Lake Grove, Coeur d'Alene

We had the opportunity to sing at our sound tech Will’s parent’s church, Lake Grove Presbyterian Church, on Sunday evening (2/10). It was great to see his family there working on this special event for their church. Steve had some special guests there that night as well. One of the co-owners of the mortgage company that Steve works for came with his sister (who also works with Steve) to see what crazy group Steve is a part of when he’s not in business attire J. He sat right in front of one of the subwoofers so that Steve was able to give him the full bass experience. After the program he seemed very thrilled by it all and we had a great time joking around with him.

We got back on Thursday night (2/14) from our three-day trip to beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho for a conference of people involved in running and staffing Christian campgrounds all over the Western states. The Conference was held at the incredible Coeur d’Alene resort there, and was organized by Janet Kerns whom we know well from her organizational involvement at the Cannon Beach Conference Center. One of the speakers said he heard a youth pastor say, “We spend all year packing dynamite into the souls of the kids in our youth group and then we bring them to camp where you guys get to set them off!” We had a great time singing to these servants of God and hearing some great speaking from Pastor Ray Johnston from Bayside Church in Granite Bay, California as he spoke from his Series of messages entitled, “Winning Battles You Can’t Afford To Lose”. One session was called, “Unleashing the Power of Hope”, another was “Balancing Marriage and Ministry”, and “How did the Early Church Become So Effective”. They were all designed to refresh ministries and help restore priorities that get skewed in the midst of the battle. I think it was no coincidence that God allowed us to be in this particularly encouraging conference at the beginning of another year of ministry. We gave Pastor Ray some of our CD’s and he gave us some books that will be very encouraging to us. He gave us a book called, “The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham” by Harold Myra and Marshall Kelly that has been extremely inspirational to me just after reading the first couple of chapters.

We have been hard at work on the album and Jason has worked, at times, around the clock trying to meet the deadline that he set for the release of this album. We are very encouraged by the album that is taking shape and we hope that every bit of the love that has been put into this will be heard and felt by every listener who hears it.

As always we are happy to be God’s servants in this process and hope that many saints will be encouraged and that it can be used as a tool in bringing souls to Christ.