It was the night before one of the most monumental nights of my life up to this point, and I was feeling the pressure. We had just arrived in the Dominican Republic, and I was scheduled to be the main speaker for a small inner city evangelistic festival in the town of La Vega the following night. And tonight, like so many times the week before, my dad was helping me prepare for the upcoming...
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“It might be that some people only remember the elephants.” My daughter Kailah sniffed and looked up at me. She smiled and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. “I know, Dad, its true…” she lifted her head, leaving a wet mark on my shoulder where her eyes had been, “Do you think we should even post the pictures if that’s all our friends will remember?” “Of COURSE we should still post...
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Introducing LIFELINE! If I can’t come home ‘till I find a solution ‘Cause I’m tugging on a loose end I’ll be waiting a lifetime looking for a lifeline That will never reach from You to me… After months of soul-searching and hard work we’re so excited to announce the release of LIFELINE, the first single from our upcoming CD – you can listen on SPOTIFY, (please follow us if you haven’t...
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I dropped my head forward until my chin nearly touched my chest, and then lifted it backwards until I was almost staring directly up at the sky, feeling the stretch in my neck. I shrugged my shoulders forward and back several times, trying to dislodge the deep weariness that seemed to have settled in my bones. Jet-lag had won our nightly battle early this morning, forcing me wide awake at 3:30...
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Photos by John Andrus “Okay… so I just talked to the festival organizer…” our young translator shifted uncomfortably but kept his eyes fixed on me, “and it looks like the schedule is set and you guys won’t be playing tonight.” He glanced quickly out at the massive crowd – event organizers had closed off one of the main roads in the Dominican city of La Vega and many thousands of people had...
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