Rollin Out …
Well, the Mountain Parkway Kentucky Summer Tour is about to start. Today we are heading south…. It’s a beautiful day to travel. First stop: Portersville, Ohio.
I thing back to the winter months when I was planning this with such excitment and yet wondering if it would get off the ground. If we would actually DO this. I was so excited and now the day today has come…. We will be heading out of Riverview MI soon. It will be sad to leave home for a whole month! We will miss our dear sweet, kind, loving supportive friends and of course mostly family here.
We will roll into Portersville, Ohio tonight. Right now we are packing it all up and gettin ready to head out! This is it. We are all very excited and we are amazed and thankful to God at how He has provided the things we needed for this trip. God has shown me so faithfully that He really is blessing this ministry.
Lastnight, I bought my first guitar. It’s a Baby Taylor! It’s very nice. I bought it from my dear brother Wesley. I already know my first bluegrass song on it too! “On The Wings Of Dove” Love that song! I will be taking it with me to play while I sit on the porch down there and hopefully learn a lot! It’s such a neat feeling to be able to play for yourself and sing.
We will miss you family! Dad, Dan, Wes….Kyle, Elizabeth, Little Kyle, Chuky, Karilee… keep in touch, check our blog and leave us comments while we minister our way through the bluegrass. We love you!
Better continue to get ready. I think we are shooting for pulling out about 12:00 Noon. We will see….
- Holly
Butcher Holler
June 6th we will be really close to Butcher Holler. We will be recording for a TV program there at a church way out in the country. I tried to get directions and I think I will have to call back again and get them a second time. I think right now I have… “Go left after you go through the holler, then turn back right just after you pass the fence post, on down through the wooded area and so on…” I love it.
If you don’t know about Butcher Holler, you should. It’s the home-place of Loretta Lynn, known as the first lady of country music. I hear that it is beautiful back there and I am looking forward to maybe visiting. The girls went last summer when I couldn’t go. 
Things are coming together for our trip. I still have a lot to do and I am feeling the pressure… I still need to print out our info on each of the churches and make sure I have things organized (NOT my thing) but I am excited and happy about this ministry. We pack up the van take off for Portersville, Ohio in one more day after this. I feel the distractions looming and the pressures that are sure to come… but I know I need to face them with a lot of sweet prayer… what would we do without it.
Blessings to you all we thank you for your prayers….
PS. Check out our newly updated schedule (click here).
- Holly
“Is The Grass Any Bluer?”
I want to share one my favorite bluegrass songs with you. Rhonda Vincent wrote this after the great Bill Monroe died. He was so good at what he did a lot of people say he is what made bluegrass what it is. This song is cute if you listen to the words. It’s talks about heaven and does it look a little like Kentucky. I have a feeling it just might….
Here is Bill Monroe’s homeplace.
I love Rhonda Vincent’s voice and her bluegrass I want to be like her when I grow up!
“When I Was Young In The Mountains”
Here in Michigan there are so many, many, many people from Kentucky. It amazes me. I can always tell the ones that are from Kentucky. I say, “Your from Kentucky aren’t you” They look at me, a big smile comes on their face and they get just a little more at home, a little more southern accent and far away look in there eye… they miss their home. They came here just like my Grandma with my Mother years ago to work in the factories.
They say, “Oh, I miss it!” I know a little of how they must feel. They have the mountains in their blood and it’s just a whole different, relaxed way of life in the mountains. This opens the door for me to tell them my sisters and I like to sing gospel music and we will be going back and traveling through the bluegrass to sing there.
I know of one little girl whose family came to the city to work in the factories. They only lasted a few months and went back the mountains of Tennessee. She said they would live without the money, and added comforts of it if they could just live in the mountains again. So they packed up their things and went home.
This reminds me of a sweet book we found a long time ago. It’s one of my mom’s favorites. We read it to Hope all the time. “When I was Young In The Mountains” If you haven’t read it you should, it’s a cute book.
As I was sitting here typing this out my family threw and an old journal I had on my bed. I opened it up and I was journaling from the porch of Grandma’s in Kentucky -
Thursday July 14th 2005 6:00 pm
“I’m sitting on the front porch of Great Grandma Hatton’s house rocking. It’s amazing to think my mom used to do the very same thing when she was a girl growing up. Even my Grandpa lived here when he was growing up.
Grandma came over for Sunday dinner. We ate a good meal of fried chicken. We sat on the porch and visited with the guests that stopped over, it was a beautiful day. The day was coming to an end soon while Grandma and I talked all about the days she grew up here right in this very town. She told me of how she got saved at the age of eight at the revival service. She talked about the days she would swing her babies on this very porch (one of them was my mother). She has so many memories all within this small town between the hills…..
