Welcome back to good day.
We have been making it a great day.
I have to say it today,
but we have of course Toledo on fire.
They were just here and I can't wait
to see all the toys that they have.
But like I said,
I wanted a little bit of music here this
morning to get into that holiday spirit,
really feel it this morning and there's
no one better to help us get into the
holiday spirit than Sherry lafonte.
So good to see you all.
Thank you for being here today.
I you you're usually doing something
special this time of year. Yes,
I'm bringing Christmas to Toledo
as if it wasn't already here,
but I like to do a holiday concert
once a year in my hometown.
So that's really nice. We are doing
it this year at Holland Free Methodist
Church and that's going to be on
December 17th at 7:00 o'clock.
OK, so that's coming up here next week,
next weekend and tickets.
Can we just show up?
How does that work?
Free will offering. So yeah,
it'll be a special night and some of
my family will be there since I'm home.
So it'll be really a really a special
event for me just to be with my friends
and neighbors and everybody I call family.
So while we're happy to have you
here at home for folks who you know,
throughout the years, we always have
you on during during the holiday season.
But tell us a little bit
about your background.
You know,
how you got into music and I know
your whole family is into it too.
Yes, our whole family is into music.
We grew up singing on the road, my dad.
As a traveling evangelist.
And so we sang at church after church
after church and then in auditoriums
and it just grew from there.
And so I'm a gospel singer still to this day.
I do a lot of inspirational
music and something to encourage
people is the ultimate goal.
I was on the latest gather video.
That's awesome.
I was so excited to be a part
of that with Bill Gaither.
And then of course to sing
at perfecting church,
where Marvin Winan is the pastor there.
So that was pretty awesome too.
And so God continues to bless and.
It's just an honor to do what I do.
So
love to hear it. Yeah.
And I was so happy that you were
talking about my family's going to
be here because really today we're
celebrating kind of like bringing
everybody together and making sure
these kids have a great Christmas,
considering family situations
are different for everybody.
So it's kind of nice to be able to still
share that family love with everybody.
Every Christmas I go Christmas shopping
with the littlest members of our family.
And I think it's important for
them to learn not just to to get,
but to give. It's the.
It's more important to give than to receive.
And when that's taught,
it brings an inner happiness.
When you're out shopping for somebody else,
thinking of somebody else,
it brings an inner happiness
that nothing else can give.
It is priceless. Truly so.
Well, OK, we got to hear from you.
Let's hear from you.
You have to sing a classic, OK?
That Toledo tradition.
So tell us what you're going
to sing right now. All right. This is
the song I wrote several years ago.
I started it at a mud hens game
and then finished it at The
Nutcracker at the Stranahan.
And so I wrote this song and.
Everybody relates to it a little bit.
It talks about a little
places around home. So
all right. Well, here you
go. Thank you. So take it away.
Merry Christmas everybody.
Bring in summer's coming and gone when
we cheered the mud hens all. And the
autumn leaves that wild wood.
Have fallen as they should.
But tonight the glass City is
a crystal sheet of white and
there's nothing that could keep
me from being in here tonight.
Happy holidays.
Toledo Seasons greetings,
my hometown as Christmas on the river.
Praise the carols, loud glad tidings,
and here's wishing.
At the Cherry Street mission,
hope is fading.
Happy holidays to Lido my whole town.
Bundled up as we walk through.
For the lights before Christmas at our zoo.
And in the checkout line at
Westfield Franklin Park,
we'll find that special deal
and all the pretty ballerinas.
Stranahan. We'll see.
Each holiday tradition.
They are all stay home to me.
Happy holidays to Lido.
Seasons greetings, my hometown.
As Christmas song, the river plays,
the cab rolls aloud.
Glad tidings. And here's wishing.
At the Cherry Street mission,
hope is found.
Happy holidays to Lido my.
See ya.
Out of the biggest small town and
there's another year comes around.
Happy holidays.
Seasons greetings.
Christmas song, the river.
Glad tidings, and here's wishing
up the Cherry Street mission.
I pray that hope is found.
Happy holidays. Tornado seasons green.
Happy holidays to lead.
My hometown.
My. Turn.