International
Country Gospel
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Hello and Welcome to the World Wide Web Home of International Country Gospel Music Association.

We hope you will enjoy your visit to our site.  Our website will be ever growing, and we hope it will be of assistance in your endeavors to further your ministry in the Country Gospel Music industry.

Please let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions for our website.


A Message from Chuck Hancock, VP ICGMA...

To the Directors of the ICGMA,
I want to personally Thank you all for your hard work, dedication and contribution in helping make the 2009 Awards Show so successful.  I truly enjoyed visiting with you all and I look forward to working with you in the near future, as we begin our plans for 2010.  I especially want to thank our Chairman of the Board, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

To the President, Dan Duncan,
Thank you for your guidance and direction during this past year.  It was truly a pleasure and an honor to serve under your leadership.  Great Job!

To our new members,
I am so excited at the prospect of seeing you and your music grow!  I believe that the ICGMA can and will be a tremendous support for your ministry.  God has great things in store for you!

To our long time members,
Thank you for the support that you continue to give to this association.  Thank you for taking your valuable time to attend the awards show, recruit new members and for the encouragement that you all give to each other.

To Rhonda Henderson,
Thank you for building and managing our website.  You are truly a blessing to us all!

I would like to especially thank, Tara Story , who has worked very hard communicating to our board members, making membership cards and keeping me on point concerning my fundraising assignments.

Last but not least.  Thanks to Terry Beene our newest board member, for serving on my fundraising committee.  I will never let you resign from that committee.

In closing I would like to congratulate all of the 2009 Gold Cross Winners.  God has blessed each of you with remarkable talents and gifts.  Always use them to glorify His Name and continue to be a light that those who follow can guide upon.

Sincerely,
Chuck Hancock
Vice President ICGMA


New Officers Elected

In a meeting of the Board of Directors, held in Texarkana, Texas, new officers were elected to serve in leadership roles for the organization.  The newly elected president is Dan Duncan of West Plains, Missouri.  Elected to serve as vice-president is Chuck Hancock of Sandersville, Georgia.  Board members of the ICGMA include Doug DeRamus, Tommy Smith, Chuck Day, Mike Manuel, Joe Paul Nichols, and Dr. Joe Price.

     

     


God Gives A Song!

In recent months, we have witnessed trying times for our nation.  Most economists are painting a grim picture for the future.  Historically, when times are hard, there is always a song that comes along to lift us above the struggles.  If we really are facing hard times, I can only say “what an awesome opportunity for us to touch a troubled world with our music”!  Let God give you a song!  Then sing it with all your might!  Sing for all the world to hear!


History of the ICGMA

This is the 52nd year of existence for the ICGMA, making it the oldest Country Gospel Music Organization in America.  Throughout these many years, Artist, Fans, and Industry alike have found the ICGMA a wonderful place of fellowship, friendship, and ministry, as we worked together to advance this great musical art form, and to build the kingdom of God.

Over 50 years ago, Dr. W. Lindsey Thompson and Billy Holcomb founded the I C G M A (International Country Gospel Music Association). They had a strong vision to unite those who loved and ministered in the Country Gospel Music field. They felt by uniting and working together with artists from all over the world, they could form a bond and build a music industry that could truly spread God's message of salvation through the Country music that so many love. They knew that good Christian music can sometimes reach a soul when nothing else can. They had a vision to have a music ministry association with great integrity, high moral standards, and that would be open to everyone, not just an elite few. All these things have been accomplished along with many more over the last 50 years.

Country Gospel and Christian Country music are now at the top of the many Christian music formats. Climbing so fast that many of the major record labels, such as Curb, MCA, Sony, and RCA are releasing great and exciting cuts with brand new talent. Why not ? It has always been one of the world's favorite music genres.

For over 50 years the I C G M A and its members have presented its prestigious Gold Cross awards to some of the most outstanding artists and servants to Christ in the Country Gospel field. Artists such as: Walt Mills, Judy DeRamus, Willie Nelson, Del Way, Chuck Day, Fox Brothers, Dottie Rambo, Dr. Joe Price, Billy Walker, Barbara Fairchild, Jimmy Jones, Kenny Hinson, LaVerne Tripp, Jimmy Fautheree, Roland Wright, Stewart Hamlin, Jody Miller, Shelia Lewis, Tommy Smith, Betty Jean Robinson, Claude Gray, Joe Paul Nichols, Otha Geeslin, W C Taylor, Barry Wayne, Johnny Mathis, Light Crust Doughboys, Dolly Parton, Gina White, Clifton Jansky, Gene Reasoner, James Marvell, Lawton Williams, Wanda Jackson, Gary R. Smith, Margo Smith, Mary Faye Jackson, Gayla Earlene, Gene Crain, Mike Manuel, David Patillo, Susie Luchsinger, Cal Denison, Bruce Haynes, Cross Country, Morgan & Morgan, The Singing Nichols, Family, One A Chord, Steve "Rabbit" Easter, The Babcocks, Red Foley, Ken Holloway, Pete Whitebird, Steve White, The Texas Girls, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Glorya Wilson, Billy Jack Davis, Mike Culpepper, Melanie Walker, The Chuck Wagon Gang, and many, many more. Too many to list.

The ICGMA is proud of what it has accomplished in over 50 years. We would also like to say that we do not feel as though we were totally responsible for the great leaps and bounds that Country Gospel Music has made in the last decade. We know that many of our great and treasured friends in other organizations such as GMA, CGMA, TIMA, CGMG, CGMC, and CCMA have played a major role in the development of this genre of music. We are all there to encourage and support each other in our ministries. We all have but one purpose, to spread the word of our Saviour to a lost world through music.

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