Well, we've made it to the end of April and the deadline is getting closer.  There is still so much to do in order to stay on schedule.... please pray!  We've had to make some changes to the song lineup as well as arrangements to some others.  We just feel like things weren't going like they should and we are trying to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.  I mean, there are songs that I would like to put on the project but if GOD has another plan that would have a different song, then that is the obvious choice!

There are a few surprises we are working on to include on the CD and we think that you will be excited.  We do have one demo song, "O Church o God,"  that we are beginning to share with folks to give them an idea of what we are trying to do with the project.  So far we have gotten good reviews by those who have heard it.

What a ride this has been recording!  We get to a point where we think we really like where we are going with a song... the feel, sound, and style of it... and then turns out we end up redoing it!  That was exactly the case this past weekend with the song, "O Church of God."

We had started with some of the basic tracks a week before and though we like the direction of the song, when it was put all together it just didn't "work."  That, and we had some difficult with some of the tracks getting corrupted.  So we decided to make that the major piece to work on this past weekend.  Upon finishing this weekend's work, it was obvious that God had a different plan for the song!  We've ended up blending much of what we have been doing with this project on this one song.  It is heavy in parts and light in others.  There are a variety of instruments: strings, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, military snare, and more.  We are really excited about this one!

Like so many of our holder hymns, the words to this song really tell a message that is relevant today, from the first verse all the way through the end. 

The church of God one body is
  One Spirit dwells within
And all her members are redeemed
  And triumph over sin.

Divinely built, divinely ruled,
  To God she doth submit
His will her love, His truth her guide,
  Her path is glory-lit

God sets her members each in place,
  According to His will
Apostles, prophets, teachers, all,
  His purpose to fulfill

Salvation is her holy walls
  The cross her sign of pow’r
Her captain is the mighty God
  Who guards her every hour

In beauty stands, the church of God
  With righteousness arrayed
Put on thy strength and face thy foes
  With courage undismayed

Refrain:
O church of God! I love thy courts
  Thou mother of the free;
Thou blessed home of all the saved
  I dwell content in thee

We still are asking that you pray about our drum situation.  There is a glimmer of hope that the situation will be taken care of but we need your prayers.  All we need is a glimmer to go on... with God all things are possible!