"The First Lady of the Jesus Movement" Singer/Musician Nancy Honeytree

[@marialamb6781]

I love her, her voice, her songs, her testimony. I was a teenager during the "JESUS MOVEMENT" I became a born again Christian at the age of 4, 61 yrs ago.

[@GladysBrierley]

I met Nancy Honeytree when she "opened for me" in Jackson State Prison in the late 70's at a Prison Fellowship conference. What a privilege to share the same stage with such a wonderful woman of God, we were honored to have her there and I was humbled by her presence. Thank you Nancy for a life well lived for JESUS>

[@Caledoniarose]

Evie and Honeytree were the first 2 Christian Music albums I ever bought. Love both these pioneers of Jesus Music. Wonderful to see her!

[@genevawilkerson4245]

Oh my goodness!! I forgot about Evie!!

[@jerrycollison3929]

Pioneer!!!! Thanks, Nancy, you’ve been such a blessing to sooo many of us.

[@wrshpr4lf]

You are amazing! I was a huge fan in the 70's! Now to find you in 2022. Wow!!

[@larrytate6532]

Rattle Me, Shake Me. My first introduction into Jesus Music back in the mid 70’s. I find as much of the older music as I can and down load it from ITunes. The music still rings as true now as it did then. Thank you Nancy for feeding a new Christian the word in song all those years ago. Blessings to you.

[@ministrytheark]

I had an opportunity to be in concert with Nancy in the mid seventies in a concert along with our group and The Imperials. She basically stole the stage that evening she was amazing. It was just she and two other guitarists. I will never forget that evening. Hope to see you someday again I am in Florida currently with my family.

[@discipleinlight]

Bless you Honeytree. Heard you first in 1976. "Pioneer" one of the best songs ever.

[@everyman1955]

I sponsored a Christian concert with her in 1976. I had to borrow a $1,000 from my bank to cover her fee and rent the Osseo Junior High auditorium. We presold tickets for $3.50 at Christian bookstores and U of M bookstores (I was a student there). Presales were fairly poor but the night of the concert there was a massive group that bought at the door. We had a little over 900 people at the concert. It was a benefit for the Christian coffeehouse, The Lord's Barn (An actual converted cow barn) in Osseo. The funds more than covered the debt the barn had at the time. After that weekend, I went to my bank and paid back the loan and they charged me only $10.00 for the week I had their $1,000.00. It was a fun experience but I never put on another concert after that night.

[@keythdanielsen8316]

Great story. Thank you for sharing.

[@gregqqbugyi4759]

Thank you Honeytree. I saw you at the Gateway church in Philadelphia in the early 1970’s & at the Creation Festival sponsored by Harry Thomas’s Come Alice Ministries. You music has always stayed in my mind & heart. I saw a video on You Tube called First Love with you & many other ‘Jesus People’ musicians. It great to re-unite & see all the faithful musicians that have blessed us.

[@janisboyer]

Sweet Nancy Honeytree...what a blessing to me and millions of other people you are. Jesus bless you my precious sister.

[@margiestaneff568]

So wonderful to see you after all these years!! I grew up in Christ, listening to you. Thank you Nancy....god bless you...

[@stevenfolk9321]

Haven't seen Honeytree for many, many years. Loved seeing this video of a friend from a happy time at Calvary Temple.

[@Faxxer248]

Her music shaped MANY bands that would come out in the next 20 years.... My parents still sing her songs in 2016

[@khgblast203]

..and the song that stands out for me from that performance is "Go To Church"

[@paulhellwig8120]

I have the Evie album with Clean before my Lord I stand. And a whole stack of early Jesus music. Thank you so much for blessing the world with your music God Bless

[@ianfrancis777]

A shining voice that rings like a crystal bell...from back in the day when CCM was not so commercialized.

[@joneshugh]

AMEN!! RAWNESS in serving the LORD

[@southerndigest8996]

I remember her song “Rattle Me and Shake Me”. I had her album with that song on it, and thought it was so much fun!

[@nancylohe986]

My Nancy Honey your story is so incredible it blesses me so much 🙌 ❤ "Iam going to believe that you are upto something good even when I don't understand anything what is happening" in my life "-Nancy Honey Tree I too want to be like you compose songs sing songs and connecting and touching many lives !

