Welcome to Praisestock 2025
August 17, 2025 | Celebrating our 20th anniversary

An annual outdoor live Christian music festival highlighting outreach in the community.

Community Worship Service

2024 Praisestock results for the donations show:
Food For The Hungry: $1389.29

We’re gearing up for the August 17, 2025 event now. If you’d like to help, contact one of the organizers or message us through Facebook or email sycamoredave@gmail.com

Praisestock Celebrates 20 Years with Local Praise Bands

MOUNT VERNON- Area residents are invited to join as one community to praise God and share His message as Praisestock returns to Ariel-Foundation Park’s Schnormeier Event Center on Sunday, August 17, 2025. The park is located at 10 Pittsburgh Ave., just south of downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Praisestock 2025 marks the 20^th anniversary of Praisestock which started initially as an event at Owl Creek Baptist Church near Utica and held on the church lawn. With the vision of “What would it look like if all God’s people came together to worship Him?”, the community support grew, and the praise and worship eventually moved to the larger venue of the Schnormeier Event Center.

The Praisestock collaboration is directed by a volunteer board of directors representing seven sponsoring churches, Covenant Church, Trinity Worship Center, Set Free, Owl Creek Baptist Church, Faith Lutheran Church, Salvation Army of Mount Vernon, Apostolic Christian Church and others working together to offer the Greater Knox County community a day of worship, service and gratitude. This cooperation helps the community by demonstrating our common bond in Jesus Christ, supporting Food for the Hungry, and giving a place and time to interact with our many essential Christian service ministries. Praisestock is an annual homecoming where gatherers celebrate similarities and common goals and learn how others are fulfilling their mission to serve our Lord. Food for the Hungry is a beneficiary, fulfilling the Praisestock motto stating, “Together we can feed the soul and feed the person.”

On Sunday August 17, the event begins at 10 a.m. with a Community Worship Service. A growing list of churches have committed to holding their traditional Sunday service together at Praisestock and invite those of all denominations, or those without a home church. A love offering taken during the service will be donated to Food for the Hungry for its 2025 food drive. Contributions will also be accepted to support the ongoing ministry of Praisestock.

From noon to 6:00PM, bands and worship teams will continue the worship event. This family-friendly event will include children’s activities, offer food from local vendors, and feature more activities and opportunities to learn about Praisestock, sponsoring churches, Food for the Hungry and some of the programs receiving funding. The line-up of bands and worship teams that will be at Praisestock is still underway, but some of the best praise and worship teams in Knox County and the surrounding areas are expected.

Volunteers are still needed for several areas for the events. The next planning session to coordinate the event will be at 6:30pm at Covenant Christian Church, 13360 New Delaware Road in Mount Vernon on the following dates: July 8 and August 12. You may also visit with Board members of Praisestock at the Mount Vernon First Friday events in July and August.

Praisestock, through its fiscal agent, Covenant Christian Church, is a 501c3 organization, and accepts tax-deductible contributions that enable Praisestock to continue the mission of praising God and supporting those in need. Visit www.praisestock.org for more information and be certain to follow on Facebook @praisestock. Churches and individuals wanting to participate should contact Dave Ewart at 740-627-7440 or Ben Staats at 740-501-5480.

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2025 Lineup

The 2025 line-up is being developed.

10:00am: Welcome and Community Worship Service (led by Worship Team), Love Offering, Communion
11:30am: Break
12:00pm: TBA Worship Team
12:45pm: TBA Worship Team
1:45pm: TBA Worship Team
2:45pm: Chestnut Ridge
3:45pm: TBA Worship Team
4:45pm: TBA Worship Team
5:45pm: Joint Song (All) to close event.
6:00pm: Closing Comments

Between performances, various Christian-based organizations in the community will be featured in an interview-style format.

Times are tentative and subject to change. Event will proceed rain or shine (but pray for “shine”)

Food vendors will be at Praisestock. To be determined

Exhibitors representing faith-based organizations throughout Knox County and Central Ohio are invited to discuss their mission and successes, and answer questions. Many will have special treats or activities for the kids too! (Yes, kids are welcome!)

Exhibitors:

We greatly appreciated your help last year with children’s activities at your tables and hope you will be able to do so again this year. Overall, it was a success in the fact that more parents and children visited your tables and gave a greater sense of what our faith-based community has to offer. Your help last year was phenomenal, and we look forward to seeing you there this year.

As part of our marketing campaign we will highlight your organizations when we have received confirmation that you will be joining us August 18th.

Please confirm your attendance with an email to myself (beth.staats@gmail.com) for table reservation & interview schedule.
Also email James McLaughlin for marketing/promotion of your entity with our marketing promos (jamesmclaughlinohio@gmail.com). Email James your logo, what your organization does/helps ( a couple paragraphs), website & contact information.
Also, we would relish any assist that you can offer to Praisestock in our planning phases and other areas; such as The Welcome Table, Children’s AM corner and set up/tear down. We start at 6am with the set -up, and many hands make light work.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments please contact us. We are always looking for volunteers and ideas to improve upon Praisestock for a day of praising our Lord as a strong community.

Kids Corner

Praisestock offers fun for the whole family!

*** Plans for the 2025 Childrens Worship are still tentative. we welcome a leader who will coordinate this area of the program ***

We have several of our Christian Ministry Exhibitors that have brought items for the parents and children to explore together…highlights include a bounce house, face painting, balloons, coloring books/crayons,
variety of outdoor games – including Connect 4, corn hole, ring toss, treats, etc. as well as snacks and treats
We have approximately 25-30 Christian ministries from our local area displaying highlights of their programs and many will have some form of fun or treats for the kiddos. Please take the time to visit with your children and interact with them; and perhaps learn a bit more about these wonderful local ministries.
Praisestock is organized by a group of volunteers. There are many areas in which to plug in and be a part of this day of Worship to our Lord and Savior! If you or your church group would like to chair the Children’s Corner next year or other areas of Praisestock please contact Dave Ewart Executive Chairman at sycamoredave@gmail.com or our Facebook
page.

VOLUNTEER

VENUE

Ariel-Foundation Park
Located in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the park is a stunning 250-acre example of adaptive reuse, created on the former site of a glass-making factory.