The Collins Family
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Have You Heard The News Have You Heard The News
The Collins Family Have You Heard The News
Your Comin' Home Your Comin' Home
This song was written for my mom & dad who lost the first to kids as babys
I Sure Miss You I Sure Miss You
The Crabb Family Told Us We Could Record This Song
We Are A Southern Gospel Duet From Indiana. We Love Singing Praises To Our Lord Jesus Christ.Band/artist history
Rocky Collins was born in Huntington, Indiana on February 25th, 1961 and has lived around Huntington County most of his life. Rocky Took an interest in music at an early age, llistening to his grandfather play various musical instruments. Around the age of 18, Rocky began playing the bass guitar and later went on to play the acostical guitar.
Later on he met a wonderful young lady named Diana Moore. Diana
was born and raised in Wabash, Indiana. Rocky and Diana dated for 5 years
and on Christmas Day 1995, Rocky asked Diana to marry him. She has been a wonderful helpmate to their ministry.
Diana recieved JESUS CHRIST as her personal Savior on January 27th 1997 while driving down the highway in a terrible snow storm, not knowing if she would make it home or not. Praise GOD! Not only did she make it home safe and sound but she was now a child of the KING of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Rocky received JESUS CHRIST as his personal Savior on February 9th, of 1997, in a little church he had been attending. His life was transformed that very day and now through Rocky and Diana's music, they are telling the world of GOD's amazing love and forgiveness.
They have two sons. Troy who is 10 sings in the choir at school and Derek who is 8, enjoys singing with mom and dad sometimes. At 6 months of age Derek was diagnosised with and life threathening illness called Cystic Fibrosis. Rocky and Diana have faced death with their son many times but by GOD's grace and mercy, He has spared Derek's life. They place their faith and trust in GOD and know that Derek is in His hands.
Derek is the inspiration for their title song on their first CD called "Mommy I Saw Angels". GOD used their hands to pen this song along with many others. Since the release of this song, G]
Rocky and Diana have also been doing some concerts in other churches. They just enjoy doing what GOD has called them to do. Their only desire is to see souls saved and that's what it is all about. They are very active and dedicated to their church, but most of all to their Savior, JESUS CHRIST. As they go out and sing GOD's word, they have determined within themselves never to a price on what they do. They do ask for a freewill offerings, but never set a price. Diana states, that first of all GOD saved her free of charge and setting prices on GOD's word can tend to cut out some of the smaller churches that just can't afford to pay to bring singers in. It's not about the money, it's all about JESUS. Face it we all need to hear GOD's word and feel our spirits lifted, how we can put a price on that? They trust in GOD to supply all their needs and GOD has never let them down. They are proof that miracles still happen, that GOD is still listening and that GOD can and will supply all their needs.Anything else?
Dear Friends,
Since GOD used us to write our title song for our new CD, "Mommy I Saw Angels",
we have heard many beautiful testimonies of miracles and angels. Our son Derek, inspired this song. When he was born we noticed little marks on his eyes and nose and a big mark across his little back. Our doctor told us they were called angels kisses. So we have always told him he has been kissed by the angels. We never realized until two years ago just how true that statement was going to be. Derek developed breathing problems around 3 months old. They found that Derek had asthma. They were going to do some futher testing on him but he developed RSV (a very serious lung infection) and by the time we got to the emergency room his bronical tubes were swallowen to the size of an ink pen dot.