[@lw216316]

her voice is so clear and bell like - reminds me of John Denver in that way.

[@paulheadley1737]

Thank you thank you for this testimony!!! I’m weeping as I’m listening!

[@DaleLittrell127]

What a blessing to see this video of Honwytree. Met Honeytree at Gary McSpadden's church in Ft Worth, Tx. (Haltom City) in 1974. Also in Ft Wayne while was on a youth group singing with Gary McSpadden an C.C & Company. Still have the LP Evergreen in perfect condition. What a great influence you have been in my life. Truly Blessed !

[@johnschuler5888]

I met her at El Calvario Bible College in Mexico1991-1992, I was very excited about small groups and shared my excitement about them to her. Actually trying to get her as excited about them as I was. The Lord has brought that excitement back to me, with the idea of splitting them. People are more likely to come to your home than a church

[@milliesmith5068]

So glad to see Honeytree, and hear her testimony, lve been playing her album my favorite Maratha Marathon.

[@pamelastetor8803]

Such a wonderful video, thank you Honeytree🌹

[@khgblast203]

Saw her perform in Harare, Zimbabwe in the early 80's. I was impressed.

[@cathyriel4271]

Saw her when I was in the army at pioneer chapel in Hanau Germany....1976-1977....era...

[@markpettigrew3482]

Nancy came from Fort Wayne, Indiana. That was also where the E Band came from. The E Band, in turn, spawned Greg Volz, whose high voice with the band Petra enabled them to compete with bands like Journey, musically if not spiritually. Clean Before My Lord, by the way, was a very nice Bossa Nova tune by Honeytree.

[@shellymcgrew4412]

I loved her in Jesus movement.

[@99loving]

Wonderful to see & hear this. Bless you Nancy!

[@mariceladelval7886]

Yo voy a creer, hermoso canto.Yo lo canto es muy bonito y el mensaje que lleva de Fe y Esperanza es real.Gracias Nancy por tu vida y ministerio.Dios te bendiga grandemente hoy y siempre. 🌻

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

She really changed my life!

[@lavonnebaker4136]

Loved the interview discussing the difficulties of fame and learning to be strategic in the work of the Lord.

[@aliceb.toklas3585]

I saw you in concert in Chicago when you were starting out. I bought Honeytree, Honeytree. I wore the album out!

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

I started writing music around 13 years old. My first song is Set your heart Free

[@luigig53]

I used to listen to "Honey tree" soon after my own conversion. I love her music!

[@jillybean3529]

Esther Hall Gordon My mother got one of her eight tracks in the 1970s after she first came to the Lord. 😄 I grew up hearing her music because of that.. I must’ve been seven or eight when Mom was playing it. I only rediscovered some of the songs I forgot when I was watching a documentary about “Jesus music”. Mom recently gave me her auto harp so I have been learning some of them on it.

[@GaveMeGrace1]

Thank you-the Lord recently re-awake my inner poet-songwriter and desire to play guitar for his glory. That was my first dream, albeit now it’s for his glory, not the worldly things I wanted then. Shalom!

[@gloriacook3638]

Hi Nancy! I enjoyed all the free concerts back in the 70s at Huntington college near Ft. Wayne GB Gene.

[@777thsledge]

Nancy met in late 70's what a joy to see and reflect on our journey's. Psa 40:3

[@lizrdld]

Great interview and wonderful minister of the Gospel!H

[@psalm37v4]

She is a great artist and deserves more attention than she gets. :) Also, trying to find accompaniment tracks to her songs can be a challenge...I love her music and would love to sing more of it :)

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

Because of the folk singing back then I was inspired by the folk singers.

[@steveb4787]

We saw her more than once at Wheeling high school near Chicago. Hope we can find her today.

[@RichardJohnson-bb3ro]

Back in the days with phil keaggy and keith green. Awesome stuff

[@kinyaets]

she is just as pretty now as she was as a teenager!

[@dianeeagy4309]

I went to JR and Nancy wedding! Did not realize the year that was 1990! Wow time flies!

[@harpin4God]

Still have her eponymous album

[@paulo1149]

Wonderful interview.

[@JewandGreek]

Good interview. I always thought "Honeytree" was a native American name.

