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"LAZARUS IN NEW YORK"
Nominated last fall as Best Unproduced Screenplay
for the ICVM Crown Awards, taking place February 25th at NRB Dallas.
(Three prospective movie posters on Home page)
The Edmonton area revival breakout started in 1972 when a carload of college students from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan visited Meadowlark Baptist Church
to testify to the amazing awakening taking place in their city. Their witness exploded a stunning revival in West Edmonton.
In the beginning of '73 I linked up with Gord Beatty, Lori Nix, and Sheila Mackay as a folk band performing Jesus Music across the province. Over the next few years,
several other young Christian musicians joined the band, which we named EMMANUEL. Alas, I left the group in late '75 to join Agape Force in Lindale, TX.
This LP was recorded to prepare for Emmanuel's nationwide Canadian tour, sponsored by YWAM to recruit youths to evanglize at the '76 Olympics.
This silhouette image from early in the band's existence shows (from l-to-r):
Ron Krueger, Sheila Mackay, Gord Beatty, Lori Nix, and Wayne Zeitner.
My fiancée and I took a break from Emmanuel, and attended a 12-week Discipleship Training Institute at Agape Force HQ in Sebastapol, California.
Afterwards, Sheila returned to Edmonton, but I went out to Agape Force's newly-purchased 300-acre "ranch" in Lindale, TX. Neither of us went to college...
...but we both were in full-time ministry. Two years later we got married in Edmonton, during a Klondike Days crusade featuring Agape Force music groups.
AF Founder Tony Salerno came up with the story concept, based on Galatians 5 (Fruit Of The Spirit). I co-wrote the script with Ane Warner-Weber; wrote the song "Peace;" voiced the role of Mister Conductor; and recorded 3-person dialog with little Stevie & Nancy one evening in the AF Accounting office on a 4-track TEAC open-reel device. Mark D. Pendergrass illustrated the cover art.
Twenty-six concerts in 22 days, starting in Brisbane. We zipped up to Bundaberg, then worked our way down the Gold Coast to Sydney, headed over to Melbourne, and ended up in Adelaide, where this photo was taken at a civic Concert Hall. (l-to-r: Julie Miller, Sheila Mackay Zeitner, Wayne Zeitner as Mr Conductor, Nathan Carlson as Herbert The Snail.)
The only time Sheila and I wrote a song together was for this album.
"Hip And A Hey" (we're on our way).
Nathaniel's siblings—bad kids. On top is "Tails" (Mark D. Pendergrass), below him is "Belcher" (Lonnie Davis), left-side is "Rounder" (wz), right side is "Scrunge" (Cathy Woods-Lieb), and at bottom is "Nappin" (Kim Strickland).
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