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GMA-ANZ HOSTS 2ND ANNUAL CHRISTIAN MUSIC CONFERENCE

GMA AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND HOSTS 2ND ANNUAL CHRISTIAN MUSIC CONFERENCE
Sees 38% increase in registrations

The Gospel Music Association Australia-New Zealand (GMA-ANZ), an affiliate of the US-based Gospel Music Association, held it’s second annual conference May 28-29, 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.  The Gold Coast event saw a 38% increase in attendees this year - up from 102 registrations last year to 141 this year.    

“The standard of artistry on display during the various showcase opportunities was impressive”, says Anton Bekker, GMA-ANZ Board Member, “Our registrants were also very positive about the various workshops they attended.”

The event enjoyed top quality messages from industry leaders Mark de Jong (The Power Of A Song), Jeff  Crabtree (The Twenty First Century Christian Musician) and Roma Waterman (The God Artist - The Power Of Sound). The event also featured a special message from Dorry Kartabani, Senior Agent from the Harbour Booking Agency in Sydney, as as a last minute keynote speaker on Passion, Persistence and Perception.  The event featured showcases from the following area Christian artists: Rapture Ruckus, Trigger Theory, Lydia Cole, Magnify, Candice Long, The Smart, Chris Billing, Mark Lowndes and Nathan Eshman.

Anyone who could not attend had an opportunity to view a special 2009 GMA-ANZ Conference webcast.  Some of the content from the event will soon be will be put onto the GMA-ANZ website for members to access.

GMA-ANZ was formed on Easter Monday, 2006 when 150 people gathered in Toowoomba Queensland to express their enthusiastic support to the vision and idea of a Gospel Music Association in Australia-New Zealand.  The organization offers significant benefits to its Australia and New Zealand members including opportunities to connect, training and education, representation to local and national governments and financial discounts on music equipment, insurance and international attendance at the annual GMA Music Week in the USA.  To learn more about GMA-ANZ, visit www.gma-anz.org.  

Music in Recession

ChristianityMusicToday.com published a summary of the current state of Christian Music.  It is eye opening and painful to read for us in the industry.  However, it's very important for us to know the truth so we can decide where to go from here.  

I highly recommend reading it.  Here is the link:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/commentaries/2009/musicinrecession.html?start=1

Many of you know I'm on the Board of Directors at the GMA.  President John Styll challenged us today to review the closing remarks from Charlie Peacock at this year's GMA Music Week.  It is important again, for our realities to be checked.  This is crunch time.  Do or die.  Insert whatever cliche you'd like.  Here are his words...(hopefully with his and the GMA's permission)

