! I thought those were sold out long ago. I guess they have a few left (hence the "very limited" and "Supplies WILL run out" wording in the email). I looked around the internet, but didn't find anyone else who still had these. So while you are waiting for Chronology to come out in March, nab this collector's item while they can still be bought somewhere besides ebay, and start celebrating!
Thank you to everyone who has already sent in Christmas greetings for Third Day! I'm extending the deadline until noon Christmas Eve (Central Time). I want to get as many as possible to send to them. If you'd like to send the band your Holiday wishes, please see this post for instructions, and send them in soon.
It's Christmastime, the time we send our thoughts of good will and warm wishes to friends and family. If you'd like to include Third Day on your Christmas card list this year, I have just the thing. I am collecting email greetings from you and combining all of them into one long email for the band. If you want to send Third Day your Christmas and New Year's greetings, these are the requirements.
I know the band will love reading your Christmas letter, so get it in soon!
I've just added a Widget to my blog, Blufr (Bluffer). It's a trivia quiz, with new questions all the time. I just tried it and feel I need to warn you. It's pretty addictive! See for yourself. It's on the right hand side of the blog. Just scroll down to find it.
Revelation
Third Day: Revelation
The presale is up now on ThirdDay.com! When you buy, you get to listen to it now! Third Day will release Revelation on July 29, 2008. Pre-order now for a very special price and gain access immediately to all the streaming audio from Revelation. You will also have immediate access to an exclusive download of bonus track "Shake" following your pre-order.
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