Can someone tell me about Joel Hemphill?

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by CC1

LOL!!! That is what happens when you try to type with just one cup of coffee in you. Decaffinated coffee at that!

I remember her being pretty but I certainly could not have offered her the honor of being called "Candy Christmas" LOL!!! Of course she could have married Mr. Cane.

Or Mr. Barr.

I have a friend named Candy. She dated a guy named Michael Barr. We teased her all the time about marrying him.

Thankfully, she didn't.....LOL!

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by CC1

I just clicked on the Candy Christmas link from the Hemphill family site and my memory was correct. Candy IS Purdy!!!!!

I also saw that her actual name is Carmel Lynn. So really she could be "Carmel Candy Christmas". Not as good as "Cholocate Candy Christmas, but still good!!

My friend Candy's real name is Carmella.......LOL!

That's funny.

[Steve Epley]

The whole Hemphill tribe are some of the nicest folks you have ever met. One daughter married Bro. Kelley who pastor in Birmingham I think(?)

[CC1]

Originally Posted by becky123abc

Thanks for the replies...I did read up on him on his website...I didn't realize he wrote such well known songs as Consider the Lilies...that's one of my favorites.

That was one of my wife's songs she sang back in the day! You are probably too young to remember.

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Joel Hemphill's father was a Pentecostal Icon in North Louisiana. My father was preaching a tent meeting close by and the whole Goodman clan was with Dad, Labreeska who was Vestal's niece fell in love with Joel BUT the Goodmans were Church of God however Labreeska got baptized she wanted her man. Joel pastored at Bastrop for a season and built a new church building there. It was there him and LaBreeska started singing and making records bothe are song writers. They were very successful in the Gospel Music industry. Sadly anong the way they lost their way the last time I saw Joel he told me he was pastoring a 'Spirit Filled Baptist Church' that was about 12 years ago. Joel has battled cancer on and off for about 15 years.
They are some of the nicest folks you could ever know it is so sad they have ended up this way.

I know the late Sis Kelley the wife of the late Edward Kelley from Birmingham, AL. Bro Kelley was UPC. The last few years of his life he left the org.

She was a Hemphill.....

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

The whole Hemphill tribe are some of the nicest folks you have ever met. One daughter married Bro. Kelley who pastor in Birmingham I think(?)

I just saw your not Bro. Epley as I posted my note on Sis Kelley. Edward Kelley was one of my father's best friends...

Nathan Eckstadt

[becky123abc]

Originally Posted by CC1

That was one of my wife's songs she sang back in the day! You are probably too young to remember.

Oh yes, she is the one I first heard sing it...when I hear it in my mind, it's her voice I hear! that might be one of the reasons I like it so much!

[Scott Hutchinson]

Maybe I'm incorrect but if I understand correctly this Hempfill's father preached agains't organizations.

[NLYP]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Candy Hemphill I forget who she married unless it has changed all of them live in your area. The boys Trent and Joey own a bus conversion company on Goodletsville Rd. Very successsful business. They are fine men they have their parents personality. I do think Cany yet sings some. Remember the song "I came on business for the King?"

Candy Hemphill is friend of the family....she married Kent Christmas.

[SoCaliUPC]

I just remember Candy Christmas sounded like an exotic dancer.