The International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum has announced this year’s inductees, who will be honored at its thirteenth annual induction celebration and fundraiser in late October.

Announced by the non-profit organization’s founder, David Gough, this year’s inductees are T.D. Jakes, Bill Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Myrna Summers, Wyatt T. Walker, and BeBe Winans.

Previous inductees have included Aretha Franklin, CeCe Winans, The Clark Sisters, Donnie McClurkin, and Fred Hammond.

"For over a decade, we have successfully achieved our goal – the furtherance of gospel music worldwide," commented Gough. "The awards event is our annual fund raising centerpiece, but our work to celebrate the contributions of influential individuals and groups, and to increase awareness of gospel music, takes place year-round."

This year’s induction and awards celebration will be held at the Max M. Fisher Music Center on Saturday, October 31 – preceded by a Red Carpet Extravaganza with live entertainment and photo opportunities with gospel greats.

Since 1995, the organization has worked to preserve and celebrate the work of the world’s legendary and influential gospel music artists and entertainers.

Its museum, located in the studios of DoRohn Entertainment in Detroit, features recordings, documents, photographs and memorabilia. The museum is supported by individual donors and corporate contributors, and is open for tours by appointment.

Reach Records recording artist Lecrae is prepping for a fall tour titled Altered Minds. The tour blends the hip-hop and rock genres and features MIKESCHAIR, After Edmund, Tedashii, and Sho Baraka. This tour is the follow up to the successful Don’t Waste Your Life summer tour. The Altered Minds tour launches on October 1 in Harrington, DE and will stop through 26 cities including Indianapolis, San Antonio, Cincinnati, and Abiline, before concluding on Nov. 22 in Memphis, TN.

Verity Gospel Music Group recording artist Pastor Marvin Sapp is set to record his next album. The live CD/DVD recording is slated to take place on October 16, 2009 at Resurrection Life Church in Wyoming, Michigan. The recording caps off a week long celebration of twenty years of ministry for Sapp. The week’s events will feature Pastor Smokie Norful, Bishop Hezekiah Walker, Bishop Joseph Walker, and Bishop Liston Page as guest speakers. The live recording will feature Aaron Lindsay returning as producer of the effort. This effort is the follow up to Thirsty, which produced the smash hit "Never Would Have Made It" and garnered eight Stellar awards including "Artist of the Year" and "Song of the Year".

Vanessa Bell Armstrong is one of those artists that needs very little introduction – her voice and legend speak for themselves, and now for the first time ever, Armstrong teams up with one of her biggest fans, music impresario Donald Lawrence. The result is Armstrong’s strongest and most anticipated album release ever, THE EXPERIENCE, which hits stores October 6, 2009 on EMI Gospel.

THE EXPERIENCE is tried and true Vanessa Bell Armstrong. This power-packed album was recorded live in Chicago where Lawrence took Armstrong back to the basics with church friendly, signature Gospel music. The first single, "Good News," is all that – a classically gospel song with extraordinary vocals from Armstrong. With a smooth groove, Armstrong has never sounded better and it is a song that makes you remember what Gospel music is really about. The song speaks to literally having a praise and prayer for everyday.

Good News – Vanessa Bell Armstrong

Along with "Good News," Armstrong proves to be both timely and timeless as she reintroduces live versions of her favorites. Among the highlights are "You Bring Out The Best In Me," a truly soulful duet with Rance Allen; "What He’s Done For Me," and "Anyway You Bless Me."

Armstrong will support this release with an upcoming promotional tour and key appearances throughout the Fall. For Armstrong’s full schedule check out her website: www.myspace.com/vbamusic

Upcoming Events:

September 20 – Atlanta, GA – Live performance at "V-103FM For Sisters Only" Concert

September 27 – BET "Lift Every Voice" Television Appearance. Sunday at 10:00am EST

October 4 – Houston, TX – Concert at New Life Church

October 5 – TBN Television Performance on PRAISE THE LORD

October 6 – Chicago, IL – THE EXPERIENCE Album Release Concert

October 10 – Washington DC – Live performance at "WPRS-FM Spirit Of Praise" Concert

November 6 – Memphis, TN – Live performance at COGIC Midnight Musical

November 11 – BET "Bobby Jones Gospel" Television Performance. Sunday at 9:00am EST

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Fred Hammond’s upcoming release Love Unstoppable is on its way to becoming another hit for the celebrated architect of urban praise and worship before it’s official Sept. 29th release. This week, "They That Wait" officially becomes a Top-10 radio hit, reaching the #9 spot with a bullet. Additionally, the CD is #10 on iTunes’ Christian/Gospel album chart.