[@CALCARLOS007]

interesting..i never heard of this lady in all my years since i received the Lord in March 15, 1968..but again there were so many new artists poping up in those days

[@VinnyWarrior1]

Honeytree,you are go way back for I ahve followed your minsistry since evergreen and had meet you in person backin 1976 at the treemount temple in Boston MA and had seen you at the Jesus festival in 1978 and 1979,are you still doing concerts? I ams till ejoying your songs as I play them on my epi classicle.I hope to see you out this way some day at eather the Mill Cafe' in Millbury MA,or Cafe' Condios in Auburn MA.Your Brothr in Jesus Vinny

[@236lbsnomore]

One of the best female vocalist

[@DancingOceanStarfish]

i saw her in 1988 with my wife she performed at our church then.

[@lauraleeblaise9164]

I saw this lady in 1977

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

Gods message to me!

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

I totally understand Honey tree

[@chellej4547]

I don't know if Honeytree will read this, but I remember her from was when I was a kid and she was Marmalade at Camp Conestoga! Does that date us? ;)

[@markpettigrew3482]

Thank goodness, Nancy did not listen to that doctor regarding abortion. Dying at the of just a couple of hours was tragic for her baby, but there was no blood on her hands.

[@oldman9843]

That wasn't tragic for the baby , he went straight from his Mom's arms into Jesus ' arms . It was tragic and painful for Nancy but God took the situation , the pain and blessed her with a son anyway . God is wonderful .

[@markpettigrew3482]

keyman keys Well, I'm guessing that Nancy saw it as a tragedy for HERSELF. No one rational ever wants a child to die that young.

[@cosmocosmoton]

Dope!

[@bilbobaggins5815]

Moira is so precious.🤣

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

What was the name of her song something like Treasures?

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

I have met her before!

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

My second song is My Child don't you Worry

[@CSUnger]

In my opinion, the worst thing the "hippies" brought into the Church back in the Jesus Movement was this emphasis on singing songs as opposed to understanding Scripture and the deep things of God. The thing we were "rebelling against", if it can be called that, was the formulaic structure that had taken over the established churches, rendering them incapable of addressing the real-life questions that the young were asking at the time. The so-called "hippies", unlike young people today, were at least asking questions and thinking about the bigger questions of life and the Church, in its insistence on rigid adherence to tradition, was incapable of addressing their concerns. The "Jesus Movement" was as successful as it was largely because of its ability to do so from a deeper Scriptural understanding which it has since abandoned in favor of the emotional appeal of elevating "praise and worship" to a level of importance that the New Testament does not. They transformed what could have been a thinking church, which it should be, to a feeling church and rendered it even more incapable of meeting today's alienated young people's needs. Those attending such things as Asbury College and popularizing The Chosen series are largely those who already believe. The disaffected and alienated young people today who are being morally devastated by the nihilistic culture we now have are largely unaffected and unimpressed by these things.

[@lauraleeblaise5029]

I'm Lauralee Blaise! They call me the Sonshine Girl ! I'm Lauralee from Tennessee and I am a real hillbillie!

[@RichardJohnson-bb3ro]

Oh and randy stonehill.

[@jesuschristdestroysmarxism3916]

I'm not saying she can't be a born-again believer that's definitely possible and God knows our heart but the Bible is also very clear that you are not supposed to have a woman Pastor over a congregation they can be teachers they can be leaders in a classes and teachers among other women but they are not to hold any position that's over a full congregation that includes both men and women children and people that's that's prohibited because that's out of order with what God says and no that's that's the way it is that God still holds to that God has an order and God will definitely punish them for this

[@donmcc6573]

She isn't a pastor. She is a singer.

[@johnclarence8067]

I was a teenager during the Jesus Movement and got caught up in the emotion just as my friends did. But it wasn't until I matured in Christ that I realized how Scripturally unsound a lot of the CCM artists were. The fact that Honeytree was ordained in spite of Paul's teaching shows that adherence to the Word of God was not her primary concern.

[@donmcc6573]

Can't have Christians out there loving each other and spreading the gospel without a seminary degree.....

[@clyndi3246]

God doesn't care, as long as unsaved hear His Word. Let Him judge! It is not your job, only God's.

[@lucillekoussan6588]

Is this for real????

[@pnutbutrncrackers]

Why would you ask this?

[@linjicakonikon7666]

Ugh