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'CASH For Kenya: Live In Johnstown'
Johnny Cash 1991 Benefit Concert
Available for the First Time on DVD
There is more than the legend of Johnny Cash that lives on. There is even more than his timeless music. There is also one of his dreams -- to help build a hospital in Kenya -- an idea of Reverend Jack Shaw who was one of Cash's closest friends and spiritual advisers. On September 17, 1991, The Johnny Cash Show performed a benefit concert for Jack Shaw Ministries Intl. in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Now that heartfelt concert, featuring quintessential performances of many Cash classics just before he was about to redefine his career and gain a new generation of fans around the world, is available for the first time on DVD with "Cash For Kenya: Live In Johnstown" (Mercury Nashville/UMe), to be released October 21, 2008.
Reverend Jack Shaw, who produced the DVD, continues to lead the effort to build not only the hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, but also a center for education to help prevent the spread of AIDS and other diseases plaguing Africa.
Writes John Carter Cash in the liner notes: "My father is still here in spirit and his enlightened passion endures. His wish to see the continuance of Jack's vision is coming true, in numerous ways. So as you watch this concert, and are taken in by the man's music, his charm and charisma, remember what he is singing for. And remember the hope that drives him and those who still share his hope."
Along with wife June Carter Cash, son John Carter Cash, The Carter Family, and the rest of the Johnny Cash Show players, the man himself is as inspired on "Cash For Kenya: Live In Johnstown" as he ever was. His enthusiasm towards his audience is earnest, his inexhaustible spirit dominating the stage as he performs hits spanning his career, from "Get Rhythm" and "Ring Of Fire" to "Jackson, " "If I Were A Carpenter" and "Folsom Prison Blues."
The concert also emphasizes the down-home traditional, with "The Wabash Cannonball, " "Peace In The Valley, " "Keep On the Sunnyside, " "Lonesome Valley" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken."
Among the rarely recorded, in the studio or live, are "Man In White, " "Angel Band, " "Beautiful Life" and "The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All." Also heard are "A Thing Called Love, " "Five Feet High And Rising" and "Pickin' Time." At the time of the Johnstown concert, the Kenyan hospital was a dream. Today, that dream is becoming a reality -- and Johnny Cash is still helping to make it happen.
Source: Universal Music Enterprises
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GCMH Building Site
Close up of Sign
As you can see in these photos, construction of the 'Nehemiah' security walls around the GCMH site is well under way. Our projections call for their completion by January 2009. We will then launch the construction of the initial GCMH Medical Clinic.
A duplex dwelling will be constructed to house the Clinic initially and will immediately be put into operation. Doctor Fred Mugo, a longtime friend of this ministry and a local pediatrician, will head the clinic. He will screen, enlist and supervise several additional medical staff members. Services rendered will include typical first aid, pre-natal care and education, administration of medications, and medical screening to determine if hospitalization is necessary (Nearest hospitals: Kijabe - 67 km. and Nairobi - 137 km.)
Once the clinical facility is in full operation, an additional duplex will be built to house an on-site Grounds-keeper/manager in one half of the duplex, and itinerate medical, ministerial, educational, staffing, etc. personnel in the other half.
Accordingly, the release of the CASH For Kenya DVD is timely, as it will provide essential funding and newly interested on-board assistance in what God has called us to do. We must remember however that, while the DVD release date is set for October 21, JSMI will likely not realize initial compensation until a month or two afterwards, which will put us into late November or possibly December.
In the meantime the work on the walls must continue. Won't you please join us?
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We wish to thank those who are supporting this work and those who are prayerfully considering doing so. Without your kindness and compassion this multi-purposed humanitarian outreach to the hurting and dying souls of Kenya East Africa would not be possible.
With progress moving quickly forward, won't you join today with those who are already helping?
To Contribute to JSMI's, Grace Christian Mission Hospital project - Click Here.
You may also mail your contribution to Jack Shaw Ministries, International, P.O. Box 5250, Johnstown, PA 15904
"The needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish." (Psalm 9:18 -NIV)
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