Due out this week on the Verity Gospel Music label, Hammond’s latest CD is lyrically rich and sonically brilliant with musical textures that incorporate driving bass lines, R&B rhythms and jazz stylings. The first single, "They That Wait" featuring John P. Kee, has been a radio favorite all summer and shows no signs of slowing down. The CD also includes the gems "Find No Fault", "Lord How I Love You" and, what Hammond calls his personal testimony, "Lost in You Again." Having gained critical acclaim in the early 80’s as a founding member of Gospel’s famed ensemble Commissioned, Fred Hammond created a new sound in the genre that distinguished him as the "Architect of Urban Praise and Worship." Now nearly thirty years later, he continues to be the leader of the pack.

Some parents and politicians say television commercials during professional sports games focus too much on drugs, sex and alcohol.

So a California media monitoring group wants pro sports to police themselves for the sake of the children.

According to the Associated Press, San Francisco based Common Sense Media found the number of TV ads selling erectile dysfunction drugs and beer led commercials touting junk food during pro football and baseball telecasts.

And it’s got parents and politicians worried about harm to young viewers.

One lawmaker concerned about the issue even introduced a bill that would limit ED ads to nighttime.

Mike Steyer, who taught law at Stanford University said "Parents should be able to watch a football game with their kids without having to either mute the television or explain the side effects of a life enhancement drug."

"We follow the lead of our broadcasters as it relates to ads, yet we are always sensitive to the opinions of our fans," said MLB spokesman Matt Bourne.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, in an e-mail after the league’s opening week, wrote that "we are comfortable with our policies and those of our network partners."

First Ballot Available Online Tuesday September 22, 2009
The first Stellar Awards ballot will be available for online voting from

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 – October 3, 2009 at http://www.thestellarawards.com

The first 25th Stellar Awards ballot is open to the public for voting.

You will only be allowed to vote once.

"Life is short. Have an affair … with your spouse," exclaimed megachurch pastor Ed Young after emerging from a taped debate with AshleyMadison.com founder Noel Biderman.

Young and Biderman, whose website caters to people who are "attached" and looking for an affair, met up Thursday night with two other panelists for the debate at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas – part of ABC Nightline’s latest "Face-Off" series, which is tackling the Ten Commandments and how they apply to modern life.

The news program decided to kick off the series with the seventh commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery."

"I agree with Noel," Young said during the debate, referring to Ashley Madison’s tagline, "Life is short. Have an affair."

"[But] I would add three words: with, your, spouse," continued Young.

According to reports, adultery is the second leading cause of divorce. And Biderman’s notorious website, which claims over 2.5 million subscribers, is a way of "cannibalizing an existing human behavior and condition," as the Ashley Madison founder previously explained.

Although Biderman, who is happily married, believes adultery is wrong, he argued that extramarital affairs could be a marriage saver.

"[P]eople don’t have affairs because of my website," he said, according to the local Pegasus News. "Infidelity can save your marriage."

It’s better to have an affair than to get divorced, he maintained.

Young, meanwhile, argued that married couples having more sex with each other is the answer. By doing so, he said, communication opens.

The Texas pastor had thousands of supporters behind him as Thursday’s taping of the debate took place at his church. His congregants were not likely surprised to find their pastor talking about sex especially after Young made headlines last year for issuing a seven-day sex challenge to married couples.

"God is for sex," he said last year. "It was His idea. The Church has allowed the culture to hijack sex from the Church and it’s time that we move the bed back in Church and put God back in the bed.

"We are the real sexperts. After all, we’re made in God’s image and He’s the one who wants us to do it His way."

Young made similar statements during Thursday’s Nightline debate.

But Biderman and fellow pro-infidelity debater Jenny Block, who is married with kids and in an open relationship with a woman, believe the Ten Commandments and the institution of the heterosexual, monogamous marriage may be archaic.

It’s not a part of human nature to be monogamous, Biderman argued.

Panelist Jonathan Daughtery, a recovered sex addict, has been on both sides of the equation. And in the end, he says, "Faithfulness and fidelity to one spouse wins."

Young, meanwhile, added: "Adultery has its kicks but it has wicked, Chuck Norris-like kickbacks."

Thursday’s debate is scheduled to air on ABC Nightline next week, on Sept. 24.

Writing Credit: Christian Post.com

ATLANTA, Sept. 17 / Path MEGAzine / — Popular artists CeCe and BeBe Winans were at the Gospel Music Channel television network’s Atlanta studio Sept. 9-10 to shoot an episode of the new GMC Original series "Revealed" while also appearing on the network’s weekday morning show "Joyful Noise Café" and sitting for an exclusive interview on gospelmusicchannel.com. "BeBe & CeCe Winans: Revealed" will world premiere on GMC Oct. 18 @ 8pm ET/PT.

Seen here, from left, are Charles Humbard, founder and president, GMC; CeCe Winans; Brad Siegel, vice chairman, GMC; and BeBe Winans.

Gospel Music Channel (www.gospelmusicchannel.com) is the fastest-growing network in television and can be seen in 45 million homes on various cable systems around the country, on DIRECTV on channel 338 and on Verizon FiOS on channel 224.

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