Highly acclaimed contemporary Christian music artist Mark Schultz will lead a night of worship and deliver testimony at a fundraiser to benefit an addition to the LifeBeat Family Resource Center. LifeBeat is a pregnancy crisis organization that provides free, confidential medical services to women facing unplanned pregnancies at Crossroads Women’s Clinic in Tiptonville, TN. They also refer patients for prenatal classes, counseling services, and parenting classes, but they will soon be expanding their services to include a new mobile pregnancy unit that will travel within Lake and Obion Counties to deliver free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds.
Schultz, a Dove Award-winning music artist with a career spanning over two decades, will perform to raise awareness for adoption while drawing a link to his personal adoption story. He has used his story at many other benefit concerts for pregnancy crisis centers and adoption agencies to show how donors can provide love and truth to women in difficult situations.
The Mark Schultz – A Night of Worship and Testimony event will take place on Thursday, August 18, at Second Baptist Church at 831 Everett Blvd. in Union City, TN from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. This event is open to the public, and the cost for general admission is $20.00. Reserved seating, located directly behind the VIP section on the ground floor, is $30.00, and a VIP package consisting of front row seating, an encore performance, a Q&A Session with Schultz, a photo line, and autographs may be purchased for $60.00.
Dee Keeling, the Director of LifeBeat, says she became interested in organizing the event with Schultz after another pregnancy center had sponsored him for their own event and found him inspiring. After hearing his testimony, which she says, “is still very tender with him,” she reached out and got an immediate response. Keeling says, “[His testimony captures] the heart of our ministry, and I feel he could share it with a different perspective.”
Even though he has never met her, Schultz says he is grateful to his birth mother and considers her his hero because she chose to let him live. He also says the women from pregnancy crisis centers and adoption centers were champions to him even before his birth and that his song and performances are his way of giving back to them. This idea took shape in 2006, when Schultz took his music to the road, in a literal sense. He cycled cross-country from California to Maine while performing in concerts along the way to raise money for the James Fund, which benefits orphans and widows. Of the summer tour, he says, “It awoke a passion in me to share my story and be a champion for others.
Schultz’s theme for donors is a simple question, “Are you in?” It’s a question he asked himself when deciding whether to adopt a child into his own family. He’s referring to donors coming alongside crisis centers as a support system both prayerfully and financially.
To purchase tickets for the Mark Schultz – A Night of Worship and Testimony event, visit lifebeat.events. If you would like to donate towards the purchase of the mobile unit, go to lifebeatcenterfriends.com/donate.
