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    Citizen of Two Worlds: Remembering Gary DeHaan
    Citizen of Two Worlds: Remembering Gary DeHaan
    Citizen of Two Worlds: Remembering Gary DeHaan
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    Citizen of Two Worlds: Remembering Gary DeHaan

    By Rick Hoover

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    It just shows what God can do with a man who only plays the piano in two keys. As Gary DeHaan said, "What an awesome job I have. He trusts me with His work!"

    He was singing in churches and as a guest on radio broadcasts even as a child. Gary gave his talents back to the Lord and believers across America were blessed as a result. Here his assistant and friend of twenty years, Kenny Frontz, recounts Gary's story including encounters they had along the way with other Christian singers and ministers like Andre Crouch, Bill Gaither and Billy Graham. It's a rare glimpse into the blessings and the challenges of a music ministry career on the road.

    On the private side of the story Kenny tells of Gary's courageous battle against a terminal heart condition and the final challenge of entrusting his life to Jesus Christ.

    "I wasn't called to a music ministry. I loved music and the Lord has allowed me to do it. It's my privilege to do this," said Gary.

    For his family and many friends, republished after 14 years in a new ebook edition. here are the warm memories we shared of Gary DeHaan, a Citizen of Two Worlds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPelican Wings
    Release dateSep 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301901173
    Citizen of Two Worlds: Remembering Gary DeHaan
    Author

    Rick Hoover

    I'm a retired deacon in the Episcopal Church. I served at a parish in central Florida. I've worked in radio, television and several jobs that included public relation efforts. As a Christian, I have discovered one of the things I enjoy most is spending time in a prayer closet with Jesus, learning to be still so He has space to speak. I shared about my first month as a Smashword author at my blog:https://deaconrick.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/editing-the-author/

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      Citizen of Two Worlds - Rick Hoover

      Citizen of Two Worlds

      Remembering Gary DeHaan

      by

      Kenny Frontz

      as told to

      Rick Hoover

      Copyright © 1999-2013 by Kenny Frontz

      Smashwords Edition

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. If you like this book and want to tell your friends about it, thank you! But if you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      EPUB FILE ISBN: 9781301901173

      Cover photo by Gina Mitchell

      Drawmg by Kenny Frontz

      Photo of Gary and Kenny by Doug Hicks

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Notes from Friends

      Chapter 1: The First Tour

      Chapter 2: Gary

      Chapter 3: On the Road

      Chapter 4: Hi, I’m Gary DeHaan. And You Are...?

      Chapter 5: A Fun Time Was Had By All

      Chapter 6: Real Life

      Chapter 7: Borrowed Time

      Chapter 8: Citizen of Two Worlds

      Afterword

      Acknowledgments

      In the last song he recorded Gary sang, We are all millionaires in old friends. There are hundreds of friends who knew and loved Gary and whose stories I wish we'd had room to share. To all of you who have expressed your condolences and support, my deepest thanks. There are people that I would like to thank by name for all their help, encouragement, love and prayers. To Rick Hoover, who was inspired with the idea of writing this booklet. Rick you pushed, prodded, prayed and praised. Thanks. You have become a very special friend. Melanie and Rick thanks for putting up with me during my time in Florida. Thanks goes to Doug Hicks, Gina Mitchell and Francine Busch. Also, to Gary's boys Tory and Trent DeHaan. You all were a part of this ride and you made it joyful while we were all together. Thanks for sharing your stories. You are all very dear to me. I hope these stories about Gary DeHaan, my ministry partner and best friend, will stir happy memories and encouragement in all who read them. Last and most importantly, thank you Lord for allowing me this life. You have given me the desires of my heart and I am grateful.

      Kenny Frontz

      Traverse City, Michigan

      March 5, 1999

      I loved Gary and miss his friendship. I doubt he would have cooperated if anyone had ever suggested he write his own story! So I am grateful The Gary Committee allowed me to insist that we carry out this project. Thank you Francine, Gina, Doug and Kenny (The Gary Committee) for sharing your stories and memories so freely! Your opinions, impressions, corrections and candor put me in your debt. Thanks also to my mom for her editorial review. I hope these stories will provide a little of the delight and blessing we all enjoyed from Gary DeHaan’s life and ministry.

