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

November 1, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Praisestock wraps up 2024, plans for 2025

MOUNT VERNON- An estimated 600 area residents attended Praisestock 2024 at Ariel-Foundation Park’s Schnormeier Event Center on Sunday, August 20, 2023. The day was dedicated to joining together to praise God and carry His message into the community, while also raising $1389.29 for Food for the Hungry of Knox County.

Praisestock 2024 featured a morning worship service led by Hospice Chaplain Dave Matos, and the afternoon included worship teams from First Church of the Nazarene, Set Free Ministries, Salvation Army, Covenant Christian Church, Trinity Worship Center and the band Chestnut Ridge. The day concluded with an emotional joint performance of all teams and bands joining voices with “How Great Thou Art, Until That Day”.

Over 20 exhibitors were on-site sharing their mission and Christian ministry, and provided stories, information to the Praisestock attendees.

Financial and logistical support for the day was provided by sponsoring churches Covenant Christian Church, Owl Creek Baptist Church, Trinity Worship Center, Faith Lutheran Church, Set Free Ministries and Salvation Army. Additional support was provided by the food vendors, WNZR, Mount Vernon Arts Consortium, and Ariel-Foundation Park.

Praisestock Director Dave Ewart announced Praisestock 2025 will return on Sunday August 17, 2025 to the Schnormeier Event Center Ariel Foundation Park. The first planning meeting for the 2025 event will be on January 14, 2025 at 6:30pm at Covenant Christan Church.

Praisestock is directed by a volunteer board of directors in partnership with several local churches and ministries working together to offer our community a day of worship, service and gratitude. Praisestock also provides financial support for Food For the Hungry, and gives a place and time to interact with many essential Christian service ministries.

Praisestock is a 501c3 organization. Your tax-deductible contributions enable us to continue our mission of praising God and supporting those in need. Visit www.praisestock.org for more information and 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.

Praisestock begins at 10 a.m. with a Community Worship Service. A love offering taken during the service will be donated to Food For The Hungry for its annual 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.

2024 Lineup

The 2025 line-up is being developed.

10:00am: Welcome and Community Worship Service (led by First Church of the Nazarene Worship Team), Love Offering, Communion
11:30am: Break
12:00pm: First Church of the Nazarene (Mount Vernon) Worship Team
12:45pm: Set Free Worship Team
1:45pm: Salvation Army Worship Team
2:45pm: Chestnut Ridge
3:45pm: Covenant Christian Church Worship Team
4:45pm: Trinity Church Worship Team
5:45pm: Joint Song (All) to close event. “How Great Thou Art (Until That Day)”
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.