Gospel Music: Following Where Jesus Leads
GMA Music Week Keynote Address
April 15, 2009 
It is a great honor to bring the last of the keynote addresses here at GMA Music Week.  I still remember my first GMA experience 19 years ago.  I wore a black fedora, backwards.  A gold silk suit and black janitor shoes, with chrome studs hammered all the way around the outside rim of the shoes.  And I wasn’t a young kid – I was 33.  I’d already been a working artist for 15 years.  I got married when I was 18 and started figuring out how to make a living at music.  By the time I arrived at GMA I had already recorded for A&M and Island Records, worked for CBS as a songwriter, and toured as an opening act for a bunch of eighties bands you’ve probably never heard of.  I was the rarest of birds back then.  I was a Christian who had been in “secular” music.  There’s nothing unusual about that now.  Most of you probably don’t even know that part of my story.  If you know me at all, you’re probably saying: isn’t he the guy that wrote In The Light for dcTalk?  Or, didn’t he discover Switchfoot?  Or isn’t he the guy in the Verizon commercial?
I think I’m here today because I’m haunted by four questions?  What does it mean to be an artist?  What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?  What does it mean to the love the church through music?  And what does it mean to create winsome, imaginative music for the common good, for people outside the walls of the church? 
Recently I’ve written, and been quoted as saying, that contemporary Christian music as we once knew it is coming to an end. I do believe that. The modern worship music explosion, as good as it was, was a game changer.  It put a dagger in the heart of music with lyrics that brought a Christian worldview to bear on a diversity of subjects.  That shouldn’t have happened.  People kept calling worldview music crossover, or secular, or watered down, or vague.  The problem was that many people couldn’t tell what was Christian about the lyrics because they hadn’t learned to think Christianly about the whole of life.  As a result, worldview music went into the world to be heard.  Now there are a hundred artists of faith having a huge impact on popular music – you know their names. Ten years ago when that music began to exit the Gospel music community, you could hear many fans and gatekeepers cheering, finally they said, the Gospel music industry is getting back to faithfulness, and phrases like “core business” or “your base audience” were on the tips of tongues at record companies, radio, and retail.
Today, there are new game-changers like the economy, and a 50% drop in CD sales.  Gospel music’s small group of genre superstars are waning in sales and public interest – names that the GMA has depended on to magnetize the music, to promote the genre. Their replacement crew is even smaller, and there’s no strong indication that the rockets of the new guys will even burn as long as their predecessors. So yes, I think we are at the end of an era. But I don’t see it as cause for panic or pessimism, or dismissing good work when we see it and hear it.   It is an opportunity for course correction though, for fresh ideas, and new faithful dreams for the music -- AND new dreams for the ways and means that people encounter the music.
This is a critical, fresh moment in America’s Gospel music history.  I wonder though, will history show that we trusted God for good to emerge and prevail?  Or will history show us enslaved to the same old relentless metric of quantity, with no room for quality?  Will we, in this fresh opportunity see that it doesn’t matter how many points you put up on the board. If you still lose by God’s standards of success, you still lose. 
All of us that care about music, and its distribution to the church and the watching world, have to guard ourselves from the extremes of oversimplification.  We always need to critique our work and cast a vision for what the future may hold, BUT it has to be done with grace, with charity, with an understanding of history, and most of all with love.   Those in the church who pride themselves on finding everything that’s wrong with Gospel music without providing solutions, are just as misguided as anyone whose hysterical optimism refuses to take a critical look. If we love Christ, his people, and the good gift of music, then our stewardship demands that we speak out with an inspiring vision for the future and not just words and deeds that are drenched in either negativity or unfounded optimism. Truth telling is always in order. An absence of faith, hope and love is not.  
Now is the time for all of us to lead Gospel music in new, revitalized ways. We need strong voices, leaders who will give us radical hope in the face of inconceivable cultural change. We need musical and business leaders of courage, wisdom and flexibility.  What we don’t need is another short-term vision of music designed to serve the young alone or the most immature of believers. Instead, we need a vision for Gospel music that will last the test of time, faltering economies, and new technologies. No sustainable good can come from an industry with a past that cannot promise a future. We can’t let ourselves ignore audience attrition or artist attrition just because there’s always a new crop of baby Christians coming up, eager for a soundtrack to their new Christian lives, impressed that there’s positive music safe for the whole family.  THIS VISION IS TOO SMALL.  Faithfulness demands more.  Our people, the church of Jesus Christ, the young, the old, all ages, deserve our best efforts in delivering into their hands and hearts, a lyrically and musically comprehensive Gospel music.  A music big enough, and beautiful enough to deserve the name, Gospel.
What we want is a remarkable demonstration of the musical people of God, everywhere and in everything, spiritually and artistically mature and authentic, eager to proclaim the mighty works of God in the church and the public square, for the good of the church, and for the common good of all. I will not rest until this is the norm for the music created by Christians everywhere, but especially here in America.
I love this country.  America is a great nation, not in its absence of faults, but in its presence of assets, not in its absence of problems, but its presence of solutions. I believe that the Spirit of Wisdom working in the lives of Christian men and women in America is no small thing. The spiritual and intellectual capital of the millions of Americans that profess faith in Jesus is True Wealth. And the faith, enthusiasm, and dreams of the people gathered in this room is no small thing either.  Achievements count, but they are empty without the currency of God and the fame of Christ crucified and risen.  Jesus came announcing the time has come. In the advancing kingdom, the time just keeps on coming.  It’s time for many things, but most importantly, it’s time for faith, hope, and love. It’s time for trusting that Jesus really does provide all that we need for life and godliness.
Something good is coming. It’s not far off. It’s coming with a demonstration of God’s faithfulness to sustain his church and to provide for its true needs, INCLUDING MUSIC. We so easily forget these truths about who God is.   We lose the Jesus/kingdom story-line. Other stories come in, they compete for our attention, and in our weakness we exchange faith, hope, and love for something altogether different. But Take Notice: These kinds of stories have no light, no brightness, no true quality.  All they want to do, is to see that you and I are scared, faithless, unimaginative, and unproductive. Stories with this motive have leaked out of the world and into our music and our ways of getting out to people. They divide, fill us with fears, and shake our foundation. But this is not the time to run scared. As I’ve been saying, it’s a good time to remember Jesus and his words--his story. His message went something like this: Don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or drink--or about your body, what you’ll wear.
