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Simply Christmas with Donna VanLiere & Janna Long
Doors open at 9:00 am
About Donna VanLiere:
Donna VanLiere is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She has published 14 titles including The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing both of which were adapted into movies (starring Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Neil Patrick Harris) and garnered big ratings for CBS television. Lifetime Television adapted The Christmas Hope (starring Madeline Stowe) and premiered it to stellar ratings as well. Donna's non-seasonal novels The Good Dream, The Angels of Morgan Hill and Finding Grace capture the same warmth and poignancy as her Christmas books pleasing loyal and new fans alike.
Donna is the recipient of a Retailer's Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, two Audie Awards for best inspirational fiction, a nominee for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year and is an inductee in the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Hall of Excellence joining such luminaries as Coretta Scott King, Hugh Downs, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Senator John Glenn.
As an in-demand conference speaker and gifted teacher, Donna has appeared at countless events around the country, including Women of Faith, Extraordinary Women, Among Friends and the prestigious Patricia Adams Lecture Series at Heidelberg University.
Her latest book, The Christmas Light released October 2014 and her fourth movie, The Christmas Secret (starring Bethany Joy Lenz of One Tree Hill and Dexter) premiered December 2014 and had the Hallmark Movie Channel's largest unduplicated audience of all-time
Donna VanLiere Website
About Janna Long:
Janna Long has been a member of Avalon, a well known and well accomplished Christian music group, for over 15 years. However, she is much more than a member of one of the most successful groups in the history of Christian music; she also leads worship alongside her husband, Greg Long, at Woodlands Church, just north of Houston, and is mother to her three beautiful daughters; Lillian, Julia and Eleanor.
Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the youngest of three children, and the only daughter of a minister father and school teacher mother, she grew up with an array of musical influences, including Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Mahalia Jackson, Cece Winans, and many others. Upon completing college, Janna joined the well known group, Truth, and later helped form the Dove Award-winning and Grammy nominated, Avalon. Janna's beautifully unmistakable voice has been included on all of the 13 albums Avalon has released, and has been the featured voice on hit songs such as "Can't Live a Day," "I Don't Want to Go" and many others. She also as a self-titled solo record, and has made countless guest appearances on other albums, TV, radio and award shows.
Whether you have been a fan of Avalon, and Janna for years, or are just hearing of her for the first time, you are sure to be blown away by her vocal ability, her caring spirit, and her passion for Christ.
Avalon Website
Donna VanLiere is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She has published 14 titles including The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing both of which were adapted into movies (starring Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Neil Patrick Harris) and garnered big ratings for CBS television. Lifetime Television adapted The Christmas Hope (starring Madeline Stowe) and premiered it to stellar ratings as well. Donna's non-seasonal novels The Good Dream, The Angels of Morgan Hill and Finding Grace capture the same warmth and poignancy as her Christmas books pleasing loyal and new fans alike.
Donna is the recipient of a Retailer's Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, two Audie Awards for best inspirational fiction, a nominee for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year and is an inductee in the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Hall of Excellence joining such luminaries as Coretta Scott King, Hugh Downs, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Senator John Glenn.
As an in-demand conference speaker and gifted teacher, Donna has appeared at countless events around the country, including Women of Faith, Extraordinary Women, Among Friends and the prestigious Patricia Adams Lecture Series at Heidelberg University.
Her latest book, The Christmas Light released October 2014 and her fourth movie, The Christmas Secret (starring Bethany Joy Lenz of One Tree Hill and Dexter) premiered December 2014 and had the Hallmark Movie Channel's largest unduplicated audience of all-time
Donna VanLiere Website
About Janna Long:
Janna Long has been a member of Avalon, a well known and well accomplished Christian music group, for over 15 years. However, she is much more than a member of one of the most successful groups in the history of Christian music; she also leads worship alongside her husband, Greg Long, at Woodlands Church, just north of Houston, and is mother to her three beautiful daughters; Lillian, Julia and Eleanor.
Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the youngest of three children, and the only daughter of a minister father and school teacher mother, she grew up with an array of musical influences, including Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Mahalia Jackson, Cece Winans, and many others. Upon completing college, Janna joined the well known group, Truth, and later helped form the Dove Award-winning and Grammy nominated, Avalon. Janna's beautifully unmistakable voice has been included on all of the 13 albums Avalon has released, and has been the featured voice on hit songs such as "Can't Live a Day," "I Don't Want to Go" and many others. She also as a self-titled solo record, and has made countless guest appearances on other albums, TV, radio and award shows.
Whether you have been a fan of Avalon, and Janna for years, or are just hearing of her for the first time, you are sure to be blown away by her vocal ability, her caring spirit, and her passion for Christ.
Avalon Website