      Rick Hoover

      Lakeland, Florida

      April 8, 1999

      Notes From Friends

      Gary DeHaan was my friend.

      He was known nationally on Christian television as The Sloppé Gourmet. When Gary was a guest on Action Sixties with me and my wife, Sharron, he was loved by our studio audience and received the highest ratings with his cooking and singing segments. Gary’s cooking segments would have non-stop action and 15 minutes of uninterrupted laughter.

      I hope as you read about my friend, Gary DeHaan, it inspires you to be like him, fun loving, loyal, with the capacity to love unconditionally. I know his inspirational music will live on.

      Thank you, Lord, for bringing Gary DeHaan into my life.

      Herman Bailey

      Clearwater, Florida

      March 19, 1999

      A one of a kind -- Gary DeHaan! A talented, humorous, communicator who possessed a very easy listening to singing voice. He was a dear friend. Ours was mostly a telephone kind of friendship. We actually only saw Gary and Kenny Frontz, the other half of their team, on an average of two or three times a year. When our family, The Ken Apple Family, and they would be on tour in Florida or as they would pass through Nashville we would all meet for lunch or dinner. Gary loved food! He was an excellent cook and did a very good job of putting it away.

      Gary DeHaan and Kenny Frontz were a great team as they sang and ministered together. Kenny was content to remain in the background and serve however needed to enhance Gary’s ministry. In so doing Kenny, with his heartfelt sincerity, won the hearts of the people. He now continues to carry on the ministry that he and Gary had done for so many years and I’m sure Gary is very proud of him.

      As a song writer, I’ve been blest to have had many artists sing my songs. I’m grateful to have had a number of them sung and recorded by Gary DeHaan. More recently Gary sang my song, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior. He really ministered the message from his heart.

      In recent years since Gary’s heart condition, there were weeks at a time that we talked almost daily by phone. It was our custom before I hung up that I always prayed for him. There were times, with his kind of humor, Gary would say, Don’t pray this time. It’s not helping anyway. I would reply, You’re still breathing, aren’t you? We would pray together for his and Kenny’s upcoming trip and for new physical strength for Gary. I miss those phone calls.

      Since this book is a tribute to Gary DeHaan and I was highly honored to be asked to have a part in its presentation, would you allow me to pray once again before I hang up?

      Dear Heavenly Father, in the strong name of Jesus, I thank you again for a safe journey home for my friend, Gary DeHaan. It is different here now without him. However, by Your grace we’ll soon be talking again -- face to face.

      Sing-cerely,

      Ken Apple

      Ken Apple Family

      March, 1999

      Gary DeHaan was a good brother. I first met him about thirty years ago in California. He introduced himself to me after the Disciples sang one night at a Baptist church. He told me he had some administrative skills and wondered if he could be of help to us. Soon I had visited him in his home and asked him to join us. He was so good at helping the Disciples, getting our office in order and making concert bookings, that soon we were helping other groups, too, like the Archers. We were a Pentecostal group and I used to tell people that even though Gary was a Baptist, he was okay! I remember he would encourage us to do all we could with the gifts God had given us. He was proud to see God using the ministry to bless more and more people.

      Gary kept all of us laughing with his incredible sense of humor. He joked so much that sometimes it was hard to tell if he was being serious. But I know he was serious when he talked about music. He had a good sense of what could touch people. He could gauge if a song needed to be changed or made clearer. I would play him songs I was writing and he would laugh for joy and cry at the same time. That was the secret to knowing he was serious: when he was blessed by a song, he would get tears in his eyes! Listening to some of his tapes recently I was reminded of how careful he was to make sure people would hear a clear message. I listened to Gary’s last tape several times when I got it and couldn’t help but think that he knew he was getting ready to go home.

      Gary’s two boys, Tory and Trent, often come to visit me at the church. I have known them since they were little and I am trusting they will both continue to hook into their father’s example of loving Jesus.

      These days people know me as Pastor Andraé Crouch from the Christ Memorial Church. But I want to sign off here in the way Gary DeHaan knew me, simply as his friend,

      Andraé

      San Fernando, California

      April 24, 1999

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