He was hospitazed with a 50% -50% chance of making it. They also ran a sweat chloride test on him and it came back positive. He was released from one hospital and sent to another hospital to confirm the first test. It too came out positive. Our son had cystic fibrosis. But GOD had spared his life.While in the hospital, there was a sweet little black lady that always did all of Derek's breathening treatments and precussion. When we finally got ready to leave the hospital with Derek, this wonderful black nurse asked that if we ever got back up there to stop in because she wanted to see Derek again. So we told her we would and she wrapped Derek in a little hospital quilt and bought him ballons and carried him out ot our car, tears streaming down her face. We went back to the hospital 2 weeks later for a checkup on Derek and stopped in at respiratory to see her. No one knew who we were talking about. They even tried to pull Derek's charts to get her name and there were no charts to be found. We told them she was a sub and they told us they hadn't had any subs in over 6 months. We went to the pediatric ward and talked to the nurses that were on duty when she was there taking care of Derek and not one of them remembered her. This was the first of Dereks angels. We believe that she was there that day, looking down at our son that she so loving cared for. And I believe that tears of joy filled her eyes as she saw him safe and sound. There is no cure for Cystic Fibrosis, the only cure is JESUS CHRIST. And we are blessed to be the parents of GOD's special little child. Oh how blessed we are that GOD would chose us to care for Derek.
Well anyway to try to keep this fairly short let me skip ahead now to Derek, when he was 6 years old. Derek snuck into our bedroom one night around Christmas time and went to sleep. In the morning when he woke up he said, "Mommy I saw angels in the bedroom last night". We of course thought he was dreaming or something. So we started asking him questions about the angels. We asked him what they looked like and he said ,"mommy they in robes of white but didn't have wings like regular angels in the pictures do." So then we asked him if he knew who they were. Not expecting to hear he what said. He said,"oh yes mommy! I know exactly who they were." "It was my Grandma Beeks and my Grandpa Moore." That really caught us off guard, because Derek has never seen his Grandma Beeks, she died before he was born, and his Grandpa Moore had just past away. But Derek had never really seen him either as grandpa was really sick. So we asked him exactly what they looked like and he described them perfectly. Then we asked him if they talked to him and he said,"yes mommy, grandma Beeks talked to me and she said that I was going to die and they were going to come and carry me into the arms of JESUS and I wouldn't hurt anymore." After hearing that we frankly dropped the whole subject. We didn't want to hear anymore. The thought of losing our son was more than we could bear. We didn't talk much about it after that, until Nov. 5th of 2001. On November the 1st I had been praying for GOD to give me a song to write. I hadn't written anything in a long time and I love to write songs. Some words came into my head and I argued with GOD that I wasn't writing them down because I didn't like what they said. After about a half an hour of arguing with GOD about it, I heard Him say to me, Diane, you asked me for a song, I'm given you one, now write it down. I knew at that very moment if I didn't write it down I'd never write again. So I grabbed my little white "touched by an angel" journal and wrote down the words He gave me. I was so mad when I got done that I tossed my journal across the livingroom. Derek came out and asked me if he could watch a "touched by an angel" movie and so I said ok. The one he put in almost knocked me to the floor. It was the 100 episode and it was about a little boy named Petey, who was born with cystic fibrosis. Petey knew he was going to die and so he made a list of things he wanted to do before he died. One of the things on he list was to help his mom finish a song she had started when he was born.
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Comments (6)
Hello,
I took out time to listen to your song "Mommy I Saw Angels"...a very serious and beautiful song....beautiful voice, i like how you incorporate your religion into your music and you do very well, i voted the song HOT to help ya out in the charts some, keep up the good work...let me know when you have new material..I would like for you to listen to my instrumental sometime, thanks and much respect...
ADAD RECORDS
Great song, well done,
By His Design
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Keep up the good work!
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Hi,
I too tried to listen to your "Angels" song, but only got 3 seconds?? Maybe you can upload it again, I'd love to hear it!
Mary McCorkell
God bless you. I tried to listen to your "angels" song... but the song was only 3 seconds, maybe it got corrupted in the upload?
Praying for Jesus' loving arms to enfold all of you in His peace. God's plan often isn't our own... but His will is perfect. I hope that brings you peace and comfort.
Please let me know when the song is up. I'd love to hear it.
Listened to "Heard the News" it's excellent.
Yours in Christ,
Karen Jackman
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