Saturday, July 3, 2010 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Gibbon Football Field

Come and enjoy the talents of:

Kathleen Juhl – will open the show

Crystal Campbell- Crystal has a degree in Musical Theatre, she has several CD’s and has toured regionally. Crystal can perform many different genres but will bless us with her Gospel music For more information visit www.crystalcampbellmusic.com. Contact Dennis Miller (308) 293-2795 for booking information.

Narroway- a contemporary Christian Band from Lexington, Nebraska

Tom Peterson – a country Gospel singer from Kearney, NE

Jacob Beck – a UNK student, singer, & songwriter

First Baptist Praise Band – Robbie, Donna, Steve, and Bill and their families!

This concert is free and open to the public. Free will donations will be accepted and all proceeds will go to the building of a school in Thailand for refugee Hill Tribe Children. Contact Angie Gillming at 308-234-2311 for more info.

The Thailand School Project came about after Angie’s husband Tom came back from Thailand in 2008. They had done a fresh water project in a tiny village in Northern Thailand. He was so touched by how the people had no material possessions and yet they were so happy. He felt like we needed to do more. After taking with Mike Mann the missionary there, we decided to start fundraising to build a school in Northern Thailand. Mike feels that education is next after getting clean fresh water to the villages. The people are refugees from Burma (what is now Myanmar) and China. They settled in Thailand where they are put up with, but have no rights, they are exploited and there is much drug trafficking, and sex trafficking. They are in dire poverty only making about $125 American Dollars a year. They grow what they eat and sell what is left. They are not educated and do not speak Thai language. We feel that education is vital in helping them to get out of poverty, opium trade, and to help them better adjust to Thai society and even be able to become citizens which would give them rights! The school would draw children from at least 3 villages and would ultimately get all the children through at least the 6th grade and the parents through at least the 4th grade. They would then be able to better trade in the bigger towns and cities and maybe be able to get jobs.

It will cost roughly $46,000 to build the building and about $30,000 a year to run the school for the first five years. The goal is to help the area grow economically enough in those five years that they would be able to support the school after that. So ultimately we will need to raise about $200,000 but it will be in $30,000 increments.

Tom Peterson Bio

Tom Peterson picked up his first guitar at the age of 10. A second hand acoustic on the Baptist church yard sale in Scotia, NE. Since then, he’s been singing and playing one guitar or another –for the last 30+ years. Tom has played in and around Kearney for many years, including the Trails & Rails Museum, Knights of Columbus pancake feed and Town & Country Bank’s client appreciation night. Tom currently plays with Jim & the Boys in Greeley; the Fun Bunch in area towns including Ord, St. Paul, and Loup City. And every second Thursday of each month, he is banging out tunes on his standup bass with the Riverdale Rounders (in Riverdale). In addition to countless solo and group performances at care homes, assisted living facilities and hospitals, Tom also has been asked to perform at many other fundraisers, funerals,  anniversaries, and birthday parties. You can also catch him from time to time performing during church services at First Baptist Church in Kearney.

You can contact Tom at 308-293-0461 if you would like him to perform.