Jim Rice
Founding Member
Mike Wilson
Gordon Jenewein
Mark Craig
Larry Myers
Dan Patterson
Kevin Watkins
October 2026
Here we are in late October after playing at Hume Lake Christian Conference Center for a couple of days for their 80th year anniversary, then a Sunday night concert for a church in Clovis California, then to a sold-out crowd at the Rubican Theatre in Ventura. This last week Mark Craig and I did a concert for the staff at the Chuck Swindoll Ministry called Insight For Living in Frisco, Texas and I then did an interview with Chuck for his video series called Living with Insight. Spending time with this 92 year old champion of the faith was remarkable for sure. It was a memorable time packed full of conversation, lunch, concert and filming which left us both happily tired. At 92, Chuck's enthusiasm, focus and endurance still was impressive to say the least.
I could tell he loved the fellowship we had reminiscing after participating in so many ministry events together over the last 45 years. We became great friends many years ago as did Mark Craig as a producer of so many recordings and events for Chuck and IFL. And it turns out Larry Myers, our fiddle and mandolin musician, even lived with Chuck and Cynthia Swindoll while he was in seminary for a time. So, Brush Arbor has deep connection to Chuck and Cynthia Swindoll and the Insight for Living ministry.
The video series I did with Chuck should be out in the near future and you will be able to watch it on our website or the Insight for Living website. Turns out we are his first video series that includes live music as a part, in that he asked me to do a song that he heard us do at the staff concert earlier in the day called Simply Amazing. We both kept saying how God through the years continues to be simply amazing. Hope you enjoy the rich time we had together.
Jim Rice
