It's only a few weeks away...

This beginning of an end...It has been a long journey that has seemed to have suddenly speeded up within the last five months or so. The CD and autobiographical devotional will be fully brought to life within the next several weeks. It is approaching the end of a very long season of preparation, and approaching the dawn of the next.

The first song came in Feb. 2006 and my once-music-pastor, producer, arranger, and friend, Kerry Crespo started playing around with recording the originals that God blessed me with in October of that year. There were many canceled sessions and months where we did nothing. I never gave up hope, though there were times it looked with my human eyes as if the dreams and visions God had showed me, along with the numerous prophetic words spoken over me would never come to pass.

Now, we are sitting on the precipice of the CD release because GOD IS FAITHFUL and HIS WORD does NOT RETURN VOID. I only have one more vocal track to go. It actually has a dirty south beat behind it, and a rap. Most of the songs are really worship focused and jazz-infused, but there is a Southern gospel type jam at the very end and a rockin' song to start the whole thing off.

The book is still being edited. If anyone in the future finds any typos, please do not tell me. I have scoured over the 185 pages over and over and over again and can't continue to focus on that. It needs to be born. The labor pains have been just that - painful but like the scripture, the woman who gives birth forgets her anguish and is filled with joy.

The first concert approaches on 6/7/09 in Allison, PA, followed by a block party event on 6/27/09 at N. 4th and Madison (behind Hope of the Nations) and a Worship Concert in July at Hope of the Nations in Reading, PA to benefit a local missionary who is trying to get back to Liberia to do missions work (Thank you Elena for editing!).

I am so excited to see where God will take this, and it is my prayer that HE is glorified through it all...It is all for Christ's renown and I am so grateful for the opportunity to be used as a vessel.

You are welcome to join me on this journey and I pray you are blessed!