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Christian music artist Colton Dixon will join a melding of music, national parks, outdoor performances, and holiday cheer during the 97th National Christmas Tree Lighting. Featuring not only the official lighting of the new National Christmas Tree and timeless holiday tunes, the event is co-presented by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation and will take place on December 5 at the Ellipse in President’s Park at the White House.

Encounter Church pastor and global humanitarian, Sarah Bowling, shares her mission to meet urgent survival needs for the most vulnerable population in new book, Hanging by a Thread: The Saving Moses Journey, available February 4, 2020.

Singer/songwriter and morning drive-time radio host Perry LaHaie has unveiled the wistful Christmas music lyric video to "O Come, O Come Emmanuel (How Long)," the debut single from his new album, Him, due in early 2020. LaHaie collaborated with emerging filmmaker Aaron Harris to create the yearning, yet peace-evoking imagery which perfectly ties into this holy season.

For the amazing 40 years a group of Christian music enthusiasts present the annual CRN—Christmas Rock Night—in Germany, in the small town of Ennepetal near Düsseldorf. Over the last 40 years, hundreds of Christian rock bands have played at this 2-day indoor event in Europe.

Provident Label Group will be re-releasing Reba Rambo’s 1976 CCM Classic Christian music album, Lady, to all digital music platforms. Lady, a Grammy-nominated and Dove Award winning project, was one of the definitive albums of the early days of emerging Christian music industry, and was one of the best-selling albums of the decade by a female artist in any genre.

Christian rap/hip-hop artist NF released a new music video today for "Paid My Dues" which garnered over 250,000 views on YouTube pithing the first hour of being posted. Watch NF's video for "Paid My Dues" here:

Thomas Nelson has released of one of their most anticipated new titles, Everywhere Holy: Seeing Beauty, Remembering Your Identity, and Finding God Right Where You Are by viral writer Kara Lawler. 

Internationally recognized praise band Planetshakers releases It’s Christmas Nov. 29 from Venture3Media (V3M). Available to preorder now at Apple Music, iTunes and Google Play and to stream on Spotify and more outlets globally when it releases, the album marks the first-ever full-length Christmas album from the band.

Integrity Music's worship group Nashville Life Music will release a new Christmas song on November 29th, "Gloria." Written and arranged by Alvin Love III and Dwan Hill, the song was birthed out of their church's original musical, It's Christmas, based on the album from Love's mother and senior church pastor, CeCe Winans.

BET Sunday Best alum, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Latice Crawford has released a music video for her new song, "Amazing." The New York native and Stellar Award nominated singer, stole the hearts of believers on BET’s singing competition Sunday Best, using her three-octave, contralto vocal range, finishing third on the second season.