Welcome to your Southern Gospel Music Connection, KJIR 91.7 Mhz on the FM dial, serving Quincy, IL, Hannibal, MO, and Beyond. KJIR is now streaming on the internet 24/7. Check out the “On Air” button below and listen “live”. Keep us in your prayers and remember we are supported by listeners like you! May God bless you!

Thanks for a Great 2011 Sharathon! You can pledge or donate online here. We are your listener supported Southern Gospel Radio Station.

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Church name, address, service times, scripture, logo, telphone contact numbers, website, greeting, etc., and that your Church supports local Christian Radio!

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217-221-9410

Name or nickname? Skinny Kenny.

Where were you born? Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Where did you grow up? Lewistown, MO.

What did you want to do when you grew up?
Be a Preacher.
Are you married?
Yes, to the music director, Bev Geisendorfer, for 24 yrs.
How did you meet your mate?
We are high school sweethearts.
Do you have any children?
Yes, the producer & DJ, Jayme, and an energetic son, Phillip.
What do you think about Jesus Christ? He’s the Savior of all mankind, and the Lover of my soul.

Tell us some of the ways God has blessed you.He has blessed me with a beautiful and healthy family and a church that is alive in Christ!

Bible verses that mean a lot to you? Psalms 119:89 and 1 John 3:1-3.

How did you get started in broadcasting? My mother and father are the founders of WTJR TV and KJIR Radio.

What is your favorite Southern Gospel song or music group? I love most of the southern gospel songs, and the groups that have a heart for God(and not for fame)are my favorites.

What food do you really like? Ribeye steak on the grill with cabbage, onions, and potatoes.

What is your favorite animal? Dog.
What is your favorite movie? Oliver Twist….”I’m not afraid!”
What is your favorite TV show? Racecar races and Football.
What is your favorite book that you have read? The Bible.
What are your hobbies? Working outside in my yard and counting all my extra change to send my daughter to college.
What are your interests? Seeing the Church of the Living God being victorious in this late hour, and a lost world being saved.

Most online audio or video problems can be solved by downloading the latest player software.
The station streams with windows media, so you need windows media player to listen, this is included with all windows computers.

Q: The stream seems to be playing, but I don’t hear anything?
A: The station may be having a problem with there streaming computer send them a email. Or your computer may not have the volume or speakers turned on or up check with a sound file on your computer.

Q: Why does this stream stop playing after a certain amount of time?
A: The stream may be set to stop after a certain amount of time. This station pays for the amount of bandwidth streamed each month. Users who log onto our stream and leave their computers for extended periods of time raise the amount of bandwidth we use. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your help in controlling our costs. In addition the stream may reset after a certain time and connect again to reset the server connection.

Q: When I listen to the live stream, the sound skips, cuts out, or buffers. Why?

* Slow connection: You may not have a fast enough Internet connection to reliably listen to audio online. The stream is configured so that an audience member with a 24kbps modem can listen, but we recommend a higher connection speed for best results
* Internet congestion can slow down the delivery of the stream, and may make it difficult for you to connect, or may cause increased buffering. This congestion could occur anywhere between you and the station. We apologize for your inconvenience and suggest you keep trying, or try again later. If you have repeated difficulty connecting, please notify your ISP — there are often quick fixes they can make when they learn about your issue. Try increasing your player’s buffering setting.
* Local congestion: local (on your computer) bandwidth is shared between all open applications and the player, so closing applications frees up memory and may reduce buffering. Also try increasing your player’s buffering setting.
* Rebooting your computer often helps as well.

Other Items to consider:
1. Make sure your speakers are properly connected and the volume is turned up. (Play an mp3 or sound file on your computer as a test.)

2. Make sure are connected to the Internet. See if you can open another web page (i.e. www.google.com). If not, re-establish your Internet connection and try again. Try another sites webstream of audio.

3. If you’re trying to listen at work and none of the above has solved the problem, check with your network administrator to make sure there aren’t proxy settings or other settings that need to be configured (usually in preferences or options depending on the player). Or they make be blocking with a firewall.

4. Occasionally problems may occur which don’t allow us to stream audio or that cause an interruption in the stream.

How to stop page refresh click in Windows such as on our now playing page.
Goto:

Start
Control Panel
Sounds and Audio devices
Sounds Tab
Scroll down to Windows explorer
Click Start Navigation
Open bottom drop down menu and set to none
Apply
OK

This also turns off sound when clicking on links.

Thomas Aquinas, in the introduction to his commentary on the Psalms, defined the Christian hymn thus: “Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico; canticum autem exultatio mentis de aeternis habita, prorumpens in vocem.” (“A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.)

Since there is a lack of musical notation in early writings, the actual musical forms in the early church can only be surmised. During the Middle Ages a rich hymnody developed in the form of Gregorian chant or plainsong. This type was sung in unison, in one of eight Church modes, and most often by monastic choirs. While they were written originally in Latin, many have been translated. A familiar hymn of this type is the 11th century plainsong Divinum Mysterium, (although the words Of the Father’s Love Begotten date back to around the 4th century), that is a common part of church Christmas repertoires in the English language.

The Protestant Reformation produced a burst of hymn writing and congregational singing. Martin Luther is notable not only as a reformer, but as the author of many hymns including “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”, which is sung today even in Roman Catholicism. Luther and his followers often used their hymns, or chorales, to teach tenets of the faith to worshipers. The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase bibical text, particularly Psalms; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture. Later, writers took even more freedom, some included allegory and metaphor in their texts. Four part harmony also became the norm, rather than unison singing.

