Check out the awesome cruise we will be going on in February!
I have been on a couple of cruises and let me tell you they are a lot of fun, but as you will see in the video below one of the best parts of the cruise (for most people) is the food! The people on these cruises wait on you hand and foot and the food is not pizza and hamburgers (although they have that if you want it) I'm talking prime rib and lobster here, they also have a 24 hour ice cream bar and 24 hour room service! Not to mention you will be traveling to some of the most beautiful places God ever created. This cruise is going to be great, if you think Forgiven QT is fun on stage come spend 5 days on a boat in the middle of the ocean with us.
If you would like more information please visit www.paradisetoursandtravel.com and make sure you tell them you heard about the cruise through Forgiven QT.
We are personally inviting you to come with us on this great cruise.
God Bless
-Ryan
FORGIVEN Quartet
l to r, Dave Buckingham, Ryan Bilby, Mark Brooke, Mark Green and Stanley Johnson
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Iowa Tour
This was my first trip to Cedar Falls with Forgiven Quartet, and let me tell you if you have never been to Praisefest, you need to go! It is a weeklong event, with Bible study in the mornings and Gospel singing in the evenings and on Friday and Saturday the singing starts at 10am and runs until about 10pm. We sang with several groups such as The Allen Family, Phil and Pam Morgan, Soul'd Out QT, FourTwelve, Spoken 4 QT, The Crist Family, Higher Power, The Gosplemen, Tribute QT, and The Perrys. We had a great time talking with a lot of our friends and also getting to make new friends. Speaking of Friends I have to give a shout out to my buddy Evan and the Venema Family, our great friends from Fulton Illinois (below is a picture of my and Evan at the Forgiven booth).
While we were in Cedar Falls we had some downtime to kill, so we did a few little projects on the bus that included installing some new step lights, a new brake light and other little odd jobs that needed to be done. We also had a little fun and took a tour of Hansens Dairy Farm (near Cedar Falls). We got to see the whole process from feeding the cattle, to milking, to bottling. They even make ice cream there! We also got to see the dairy's mascot, a New Zealand Wallaby, which if you don't know what that is, it's a miniature kangaroo. We were able to pet the baby calves (below I have a picture of a baby that was born the day before we toured the dairy).
More exciting news!!!! Our new project "Livin Forgiven" is now available. This project, in my opinion, is the best project that Forgiven Quartet has done (I am not just saying that because I am on it!).
An update to my last post…it is still HOT in Oklahoma, I heard a report on the Radio that Tulsa is the 4th hottest city following Oklahoma City OK, Lubbock TX, and Charlotte NC! It has been over 100 degrees almopst every day since the end of May with the heat index at or above 112 degrees many times! PLEASE pray that we get some rain and cooler weather soon!
God Bless!
Ryan
While we were in Cedar Falls we had some downtime to kill, so we did a few little projects on the bus that included installing some new step lights, a new brake light and other little odd jobs that needed to be done. We also had a little fun and took a tour of Hansens Dairy Farm (near Cedar Falls). We got to see the whole process from feeding the cattle, to milking, to bottling. They even make ice cream there! We also got to see the dairy's mascot, a New Zealand Wallaby, which if you don't know what that is, it's a miniature kangaroo. We were able to pet the baby calves (below I have a picture of a baby that was born the day before we toured the dairy).
More exciting news!!!! Our new project "Livin Forgiven" is now available. This project, in my opinion, is the best project that Forgiven Quartet has done (I am not just saying that because I am on it!).
An update to my last post…it is still HOT in Oklahoma, I heard a report on the Radio that Tulsa is the 4th hottest city following Oklahoma City OK, Lubbock TX, and Charlotte NC! It has been over 100 degrees almopst every day since the end of May with the heat index at or above 112 degrees many times! PLEASE pray that we get some rain and cooler weather soon!
God Bless!
Ryan
Friday, July 15, 2011
Hot In Oklahoma
Well just like much of the south we have hit a heat wave here in Oklahoma...but not only is it hot, we have not had much rain here so it is very dry. Someone asked me the other day just how dry is it in Oklahoma and this was my response.
It's so dry in Oklahoma that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling,
the Methodists are using wet-wipes,
the Presbyterians are giving out rain-checks,
and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.
Now thats dry... now to show you how hot it is in the south, below I have added a picture that was taken of me laying on top on the AC vent at one of our concerts last weekend.
Forgiven is headed to Cedar Falls Iowa this week, we hope to see some of our great and have a WONDERFUL time in the Lord.
-Ryan
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
4th of July Weekend
Well to start off this last trip we made another Triple D stop at Brints Diner in Wichita Ks, it was like a small town diner with good down home cookin, if you like the small town feel with good southern cookin, this is the place for you.
