Capping off a whirlwind year of new releases, national television appearances, and No. 1 hits, Mandisa plans to wrap up 2012 strong with an updated Christmas album, It’s Christmas: Christmas Angel Edition on October 9. The album features 3 new recordings including the new original cuts “It’s Christmas” and “Somebody’s Angel,” plus an all-new recording of the classic “What Child Is This.”  It’s Christmas also boasts popular classics such as “What Christmas Means to Me,” “Silent Night,” and “Little Drummer Boy,” along with special duets with Matthew West and Michael W. Smith. The first single and new recording from the album, “Somebody’s Angel” will be featured in the original movie Christmas Angel debuting this December on GMCtv. 

So far this year, Mandisa released a follow up to her most successful album yet, What If We Were Real, with a summer EP, Remixed: Get Movin’, a collection of some of her biggest tracks, remixed and redubbed. Mandisa spent a good portion of the year on her massively successful and almost entirely sold out tour, Girls Night Out, alongside fellow Dove Award nominee Britt Nicole and “Blessings” songstress Laura Story. Most recently, Mandisa performed her breakout single “Good Morning” on ABC’s Good Morning America, which the top-rated morning show has been using during its broadcasts as well, with many other local morning shows adopting the song as their theme song, including ABC New York. She will also be a special guest on The Doctors this fall. Mandisa's music and lifestyle change has earned her widespread media coverage from other media outlets as well including The Today Show, LIVE! With Regis and Kelly, E!, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, US Magazine, People Magazine and CNN. 

It’s Christmas: Christmas Angel Edition Track Listing:
*New Song
**New Recording
1. Its Christmas*
2. What Christmas Means To Me
3. Somebody’s Angel*
4. Christmas Bell Medley (with Silent Night)
5. Feliz Navidad (With Joy to the World)
6. Angels We Have Heard on High
7. Christmas Makes Me Cry (feat. Matthew West)
8. Little Drummer Boy
9. Christmas Day (feat. Michael W. Smith)
10. What Child Is This**
11. Mary’s Little Boy Child
12. Children Go Where I Send Thee

GRAMMY-nominated and BEC Recordings’ artist Jeremy Camp will be releasing a Christmas project this holiday season titled Christmas: God With Us. This is Camp’s first full-length Christmas project in his 10-year career, and it will be available on September 25. Click here to view the album cover and official track listing. The album is produced by Brown Bannister and Ben Shive along with Camp.

Camp’s Christmas album is filled with holiday classics as well as the original title track “God With Us.” Fans will hear favorites such as “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Joy To The World,” and “Mary Did You Know.” Although these are traditional songs, Jeremy takes a fresh approach to the arrangements on his album.

"I wanted to pick songs that I listened to growing up, and make them my own,” shares Camp on the song selection process. “I also selected Christmas carols that my family and I now love to sing each Christmas."

The original track “God With Us” was written after a night of reflection of what Jesus has done for mankind.

"It was amazing to think that our King actually came to this earth and walked among us as human flesh,” states Camp. “The lyrics came out as an expression of what I was thinking at that moment."

Camp will be touring this holiday season as a part of THE STORY tour featuring a full choir and orchestra along with Casting Crowns’ Mark Hall, Natalie Grant, Matthew West, Nichole Nordeman and Selah. This tour is a musical journey from Genesis to Revelation and is based off of the special project Camp was a part of that released in 2011. Camp sang “Paul (Move in Me)" on THE STORY CD. THE STORY tour will begin in November and conclude in December.

The Los Angeles Dream Center has launched a “Home for the Holidays” program which will provide fully furnished living spaces to 12 homeless mothers and their children by Christmas Eve as well as renovate 20 other rooms for families already living in the building.  The center has converted the former "Queen of Angels Hospital" into dorm-style living spaces and will give each family a private room as well as a shared bathroom, family room and play room.  They will also serve three meals a day at the campus cafeteria.  Hundreds of mothers have been put on a waiting list, but The Dream Center’s goal is to build more living spaces so that in the future no family in need of a home will be waitlisted.
 
Last week, KKLA-FM partnered with The Dream Center to conduct a three hour telethon which aired on December 15th.  Due to the show’s success, the station re-aired it on December 16th, 17th and 18th.  The radio segments encouraged very generous donations after an anonymous donor offered to match every gift of $100 or more.  The first six people to donate a one-time gift of $2,500, will join radio hosts Lara Scott, Frank Pastore and co-founder of the Los Angeles Dream Center, Pastor Matthew Barnett for a special lunch and tour of The Dream Center complex.
 
