Andersons to bring story, songs to Charter Oak

St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak will host a Christian concert by Dave and Barb Anderson on Friday, November 16 at 7 PM. St. John is located at 104 Birch Avenue.

Dave and Barb have recorded numerous albums and have led worship and music for dozens of church conferences and conventions. They were featured singers at a Billy Graham Crusade.

In 1993. they spent a week in a 3000-person community in Russia which had never before heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. On their back to Alaska, their plane crashed into the Bering Sea, about 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle and 22 ½ miles from Nome, Alaska. The seven team members spent nearly an hour in 36-degree water (life-expectancy is between 5 and 13 minutes). Their rescue has been called “one of the most dramatic air/sea rescues in history”. This story has been told in Guideposts, Christian Reader Magazine, The Lutheran, The Lutheran Witness, and seen on TBN, CBN’s 700 Club, Daystar, and heard three times on Focus On The Family in English and around the world in 12 other languages.

Dave and Barb share their rescue story everywhere they go. God has used this story of miracles to minister to believers and unbelievers; to people in all stages of life, particularly those who are facing “impossible” circumstances.

Their worship concerts include a mix of contemporary and traditional Christian music…hymns, gospel songs, praise & worship songs, and children’s songs. Audiences are invited to sing along (so long, Dave says, as it’s the same song). They share from their heart personal experiences and from their walk with God.

Since the mid-seventies the Anderson have performed and led worship throughout America and in a number of other countries including Russia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia.

Dave Anderson is founder of Lutheran Youth Encounter (now known as Youth Encounter), based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Renewal House (the first Lutheran-sponsored drug rehabilitation program in the US), and Fellowship Ministries.

Anderson is also the President of Fellowship Ministries, based in Tempe, Arizona. Fellowship Ministries is a non-profit organization that has been sponsoring worship and music conferences and seminars, and sponsoring the Anderson’s concerts since 1975. Fellowship Ministries also publishes worship resources (including The Other Songbook, now 500,000 copies in print and The Best of the Best in Contemporary Praise and Worship, 180,000 copies in print), and sponsors

Dave and Barb Anderson make their home in Phoenix, Arizona. They have a stepson who is married and they have two step-grandchildren.