{"id":16648,"date":"2012-09-06T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16648"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:39:36","slug":"faith-based-website-to-sponsor-huge-tampa-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16648","title":{"rendered":"Faith-Based Website To Sponsor Huge Tampa Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a new phenomenon sweeping the nation, the world and the Central Florida Area.\u00a0 It is a new faith-based positive social media website coupled with a worldwide Christian Talent Search called Crazy Praise Live<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Crazy Praise Live.com<\/em><\/strong> is the brainchild of former Tampa resident and successful African American businessman, David Michaels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Michaels<\/strong>, now an Orlando resident had long since built for himself a very lucrative swimming pool company.<\/p>\n

His chain of sign stores had created and manufactured signage countrywide creating a very comfortable living for himself and his family.
\nMichaels was approached and propositioned somewhere around February 2006 in regards to becoming an investor in a small nationwide Gospel talent search and tour.
\nHaving never been the type to scoff at a challenge or fear venturing into new arenas, he accepted the proposition.\u00a0 Since he was raised in the church, Gospel music was a genre that was not unfamiliar to him.<\/p>\n

He became involved in the tour operations.<\/p>\n

While traveling with the tour, Michaels<\/strong> noticed something that troubled him.\u00a0 Being such an astute businessman, Michaels<\/strong> stated, \u201cI noticed that most of the Christian artists involved were skilled in their crafts, but were lacking the necessary business skills to become successful in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fueled by a desire to help artists achieve a greater degree of success in their music ministries, he began to mentor artists young and old and launched crazypraiselive.com<\/em><\/strong>.
\nThe website became a mechanism for local artists to connect with artists all over the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn exchange for an artist\u2019s social media, they have an opportunity to gain international exposure, increase their networkability and fan base through crazypraiselive.com\u201d, states Michaels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the social media structure of the website which is complete with forums to discuss trending religious and secular topics; chat rooms and business directories; vocalists, musicians, dancers, comedians, choirs, groups, mimes and spoken word artists can enter the weekly Worldwide Christian Talent Search and for a small yearly registration fee; Christian ministers\/entertainers can register to win $2,500.00 by uploading performance videos.<\/p>\n

Weekly winners will have a chance to compete in the Grand Finale.\u00a0 Over $100,000 in cash prizes will be given away at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival<\/em> in Eatonville, Florida in January 2013, which is now sponsored by Crazy Praise Live due to its overwhelming success at the January 2012 festival. $50,000 in cash and a brand new Toyota truck will be awarded to the Grand Prize winner.<\/p>\n

Crazy Praise Live is currently being introduced nationwide in over 500 churches.\u00a0 A large part of Michaels\u2019<\/strong> vision is being able to empower organizations and individuals from all walks of life by giving them tools to acquire financial gains.<\/p>\n

Tampa\u2019s next Crazy Praise Live sponsored event will be held at Abundant Life Ministries, 4701 E. Hanna Ave., on September 22, 2012 at 6 p. m.\u00a0 They will be celebrating the First Anniversary of the church where Reverend Randy Randolph<\/strong> is the Pastor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new phenomenon sweeping the nation, the world and the Central Florida Area.\u00a0 It is a new faith-based positive social media website coupled with a worldwide Christian Talent Search called Crazy Praise Live. Crazy Praise Live.com is the brainchild of former Tampa resident and successful African American businessman, David Michaels. Michaels, now an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}