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Keep watch for more concerts like this... Ken’s Friends’ Benefit
Gospel Concert 2009 Our Guests:
Ken Fernald Memorial Scholarship Fund View the Scholarship Application Donations may be made in Ken's memory to the 'Ken Fernald Memorial
Scholarship Fund' to help a deserving student with formal training for Christian
Ministry. Please send donations to the following address: Make checks payable to the Ken Fernald Memorial Scholarship
Fund Video Tribute Now Available! A video tribute to Ken Fernald (the one that played during Ken's
visiting hours) is available through the following address: Donations may be made in Ken's memory to
the 'Ken Fernald Memorial Scholarship Fund' to help a deserving student with
formal training for Christian Ministry. Please send donations to the following
address: Make checks payable to the Ken Fernald Memorial Scholarship
Fund Please continue to visit this website for news about this ministry. Ken's Gospel message and love for the Lord will continue. Ken's CDs are available and plans to publish the Cookbook Ken had been completing are underway! Dear Partners & Friends: As Secretary of the Ken Fernald Ministries Board of Directors, I am writing officially on behalf of the Board to share some shocking news with you. On Friday evening, October 10th, John Crothers, a long-term Christian friend and advisor to Ken, visited Ken's home in Portsmouth to find out why Ken was not answering his telephone. Although his van was parked in the driveway, Ken did not respond to knocks on his door either. Upon entering Ken's home, John found Ken seated peacefully upon his sofa in the living room. But Ken's soul had already departed to one of the heavenly mansions that the LORD Jesus went to prepare for His faithful servants. Ken had presented a sacred concert at the Ashland Baptist Church which I serve on Sunday, October 5th, at 6:00 PM. He was as warm and personable and Spirit-filled as ever. He showed no signs of illness and gave no indication that he might not be feeling well. That is why his very sudden and unexpected death has come as such a shock to all of us on his board. We know that he has gone to the wonderful Heavenly home of his dear Savior and LORD, Jesus Christ, about which and about Whom Ken loved to sing. We are happy for him, because we know that he is in a far better place, where he is far better off than he would ever be lingering longer down here. But we can not help but be moved by his totally unexpected departure, which gave us no opportunity to bid him farewell or to tell him how much we appreciated him and his uplifting musical ministry. He will be sorely missed, even though he will continue to minister to our spiritual needs through his recorded songs. In Jesus' Love, Everett Palmer, Secretary |
"New England’s Own
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Kenneth Fernald, 59, of Portsmouth, N.H., died of natural causes at his home on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Born in Eliot on March 11, 1949, he was the youngest son of Carl S. and Matilda E. (Hobbs) Fernald. Ken attended local schools and was a member of the first graduating class of Marshwood High School in 1967. In his early years of ministry, Ken taught reading at a local Christian school and was the host of a television and radio show called 'Born Again New England' along with the radio program 'The Lord is On Your Side.' As relayed a number of years ago during an interview, Ken said he loved what he was doing, but God had other things in store for him. Ken looked back at his radio ministry and said, 'I learned not to put a question mark where God had put a period.' Following a self-described tumultuous teenage period, Ken left his past behind and gave his life to the Lord. He became known to many in New England as the Burl Ives of Christian music and more recently as 'New England's Own Gospel Singer.' Ken began his music ministry in earnest in 1980. In 1986, music became his full-time ministry. Ken's personal appearances throughout New England offered hope, comfort, and encouragement to all who were blessed to hear him. A concert with Ken offered all who attended an opportunity to appreciate his music ministry and New England humor at the same time. Ken's recordings express the praises of a humble man whose life was completely transformed and blessed by the grace of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Having freely received from the Lord, Ken freely gave of his time, talents, and resources in order to share the love of Christ with others. Ken is survived by his two brothers and their spouses, George and Sheila of Cornelius, N.C., Richard and Donna of Huntersville, N.C.; a sister-in-law, Barbara Fernald of Eliot; and several nieces and nephews. Ken is also survived by his close friends John and Susan Crothers and family of Eliot, Donna Frautten of Bangor; and by many other friends throughout New England. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother Ronald Fernald.
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| Published in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on 10/14/2008 |
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