Our Response if you were to ask us, “What’s Up?”.

Thank you JB, Susan, and Jennie!!

I, Brett, speak for myself but i can confidently say that i’m speaking for everyone when i say that things are going amazing in our world. We feel like a band, we’re beginning to sound like a band, and we’re learning to work as a band, and we’re becoming more like  a family than anything.  I feel like we’re just stepping into the fun part too! Just as in any relationship; the closer you get the more conflict you have, but the more conflict you work through the closer you get and the deeper your relationships go. That’s kinda where we are.  With every week, weekend, or day we spend together we’re learning how to better communicate, love, and serve one another.  It’s awesome. I don’t know what i would do without these brothers the Lord has put in my life. I’m seeing that they think about the things i would never think about and vise versa, it really works out well.  On top of that, we’ve started writing together which is REALLY exciting and we’re really pumped about what’s been coming out. All of us, individually and as a band, are learning to walk fearfully and fearlessly in the calling and creativity that has been put on us.  We’re learning to not be timid when we get on stage or when we share a song idea. The Lord has given us all gifts and we should not be afraid to use them confidently and shamelessly. It sounds like pride but it’s backed with the knowledge that the ONLY reason we have these gifts is because He has given them to us and a total and complete dependency on him.  I guess to sum it up, we’re learning how to be a band, write as a band, and  walk and live in the anointing that God has graciously put on our lives.

Now for a more surface level update:

This weekend we we’re in Highlands, North Carolina, a place that we’re beginning to call our second home. We’ve formed relationships with some incredible people that have really blessed our ministry. It’s so cool being able to travel around and experience what God is doing in different places and build relationships with people that we would have otherwise never met. Really really great people at that.  This was our 2nd time in Highlands at Highlands Community Bible Church or Highlands CBC and we have gotten the privilege to stay with the Coram family both times. This family is one of the most selfless, hospitable, humble families we have ever stayed with.  And not to mention there house is UNREAL with an UNREAL view!! (See picture above) We got to spend Friday afternoon riding 4 wheelers around the mountain, writing songs while overlooking mountains, and calling it “work” at the same time. I love my job.

On Friday night we did a concert for anyone who wanted to come and it was a great night, it’s a lot of fun to have a night to ourselves to be able to just come and bless people. Lots of freedom was given to us and we really appreciated it. It was a great night.  On Saturday, though, we did a concert in Craggy Prison in Asheville, NC and it was quite interesting but very good. The whole time we were leading i was thinking, “how in the world am I, a 20 year old kid, supposed to connect with 150 men in prison????” And i thought that i did a terrible job but afterwards they came up and told us that they were so blessed by it and it was exactly what they needed. I hardly said anything the entire concert but the Lord used our music to minister to these men and it was really cool to watch.  It was a very sobering day to say the least.

From there we headed to Athens to be with friends, celebrate Van Moncrieff’s, one of our best friend’s, birthday, and then leading for the students at Athens Church on Sunday morning. That was a great time too! You know those YouTube sensations with all those crazy basketball shots, the Dude Perfect guys? They were there and we got to hear there story and hang out with them. It was really cool.

God is so good and He is working on and teaching us so much through this whole experience. We’re all in and we’re so pumped to see where he takes us no matter where it is. If you are reading this post and you were in any way involved in this past weekend, thank you so much! We appreciate everything.

-Brett