Cheri Keaggy To Appear on "Hour of Power" This Weekend

Dove Award winning recording artist and speaker Cheri Keaggy will appear on the upcoming episode of Hour of Power, taped recently at the Crystal Cathedral, where the singer/songwriter performed songs from her CD, So I Can Tell, and shared her testimony with Pastor Robert V. (Bobby) Schuller. Keaggy's appearance on Hour of Power can be viewed Saturday, November 17, on TBN/The Church Channel and on Sunday, November 18, on Time Warner, Cox Cable and Lifetime (check local listings for channel and time) and online at hourofpower.org.

"It was such a blessing to be back at the Crystal Cathedral," Keaggy says. "It's an amazing place. People visit from all over the world. I met a woman from Poland and a man from Canada and talked with some folks who minister in the Middle East. I was honored to take part in the service and hear Bobby Schuller preach. God has touched countless lives through their ministry."

During the service, Keaggy's fourth career visit to the Garden Grove, Calif.-based ministry, Keaggy performed two songs from So I Can Tell, the current single and title track, and "There Will Be One Day."

Keaggy's new release, So I Can Tell, which was released July 10 on her Psalm 91 record label, is Keaggy's first CD since her independent 2007 release, Because He First Loved Us. Keaggy draws on the encouragement of Scripture and her utter reliance on the comforting power of God to create an honest, engaging recording that is reflective of her emergence from a difficult season in life.

"Out of the trials of the past months, I feel like God has given me some gold," Keaggy says of the new songs. "Now it's time for me to pour it out."

So I Can Tell was released on the 18-year anniversary of Keaggy's 1994 Sparrow Records release, Child of the Father.

Photo caption: Cheri Keaggy, left, chats with Pastor Robert V. (Bobby) Schuller, right, following her appearance on Hour of Power at the Crystal Cathedral. (Ruthe Johnson/Crystal Cathedral photo).

About Cheri Keaggy:
Cheri Keaggy began her career as a worship leader at a small church in Southern California before recording her debut album on Sparrow Records, Child of the Father, in 1994. Honored with a Dove Award nomination for New Artist of the Year, Keaggy has gone on to record seven additional albums, resulting in nine No. 1 songs, three Dove Award nominations and a Dove Award win. After more than two decades in music, her ministry has expanded to include speaking engagements as well.

Under the guidance of Gospel Music Hall of Famer and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy, Cheri Keaggy called on the combined talents of Scott Dente and Ken Lewis from Global Genius Productions to produce her new CD, So I Can Tell. The combination of rich, acoustic sounds with Cheri Keaggy's signature plaintive vocals and searingly honest lyrics results in a project that confronts life's realities, even when filled with despair, and offers listeners the way to navigate through the challenges to a place of hope through Christ.

Penned following the end of her nearly 23-year marriage to her high school sweetheart, So I Can Tell is a testimony of God's goodness in the midst of pain and suffering. Like a modern day psalmist, Keaggy's lyrics express grief, loneliness, and God's comfort in the contemporary hymns "Bind Me To You," "There Will Be One Day" and the arresting "Hello, God." She echoes the apostle Paul in the memorable piano ballad "To Live is Christ" and celebrates Christ's provision in the ukulele-based crowd favorite "Air, Food, and Water."

Through an accessible folk-pop presentation, the album leaves listeners with a renewed sense that God is with us, no matter what. So I Can Tell is filled with the radio-ready songs for which Keaggy is known and loved. Her lush vocals lovingly caress piano ballads like the title cut and the haunting "When You Were Jesus To Me." Her voice takes on a lilting quality in the hope-infused "Starting a New Year Today," written on the one-year anniversary of her divorce. As an added bonus, guitar maestro Phil Keaggy closes the album with the peace-evoking benediction "Postlude: Invitation to Hope."

For more information about Keaggy and So I Can Tell, visit cherikeaggy.com. Like Keaggy on Facebook (facebook.com/CheriKeaggy) or follow her on Twitter (@cherikeaggy). For information about booking Keaggy for an event or conference, visit NewHopeManagement.com or contact Michael Lederer at (972) 862-6160 or michael@newhopemanagement.com.

About the Crystal Cathedral and Hour of Power:
The ministry behind the weekly Hour of Power televised service began in 1955 when a young pastor, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, moved to California from the Midwest with $500 in his pocket as seed money from his denomination. After researching many options, he began his church by preaching from a snack bar roof on Sunday mornings in the Orange Drive-in Theatre in Orange, Calif. As the ministry grew, the church moved to Garden Grove, Calif., first to a chapel, then to a new location and sanctuary in 1961 designed by renowned architect Richard Neutra.

In 1970, on the advice of Rev. Billy Graham, Hour of Power began televising from the Garden Grove Community Church. In 1980, the congregation moved into the Crystal Cathedral, the current home of Hour of Power.

Each week, more than 20 million people around the world tune in for unique and original messages that encourage each viewer to live a life filled with possibilities...to become the positive, hope-filled person God designed them to be.

For more information about the Crystal Cathedral and Hour of Power, visit crystalcathedral.org or hourofpower.org.