I am just so proud that I have used the Crist Family and will continue to use and support their ministry. The Crist Family is a total breath of fresh air in the Southern Gospel Music World. They communicate, entertain, sing, and minister to the people in attendance. The congregation here in South Carolina just loved them. There is not a Sunday that goes by, that someone does not ask, when are we going to have that “good family group” back to sing for us again. Blessings on all of you as you travel and minister…C/Ya….Paul

I really enjoy hearing you all sing the gospel of God. You all really are the best and keep up the good singing!!

Looking forward to watching this progress. If this next recording is as good as the last one, we’re all in for a treat! God Bless and you guys stay safe out there.

go get’m @ NQC!!!

Hi Rich… Sounds like you “kids” are having fun. We wish you the very best as you venture into new things that will help get the really “Good News” out to a very needy world. Be sure to greet your folks for us. Our love to all of you Crists!

Jim

1. Pam Crist posted the following on September 4, 2008 at 6:52 pm.

   Hello Jim & Virginia,
   Thank you for the hello. We are having a great time living in Tennessee near the team. We have been enjoying getting to some of their concerts. God has done so many miracles in the short four years they have been here. We are excited to attend NQC and experience the ministry in song and preaching. Praying all is going well with you. God bless Pam

   Reply to Pam Crist

Thanks for letting us do this , I know will be fun and also rewarding thanks again

This is the greatest idea ever! We can’t wait to see you at NQC. Love to all.

We love seeing you in Shipshewana!! Thank you for the invitation to cristconnect!

Hi Everyone,
This is Carol I’m the young lady that met you all at Mull’s singing I use a wheelchair to get around in. I just want to say that being in a wheelchair can be a lonely life.I’m so thankful there are people like you all that sing, I love and enjoy gospel music it has helped me through many of a dark hour. I’ve been going to the Mull’s singing since I was three years old.I really enjoy your music. I can’t wait to see you again Thanksgiving night. You all are in my prayers. keep up the good work. keep spreading the gospel in song.Thank you so much for singing for Jesus.He is the best friend we can have.He said he would never leave or forsake us. thanks for inviting us to be part of CristConnect,we love you all. My prayers are with everyone. Carol Smith

1. Tami Crist Starkel posted the following on September 5, 2008 at 4:57 pm.

   Thank you so much for your prayers. Your encouragement means a great deal to all of us. We all enjoyed visiting with you at the table and look forward to seeing you again. God bless!

   Reply to Tami Crist Starkel

The Crist Family is such an inspiration and so genuine. Your voices are truly blessed by God. Thanks for the blessings you give to all of us.

Awesome — another way to connect with you cross country! Good luck at NQC (wish we were there!)

Dear Friends,

All of your comments are wonderful!! We love you too! I can already see how much fun we are going to have in here. Feel free to comment as often as you wish and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Your questions and or ideas for conversation are one of the ways we will know what topics to post. Another thing I want to mention is that the entire Crist Family will be envolved, so feel free to address your post to any one of us. Also, if you happen to read a post from someone and want to comment, you can reply right in their post so that your conversation will remain inside the original post. We encourage you all to get to know each other as well. If you don’t see your post right away, please be patient because all posts are monitored. This site is for you, have fun!! Thanks again for joining cristconnect.com, keep em’ coming.

I enjoyed the Talley Tree-O Website project, and I look forward to participating in this site.

Hey Guys,
So glad you’re doing this…ya’ll are such a blessing to us! Hope things went well at the Gatlinburg Convention…and hope you got your bus and enjoying it. I’m using ya’lls song, “Don’t Look at the Storm,” in my email this week, so be sure and check it out! Thank ya’ll, love you,mitzi

cool, glad you have this new site….let us know if you are coming through PA again…..thought maybe some of the group were considering bear-hunting in PA the few days prior to Thanksgiving, have fun @ NQC

Wow! What a neat idea! This is soooo cool. We really enjoyed having you at our anniversary concert a couple of weeks ago. I’m looking forward to NQC this year! Congrats on making it to the main stage. God just continues to bless your ministry. May you always be the blessing that you are now.

1. John Starkel posted the following on September 4, 2008 at 9:03 pm.

   Thanks Caleb, We had a great time with you and your family in kalamazoo! Man O Man can your family sing. I am so impressed with you and all your siblings. (yes I am also impressed with your parents) Wow, what a two year old, he should be singing in mainstage!

   Reply to John Starkel

Hi Guys, I just love to hear you guys sing. I sing with my family, The Hager Family. It consists of me my wife, Vivian, my son, Chuck and his wife, Connie. We have a great newphew who is 8 that sings with us also, his name is Jermiah Elswick. I am glad you let us be a part of your life. I don’t have a website but I still follow you with your emails and your website. Thanks again and love and prayers to you all.
Rick

Good luck with the new album. Look forward to hearing you at SGMA Day.

