Mark Lowry - The Homecoming Friends (Comedy/Live)

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Those days, in 1998 when I joined the Vocal Band, and then around 1990, I guess, when the first video happened, and then about '92 y'all showed up, and we got to know these people. You know, I look back at those videos, and I didn't even realize, I didn't realize then what I was amongst. - Yeah. - But when you get older and you look back, you realize we were having a good time. - We were. And, you know, you see those people all your life, and you hear them sing, and then you get to know them, and you realize they are as wonderful as you always hoped they would be. - Yes, exactly. - Always, and it became family, it really did. We all became family. - Vestal had a big-- - A part of my life. - Part of your life. - Oh, absolutely. Well, we galled her Granny on the road because she took care of all of us, but we wanted to have a baby, and wanted to start our family. We had been married for several years, and it just wasn't happening for us. And I had gone to the doctor. If you've been through that, you know, the heartache and the grief that goes through that process. And the doctors told us, "You know, without a miracle this probably won't happen for you." Well, I knew where to get a miracle because we loved to hear Vestal sing, but we loved to hear her pray even more. - Oh, yeah. When she prayed she'd quote scripture to God like He'd never heard it. - That's true. - She'd hold God hostage with His own words. - Oh, yeah. So if you needed somebody to touch heaven for you, you go talk to Vestal. And so we went on her bus one night after a concert, and we told her we want to have a baby. And so she told me, she said, "Darling, now, most of the time "when I pray for couples to have a baby they have them two at a time." So she laid her hands on my belly, and I told her to pray a very short prayer. She prayed for me, and less than a year later we gave birth to our firstborn, Trey, who is now 15. And then he has a baby sister who is 13 years old. And, I'm telling you, until the day that she passed away, those kids would be running around backstage and she'd say, "Now, Joyce, you know those kids belong to me more than they belong to you." - And Jonathan down here, we should have had Vestal to pray for him so he wouldn't have so many. He had six. - I got six, man. It's awesome. - Six kids. And down here, Judy, she married Jake Hess, Jr. and she's got four, so they are a fertile bunch. When God said go and replenish the earth, they said okay. One of my favorite people of the Homecoming folks was JD Sumner. Oh, Reba, you knew JD. Duane. Many of you knew JD. He was in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the lowest bass singer ever. And I, one time when Gaither was doing one of those semi-circle concerts, you know, where everybody sits in that semi-circle? I was on this side. I was watching this side, and I saw JD lean over and whisper something into George Younce's ear, and George laughed so hard he coughed up a lung, nearly. And I said, "You know, I got to know that JD Sumner." So I set my cap, and I got to know him. And his wife had passed so he was alone, and I was alone, and we'd go have breakfast, and I heard all these great stories of his days with Elvis, and his days on the road, and when he first thought up the tour bus. He's the one who thought up the tour bus. Before that, everybody traveled in cars. He said, "Let's build a bus." So he did that. And he told me, he said, "Mark, when I was first, "when I first joined the Blackwood Brothers, I was a nervous wreck." He said, "You know, I was raised out in the sticks." He said, "My mama was Church of God, "and we're not talking educated Church of God, we're talking backwoods Church of God." He said, "My mama, if you said a word with more than three syllables in it, she'd slap you because she thought you was cussing." And I heard all this and then he went on to say, "So I was a nervous wreck. "You know, I just joined the Blackwood Brothers, "and I was living right down the street "from James and his wife, Mim, "and I invited them down to eat with me and Mary, and I was a nervous wreck." And he said, "You know, I was raised ignorant. "I didn't know one roid from another roid. "I didn't know a thyroid from any of the rest of the roid family," he said. "And I had a real bad sore throat, and at the end of the dinner I leaned back and told James, "My hemorrhoids are killing me." And James said, "Well, if they're that high, they ought to be." And then I heard another story. I wish I'd been there for this one. Back in the '60s when the Happy Goodman Family-- Vestal Goodman. Oh, do you remember the Gospel Singing Jubilee? ♪ Jubilee! ♪ I heard that every Sunday morning while I was getting whipped before church. ♪ Jubilee! ♪ Pow, pow. ♪ Jubilee! ♪ Pow, pow. And they'd say, "Today the Singing Rambos." And you'd see the Rambos come up over those stairs in that black-and-white TV. And then, "The Florida Boys." And here come The Florida Boys. And then, "The Happy Goodman Family." And you'd see Vestal's hair about ten seconds before you saw the rest of her. She was an electrical storm in a beaded gown. Sometime back in the '60s, The Happy Goodman Family were singing in Alabama, and they were under a band shell, and the audience was sitting up a hill. The hill was up this way and they had lawn chairs out there, and the Goodmans--Rusty, Sam, Howard, and Vestal-- the magic four were there. And while they were singing, it started raining. Vestal stopped the show and told the Lord to turn the rain off. It rained harder. She stopped again and said, "Now, Lord," she quoted a few scriptures and said, "Now, "Lord, we're trying to have a concert here today. Turn that rain off." And all of a sudden the heavens opened, and the cats and dogs were falling, and lightning was flashing, and thunder was sounding, and a dam at the top of the hill that had never broken broke, and a tsunami started coming down that hill towards the stage. Vestal said, "Good God, He said no. Run for your lives!" [laughter] Sometimes the grass needs water more than the people need to hear you sing. And what healthy Father can't say no?
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Channel: GaitherVEVO
Views: 283,310
Rating: 4.8946776 out of 5
Keywords: Mark, Lowry, The, Homecoming, Friends, Gaither, Music, Group, (HSE), Comedy, Mark Lowry, Bill Gaither, Gaither Vocal Band, The Homecoming Friends (Comedy/Live), Mark Lowry: Dogs Go To Heaven, Gloria Gaither, Gaither Vevo, Christian, Gospel, Gaither Gospel, Gaither Music
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Length: 6min 39sec (399 seconds)
Published: Fri May 20 2016
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