The Southern Plainsmen Quartet will be in concert at Nocona Church of the Nazarene on Sunday evening, July 22, 2012 at 6 p.m.  A free-will offering will be taken.  Come on over and join us.

The Southern Plainsmen Quartet, organized in May 1978, in the rolling pine-hills of West-Central Louisiana, and is an outreach of The Southern Plainsmen Ministries, Inc., a non-profit Christian organization. The ministry, supported by the contributions of its Christian friends, appears in Christian churches, regardless of denominational affiliation, on an expense plus love-offering basis.

The Lord has richly blessed The Southern Plainsmen since its meager beginnings. Singing primarily in local churches at that time, the group now travels by private coach to churches and auditoriums throughout the South and, when possible, beyond. The group has had the privilege of appearing from California’s Hollywood Hills, to the Great Northwest, to the Rockies of Colorado, to the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

In 1998, the twentieth year in the ministry, The Southern Plainsmen were appointed “Louisiana’s Ambassadors of Goodwill” by Governor Mike Foster. This is an honor not taken lightly by The Southern Plainsmen. They are proud of their Christian heritage, proud to be American and proud of the State and Communities from which they hail.

The Southern Plainsmen are not entertainers in the true sense of the word. Their primary goal is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, via the medium of gospel music and Christian witness. The Southern Plainsmen are not restricted by the boundaries of denomination. It is their strong belief that all Bible-Believing, Christian people must love one another, and work toward the common goal of reaching the lost, rather than criticizing each other’s personal convictions. This policy has allowed The Southern Plainsmen to appear in churches of almost every faith.

The Southern Plainsmen are as follows: Marcelle Slaughter, tenor/manager/executive producer/bus driver; Allen Doyle, baritone; Rusty McRight, bass singer; Aaron Allen, lead singer/sound manager; Tracy Brown, sound consultant/producer/co-manager; and Terry W. Foster, webmaster.

The Southern Plainsmen have 18 albums to their credit. In 1984 the group's first single, “Headed Home,” received extensive air-play from radio stations across the country.

For ten years, The Southern Plainsmen hosted a weekly, forty-five minute radio program on Central Louisiana’s KWDF Radio 840 AM. The show, “Southern Gospel with The Southern Plainsmen," featured group news, as well as, area gospel news, interviews with local gospel groups and professional groups appearing in Central Louisiana. Area merchants sponsored the show which was discontinued in January, 2000, when the station was lost to fire.