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LEVI: I have been on a bus since I was 12 days old. The road life is the only life I know. I have so many Homecoming memories! One of the greatest memories I hold dear to my heart is getting to be on stage with Jessy Dixon. I was about 4 years old and my parents started touring with the Gaithers. I loved to dress up just like Jessy. I had the fancy shoes and the coolest suit a 4 year old could find. Every night Mr. Jessy would come over to me and show me all his slick moves and let me sing with him. What a time that was! I have been privileged to build great friendships with so many of the artists’ kids. (Parker Mote, Christian Booth, Mathew and Kari Gooch, Joseph Jackson, Morgan Easter, Autumn Nelon Clark, Carlye Hopper...to name a few). While the concerts are going on, you will usually find me backstage with my friends, playing music, ball and even some video games. Many of the Homecoming kids have talents, and we
love
to share them with each other. My favorite thing to do is
play guitar! Being on the Homecoming tour all year really
makes you a tight family. We get to share birthdays and
holidays, and even vacations together—while our parents
work! I always look forward to the Christmas tour.
Some of the artists have mini Christmas trees on
their buses and lights to decorate the bus halls. My
favorite part of the day is when David Phelps sings
“O Holy Night!” I am blessed to have a great road life,
but when I am not traveling, you will find me on a
baseball field or practicing my guitar, working on
fulfilling all my dreams.
JAKOBI: I started traveling
on a bus when I was
12 days old as well. One of
my greatest memories of
being a Homecoming kid
is waking up every weekend
and playing with Joy
Randle. We would turn our backstage dressing rooms into
a castle, a soccer field or whatever room we needed it to
be that day. Many times, the dressing room became our
own private school so we could do our homework. I love to
play with many other Homecoming
kids as well (Landon and Jayna
Ritchie, Maggie Phelps, Grant and
Colby Phelps, Ashley and Emma
Crabb, Bret Smith). We all feel like
we are just cousins who see each
other in different cities. We have to
be creative with our fun because
we are on a bus, in an arena or on a
cruise ship most of the time. However,
we always find something to
do like watching movies or playing
ball! One year we were on tour in Myrtle Beach and it was
Halloween. So we all dressed up and went from bus to bus
trick or treating. I will never forget that. Sometimes if the
caravan of buses is going to follow
close together, we even have a bus
sleepover. That’s really cool! When I
am not on the road, I love to play basketball
and dance and sing. Like my
brother Levi, I hope one day to have a
music career as well.
