Wells is a 10-time Grammy nominee and seven-time Dove Award winner and is known for such songs as “Hills and Valleys,” which spent 36 weeks on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart. “Through the planting of a vibrant, life-giving, community of faith, Church of Whitestone, we are assuming our calling as lead pastors of the church that God placed in our heart more than 10 years ago.” “Well, our party of six is setting out on the adventure of a lifetime, packing up our lives in Houston and following our calling to love, serve and inspire the city and surrounding communities of north Austin, Texas,” Wells wrote. The couple made the announcement on their Instagram pages. The new church, called the Church of Whitestone, will be located in Georgetown, about 30 miles north of Austin. Grammy-nominated Christian singer Tauren Wells has announced that he and his wife, Lorna, will plant a church in the Austin, Texas region next year that will be a “vibrant, life-giving” congregation for the people of that community.

The average medical debt forgiven was about $1,000, the church said on its Facebook page.įor more information, visit Grammy-nominated Singer Tauren Wells To Plant Church In Texas: “We Cannot Wait” The organization sent letters to the 3,355 families on behalf of the church, telling them their debt had been forgiven. RIP Medical Debt purchases medical debt in bundles, “millions of dollars at a time at a fraction of the original cost,” according to its website. The congregation raised $15,047 as part of its Debt Jubilee Project and then worked with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization that helps cancel medical debt. Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of outstanding medical debt and then held a debt-burning ceremony. Pierce, who performs more than 80 comedy shows annually and has sold more than 3.5 million concert tickets throughout her career, will be touring America on both sides of the film’s theatrical release.Church Cancels $3 Million In Medical Debt Of 3,355 Families To Demonstrate Christ’s LoveĪ North Carolina church has helped cancel more than $3 million of medical debt for 3,355 area families, saying it was driven by the words of Christ about love and forgiveness. I want them all to watch this and feel seen and heard, and to know it’s all going to be okay. I wanted the story to be relatable because I feel like my audiences - thousands of women I’ve performed for over the last 25+ years - all struggle with the same things. “When David, my late husband, and I thought through this script and its themes,” Pierce says, “I wanted to share the challenges I’ve had as a woman, a single mom, a woman ‘of a certain age’ in the workforce competing with a new generation of job market competition, changing technology, and… the dreaded dating pool. Smith, country hitmaker Jake Owen, Shari Rigby and others make cameo appearances, but the real star of Roll With It is Chonda Pierce, who empowers her viewers to share the same roll-with-it resilience as her character, Bonnie Taylor. She’s one of its main creators, too, writing the original script with her late husband and serving as executive producer with her longtime manager, Andrew Tenenbaum. on May 9, 11, and 13 through Fathom Events.įor Pierce, Roll With It is the latest project in a career whose highlights include platinum-certified comedy albums, regular performances at the Grand Ole Opry, and five Daytime Emmy nominations. Roll With It premieres in over 750 theaters across the U.S. The feature-length comedy weaves an inspiring (and hilarious) story of strength, survival, family values, and faith, with Pierce playing a single mother who, with help from her friends, readjusts to life after the loss of her husband.

The Queen of Clean Comedy and the Recording Industry Association of America’s most decorated female comic, Chonda Pierce, today announced that her upcoming film, Roll With It, will premiere in theaters nationwide starting on May 9.

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