July 2002 Newsletter - Jessica Smith, Loren Sanford, Chris Surdock, Ray Watson and the Australasian Worship Music Sampler
ShareSong.org
artist Matt
Adams
of Granger
Community Church
has given ShareSong.org
a glowing rap on his church’s resource website - Wired
Churches.
Matt gives a great testimonial of how he has been blessed by
people’s responses to his songs that have been downloaded via from
the internet:
“This
is what ShareSong.org
is all about: resourcing churches with fresh worship music for no
cost. At Granger
Community Church, we are passionate about resourcing other
churches. In fact, it’s a part of our vision statement. We want to
help equip churches and church leaders to assist them in ministry. ShareSong.org
is a great resource to churches all over the world, and I am proud to
now be a part of the ShareSong vision, just like I’m proud to be a
part of GCC.”
Check
out the full story and all the great resources at the Wired
Churches Website.
Australasian
Worship Music Sampler
Chris
was chosen to be part of the project after being heard on the first ShareSong.org
Sampler CD released last year to radio stations.
Along with Chris,
the other participating artists include Parachute
Band, Sons of Korah, Claire
Hazzard, Compliments of
Gus, House2house band, Roma
Waterman, Blind, Form, Felt and Andy Sorenson and Kathy Johnson.
As well as the audio, the “Divinely Beautiful” CD also
contains .pdf files of the print music from the recording. The album
will be available from all good Christian bookstores throughout
Australia and New Zealand, or direct from Three:16 records at www.three16records.com.
Chris
has been the most downloaded artist through June and July.
Keep an eye out for her new “Everything I See” album, which
will be released on ShareSong.org
next month.
New
Music
The
number of songs in the database continues to grow steadily at an
average of 65 new songs per week.
Check out the ShareSong.org
stats for all the details.
If you haven’t checked out ShareSong.org lately you should
have a look and see what you’ve been missing out on.
A good place to start is this
month’s featured songs:
1.
Straight To Your Heart – Jessica Smith
2.
Your Word Is Life - Helen Green
3.
I Will Not Be Silent - John Green
4.
God Made Everything - John Green
5.
Be with You - Ray Watson
6.
In This Holy Place - Loren Sandford
7.
Holy One - Threshing Floor
8.
I'm Free - Joan E Wesley
9.
Hallelujah Voices Fill The Air - YS°C
10.
The River - SMF
Featured
Artists
Jessica
Smith
It’s
great to have some repeat offenders on ShareSong.org. Jessica
Smith’s “So Real” is the latest release from RPJ
Christian Arts Group. RPJ’s last project, Dennis
Burnett’s “Beyond Natural Limits”. "RPJ's last
project, "Beyond Natural Limits," had the #1 most downloaded
song for six months of ShareSong.org’s existence.
Jessica Smith’s new album raises the bar even higher for RPJ.
Most
people describe the music of singer-songwriter Jessica Smith in two
words: diverse and deep. This wide range of music comes from the
heart of a twenty-year-old woman, avoiding stylistic pigeonholes by
writing the songs that inspire her emotionally and spiritually.
Ray
Watson
Ray
Watson
has finally released his new album “Secret Place”. On this
album, Ray is confrontingly intimate with God with some serious prayer
and petition to God. You can’t just listen to this as
background music. It will take you on a journey into the Holy
Place and draw you to seek God’s face.
Loren
Sanford
Loren
Sanford
is the senior pastor of the New
Song Fellowship in Denver, in the flow of the worldwide renewal
and revival currently being poured out by the Spirit of God. NSF is
part of the Partners
in Harvest family of churches out of the Toronto Airport Christian
Fellowship. Loren writes some great worship music, as well as
writing on "life issues" – the coffee house set. The
worship is for the church and the coffee house set is designed
specifically to reach the world.
Chris
Surdock
Chris
Surdock
is the worship leader at Southcoast
Community Church in San Diego and has just released "I'm So
Excited". “I believe that as a Worship Leader, I must
stir up desire in the heart of the believer to ‘get real’ and
worship God in a more intimate way! After all He deserves it, right? I
really strive to lead worship by example. After all, I couldn't
possibly lead others into worship if I am not worshiping Him first?”
says Chris. “My desire is that the worshiper will learn to be
expressive in their worship to God. I know that worshiping God
is instrumental in preparing the heart of the worshiper to hear and
receive God's word.”
Happy
listening… until next time.
Blessing
Marty
Kendall