Charles Wesley’s hymns spread Methodist theology, not only within Methodism, but in most Protesant churches. He developed a new focus – expressing one’s personal feelings in the relationship with God as well as the simple worship seen in older hymns. Wesley wrote:

Where shall my wondering soul begin?
How shall I all to heaven aspire?
A slave redeemed from death and sin,
A brand plucked from eternal fire,
How shall I equal triumphs raise,
Or sing my great deliverer’s praise.
Wesley’s contribution, along with the Second Great Awakening in America led to a new style called gospel, and a new explosion of sacred music writing with Fanny Crosby, Ira D. Sankey, and others who produced testimonial music for revivals, camp meetings and evangelistic crusades.

African-Americans developed a rich hymnody from spirituals during times of slavery to the modern, lively black gospel style.

The Methodist Revival of the eighteenth century created an explosion of hymnwriting in Welsh, which continued into the first half of the nineteenth century. The most prominent names among Welsh hymn-writers are William Williams of Pantycelyn and Ann Griffiths. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed an explosion of hymntune composition and choir singing in Wales.

Some Christians today are using Christian lyrics in the rock music style although this often leads to some controversy between older and younger congregants. This is not new; the Christian pop music style began in the late 1960s and became very popular during the 1970s, as young hymnists sought ways in which to make the music of their religion relevant for their generation.

This long tradition has resulted in a rich lode of hymns. Some modern churches include within hymnody, the traditional hymn (usually addressed to God), praise choruses (often sung scripture texts) and gospel (expressions of one’s personal experience of God). This distinction is not perfectly clear; and purists remove the second two types from the classification as hymns. It is a matter of debate, even sometimes within a single congregation, often between revivalist and traditionalist movements.

Some Christian hymnists and their more well known hymns are:

Thomas Aquinas : Pange Lingua, Verbum Supernum Prodiens
Tommaso da Celano : Dies Iræ
William Cowper : There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
Fanny Crosby : Blessed Assurance and 8,000 others
Paul Gerhardt : O Sacred Head, Sore Wounded
Martin Luther : A Mighty Fortress is Our God
John Newton : Amazing Grace
Dan Schutte : Here I Am, Lord
Joseph M. Scriv­en : What a Friend We Have in Jesus’
Knowles Shaw : Bringing in the Sheaves’
Timothy Dudley-Smith : Tell Out My Soul
Eliza R. Snow : O My Father
Isaac Watts : When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Joy to the World
Charles Wesley : Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, Hark, The Herald Angels Sing,
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, many others
John Greenleaf Whittier : Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Christian hymns, especially in more recent centuries, were often written in four-part vocal harmony. Today, except for choirs and more musically inclined congregations, hymns are typically sung in unison. In some cases complementary full settings for organ are also published, in others, organists and other accompiansts are expected to mentally transcribe the four-part vocal score for their instrument of choice.

In both traditions, some performers, such as Mahalia Jackson have limited themselves to appearing in religious contexts only, while others, such as the Golden Gate Quartet and Clara Ward, have performed gospel music in secular settings, even night clubs. Many performers, such as the Jordanaires, Al Green, and Solomon Burke have performed both secular and religious music. It is common for such performers to include gospel songs in otherwise secular performances, although the opposite almost never happens.

Although predominantly an American phenomenon Gospel music has spread throughout the world including to Australia with choirs such as The Elementals and Jonah & The Whalers and festivals such as the Australian Gospel Music Festival. Norway is home to the popular Oslo Gospel Choir.

Origins (1920s – 1940s)
What most people would identify today as ” — African-American religious music based on large church choirs, featuring virtuoso soloists —” began very differently eighty years ago. The gospel music that Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, Willie Mae Ford Smith and other pioneers popularized had its roots in the more freewheeling forms of religious devotion of “Sanctified” or “Holiness” churches — sometimes called “holy rollers” by other denominations — who encouraged individual church members to “testify,” speaking or singing spontaneously about their faith and experience of the Holy Ghost and Getting Happy, sometimes while dancing in celebration.

In the 1920s Sanctified artists, such as Arizona Dranes, many of whom were also traveling preachers, started making records in a style that melded traditional religious themes with barrelhouse, blues and boogie woogie techniques and brought jazz instruments, such as drums and horns, into the church. It is also important to note that gospel music is not just a form of music. It is an intricate part of the religious experience for many church-goers.

Bluegrass as a style developed during the mid 1940s. Because of war rationing, recording was limited during this time, and the best we can say is that bluegrass was not played before World War II, and it was being played after. As with any musical genre, no one person can claim to have “invented” it. Rather, bluegrass is an amalgam of old-time music, blues, ragtime and jazz. Nevertheless, bluegrass’s beginnings can be traced to one band. Today Bill Monroe is referred to as the “founding father” of bluegrass music; the bluegrass style was named for his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939. The 1945 addition of banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with a three-finger roll now known as “Scruggs style,” is pointed to as the key moment in the development of this genre. Monroe’s 1945-48 band, which featured banjo player Earl Scruggs, singer/guitarist Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts, aka “Cedric Rainwater,” created the definitive sound and instrumental configuration that remains a model to this day.

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