CRC may refer to:

Companies[link]

• China Record Corporation, a large record company, based in Beijing
• China Resources Cement, a cement company parented by China Resources
• CRC Press, publisher, originally the Chemical Rubber Company
• CRC Industries, a worldwide manufacturer of specialist industrial chemicals, including CRC 5-56 penetrating oil

Computing[link]

• Class-Responsibility-Collaboration card, used as a brainstorming tool in the design of object-oriented software
• Cross Racing Championship Extreme 2005, a car-racing game developed by Invictus Games
• Cyclic redundancy check, a type of hash function used to produce a checksum in order to detect errors in data storage or transmission

Organizations[link]

• California Rehabilitation Center, a state prison in the USA
• Cambridge Regional College, a further education college
• Canada Research Chair
• Capital Research Center
• Central Rabbinical Congress, a Haredi group
• Chicago Rabbinical Council
• Christian Reformed Church (disambiguation)
• Civilian Response Corps, deployable American federal civilian employees who provide reconstruction and stabilization assistance
• Commission for Rural Communities, a UK public body
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Communications Research Centre Canada, an agency of Industry Canada
• Cooperative Research Centre, a type of hybrid academic/industry research body existing in Australia
• CRC Churches International, a Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination located primarily in Australasia
• Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) in NATO countries
• Crowley's Ridge College, a Christian college in Paragould, Arkansas
• Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center, the Rec center at Georgia Tech

Places[link]

• Camp Red Cloud, a US Army Camp in Uijeongbu, South Korea

Sports[link]

• Cambridge Regional College F.C., a semi-professional football club in England
• Canadian Rally Championship, a rally racing tournament
• Canadian Rugby Championship, a rugby union tournament
• Capablanca random chess, a 10x8 chess variant
• Collegiate Rugby Championship, a rugby sevens tournament

Other[link]

• Camera-ready copy—a document version that is ready to be printed without further alteration
• Christian Rosenkreuz (Christian Rose Cross), founder of the Rosicrucian Order
• Clinical research coordinator
• Costa Rican colón, ISO 4217 currency code
• Colorectal cancer
• Control and reporting center, a component of the Integrated NATO Air Defense System
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• CRC, the FIFA and IOC trigram for Costa Rica, whose ISO 3166 trigram is CRI
• CRC, the ICAO airline designator for Conair Aviation
• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, a UK wide scheme designed to increase energy efficiency in large energy users
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a reference manual published by CRC Press
• MTR CRC-Stock EMU, a train

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Donald Andrew McClurkin, Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work.

Early life[link]

McClurkin was born Copiague, New York and raised in Amityville. When he was eight years old, his two-year-old brother was hit and killed by a speeding driver. After the loss, McClurkin found comfort in church and through an aunt who sang background vocals with gospel music musician Andraé Crouch. He began to play piano and sing with his church youth choir. He formed the McClurkin Singers by the time he was a teenager, and later formed another group, the New York Restoration Choir.^[1][2]

Ministry[link]

He was hired as an associate minister at Marvin Winans' Perfecting Church in 1989.^[3] The Winans are a well-established family of singers who dominated the contemporary gospel charts in the 80's and 90's,while experiencing cross-over appeal, and continue to be voices of influence in 2012. McClurkin served as an assistant to Pastor Marvin L. Winans for over a decade, while living in Detroit,MI.

In 1991, a sharp pain and swelling, followed by internal bleeding, led, he says, to a diagnosis of leukemia. The doctor suggested immediate treatment, but McClurkin, who was then 31, decided to take his own advice. "I tell people to believe that God will save you," he says, "[and] I had to turn around and practice the very thing that I preached."^[4]

He was ordained and sent out by Winans in 2001 to establish Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport, Long Island, where he is now Senior Pastor.^[5][6]

Music[link]

A friendship with a Warner Alliance executive resulted in his signing to the label for his 1996 self-titled LP, with producers Mark Kibble of Take 6, Cedric and Victor Caldwell plus Andraé Crouch. The disc, which featured the perennially popular "Stand," went gold shortly after being publicly lauded by Oprah Winfrey.^[7] At the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, he won in the category Traditional Soul Gospel Album, for "Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs".^[8] McClurkin is best known for his hit songs “Stand” and “We Fall Down” which were played in heavy rotation on both Gospel and Urban radio. His three solo albums have topped the Billboard charts.^[9]

Dovetailing off the success of his near double-platinum selling album,"Live in London and More" McClurkin released "Psalms,Hymns and Spiritual Songs" in 2005 and “We All Are One: Live In Detroit” in 2009 which also topped Billboard charts across various musical genres. McClurkin's love for people and desire to share gospel music,globally, is why he includes a language medley:Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Dutch in most live performances.

Radio and television[link]

Tom Versen and Tony Sisti of T&T Creative www.tandtcreative.com signed Grammy winner Donnie McClurkin to a radio syndication deal with advertising giant Dial-Global and syndicator Gary Bernstein. T&T Creative provided a mobile recording studio in Pastor Donnie's church that he can also take on the road. He is quoted as saying "As much as I love music and singing, I really love doing radio and the direct feedback I get from my listeners all over the country. I never thought I would be having this much fun doing radio and I could touch and impact so many people."[19]

In 2009 he also broadcast his own television show titled “Perfecting Your Faith” on cable television.^[10] His television appearances include Good Morning America, CBS Saturday’s Early Show, and the View. He has also been featured in movies like “The Gospel”, “The Fighting Temptations” and television shows “Girlfriends” and “The Parkers.”

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Singles:

• Stand (1996)
• Speak To My Heart (1996)
• Love Will Never Be (1996)
• We Fall Down (2000)
• Love Melodies (1998)
• We Love You, Lord (2000)
• Ooh Child (2005) with Kirk Franklin)
• The Prayer (2003)(with Yolanda Adams)
• I Call You Faithful (2005)
• That Great Day (2007) (with Tye Tribbett, Da' T.R.U.T.H.)
• Wait on the Lord (2009)

Filmography[link]

• Hopeville (2007)
• The Gospel (2005)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998) wrote and sang "I Am" & "Humanity"
• 25 Strong: The BET Silver Anniversary Special
• The Donnie McClurkin Story: From Darkness to Light (2004)
• Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem (2004)
• The Fighting Temptations (2003)

Notable television appearances:

• SuperBowl Gospel Celebration (2012)
• CNN Saturday Morning (2012)
• CNN Pierce Morgan Tonight (2012)
• BET Awards-performance (2011)
• Sunday's Best/ BET Sunday Best -Judge (2011)
• BET Sunday Best - Judge (2010)
• 25th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards-Hosted (2010)
• 24th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards-Co-Hosted (2009)
• An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2006)
• 20th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards (2005)
• 19th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards (2004)
• 18th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards Preshow (2003)
• 17th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards (2002)
• Essence Awards (2003)
• The Parkers (2002)
• Girlfriends (2001)
• 1st Annual BET Awards (2001)
• Essence Awards (2001)
• An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence (2001)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Donnie McClurkin: official site
• The Donnie McClurkin Show: radio broadcast
• Perfecting Faith Church: official site
• Exclusive Interview on BlackGospel.com (October 2008) : Interview