Benefit Concert Slated for Savoy Pastor
SAVOY - ALIVE Music Ministry will hold a benefit concert for Ken Mick, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Savoy and the Fellowship Bible Church, which currently meets at the Berkshire Medical Center Chapel in Pittsfield.The concert will be held Sunday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 55 Fenn St., Pittsfield.
Mick is being treated for polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary disease that usually destroys the kidney function of individuals who are in their late 50s to early 60s. The disease progressed earlier in Mick and he will most likely need dialysis by next year.
The husband of an old college friend of Mick's, Richard Thorburn, offered to donate a kidney. The surgery took place on Jan. 16.
A number of groups raised money to help cover the month out of work that both men had to take. Mick is also in need of money to help pay for a lifetime of anti-rejection medications. His goal is $70,000.
Mick has been a pastor for 15 years between Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and a camp chaplain. He has also taken two preaching mission trips to Buff Bay, Jamaica, and is the director of Search the Scriptures, the church's speaking and writing, counseling ministry.
He holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in religion. In his spare time, he enjoys history, reading, hiking, and writing. He is also a guitarist in Crosstalk Praise Band and coaches Lanesborough youth soccer.
He and his wife, Beth, live in Lanesborough with their four children.
As fellow Christians, the ALIVE Music Ministry wants to give back to those who also give of themselves for the Lord. The benefit concert will be the group's way of doing that.
Three groups are performing - the Praise and Worship Team from Stamford Community Church, the Honig Family and the ALIVE Music Ministry. Free-will offerings will be accepted at the concert for Mick and his family for ongoing medications and needs.
