Sonnie's passion is working with youth, she founded a program called RubyGirl Teen Program a character education and prevention program. She has taken her music in over 15 prisons and juvenile centers and homeless shelters in Michigan. She serves on the Board of Incarcerated Youth Ministries, committee member for the Michigan Female Responsive Task Force with the Bureau of Juvenile Justice. Sonnie is the Praise & Worship Leader and Youth Director @ her home church "The ROAD".
She is currently working on her Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership with dreams of opening a school. Sonnie is married to Gospel Rapper (E.D. of The Gideon Crew) with one daughter (Paris). Sonnie is available as a guest speaker or workshop facilitator for (youth or women events). Also, she is available to host your next event and/or share her music. To Book Sonnie Day visit www.sonnieday.org
I always look forward to the annual Celebration of Gospel, because I like to support this genre in ratings and I love the music. I really enjoyed the Celebration of Gospel this year, Steve Harvey said what I have been saying for years....the asthma preacher has a lot of people lost.
I thought the performances were a wide variety and was on point with song selections and artist performing songs. We all know that BET is the network for the show and they will include artist that are not apart of the "CHRISTIANESE CULTURE". But to the church they don't know Jesus....Tamar & Tyrese, two people I will meet soon, done a awesome job in their performance. But, I can feel the judgemental and religious mindsets come through the TV.
I enjoyed all the performances on the show...but my favorites were the new arrangement of AWESOME by Charles Jenkins featuring some of my favorite voices...that was HOTT!! I definitely enjoyed Ms. Anita Baker and Pastor Donnie singing one of my favorite songs!! "Ain't No Need to Worry". I am diggin Smokie Norful new song...that will be on my exercise song list. There were moments on the show that I know theSpirit of God took over, but because it's TV, it was edited (Tamela Mann, KiKi & Karen, and Dorinda).
My favorite song performance of the night!: Awesome (Remix)
THE SHEARDS REALITY SHOW
As with everything you should have an open mind, and not allow biases or precomposed thoughts to alter your view. REMEMBER THIS IS "BET"!!!
Yes, I had watched the trailer and decided to support the show for two reasons: relationships and hometown. So, without reservation I was going to watch the show. I thought the introduction to the show was very relevant and allowed the viewer to get an understanding of what they were in for. The shows backdrops of the City of Detroit displayed a positive outlook of the city, (although the religious would say why they show the MotorCity Casino). The storyline was interesting and gave me enough as a viewer to want to know what the outcome will be by the end of the show series. I hope others realize, it is obvious this show is centering around KiKi & J Drew (why because they are in the age bracket of BET viewership).
I think the Reality Show or DocuSeries concept Christians are entering into gives a platform for the message of Christ to be delivered in various forms. The BUBBLE & BOX Saints will not agree with the show and will have much to say. There were two messages released during the show that bothered me: The appearance of desperation of the baby moma and knowing how to raise a "GOOD OFFERING".
Overall, I leave you to ponder this thought of all the things you will encounter as a Believer where your religious hats will be shaken. My belief is when Jesus returns he will be asking us a lot of questions regarding the great commission and the questions I have come up with regarding things our religious mindsets has held of back from will be: "WHO TOLD YOU THIS? AND WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FROM?