After we made our stop in Wichita, we headed for Lincoln Nebraska (aka "Cornhusker" country). We had three concerts in the Lincoln area and all three were great...Saturday night (Piedmont Park Church in Lincoln, NE) and Sunday morning (Great Plains Community Church in Goehner, NE) the churches were packed even with it being a holiday weekend, and Sunday evening we were at one of the prettiest churches I have ever seen (Salem United Methodist Church in Clatonia, NE).
All the people we met this weekend were so nice, it was just such a wonderful holiday weekend. Below I have a couple of pictures from the weekend. One is a picture I took from the stage of Great Plains Community Church during our performance of "Old Convention Song" (ask me how I can take pictures while we are singing?). The other is the church we sang at Sunday evening.
This next weekend we are in Oklahoma City, Stay tuned for updates.
God Bless,
After we made our stop in Wichita, we headed for Lincoln Nebraska (aka "Cornhusker" country). We had three concerts in the Lincoln area and all three were great...Saturday night (Piedmont Park Church in Lincoln, NE) and Sunday morning (Great Plains Community Church in Goehner, NE) the churches were packed even with it being a holiday weekend, and Sunday evening we were at one of the prettiest churches I have ever seen (Salem United Methodist Church in Clatonia, NE).
All the people we met this weekend were so nice, it was just such a wonderful holiday weekend. Below I have a couple of pictures from the weekend. One is a picture I took from the stage of Great Plains Community Church during our performance of "Old Convention Song" (ask me how I can take pictures while we are singing?). The other is the church we sang at Sunday evening.
This next weekend we are in Oklahoma City, Stay tuned for updates.
God Bless,
Ryan
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
"On the road again"
Well I have an update from my last post...our trailer has been fixed, as well as our bus and we are so glad to have the bus up and running! Praise the Lord!!
Now this is where I learned a lesson this weekend, when in southern OK... have a MAP...our GPS was a little confused due to the service in that area not being great, needless to say we took a wrong turn and went about 45 mins out of our way, and finally got to our hotel about 3AM on Sunday morning.
This past weekend we had 3 shows in 36 hours and 1 of them was outside. Our 1st show was at the Baptist Village (nursing home) in Hugo OK, the residents at the Baptist Village really enjoyed our concert and they were so sweet. Our 2nd show was in Battiest, OK, WAY out on an old back country road...(this was the show outside) and it was HOT, we sang with several local groups from the area and we had a great time.
Now this is where I learned a lesson this weekend, when in southern OK... have a MAP...our GPS was a little confused due to the service in that area not being great, needless to say we took a wrong turn and went about 45 mins out of our way, and finally got to our hotel about 3AM on Sunday morning.
We sang in McAlester OK at the Calvary Baptist Church on Sunday morning and had a GREAT service, the people there were great and we had such an awesome, spirit filled serivce. All in all it was a great weekend and we are looking forward to many more in the next few weeks.
God Bless
-Ryan
Stay tuned I will be updating this weekend from Nebraska.
Monday, June 6, 2011
What a weekend
I have to tell you all about our weekend this past week. . .
First of all the bus is down, several problems with it... there was a small fire, we are not sure how it started but there was no damage and it was put out quickly, but that's not why the bus is down. We still have an air leak that we can not locate, but that's still not the reason we can't take it out. There is also a diesel leak in the generator which has a very steady stream of diesel shooting out of it while the generator is on...so with small fires and the leak we had to leave the bus in Tulsa.
We decided to hook up the trailer to my Tahoe and head out to Turpin, OK for our Saturday night concert. We arrived 2 hours later than planned but managed to start the concert only 30 minutes late. Everything went well. Our hosts from Turpin Mennonite Church were very gracious. The concert was held in the beautiful high school auditorium and a nice crowd showed up. They responded well to the messages in the songs and we were greatly blessed! We headed to Liberal, KS for the night without further incident.
First Baptist Church in Liberal hosted us for a Sunday morning service and we had a great time in the Lord!!! The crowd was very enthusiastic and God was certainly moving! It was wonderful to see many respond to the invitation to visit the altar for prayer at the conclusion of the service!It certainly appeared we had made it through another incredible weekend... until...the drive home!
We had a blow out on the trailer just east of "The Middle Of Nowhere" AKA east of Turpin OK! It was 103 degrees outside but we got it changed and headed on down the road. We dropped Stanley off in Enid and made it all the way to Sand Springs OK, almost home, before we had ... blow out # 2 on the same side of the trailer. Now this time we had to put a smaller tire on, and we were only able to drive 30 MPH back to the shop. What should have taken 20 mins took an hour. In all, a trip that should have taken 7 hours ended up taking about 9 hours. Needless to say we were exhausted! Please be praying the bus and trailer get fixed asap!
