BRIEFLY WORKSHOPS TO BE HELD BY HEAD START.PALMDALE - Palmdale School District's Head Start state preschool program will hold a ``Kindergarten Transition'' meeting for parents from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Pueblo Learning Center, 37212 47th Street East, at Avenue S. There will be seven workshops, including ``Easing Anxiety About Starting Kindergarten,'' ``Computer Basics'' and ``Keeping Your Kindergartener kin·der·gart·ner also kin·der·gar·ten·er n. 1. A child who attends kindergarten. 2. A teacher in a kindergarten. Healthy.'' The first session begins at 8 a.m. The afternoon session starts at noon. No baby-sitting will be available. For more information, call the Head Start office at (661) 273-4710. - Daily News Christian parody band to perform PALMDALE - A Christian parody band described as a mix of Weird Al Yankovic and Billy Graham Noun 1. Billy Graham - United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918) Graham, William Franklin Graham performs Friday at a Palmdale church. Spoofing (1) Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system. See e-mail spoofing. (2) Creating fake responses or signals in order to keep a session active and prevent timeouts. songs from Elvis to Eminem with lyrics from Genesis to Revelation, ApologetiX will be performing in concert on 7:30 p.m. Friday at Horizon Community Church, 1850 E. Ave. R in Palmdale. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Youth pastors A youth pastor, or Christian youth minister, is a pastor who is trained specifically to work with youth. Most youth pastors serve young people between twelve and eighteen years old. or leaders get a free ticket when they bring 10 or more youths. Specializing in biblical spoofs of rock hits, ApologetiX is known as the Weird Al Yankovic of Christian music Christian music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding the Christian life, as well as (in terms of contemporary music) to give a Christian alternative to main stream secular music. , organizers said. The band performs all over North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , including major Christian festivals, and has also been featured on programs as diverse as ``The 700 Club,'' the Howard Stern radio show, Billy Graham's ``Decision Today'' and ``The Dr. Demento Show.'' ``Look Yourself,'' the first single from the band's eighth CD, is a parody of rapper Eminem's Grammy-winning ``Lose Yourself,'' from the movie ``8 Mile.'' As Eminem's original is loosely an account of his own rise as a rapper, so ApologetiX lead singer and lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist J. Jackson says his parody is largely autobiographical: one man's salvation experience and the obstacles he encounters as he attempts to share his newfound faith with family and friends. ``Just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't true,'' Jackson said. ``Our main mission is to teach Christians and reach non-Christians with our Biblical parodies.'' Tickets can be purchased through www.ccauthority.com. For information, call Steve Stucky at (661) 213-4424. - Daily News |
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