KGPZ Team

I grew up in Eugene and have lived in Grants Pass since 2011. I’ve worked exclusively in the radio business since high school, specializing in on-air hosting, audio production and programming. I’ve enjoyed being a part of multiple locally owned and operated stations over the years. Being able to serve the local community with some of the best music and information has been a great experience. I’ve been an avid radio listener, ever since I was old enough to flip the power switch on the radio. Starting at a very young age, it had been a dream of mine to work in this business, and to help put new radio stations on the air. I’m very thankful for the mentors I’ve had, showing me what it takes to make a station successful. I certainly love being here in the beautiful community of Grants Pass. Thank you for listening!

I started working at Calvary Chapel Grants Pass in the Summer of 2012, doing live sound (My first gig there was New Hope’s “Into the Woods” theatre show, which was hosted at Calvary! I ran sound, our Administrator Annie Burnham ran lighting), video production and IT support. 

I finished high school in 2014, and later in 2020 received both my GED and CompTIA A+ Certification.

I started working here at New Hope as an IT Technician in Fall of 2021. I’m excited to be a part of the KGPZ team and supporting Positive Country 106.7 for Christ and I’m excited for what the future of the station holds!

Cowboy Poet Butch Martin and Singer/Songwriter Christina Lynn Martin are the producers of the critically acclaimed documentary concert Romancing the West. The Nationally touring show, written by Christina, features the couple and classical rock legend Martin Gerschwitz performing the shows original music, with renown guest artists joining them in various regions including Joni Harms, and Chuck Girard of Lovesong. The show tells the story of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the people of the American West and celebrates their diverse cultures, lives and legacies. Christina began her spiritual and musical journey as a teenager during the Jesus Movement in Southern California, writing her songs, leading worship and singing in “The Calvary Chapel Worship Community.”

Christina carries on the musical legacy of her ancestors including her grandfather Irish tenor and National radio personality Ronnie Mansfield.  She journals the stories of the people of the historic places where she has lived, the majesty of the landscape of the West and her own stories of love, loss, relationships, motherhood and the importance of a foundational faith in Jesus. Christina has released eight albums including “Rhapsody” (as co-founder of pop/rock group Velvet Bleu), “Capistrano”, “Oh Oregon, “Songs of the American West”, “Romancing the West” with Pam Mark Hall, “Centerstage” featuring a duet with GRAMMY award winning Bryan Duncan, “Home on Cougar Mountain”, and “Romancing the West Legacy.” Christina is the co-founder of Purpose Media, a multi-media company through which she produced the television show “The Gold Coast” and regional guides, OrangeCounty.net and GuidetoOregon.com. She also served as a Jacksonville Commissioner and City Council person.

Butch was raised on a farm in Southern Illinois in ear shot of the steam engines heading West.  He remembers listening to “The Old Time Gospel Hour” with his family gathered around the radio before the age of television. He eventually traveled to Wyoming where he raised Morgan cow horses on his ranch, winning cutting horse championships on his horse Black Saddle Sunkist. Butch rode and worked cattle out on the Wind River Range with friends and cowboys like Darrell Winfield #1 Marlboro, which brought out his poetic side. He began writing and performing cowboy poetry and music throughout the West with his band The Rogue Valley Riders, releasing a series of albums and founding his radio show Whittler’s Corner. His life lessons and meeting Christina were the catalyst for a restored and renewed faith in his life. Butch and Christina enjoy time at their log cabin surrounded by kids and grandkids, dogs Bleu and Kimber, three cats, a mule named Bobbie McGee and horse named Sarah.

“We treasure this opportunity to work together with a great team to provide the community with powerful, anointed, and life-changing music and Bible teaching.”



Michael John and Terri Shamar Demith live in Grants Pass, Oregon. They have 5 awesome entrepreneur children, which were homeschooled, and 7 beautiful and very active grandchildren that keep them running. Terri Shamar is an Evangelist and Missionary to Pakistan, Honduras, Israel, etc. She is a First place Award-winning Christian Worship Artist, Singer/Songwriter/Musician, currently working on her 7th Cd project. She has won First place awards, and Phil Joel of the Newsboys were her judges for her Country Rock song “You are my Keeper”, and performed it at the 2003 Festival Con Dios. She has also recorded with Phil Baquie of SonicFlood, Jon Newell, and legendary Don Koch, 6-time Dove Award producer. She recorded her first hit song, “You Carried Me All the Way” in 1988. Several of her songs were in movies, and Title SoundTrack for the Christian movie “C Me Danc”. She’s been playing music since very young when her father came back from the war and set a guitar and a Magnus organ in her lap. She played by ear and could sing harmony to any song, later learning music theory and engineering in college. She put poems to music, and wrote songs for her second grade class. She played guitar on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ”Bad Moon Rising” & “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”. At 15, she led the guitar mass in the Catholic church, and played in popular Top 40 bands. She has written articles for Songwriter and Worship magazines, CCM Magazine, Newspapers, the Christian Journal, and various kinds of publications, and has done TV and Radio ads. She plays concerts, speaks and ministers for retreats, schools, Women conferences, popular coffee houses, Concerts in the Park, fundraisers, and events across the country and abroad.

Michael is not only Terri’s music manager, but works full time as CFO for Henderson’s RV Lineup, a local Christian company in Grants Pass, Oregon. He also schedules and travels to RV tradeshows across the country, speaks at seminars, and Terri travels with him when possible. Michael loves sports and was a baseball pitcher, and took business in college. Michael & Terri have also been successful business owners in Radio Communications and Co-owner of Precise Flight Aircraft Co., Landscape Construction Owner, private music and voice coach of AngelCry Studios, and Shamar Ministries. They currently serve as Church Relations for Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan’s Purse) since 2015, and support the March for Life and Pregnancy Care Center.

Michael J and Terri Shamar enjoy all outside activities such as camping, hiking, biking, gardening, pickleball, and enjoy making organic fresh ground coffee. They have a fervent love for God, and for serving their family and their Community.