First of all the bus is down, several problems with it... there was a small fire, we are not sure how it started but there was no damage and it was put out quickly, but that's not why the bus is down. We still have an air leak that we can not locate, but that's still not the reason we can't take it out. There is also a diesel leak in the generator which has a very steady stream of diesel shooting out of it while the generator is on...so with small fires and the leak we had to leave the bus in Tulsa.
We decided to hook up the trailer to my Tahoe and head out to Turpin, OK for our Saturday night concert. We arrived 2 hours later than planned but managed to start the concert only 30 minutes late. Everything went well. Our hosts from Turpin Mennonite Church were very gracious. The concert was held in the beautiful high school auditorium and a nice crowd showed up. They responded well to the messages in the songs and we were greatly blessed! We headed to Liberal, KS for the night without further incident.
First Baptist Church in Liberal hosted us for a Sunday morning service and we had a great time in the Lord!!! The crowd was very enthusiastic and God was certainly moving! It was wonderful to see many respond to the invitation to visit the altar for prayer at the conclusion of the service!It certainly appeared we had made it through another incredible weekend... until...the drive home!
We had a blow out on the trailer just east of "The Middle Of Nowhere" AKA east of Turpin OK! It was 103 degrees outside but we got it changed and headed on down the road. We dropped Stanley off in Enid and made it all the way to Sand Springs OK, almost home, before we had ... blow out # 2 on the same side of the trailer. Now this time we had to put a smaller tire on, and we were only able to drive 30 MPH back to the shop. What should have taken 20 mins took an hour. In all, a trip that should have taken 7 hours ended up taking about 9 hours. Needless to say we were exhausted! Please be praying the bus and trailer get fixed asap!
Below are a few pictures of our new bus (my Tahoe) and trailer, and also our blow outs.
God Bless!
Ryan
The New Prevost :-)
Blow out 1
Blow out 2
The tire that was smoking when we stopped.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
Hey everyone I wanted to let everyone know what Forgiven has been up to the last few weeks, we have been very busy traveling from Texas all the way to Illinois. Singing and ministering everywhere from a prison to a drive in service. In our travels we have started stopping at restaurants that food network star Guy Fieri has visited on his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.
Several week ago we were in Dallas TX and visited Twisted Root Burger Company, they have huge burgers anything from Buffalo,Venison, Elk, Ostrich, Emu, Boar, Antelope, & Lamb burgers, I ordered to Western Burger; which comes with pepper jack cheese, onion strings, and jalapenos and it was awesome. The way they let you know your burger is ready is pretty cool to, they give you a card with a characters name on it and yell your character name over a loud speaker followed by your burger is ready, for example Mark Brooke's name was Gumby and Mark Green had Luke Skywalker, now the big question would I go back to Twisted Root? YES the burgers were GREAT and we all had a good time!!!
This past weekend we visited Charlie Parker's in Springfield IL, home of the 16 inch pancake and famous for their horse shoes. We had been in IL two weekends in a row and we visited this restaurant twice, the first time I had the breakfast shoe which is two pieces of toast, sausage, covered with hash browns and covered in gravy and the second time I attempted to eat one of the 16 inch pancakes. This place has everything from breakfast, to hot dogs, burgers, and club sandwiches. All in all this was a GREAT restaurant and I would go back and plan to go back.
I have a few pictures from our trips to these great places below and I will post more on the Forgiven Facebook. You can find a Triple D stop near you...
just visit http://www.flavortownusa.com/
Several week ago we were in Dallas TX and visited Twisted Root Burger Company, they have huge burgers anything from Buffalo,Venison, Elk, Ostrich, Emu, Boar, Antelope, & Lamb burgers, I ordered to Western Burger; which comes with pepper jack cheese, onion strings, and jalapenos and it was awesome. The way they let you know your burger is ready is pretty cool to, they give you a card with a characters name on it and yell your character name over a loud speaker followed by your burger is ready, for example Mark Brooke's name was Gumby and Mark Green had Luke Skywalker, now the big question would I go back to Twisted Root? YES the burgers were GREAT and we all had a good time!!!
This past weekend we visited Charlie Parker's in Springfield IL, home of the 16 inch pancake and famous for their horse shoes. We had been in IL two weekends in a row and we visited this restaurant twice, the first time I had the breakfast shoe which is two pieces of toast, sausage, covered with hash browns and covered in gravy and the second time I attempted to eat one of the 16 inch pancakes. This place has everything from breakfast, to hot dogs, burgers, and club sandwiches. All in all this was a GREAT restaurant and I would go back and plan to go back.
I have a few pictures from our trips to these great places below and I will post more on the Forgiven Facebook. You can find a Triple D stop near you...
just visit http://www.flavortownusa.com/
Stay tuned for more Triple D updates from Forgiven QT.
God Bless,
Ryan
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