DAVID GASCHEN
David Gaschen, a world-renowned vocalist and performer, is no stranger to entertaining. David is a graduate of the Texas Tech University School of Music, where he received a degree in Vocal Performance. In 1995, at the age of 26, he was cast as an alternate in the role of the Phantom in the original Swiss production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, marking David as the youngest person to play the role. He reprised his role in the German and Broadway productions and has performed the role of Phantom more than 1,300 times. Although this dynamic performer loves the stage, David has recorded several CDs, including the self-titled, David Gaschen, and Let Me Sing and I'm Happy. He also performs on Broadway's Fabulous Phantoms with the likes of Howard McGillin, Hugh Panaro, and Michael Crawford. David and his beautiful wife, Jeanne, are thankful to God for the best productions to date: their wonderful son, Andrew, and incredible daughter, Molly Marie.
Listen to Sample: Be Thou My Vision
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GARRY BAILEY
As the consummate piano accompanist, Garry Bailey is most comfortable when he speaks with his fingers. His ear for music, combined with his classical music technique and training received from Columbia University, enable him to fluidly move with great delight through the styles of contemporary and traditional Christian music, jazz, and Broadway music. He tailors each keyboard arrangement to fit the singing style of the artist with whom he is working. Garry has journeyed with Insight for Living on three occasions. He is actively engaged in teaching music and frequently travels with performing vocalists. Garry and his wife, Suzanne, are based in Evansville, Indiana, and are the parents of two sons, Christopher and Andrew.
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When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
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BUDDY GREENE
Buddy Greene's live concert is equal parts hymn sing, jam session, church house revival, and journey through his Southern musical history. At age 19, Buddy picked up the harmonica and has since become one of the finest players in the United States. Buddy's musical expertise has found him gladly received into various genres of music from gospel to folk to bluegrass. You'll even find him playing a bit of classical music on the harmonica.
Buddy is cowriter with Mark Lowry of the modern-day Christmas favorite, "Mary, Did You Know?"
During this Alaskan adventure, Buddy will be joined onstage by multi-instrumentalist Jeff Taylor.
Listen to Sample: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
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NIELSON AND YOUNG
Steinway Artists Stephen Nielson and Ovid Young have combined their considerable talents as pianists for more than three decades in a distinguished career that has brought them international recognition. Their numerous recordings, university teaching posts, compositions for diverse publishers, and continuing roles as church musicians place them among the most distinctive musicians of our time. Stephen is on the faculty of the Cliburn Institute at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Ovid is artist-in-residence at the School of Music at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Both continue performing Nielson & Young concerts throughout the world.
Listen to Sample: Great Is Thy Faithfulness
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DAVID PENDLETON
As one of the premiere ventriloquists in the U.S., when David Pendleton performs with his "cast of characters," you'll believe anything can talk! A truly remarkable 20-year veteran entertainer, David's humor and stellar technique keeps audiences laughing from start to finish.
David brings to his show a wide range of comedic characters, including lovable and blunt Aunt Tilly, a 94-year-old, quick-witted troublemaker; Mack Elroy with his laid-back sidekick, Buford the beagle; and Vern, a slightly misguided albino vulture. And be prepared for a few surprise appearances from audience members!
David's high-energy entertainment mixes in truths of God's plan for our lives.
"Mack the magician" and Shephard
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DAVE CARL AND JASON STEVENSON
Dave Carl and Jason Stevenson are thrilled to be planning fun activities for your kids to participate in while on the Insight for Living 2012 Alaska Cruise!
Dave, a pastor at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, will be leading kids ages 6–12 with enthusiasm they'll never forget. Their week will be filled with crazy games and memorable Bible stories using the same creativity and imagination that Dave used while creating and directing Insight for Living's Paws & Tales radio ministry for children and their parents.
Jason's passion for both Jesus and teenagers will be evident to your son or daughter the moment they meet this man who has worked with youth for more than 22 years. With a heart for teaching the Bible in a way teens can relate to and embrace, Jason, also a pastor at Stonebriar Community Church, will help make the Insight for Living 2012 Alaska Cruise a memorable milestone in your teenager's life.
DON MCMINN
Don serves as the worship pastor at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. Through the years, he has enjoyed a multidimensional ministry that includes writing, teaching, counseling, and consulting. He has written in the areas of music and worship, relational theology, emotional health, and leadership development. Don enjoys communicating thoughts that are easy to understand and hard to ignore, inspiring those around him to look at things with a new perspective. Don and his wife, Mary, enjoy traveling together (to more than thirty-seven countries to date), appreciating art, and experiencing fine culinary establishments. They have two grown daughters.
PAUL SAILHAMER
Paul has been part of the Insight for Living conference team since the early 1980s. For 13 years he served as Chuck Swindoll's senior associate pastor at First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton in California. A major part of Paul's ministry over the years has been creative conference planning and leadership. Paul and his wife, Sue, live in Fullerton near their adult sons and their families, including six grandchildren. Paul has traveled in Israel many times and loves to help introduce folks to the land of the Bible. He does this with scriptural integrity, historical perspective, and an active sense of humor, which all travelers certainly need!