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[camel lips]

11 hours ago, JimF-LowBari said:

The last thread on Spirits FB page has almost 500 posts and his posts are at various places. Not really possible and I really don’t want to look at them again.

Is there a link I can follow? I am not sure which FB page you speaking of. And and where along the dialog you are talking about. IF you can provide me a link I can probably take it from there. 

Thanks

 

[camel lips]

8 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:

Based on many of his posts anywhere the last few years it was evident he was troubled. Sad it came to pass as it did and no matter what he said or did, let’s be above it here and not make this a bash fest. He did have a family.

 

trust me I had my fair share of issues with him that included lawyers calling him telling him to stop. My thoughts on him could long and heavily edited if I said what I truly thought. But I try not to speak Ill of the dead hoping the same would be done for me. 
 

except for Fawber. He knows me too well and I’ve been teasing him about his height since I was 9. He’s earned the right to trash me 🙂

Its funny you mention lawyers. I now remember the straw that broke the Camels Lips Back  that made me put the block on him.

It seems I was still involved with MCL and recruiting and he was either trying to get a Drum and Bugle corps established in Chattanooga or had one in the past and was trying to resurrect it and I just asked him a question that set him off . I think it was something along the lines of I had never heard of that group and can't find any information out about it. Well he proceeds to engage me in a most hostile manner and basically stalks me for days//maybe weeks on end on Social Media digging back into my background and then starts threatening to call a attorney and sue me. When I said something along the lines thats gonna be expensive on you because I have done nothing to you to leap to the level of a attorney or court he got even madder. So I just broke off the courtship right then and there. I guess he had had his fun with me and quit trying to stalk me. I never heard from him after that. 

[JimF-LowBari]

51 minutes ago, camel lips said:

Is there a link I can follow? I am not sure which FB page you speaking of. And and where along the dialog you are talking about. IF you can provide me a link I can probably take it from there. 

Thanks

 

Can’t link with the phone but on fb it’s the “Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps” page.  It’s open so anyone can look or post. It’s the most recent posting (1/18) with 476 replies. It’s when the corps announced they were talking 2022 off to clean house so contents from various people are nasty. And very few comments were pruned out with doesn’t help the corps imo

 

Edited March 10, 2022 by JimF-LowBari

[keystone3ply]

1 hour ago, camel lips said:

Is there a link I can follow? I am not sure which FB page you speaking of. And and where along the dialog you are talking about. IF you can provide me a link I can probably take it from there. 

Thanks

 

Comments are under the first "pinned" post which was an SOA statement:  

https://www.facebook.com/SpiritofAtlanta

[keystone3ply]

20 hours ago, rlrr said:

Licensed? By whom?

That would be "The Lord Thy God".    (sorry) 😇

He made so many enemies with his statements & posts over the years.  Really a sad situation.  I found his official "counseling center" page.  There's a post from Nov that he was closing his private practice at the end of 2020 due to his disability.  Based on his past comments, I'm not sure he should be counseling anyone.  Truly a sad situation.   

https://www.facebook.com/Brookwoodconsultingandcounselingcenter

And then there's the high note trumpet ministry page:

https://www.facebook.com/drmichaelschmidttrumpet    

Edited March 11, 2022 by keystone3ply
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[Jeff Ream]

12 hours ago, rlrr said:

Georgia doesn't require a license for pastoral counseling (at least according to Howdy). 

well his truthfulness was never accurate so who knows

[Jeff Ream]

9 hours ago, keystone3ply said:

Here's his sister's full text.  (Posting since she stated it would be published in their local paper.)

It is with great sadness and a very heavy heart that I let you know that my beloved older brother Mike passed away on Monday of this week. Our family is heartbroken to say the least, and he will be greatly missed by all of us. The only comfort we have is in knowing he is no longer in physical pain from his years of suffering with Muscular Dystrophy and other health issues - but most importantly we have peace because we know he knew Jesus as his Lord and Savior and we will see him again when Jesus calls us home. His wishes were not to have a funeral and he wanted to be cremated, so we have decided to have a private celebration of life with just his immediate family. Below is a tribute to him written by my brother Stan and me that will be published in our local paper in an upcoming issue. It was by far the hardest thing we have ever written, and we pray these words will honor him and his life. Mikey, you will always be in our hearts.

A private Celebration of Life service for Dr. Michael Edwin Schmidt, 58, of Lawrenceville, will be held for the immediate family with Senior Pastor Don Drawdy officiating. Mike was called away to his heavenly home to be with Jesus on Monday, March 7, 2022.

Born July 7, 1963, in Lincoln, Nebraska, he was the grandson of the late paternal grandparents Adolf and Hertha Schmidt and the late maternal grandparents Stanley Louis and Annabelle Marie Mason, and the son of the late Adolf Edwin Schmidt and Beverly Ann Mason Smith and bonus father Hoke C. Smith of Clarkesville, Georgia.

 

Mike graduated from Snellville Georgia’s Brookwood High School its inaugural year in 1982, after three years at Parkview High in Lilburn. When not performing amazing tricks on a skateboard or buried in a book, Mike found joy in music, first mastering the trumpet, then an entire array of instruments. If it was brass, he could play it! Mike marched in Chattahoochee Sound Association, Spirit of Atlanta and North Star Drum and Bugle Corps after graduation. His musical talents included roles as a horn soloist for the Liberty University Marching Band, a trumpet soloist for Thomas Road Baptist Church, and performances in churches, nursing homes, and community events all across the country. He released music albums The Lord’s Horns (2002), Exquisite (2002), Spirit (2007), Redemption (2011), and Complete (2011), and was featured on Cabin Creek Gospel Volume 17 by Cabin Creek Records.