I love watching the mist rise off the mountains in the mornings and the moon in the evenings shining just above Granny’s house where I am stting this evening… I see God at work back in these beautiful hills of Kentucky. I see not only His hand of beauty in the rising mist off the mountains but I see He still working and changing hearts, lives and families. Just like He did for my mom, He never fails. He changes hearts and lives.
July 15 Friday
“Tonight the mist hangs low between the mountains and the humidity is high and it’s warm…..”
A little of my journaling from the mountains. I am looking forward to God’s work He has for us this summer. I look forward to the small girl, like my Grandma, in the revival service who might be eight years old and God will change her life forever… I better get to planning I have a lot to do still…
Zion Christian Union Church
I am so excited about our very first stop on our tour. Even before we reach Kentucky for our summer tour we are starting it off June 1st at Zion Christian Union Church. This is a very special place for us. This is where my Grandma and Grandpa Pierpont pastor. We are excited about meeting the folks there and also being able to see and be apart of our grandparents ministry. Monday June 2nd we will then pack up and leave for the hills of Kentucky. Though as my Grandma says we will already be in the hills at her place.
Today is another day of planning and preparing here at home. I made a list of things I need to work on and get done. I just need to get beyond making my list and looking through it to getting the details done, not my favorite part … my favorite part is packing up and taking off and doing it!
We are making more stops through the hills of Kentucky! So I will be adding more updates to our schedule page soon!
~The Pierpont (Sister) Singers
“Bethany Christian Home” On Holly
Today I was on the phone planning and talking to the directors of Kentucky Mountain Mission and also Bethany Christian Mission Center. We have booked three more places to sing and share just today. I have more planning and calling to do tomorrow.
It looks like we will be going to sing and speak at Bethany Christian Services Saturday night June 21st. And after we get done singing I will be speaking to the girls for a session just for the girls. I am really looking forward to this opportunity. I love speaking to young ladies and I always look forward to these types of opportunities! I am thinking about speaking on the Love of Jesus and the question of “Is He really enough for me?” So I will be planning that as well these days.
Bethany Christian Services is located right across the road from the farm “over on Holly”. This farm is one that my great Grandparent’s owned. They would pass this spot many many times as they lived and farmed a beautiful spot in the “holler” on “Holly”. It’s a beautiful place.
Today I am encouraged to see God just work out the details ahead of us just before we go! God is so good to us and we are so happy that He is preparing all the things ahead of us to make this trip what I had always hoped and intended it would be - full of ministy! God is opening the doors.
~ The Pierpont (sister) Singers
Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Mountain Parkway Tour Begins!
Well, we just got back from Kentucky singing on WLJC the TV station out of Beattyville, Ky. We had a great time singing and I (Holly) was able to testify of our love for Jesus and what He has done in our lives. We really praise God for this opening as we heard from many that it blessed them to listen in! This is our desire and we are so thankful to see God at work.
Just as we rolled into the hills of Kentucky we began to get very excited. We stopped at the nearest gas station and picked up some Ale 8! Kentucky’s famous soft drink. As we got to Kentucky we realized that we (Heidi and Holly) were coming down with one of the worst colds we have ever had! Needless to say it was hard to sing at Hoedown Island but we tried to make it through it. By the time it came to singing on TV we were able to make it through our songs… though it was tough by the last one! We had a wonderful time. The view from the TV station in Beattyville was beautiful!! As we walked out of the studio that night the sun was setting over the hills casting a bright orange glow over the mountains. It was neat to think we “sang” in those homes that night from this very mountain we were on!
As we got to my greatgrandmother’s house in Campton where we stayed. We realized there was no running water. Yes, you know what that means. No bathroom, no water. We washed our hair old fashioned style by taking turns pouring gallons of water over our heads to wash and rinse out our hair. It was cold in the evenings. We had not heat in the house either… so as I woke in the morning I would often think “I want to be warm! I need running water!” And then I would realize we are here for missions work. I remind myself this is not for the comforts of home or the easy things that I would love to have right here (warm bath, warm comfy bed at night, running water) and as I would think about what we were doing there it made it so much more bearable! We had a great time together and made more memories there on the porch.
We are heading back down for the whole month of June! We will be starting out at my dear Grandma and Granpa’s church in Ohio. We are looking forward to starting our tour there. And as we have had a wonderful response to our TV broadcast we will also be recording again for another TV station in Prestonsberg, KY. I will soon be updating our schedule posted here so please keep checking back to see our schedule. We are looking forward to feel very excited about ministering in our beautiful hills once again!
~ The Pierpont (sister) Singers