The 12 single mothers, who were chosen from a waitlist of over 200 applicants, each have children under the age of five.  They were chosen according to the severity of their case and their immediate need for a home.  Some of these women have newborn babies and have been sleeping in their cars. Many of these mothers and their children are escaping severe domestic violence and have no one to turn to for help. Some of these moms were working, but have been devastated by layoffs that have been effecting so many people this holiday season.  The Dream Center hopes to provide a safe place for these women and their children to live and get back on their feet.
 
About the women who hope to live at The Dream Center
 
An entire floor of The Dream Center is devoted to housing single moms and their children but there are so many more families in need of a home.  Here are a few stories of the women who hope to call The Dream Center their home.
 
Lily came to The Dream Center in 2006 to be a part of the Women's Dream Center Discipleship (DCD). That year she worked on breaking addictions and getting her life back on track. She successfully completed the program and began a new life for herself. She became pregnant and now has a 2 year old child. Because the economy is so difficult, her employers had to cut back her hours. This pay cut has not allowed her to pay for the basic things she needs for her and her family. She’s now on the wait-list for housing at The Dream Center.
 
Renee is a single mom of two children. After fleeing a domestic violent situation, she has been looking for safety and has not had time to find a stable job to support her kids. She hopes to come to The Dream Center because it will be a safe place for her children. She plans on finishing her last two years old of college and work in the field of criminal justice.
 
Rhonda has been on The Dream Center Family Housing waiting list since July of this year. She and her three children fled the state they were living in because of abuse. She came to Los Angeles in hopes that her aunt could house them until she found a stable place. Her aunt opened her home, but has not been able to help in the way she had hoped to. This left Rhonda and her three children with nowhere to go. It was at this time that she called The Dream Center.
 
About The Los Angeles Dream Center
 
Founded in 1994, The Dream Center is a round-the-clock sanctuary for homeless families, addicts, abused women and children, victims of human trafficking, and many others. Through its numerous outreach programs, The Dream Center feeds over 40,000 people per month and houses more than 500 people daily, meeting them with love and a helping hand at their greatest point of need. The Dream Center provides food, housing, clothing, life skills training, education, job training and numerous resources through its 273 programs and outreaches.
 
*To donate, please call (213) 273-7100 <tel:%28213%29%20273-7100> , or visit www.dreamcenter.org <http://www.dreamcenter.org>  and click the “Home for the Holidays” banner at the top of the page*

Acclaimed modern hymn writers and recording artists Keith & Kristyn Getty will bring their “Joy – An Irish Christmas" Tour to 15 cities (18 concerts) around the U.S. this season, culminating with an already sold-out performance at Nashville’s prestigious Schermerhorn Symphony Center December 19.
 
The tour kicked-off November 27 at Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego and will also play to sellout crowds in Indianapolis and Kalamazoo, Michigan, in addition to stops in Washington, D.C.; Dallas; Memphis; and Oklahoma City; among other markets.
 
Joining the couple is their acclaimed Irish Christmas band, including noted musicians Fionan de Barra of Broadway’s Riverdance, Jeff Taylor (Vince Gill, The Chieftains), Uilleann piper Patrick D'Arcy, and Dave Cleveland (Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace), among others.  
 
Keith & Kristyn Getty’s debut holiday recording, Joy – An Irish Christmas (Gettymusic), a collection of modern hymns, traditional carols, reels and jigs inspired by the couple’s homeland, released last month to critical acclaim and was recently named in USA Today's "Glisten Up For Sonic Gifts" feature among "Other Notable New Holiday Releases" (November 25).  Produced by Grammy Award-winner Phil Naish (Steven Curtis Chapman, Point of Grace), with orchestral arrangements by renowned composer J.A.C. Redford (Avatar, The Help), Crosswalk.com calls the recording “…a fresh perspective on the theological significance of the season,” while Worship Leader magazine says, “…Joy is a top pick for both personal and congregational worship.”  The album's debut single, "Jesus, Joy Of The Highest Heaven (A Children's Carol)," is the most-added song on Billboard's Soft AC/Inspirational National Airplay chart, according to the publication's December 10 issue.
 
In Christ Alone, Keith & Kristyn Getty’s 2007 stateside debut, featured the Celtic-flavored title-cut co-penned by Keith Getty and acclaimed British songwriter Stuart Townend; an instant classic that has been recorded by numerous artists and quickly taken root in churches around the globe.  Awaken The Dawn, the Gettys’ 2009 follow-up, further established their modern hymns to audiences both in the U.S. and abroad.  They have shared their music at Franklin Graham crusades, the GMA Dove Awards, and performances at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall, among other noted platforms and international tours.     
 
For a complete “Joy – An Irish Christmas" Tour itinerary, visit www.gettymusic.com.