Mike had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Proving no subject was off limits and no goal was unobtainable, he held multiple degrees in higher education including Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Organizational Leadership - Behavioral Health from Grand Canyon University, Master of Divinity from Liberty University, Master of Arts and Religion from Liberty University, Master of Religious Education from Liberty University, Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University School of Divinity, Doctor of Biblical Education and Master of Biblical Education from Gwinnett - Hall Baptist Theological Seminary, Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) from Florida Bible College where he was a Dean's List Student for Multiple Semesters and he earned a Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) from Point University.

Not a man to rest on his laurels, Mike spent his career devoted to working in ministries to serve the Lord in spreading the gospel and helping the people he was entrusted to counsel. He worked for just under 10 years as a Pastoral Counselor at Brookwood Counseling Center specializing in incarceration, substance abuse, PTSD, and intellectual handicap disabilities. He worked for over 41 years as a Pastoral Counselor and Professional Trumpet Soloist at Trumpet of the Lord Ministries, a ministry that Mike founded. He also served 4 years as a Corporal for the Georgia Department of Corrections and held the position as Pulpit Supply Preacher for Florida Bible College and Point University.

 

Mike was passionate about serving his community. He was a beloved basketball coach for special needs kids and was an avid supporter of The Muscular Dystrophy Association. Mike designed and grew fabulous gardens, specializing in his beloved roses. Mike loved to spend time with his family, especially his grandson Nathan. No one was better at keeping in touch; Mike maintained active relationships with even the most distant family and kept his friends close, most of whom he’d known since childhood. Mike loved a good debate; he knew the Star Wars universe better than most of the people who produced it. He never met a pinball machine he couldn’t whip, and never passed up a ride on a roller coaster. An enthusiastic teacher, counselor, and musician, he was known for his quick wit, his infectious laugh, and his desire to help. Mike always loved being the loudest and highest pitched horn player. As Mike always said, “Mikey Schmidt plays notes so high on a trumpet that alien spy missions on the government are disrupted." We just know that God was preparing him for the heavenly orchestra.

Survivors include his wife Patricia J. Schmidt, daughter Emily Ann Schmidt and son in law Carlos Ruiz, grandson Ian Nathaniel Ruiz, mother Beverly Ann (Schmidt) Smith, bonus father Hoke C. Smith, sister Deborah Schmidt Taylor and brother in law James Taylor, brother Stanley Adolf Schmidt, bonus sister Holly Tullis, bonus brother Andy H. Smith and sister in law Lea, mother in law Carol Ann Ruddick, sister in law Victoria Werner, brother in law James Ruddick and his wife Janet, brother in law Douglas Ruddick, sister in law Tina Spilde and her husband Hans, sister in law Kendra Miller and her husband Shane, aunt Sandra Pelletier, aunt Donna Mason and uncle Paul Rosetter, aunt Sandra Grasruck, cousin Peter Grasruck, cousin Chris Grasruck, and numerous nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and second cousins.

 

Per his wish, he will be cremated. In lieu of flowers, please submit a donation in Michael's name to either:

The Gideons International, P. O. Box 1855 Clarkesville, GA 30523 or to The Muscular Dystrophy Association, WEB PO Box 97075 Washington, DC 20090-7075

 

i schooled him on Star Wars often.

[Weaklefthand4ever]

On 3/10/2022 at 5:20 PM, camel lips said:

Its funny you mention lawyers. I now remember the straw that broke the Camels Lips Back  that made me put the block on him.

It seems I was still involved with MCL and recruiting and he was either trying to get a Drum and Bugle corps established in Chattanooga or had one in the past and was trying to resurrect it and I just asked him a question that set him off . I think it was something along the lines of I had never heard of that group and can't find any information out about it. Well he proceeds to engage me in a most hostile manner and basically stalks me for days//maybe weeks on end on Social Media digging back into my background and then starts threatening to call a attorney and sue me. When I said something along the lines thats gonna be expensive on you because I have done nothing to you to leap to the level of a attorney or court he got even madder. So I just broke off the courtship right then and there. I guess he had had his fun with me and quit trying to stalk me. I never heard from him after that. 

That would have been Scenic City Drum and Bugle Corps if I am not mistaken. Chattanooga has a bit of history with corps because of proximity to Spirit and Southwind. Most of my band directors, private instructors and caption heads came from Spirit. Plus the tie in with SCGC (Jim Gladson, Perry Vandergriff, Joel Denton I think were all involved in it or it's many later iterations.) 

[JimF-LowBari]

1 hour ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:

That would have been Scenic City Drum and Bugle Corps if I am not mistaken. Chattanooga has a bit of history with corps because of proximity to Spirit and Southwind. Most of my band directors, private instructors and caption heads came from Spirit. Plus the tie in with SCGC (Jim Gladson, Perry Vandergriff, Joel Denton I think were all involved in it or it's many later iterations.) 

Something about TN corps. Became aware of him when he was RAMD bashing on a TN mini corps that came in last at DCA Mini corps competition. I made a comment of “coming in last beats not competing at all” and we were off to the races. 
Later found out the corps and him had issues and he was banned from working with them. 

[Weaklefthand4ever]

4 minutes ago, JimF-LowBari said:

Something about TN corps. Became aware of him when he was RAMD bashing on a TN mini corps that came in last at DCA Mini corps competition. I made a comment of “coming in last beats not competing at all” and we were off to the races. 
Later found out the corps and him had issues and he was banned from working with them. 

The only mini-corps that I can think of in recent times would have been Music City Legend (MCL.) SUCH fun cats to hang with. Maybe not as fun as Renegades...but you just can't put a price on crazy.