Hi all,

Luv the new site. Keep up the good work.
It was a blessing and a pleasure to meet all of you. You all are truly a blessing.

I would luv sometime to sing with all of you someday. I really do enjoy all your music. I especially like Heaven To Me. Would luv to get the background cd of this song.

Take care, my friend.

Your Brother-in-Christ.

Lester “Tiger” Lasher.

Your music is so inspirational and we love coming to hear you whenever you are in our area. We watch carefully to be sure we don’t miss you. I will be going to our Church of the Brethren Northern Indiana District Conference on the 19th and I am a delegate. But…you can be sure Lee will be there if at all possible.

Hope you finally have your HOME ON WHEEKS by now and are loving it.

May God continue to bless each one of you and then also, as you spread God’s music in word and song together.
Love, The Markleys

Hey,
I just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who has been a part of this new website so far. It’s so encouraging to see comments from people who love and support our ministry. I look forward to getting to know you better.
Jackie Crist

1. J Love posted the following on September 14, 2008 at 6:01 am.

   Jackie, I am your number one fan. I can’t wait to get the new dvd and cd. hmmm. I’m so proud of you guys and miss seeing you all. Praying for you daily.

   P.S. Go on hitch a ride in the bunk of a tour bus, if all the butterflies are busy, just get to me.

   Reply to J Love

Hello, Crist Family!

When you first described what this new website would be a few weeks ago, I thought that it would be a wonderful addition to your ministry. Now that I am visiting the site for the first time, I am definitely IMPRESSED!!!!

By the number of comments preceding my visit, I can tell that lots of other folks are impressed as well. We all LOVE you and appreciate the sacrifices that you have made to follow your call. You bless me every time I am privileged to hear you sing.

I am honored to have had the opportunity to spend time with your family and look forward to seeing you at the National Quartet Convention next week. I am currently enroute and am very excited about your fist opportunity to grace the Main Stage there to allow many, many people who do not yet know (and love) you to hear your wonderful sound and message contained therein.

Travel safely –Enjoy that Bus!

God Bless all of you as you “Journey for Him”.

Ruth Frew

This is one of your best Ideas!! I love it. Now I can really keep up with you guys. Thank you so much for making my Birthday one of the best. I always love coming to visit you. My birthday book is the BEST!! Hearing you in Gatlinburg topped it all though. I love where God has taken you! LOVE YOU ALL.

Being able to stay plugged in makes me feel better about never getting to see you since your on the road all the time! What I would give to be sitting in your living room on a Saturday morning listening to you practice! You all are such an amazing family! God Bless and take care!

Hello there, Crist family. I love seeing your concerts. I think that the first time I saw you all was up at Grandfather mountain. I was out walking, and we talked before you set up. I am glad that you have a great website. please keep in touch, love that Southern Gospel Music!! Love, Dotty from N. C. now in Fl.

You guys rock! We love your music and your personalities and enjoyed every minute you were included in the NQC in Kentucky. Your singing is such a blessing! Looking forward to hearing you again soon and until then, will enjoy our CDs.

Sorry we didn’t get to Dollywood to see you folks. As usual we really enjoyed you folks at the NQC. We have a preacher friend who pastors a Church of God Church in Blount County TN., about 40 miles from you folks who is interested in finding out if there is some kind of list a church can get on where groups are trying to get home or get to an engagement where they have a day in that particular week that has a non-scheduled day where they call these churches on this list and say we have a date that is not booked in your area and we would love to come and sing on this date for a love offering. Tom there may not be such a thing but we have heard it talked. Phillip is interested to find out. They have about a 350 seat church which they feel they could pack for Southern Gospel music.

Yours In Christ,

Jerry Van Hoozier

Your “thinking positive” might have paid off. We will be heading out your way in March of 09. We look forward to seeing you. I agree with you on the song “Lift Up the Cross”. We just released it to radio so keep an eye out for the track.

I first heard you sing “Lift Up The Cross” on XM Radio while at work. From hearing it for the first time, I was overwhelmed by the words and the blending of the voices. Hearing it only once led me to your web site for more. As I listened to each cut, I had to have more! My family accuses me of getting your DVD and CD’s as presents for myself at Christmas…I have no answer.

I do not need to tell you how good each of your cd’s are nor how good the DVD “Live at Branson” are. But what I beg of you…please, please, PLEASE release “Live at Branson” on cd too!!! I’ve watched the dvd so many times that I can tell you what hand will hold the mic and when, who will lick the lips before joining the group to sing. What I can’t do is put your dvd in my car cd player and listen to you as I travel.

Thank you for taking the time to sit down and share your story. It is a tremendous blessing to hear how God is working in your lives, using your talent, to touch the lives of others through song.

May God Continue To Bless You!