BOSSIER CITY – Christian Contemporary artist Jeremy Camp is coming to Bossier City April 21 for his “I Will Follow Tour.” A Dove award-winning and Grammy nominated artist, Camp has garnered 37 No. 1 radio hits during his career. With a career that has seen him on tour in more than 32 countries, Camp said on his website that he is a “minister who happens to play music as a way to minister.” Away from the music stage, Camp has experienced his own set of heartaches. At age 21, Camp lost his first wife to cancer and a baby to miscarriage with his current wife, Adrienne. Camp said the first song “He Knows” off his latest record is one God used to bring him comfort from his past. “When I sat down with this record, I just said, God, ‘I feel like I still have a song pertaining to all that. Just give me wisdom,’” he said. “I was drawn to the Hebrews 4:15 scripture where it says that we have a high priest that can empathize with our weaknesses. Jesus Christ is our high priest. Jesus is my everything. “The whole concept of the song is saying, Listen, in the midst of all these pains and wounds that may come up, He knows,” Camp continued. “Christ knows every single thing. We have to come to that peace and that rest of just going … [Read more...]

By Brian Blackwell, Message Staff Writer PINEVILLE – Louisiana College celebrated several “firsts” Monday, April 10. During a press conference, the school announced a new degree, new scholarship and the grand opening of its first engineering classroom. To equip young men and women called to be marketplace missionaries from central Louisiana to the ends of the earth, LC will offer a new bachelor’s degree in missions and ministries. Those who qualify as freshmen will automatically receive $6,000 annually through the Dr. Fred Lowery Scholarship, named after the retired pastor of First Baptist Church in Bossier City. The degree will be offered through the School of Missions and Ministries, formerly the Division of Christian Studies. This school will have emphases on apologetics, biblical studies, church planting, evangelism, missions and pastoral ministry. “I see God raising up even in this room young people who say I want to be like Paul, to be a tentmaker,” said LC President Rick Brewer. “To go to an Omaha, a Kansas City, a Houston, a Dallas, a Los Angeles and plant churches and share the Gospel, but not to have to count and depend upon income from those people you are trying to reach. “I believe there’s a … [Read more...]