Remember:  A follower of Jesus is one who imagines, speaks, and acts the same whether in plenty or in want. Why? We follow Jesus, not the money. Jesus holds the defining story for life – and HE has all the resources to pull it off on our behalf. Like he said, we needn’t worry ourselves.
I’ll say it again, this is the kind of cultural moment that doesn’t come around that often. We’ve got to open up the windows and let the wind blow through. It’s the right time for Christians in the music industry to show through faith, hope, and love that they don’t need a stellar economy and outdated music business models to make great music to God’s glory.  It’s time to focus on Jesus, on what it means to be his kind of person in the world, and to use the good imagination He gave us, fueled by the Holy Spirit of God.  We’ve got some soul work to do though.
Every generation of Christian musicians think they are the only generation to come along and change the music for the better, to rescue it from being “cheesy.” But you know what, tomorrow young musicians will think that all music is dated and boring, and they will create something THEY think is current and not cheesy, only to become someone else’s version of cheesy ten years from now.  They’ll say things like: “We just wanna show people that you can be a Christian and have fun, too.”  Or, “God has called us to change Gospel music, to show the world that not all Christian musicians are irrelevant.”  Or, “We’re not gonna hit people over the head with the Bible. We’re not Christian musicians; we’re musicians who are Christians.” Or, “We’re BOLD, we’re totally sold out to Jesus. We don’t write vague, sugar-coated lyrics like those other bands.”  It won’t matter what future generations say though if it’s all retread hubris, pride, and boasting like this.  I’ve got good news for all of us.  Jesus doesn’t need us to protect his reputation.  He’s protected his own reputation just fine for 2000 years.  It’s his people, you and me, whose authenticity is vulnerable. Let’s concern ourselves with asking whether we look like we’ve taken the word and work of Jesus seriously – that it’s actually changed our lives.
Popular Christian music has been a house divided for too long.  One half the house is so good at competing with the world musically -- so good at describing the human condition in all its glory and shame.  The other is so good at creating well-crafted music for the church and describing the goodness of God and his salvation through faith in Jesus.  Yet each half, each group, is always sniping at the other, and each group at their worst, is a parade of fools.  It reminds me of the story in 1 Corinthians where one group claimed to follow Paul, the other Apollos.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Don’t take that statement too far.  True Gospel music is not going anywhere.  You may fall, I may fall in this house divided.  But Gospel music is not going anywhere.
Do you want to go where the music leads?  Then you’ve got to ask yourself some questions. Are you tired of repeating history again and again as if you were the first to arrive on the scene?  There’s been a lot of foolish, cyclical behavior in Gospel music over the last forty years.  This must change – cease.
Are you tired of being a cliché?  So predictable?  I hope so.  It’s time for our musical community to move from milk to solid food, from immaturity to maturity.  It’s not about sacred or secular, vertical or horizontal, modern worship or hymns, crossover or church, liberal or conservative. This is the historical moment of the spiritual – now we will deal in spiritual currency – people seeking God and a more beautiful, faithful way of living that is holistic in scope – beyond pietism to a true righteousness – the righteousness revealed in the person of Jesus.  Not an American Christianity, left or right, Republican or Democrat, but instead, an adoration of Jesus and his ways of being human – his direction in being and doing, and reforming all things: music and the arts, agriculture, business, education, politics, recreation, communication, science – literally everything.  It’s about being interested in what Jesus is interested in and letting the music reflect those interests.  It’s about following where Jesus leads.
Is he leading some to deal with the fallout from genocide in Darfur?  Tell the story in song.  Is he pointing you to the glory of his Father, God of wonders?  Tell the story in song.  Is he saving and bringing back to life your neighbor’s sick child?  Tell the story in song.  Is he healing marriages in the sanctuaries of our churches?  Tell the story in song.  Is he leading you toward good work, giving you good things, food, laughter, baseball, sex, and marriage?  Tell the story in song.  Is Jesus present in the praises of his people?  Tell the story in song.  Is he alive and working everywhere and in everything, in history past, present, and future?  Then tell the story in song.  This is Gospel music – the good news that Jesus is redeeming all that he loves, people and place and the culture he’s allowed and encouraged us to create.  There is no end to the creativity of God and there’s no corner of reality that He is not the LORD over.  Gospel music is only truly faithful to the degree that it reflects this awesome truth. 
Because of who God is and what He is doing, we can be sure that Gospel music is far from being over.
Circumstances may change
But Gospel music is not going anywhere
The artists and songwriters may change
But Gospel music is not going anywhere
The economy may contract and expand
But Gospel music is not going anywhere
It may rise and fall in popularity in America
But Gospel music is not going anywhere
It may be known by other names and those names may wear out
But Gospel music is not going anywhere
Believe with me, that right now there is an army of gifted musical artists quietly praying to God in their hearts, revealing their desires, saying: “Oh God, how can I not serve you? How can I not live for you--make my music for you alone, everywhere and in everything. Jesus, grant me this great privilege to be your kind of musical person in this world, full of faith, hope and love for you, your people, and for those who don’t yet know you. Oh, Spirit of the living God fill me, come with power and wisdom and strength. Give me faith to take you at your word, to ignore the stories that make me fearful, unimaginative and unproductive. Help me to tell a musical story with my life that says I’m following you and nothing else. And please Lord God, send me people to help me get my music out to the church and to world for the common good of anyone, anywhere who would enjoy it, and be moved to praise you because of it.”
We can never, ever forget that the life, death, and resurrection of one man Jesus Christ, inspired the greatest body of music and art the world has ever known.  Gospel music is not going anywhere but forward to the new heavens and the new earth where all God’s people will sing together:
"Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
and honor and glory and praise!"
"To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever! 
Let’s pray as Jesus taught us to pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory. for ever and ever. Amen
Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly Host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
BENEDICITON:  I pray that the grace of our Lord Jesus be yours today and in every waking day here on earth.  May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for each other.  May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes.  May the God of peace, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in all of us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

