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Posted by Adrian Collins in Dallas, Texas @ 07:12 on Oct 14 2008
From 1968-early 69 I worked with charles in the New Creatures where we played all over Californis and toured the midwestern states ministering where ever there was an opening. Because the church was afraid of the "Jesus Freaks" they had heard of we were not allowed in some churches, and were even told to leave and "Get that rock 'n roll Jesus music out of their church." As Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, and the worse of times"...at times we went hungry when ever the last church we ministered in gave us just enough gas money to get to the next town. But it was a time of an intense closeness with God that i pray comes upon this next Jesus movement that is beginning now. I praise god for Charles, and the rest of the group of New Creatures. They were Steve Conaway-lead guitar, Roger Ford-drums, Me-Adrian Collins-Bass, and Charles on Rythm guitar. We were honored to get to minister to as little as two people, to thousands in great auditoriums. Charles and I ministered and witnesses all night to the crowd of Black Panthers, SDS (Neo-Nazis) and just plain folk that were outside the hospital when Bobby Kennedy was shot. Praise God for His letting us work in His harvest field. Knowing where Charles is, is a blessing to know that although I had a past relationsship whith Him as a fellow minister, and brother in Christ, but that he is also in my future. ....See ya soon Charles
From 1968-early 69 I worked with charles in the New Creatures where we played all over Californis and toured the midwestern states ministering where ever there was an opening. Because the church was afraid of the "Jesus Freaks" they had heard of we were not allowed in some churches, and were even told to leave and "Get that rock 'n roll Jesus music out of their church." As Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, and the worse of times"...at times we went hungry when ever the last church we ministered in gave us just enough gas money to get to the next town. But it was a time of an intense closeness with God that i pray comes upon this next Jesus movement that is beginning now. I praise god for Charles, and the rest of the group of New Creatures. They were Steve Conaway-lead guitar, Roger Ford-drums, Me-Adrian Collins-Bass, and Charles on Rythm guitar. We were honored to get to minister to as little as two people, to thousands in great auditoriums. Charles and I ministered and witnesses all night to the crowd of Black Panthers, SDS (Neo-Nazis) and just plain folk that were outside the hospital when Bobby Kennedy was shot. Praise God for His letting us work in His harvest field. Knowing where Charles is, is a blessing to know that although I had a past relationsship whith Him as a fellow minister, and brother in Christ, but that he is also in my future. ....See ya soon Charles
Posted by cinthia origgi in california @ 01:17 on Aug 3 2008
you know i went through the same with drugs many times and i cant say yet that i am a good christian i pray but not enough but what i can is that he inspires me and gives me strenght and hope to keep going and that there is more than just drugs.... i would've loved to meet him
cin
you know i went through the same with drugs many times and i cant say yet that i am a good christian i pray but not enough but what i can is that he inspires me and gives me strenght and hope to keep going and that there is more than just drugs.... i would've loved to meet him
cin
Posted by Randall Pierce in Hot Springs, AR @ 13:38 on Aug 3 2007
What a great tribute to Charles! I was the bass player for a short time for the Bible Belt Boogie Band in Dallas. He must have come up with that name during his time at Christ for the Nations in Dallas, since that was the Bible Belt.
I am honored to have been Charles' friend, and for a time during 1979-1982 Charles and I wrote a few letters back and forth. I would put my return address as Bible Belt Boogie Band Midwest Division. I think I still have a reel-to-reel tape of us performing live in Dallas in 1976.
Tony, thanks for chronicling Charles' life.
What a great tribute to Charles! I was the bass player for a short time for the Bible Belt Boogie Band in Dallas. He must have come up with that name during his time at Christ for the Nations in Dallas, since that was the Bible Belt.
I am honored to have been Charles' friend, and for a time during 1979-1982 Charles and I wrote a few letters back and forth. I would put my return address as Bible Belt Boogie Band Midwest Division. I think I still have a reel-to-reel tape of us performing live in Dallas in 1976.
Tony, thanks for chronicling Charles' life.
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After I wrote my comments there were two very important people I left out of the group that were already in the New Creatures before I joined. They were Judy Jackson Borneman, and LaFon Boice Linnell. They were our female back up singers. Both Judy and Charles wrote a lot of songs together. I still have our first album from 1968 that we made with three other groups called "Teen Scene." Both Judy and Charles worked at KHOJ Radio/TV station in glendale CA and both had DJ ministries there and had a great following there. Later on They went their different ways where Judy married Bruce Borneman who became missionaries in the Soloman Islands. Charles married Judy and had two beautiful children.
As a father and grandfather I have often wondered about Charles' children and have prayed for them hoping that they are following in Charles' legacy of loving Jesus totally. I pray my own children do the same. Anyways, I just wanted to add the other two very important members I had left out. It is interesting to see the same hunger for God in this new Jesus Movement (among children) that was among the young adults of the 1960's that Charles and I encountered. Praise God for that hunger!