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Hear some of the new songs off of the album, as well as Charles’ heart for the people of Guatemala. To help support building a well and a village, click this link: http://causelifevillage.org/

Charles Billingsley: Never Forsaken Concert from Innovative Faith Resources on Vimeo.

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HOW DO I EARN MY DISCOUNT?
To refer your friends and receive your discount, you must write a personal email of recommendation to each friend and CC info@redtiemusic.com. (Red Tie promises not give your friend’s email to anyone else or use your friend’s email without their express permission.) For each referral, we will give you a discount of 10% off of your final purchase price, up to 50% (or 5 people).

Each email needs to contain 3 elements:

1. Your personal recommendation – why you love/recommend Red Tie
2. A link to our website for your friend to check out
3. The information that your friend will receive a 50% off coupon code to our website if they sign up to receive our e-newsletter and occasional special promotions. (To sign up, they need to email info@redtiemusic.com and give us their permission to add them to our e-newsletter. We will then respond with a welcome message and their coupon code.)

Once you have emailed your friends and CCed info@redtiemusic.com, we will email you the coupon code for the % discount that matches the number of friends you referred (up to 50% max).

Offer expires March 7th, 2012.

For questions or concerns, please email info@redtiemusic.com.

Feel free to post questions and comments about the video below.

As we enter a new year, we are brainstorming about how we can better serve all of you. Of course we can come up with some ideas, but what we really want is to hear from you! That’s why we decided to dedicate our January blog to a few questions we hope you will answer to help us support your ministries.

Please feel free to answer the questions in the comment box below or email info@redtiemusic.com with your suggestions!

1) What excites you about Red Tie? How is Red Tie helping your ministry?

2) What do you like about what we are currently offering?

3) Do you have any suggestions for improvements to our current products?

4) Are there any products you would like to see Red Tie offer?

5) What topics would you like to see covered in our blog?

Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate all of you so much, and we look forward to working with you throughout the year!

The Red Tie Staff

Wrapping paper or gift bags?

• Travis Doucette (Travis) - Wrapping paper – it’s more fun to open
• Don Marsh (Don) - Gift bags because you can re-use them
• Adam Lancaster (Adam) - Gift bags
• Scott Bullman (Scott) - Wrapping paper
• Charles Billingsley (Charles) - Wrapping paper
• Lorie Marsh (Lorie) - Gift bags
• Erin Schroeder (Erin) – Wrapping paper

Real tree or artificial?

• Travis - Real
• Adam – Both – like the smell of real, but the size of the artificial
• Scott - Artificial
• Charles - Artificial
• Lorie - Artificial
• Erin - Real – I love the smell

Favorite gift received as a child?

• Travis - a Mickey Mouse record player
• Don - The 1st Wurlitzer electric piano with head phones from my dad when I was in college. I could write songs during the day or night and never had to leave my room. It really got me into arranging and helped make me who I am today.
• Adam - The drum set I got when I was 8 years old or my dog.
• Scott - a bike
• Charles - my first bike
• Lorie - Most Christmases, we got things my parents made. But one year, we got a barrel from the mission and, as a child, I remember thinking it was full of treasures. My favorite toy was a doll.
• Erin - my dog or when my dad took me to get my ears pierced on Christmas Eve as an early, surprise Christmas gift

Hardest person to buy for?

• Scott - Charles Billingsley

Easiest person to buy for?

• Adam - Does me count?

Worst Christmas gift you ever received?

• Don - fruitcake – I got it and re-gifted it

Favorite things to eat at Christmas?

• Travis - Turkey, mashed potatoes, turtle chocolates, Toffifee chocolates or Ferrero Rocher chocolates
• Adam - My mom makes round peanut butter balls that are incredible.
• Scott - Food…all of it!
• Charles - Frosted shortbread
• Lorie - Orange biscuits on Christmas morning and peppermint ice cream
• Erin - my mom’s homemade cinnamon roll biscuits and breakfast casserole we have for Christmas brunch and multiple flavors of hot chocolate

Clear lights or colored on the tree?

• Travis - colored
• Adam - clear
• Don - colored – particularly, the imitation candles from the 60s that used water bubbles
• Scott - clear
• Charles - clear
• Lorie - clear
• Erin - colored

Most annoying thing about this time of year?

• Don - white elephant gift exchanges
• Scott - the Visa bill
• Lorie - How about post-Christmas? Having to take the decorations down.

Gingerbread or sugar cookies?

• Travis - sugar, but could probably go either way
• Adam - sugar
• Don - gingerbread because I like the spice
• Scott - sugar…of course
• Charles - gingerbread
• Lorie - gingerbread
• Erin - sugar – made with cookie cutters, frosting and sprinkles

What do you look forward to the most at Christmas time?

• Travis - family
• Adam - probably the whole “festiveness” of December. It’s everywhere. The decorations are in every store.
• Scott – a change in pace and the 3 F’s – family, food, football!
• Charles - being home
• Lorie - spending time with family when work & school are done
• Erin - enjoying the coziness of home with all of the lights and decorations and family

What is your favorite family Christmas tradition?

• Travis - We always have nachos and cheese around the fireplace late on Christmas Eve.
• Adam - In recent years, we have enjoyed watching “White Christmas”.
• Scott - Providing food and gifts for a needy family and delivering it to them.
• Charles - Telling the Christmas story on Christmas Eve
• Lorie - We always have a special time together on Christmas Eve. Usually, we dress up and go to a traditional Christmas Eve service with a candlelight service and Christmas carols. We also have a special dinner. The whole evening is special.
• Erin - probably the whole schedule of Christmas morning that we’ve followed since I was little – my brothers and I aren’t allowed into the living room until we’re all awake, then we go in together to open our stockings as a family. Then, we eat this AWESOME brunch together while listening to Christmas music. Then, we open presents! It’s all sooo fun and good.

What would you do if you caught Santa Claus in your house on Christmas Eve?

• Travis - I would probably sit down with him, eat cookies, drink a glass of milk, and ask him to reveal all of his secrets.
• Don - I would try to bribe him for a new iPad or Kindle.
• Adam - I would ask him if I could go with him on the rest of his trip.
• Scott - Thank him and give him a generous tip!
• Charles - Get his autograph and ask for a ride in his sleigh
• Lorie – I’d kiss him because he would be my husband.
• Erin – I would probably be in shock and then watch him finish what he’s doing without being seen…ya know, see if he eats the sugar cookies and milk we left out and what not. I can’t decide if I wouldn’t want to risk being seen at all or if I would work up the courage to say hi and ask for a ride in the sleigh (and see the reindeer).

If you could be any person involved in the Christmas story, who would you be and why?

• Travis - I would want to be Jesus so I could better understand the humility he faced coming to earth.
• Don - One of the wise men – I identify with their camel riding skills. I’ve never ridden a camel, but I’m sure I have the riding skills.
• Scott - Gabriel. It would be so cool to be the one who delivered the news to Mary regarding what was about to happen…and then sit back and watch the reaction of everyone involved.
• Charles - A wise man. They were rich, powerful, and yet, got first hand experience in what it is like to be in the presence of a real king. Plus, they were 2 years late because they stopped at Jehovah Java for coffee.
• Lorie - I think I would want to be one of the shepherds who saw the hosts of angels singing and proclaiming Jesus’ birth. I would also get to go and worship Him and watch Him grow up, knowing what the angels had said and what had been foretold.