As an optimist, I'm very hopeful about the future.  It may only not look quite the way I envision it.  I'm very eager to meet with the Board in about 10 days to begin to see the future of Christian Music.

US Album Sales Down Nearly 18% in May

(From BillBoard.biz) ALBUM SALES DOWN NEARLY 18% IN MAY

 

Album sales in May dropped 17.8% versus May 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and were 36.7% lower than May 2007. (For these purposes, the month of May 2009 was from Monday, May 4 to Sunday, May 30.) For the year through May 31, album sales are down 13.4% versus the same period in 2008 and are down 30.4% against the same period in 2007. Track Equivalent Albums (TEAs) were 13.1% lower in May 2009 versus May 2008. That was a reversal from the relatively successful month of April in which TEAs were down only 4.6%. Year to date, TEAs are down almost 7.6% versus last year. 

The flattening of digital track sales growth compounds problems that arise from falling album sales. Year-over-year track sales were up only 5%, 6%, 2% and 5% in the four weeks that comprised the month of May. For an indication of where sales are trending over the next year, look at the early adopting Pacific region of the country (as defined by SoundScan). Track sales in the Pacific are up 8% in 2009, the lowest growth rate of the eight regions. On the other coast, both the Northeast and Middle Atlantic regions are up 12%. At this time last year, the early adopters of the Pacific region had brought a 25% increase in tracks sales while the Northeast and Middle Atlantic regions were up 26% and 29%, respectively. The TEAs metric coverts digital track sales to album sales (by dividing track sales by ten) and allows for easy comparisons over periods of time. This is possible because ten digital songs have the same retail and wholesale amounts as digital albums. When looking at changes in purchase trends – as consumers buy more individual tracks and fewer albums – looking at TEAs allows for easy comparison of changes in overall recorded music spending (excluding ringtones). 

