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Autumn Ridge Church welcomes
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN!
With special guests Andrew Peterson, and Josh Wilson 7:00 PM, Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Autumn Ridge Church Arts Series is pleased to announce the second major concert event of its 5th annual series.
Continuing the tradition of the finest and most significant world-class Christian artists on the Autumn Ridge stage, the Arts Series scores its greatest achievement to date, bringing Rochester the most recognized headliner among living Christian performing artists:
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN
On tour with full band and guest artists Andrew Peterson, and Josh Wilson.
Don't miss this amazing opportunity to experience the finest in artistry and impact. Chapman is among the most prolific singers in Christian pop music history, having released more than 20 albums. Chapman's five Grammy awards and 56 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards are more than any other artist in history. Chapman has been recognized by seven "Artist of the Year" Dove Awards, his latest in 2009. As of 2007, Chapman has sold more than 10 million albums and has 9 certified Gold or Platinum albums.
TICKETS: $25
All ticketing for this concert is reserved seating.
Autumn Ridge patrons have a special opportunity to purchase tickets BEFORE public ticket sales begin.
Tickets may be purchased at Christos Bookcenter (507-252-9090) for two days only, from 5-8 PM on Saturday August 20 and 8:30 AM – 1 PM on Sunday August 21.
After August 21, tickets will only be available through national outlets (phone 877-840-0457 Mon - Fri 8 AM - 4 PM PST) or online until the concert is sold out.
For an additional $25 . . .
any seat can be upgraded to include a special pass to a sound checks and stories acoustic music and conversation set with Steven Curtis Chapman on stage at 5 PM on the afternoon of the show.
Doors then open at 6 PM for the 7 PM concert.
About Steven Curtis Chapman…
Steven Curtis Chapman is simply the most recognized name in Christian music today. The prior chapters of his life have been shared in more than 20 award-winning albums, but nothing prepared the artist or his audience for the shattering accident that took the life of his five-year-old adopted daughter, Maria Sue.
As he began grieving, Chapman wrote…
“I walked into the kitchen and there is this little art table that Maria and Stevey Joy would sit at for hours. She loved crafts. She would cut out pictures. Scissors and glue were her favorite things. She would just cut and paste and draw for hours, and she often created cards for us. She would write the words she knew, "I love mom" and "I love dad" and then she would sign her name "Maria."
Everything was cleaned up at the table but there was one little piece of notebook paper lying on her side of the art table. It was a flower, a six-petal flower that was kind of her signature flower that she would draw all the time. Only one petal was colored in blue, and the rest of it was just the outline of the petals. It had a little stem and it had a little orange center of the flower and it had little leaves at the bottom of the stem.
I had noticed something else kind of bleeding through the back of the paper where she had written something and I turned it over and it was a little butterfly and then she had written the letters S-E-E. She had never written that word before. All that she had ever written as far as we knew was "I love Mom," "I love Dad" and her name. Out of all the words that she could have written that day before the accident, she had written the word "see."
I was already weeping uncontrollably and at that moment I just really, really believed that God gave us that sign and that was the gift that Maria left us to say "I know you are wanting to see something, but see I am okay and I am where you said. It is okay." That flower became so precious to us.
It was my wife that looked at it and realized what we thought was an unfinished flower, was finished. Only one flower petal of the six was colored in. Then we realized we have six children there is only one that is colored in; there is one that is whole and the rest of us are still waiting for our color. It just became such a gift to us."