—Glenn Peoples, Nashville 

INTEGRITY MUSIC LATIN AND CANZION GROUP ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

MOBILE, Alabama (May 19, 2009) Integrity Music Latin and CanZion Group announced today that they have entered into an agreement to jointly serve the Christian retail market through the newly named CanZion-Integrity Distribution (CID). 

The new CID entity will begin distributing Spanish and Portuguese language products to Christian retailers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico beginning July 1 while maintaining separate operations for all other markets. 

This ground-breaking alliance between two of the worlds leading producers of Latin worship music will combine sales, marketing, manufacturing, distribution and publishing efforts for all current and future CDs, DVDs and digital products. 

Together, the new CID artist roster includes: Latin Grammy winner Marcos Witt; Latin Billboard winner Danilo Montero; Latin Grammy nominated and Premios Arpa winner Alex Campos; Latin Grammy and Dove Award winner Aline Barros; Latin Grammy and Latin Billboard winner Juan Luis Guerra; Dove and Arpa winner Funky; Premios Arpa winner Julissa Rivera and Dove Nominee and Latin Grammy nominee Daniel Calveti among others. 

"We are delighted to partner with CanZion Music which has such a significant ministry impact throughout the Latin world, said Michael Coleman, CEO and co-founder of Integrity Media, parent company of the Integrity Music Latin label. This new partnership will strengthen the outreach of both of our companies in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and it is an important step for Integrity as we seek to further our mission of helping people worldwide experience the manifest presence of God." 

Marcos Witt, Founder and CEO of CanZion adds: We at CanZion Group are extremely excited at joining efforts with the great family at Integrity Media to impact the kingdom for God's glory. At CanZion we share many of the same values that Integrity embraces, especially when it has to do with people experiencing the manifest presence of God through music. We believe that by working together we'll be able to do an even better job of spreading the glorious news of the Gospel to the Spanish language world. We also have the conviction that our union will be a model of unity that will glorify God. 

CanZion-Integrity Distribution will be headquartered in Mobile, Alabama with Canzion operating their label group from Houston, Texas under the direction of Arturo Allen. All sales, distribution and accounting of CID will be handled from Integrity Medias offices in Mobile, Alabama. Elias Yepez, formerly of Zondervan, Vida, and currently the Director of Sales and Marketing for Integrity Music Latin, will be the new Director of CanZion-Integrity Distribution. 

Hour of Power Germany

For those of you interested, Deborah Rosenkranz (Former German singing Flight Attendant) is interviewed on the German version of Hour of Power.  

Dutch BCB plans Festival and Bookstore Day

Dutch association BCB plans Book & Music Festival, Christian Bookstore Day. BCB—the primary association of Dutch Christian retailers and suppliers, which represents the Netherlands in ChristianTrade Association International—is planning a new consumer Christian Book & Music Festival and a Christian Bookstore Day. BCB is changing the focus of its annual fall consumers’ fair to be more experiential. Current plans are for several large, themed areas, each running continuous programming. Depending on logistics, the revamped event will be held later this year or in 2010. For Christian Bookstore Day, BCB plans to coordinate and generate nationwide publicity and develop in-store materials. Each local store would organize its own activities and local publicity, highlighting its own identity. Publishers can participate with discounts, giveaways, and other promotions to attract buyers. The first Christian Bookstore Day is planned for early 2010.

Russian EMA Organization Hosts First Christian Music Awards Show

An affiliate of the Gospel Music Association (USA), the EMA (Former Soviet Union GMA) hosts its first awards show.  Over 1000 people were in attendance of the event.  According to Artist of the Year winner, New Jerusalem, it was the best Christian music event he has ever attended. 

Here are some links to media coverage of the event, which took place earlier this month:

Protestant.ru (Russian TBN)

CNL Download

  

Live Journal - individual footage

The EMA also held an event called the Moscow Music Forum in late November 2008 which was an important event in the development of Christian music in the Former Soviet Union.  Watch a report uploaded to YouTube of the event (with English subtitles).

As head of the Gospel Music Association International Committee and International Representative of the GMA Board of Directors, I'm very proud to see how this organization in the Former Soviet Union is forming.  We look forward to more news from the EMA soon.

CTA Intl Annual Report

ChristianTrade Association International 

Annual Report to Members 

13 July, 2008 

Orlando, Florida USA 

(From a presentation by Sylvester Ejeh, Chairman, ChristianTrade Association International during the 

International Vision Celebration held during CBA America’s International Christian Retail Show) 

 

 

 

2007-2008 has been another miracle year for 

ChristianTrade Association International! We 

reached most of our important goals, expanded 

our programs, and ended the year with cash in the 

bank. Praise God! 

 

Two highlights deserve special mention: 

Marketsquare International and Marketsquare 

Asia. In 2007, CBA America announced it was discontinuing the January 

Advance convention. Immediately, international buyers—you!—began telling 

ChristianTrade you needed a January convention. So, we launched the first 

Marketsquare International convention in Toronto, Canada, and more than 300 

attendees participated. The convention was a resounding success. 

 

Marketsquare International 2009 will be 15-17 January at the Sheraton Gateway 

hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. It launches with a two-day Professional Bookseller 

Institute on 14 & 15 January. Please plan to join us! 

 

A second item of particular praise was the revitalized Marketsquare Asia 

convention. Thirty-five mainland China Christian booksellers received 

scholarships to this convention last fall. This September, more mainland Chinese 

Christian booksellers will attend—plus 30-35 publishers from that vast country. 

Marketsquare Asia has become a key convention for Asian buyers and product 

producers as well as for American and other international suppliers. 

 

Some changes for the coming year: 

 • The strongest support for Marketsquare Europe has been from Central 

and Eastern Europe—areas underserved by Europe’s major secular book fairs. 

So, in 2009, Marketsquare Europe will move 

east—possibly to Budapest, Hungary—timed 

just prior to the October Frankfurt International 

Book Fair. 

 • A series of three connected 

Marketsquare Africa conventions will be held in 

fall 2009: in Accra, Ghana; Lagos, Nigeria; and 

Nairobi, Kenya. The last will be in cooperation 

with Media Associates International’s LITT- 

WORLD convention. 

 • Marketsquare Caribbean will not be held in 2009. Attendance and 

supplier participation has not been adequate to continue this event. 

Membership grew this past year. A significant new member recently joined: the 

Spanish Evangelical Products Association. SEPA represents Spanish-language 

suppliers, distributors, and retailers worldwide, and we’re so pleased they have 

chosen to identify with the ChristianTrade world. 

 

We published the third International Market Directory in June. A record number of 

countries—64—are represented this year. We thank God this powerful tool can 

connect so many member nations and suppliers to suppliers in other countries. 

 

One reason more countries are represented in the International 

Market Directory is because we have more member companies. 

The number of “direct” members—who pay dues directly to 

ChristianTrade—has grown. The number of nation members has 

decreased because several ChristianTrade nations now have 

fewer retail and supplier members. 

Finally, we praise Jesus for our solid financial basis. Though the association is 

just three years old, each year has ended with more reserves for future needs. 

Our ending numbers for fiscal 2008, which ended 31 May: 

 

ChristianTrade is governed by a board of directors elected by our member 

nations at the Annual General Meeting held at ICRS. Our mission is to support 

the growth of the Christian trade worldwide. We crave your prayers as we look to 

the Lord for His leadership in our association. If you have any suggestions or 

recommendations, please contact Jim Powell, our president, or any board 

member. 

Marketsquare Asia - Early Bird Registration Ends June 15

Early Bird Registration ends on June 15 for the Christian Trade Association International's Marketsquare Asia 2008 Event - September 7-9 in Hong Kong.  For more information, visit this website.

ICRS - July 13 - 17

Are you coming to the International Christian Retail Show in Orlando this year?  If you are, make sure you contact me.  Go Global Entertainment will be at the International Marketplace area all week (Monday - Thursday).