Friday, March 11, 2005

Awesome night last night! Possibly the best starting night we've ever had. The Bennett House in Franklin is a famous studio rich in history and tradition. It is really cool to be out there. Our engineers, Chris and Josh, are wonderful. The atmosphere is really conducive for worship and we left feeling much LESS stressed after our first night than normal. Thank you for your prayers!!

Last night we recorded In Christ Alone and Hope of the Nations. Both went really well. Tonight we'll try to knock out a couple of more. Peter gets in this afternoon. I'm looking forward to having him here. Jeff Krinks sang with us last night in his place and did a FANTASTIC job. (Jeff was with us in Fresno for those of you who were there)

Again today I am thankful for community. Last night Lauren Gingles and Kyle Rigsby watched the girls. Both of them are in our Life Group and are loved by all the Thomas family. Tonight Amanda Brooks McKinney and Geoff Vickers are watching them. Ella has a big Geoff crush like Maddie has on Peter. When I told her this morning that Geoff was coming over tonight she smiled and turned beet red. It's so cute! My mom and Aunt Kiki will watch them tomorrow all day while we record. What would we do without community?

Our yearly trip to Pepperdine in Malibu is coming. Believe it or not, it's not far away. We're already making plans. We have several ZOE folks who can't make it so I am bringing some new faces. We always look forward to that trip. Hopefully, we'll see some of you out there.

Please continue to pray for us tonight and tomorrow as we continue recording. We will take a break for a couple of weeks and then resume April 1st.

One last question for Owen Burgess and other drama savvy folks out there--does anyone know of any scripts dealing with Easter from a perspective of Death and Life being the main characters? I have this idea of telling the Easter story from the perspective of those main characters. Death thinking of himself as the main character and then adding the plot twist showing Life to be the real hero of the story. Ring any bells? We're trying to write something along those lines here, but I thought if it already existed I'd save myself the time and brain cells. Anyone? Bueler?

5 comments:

Generous Kitchen said...

Brandon,
I too am thankful for community...and not just local. We are blessed with relationships spanning the world because of God. Look how you (and others)have taken care of one of our California Elders while he's in Nashville. What a blessing to know and love each other because of Jesus Christ!

Thurman8er said...

Sandra beat me to it, but only because my blog-link was down. We thank you so much for looking after Lee and Co. for us. It means a lot. It's incredible to know that your friends and family are far away but will be treated just as if they were home.

We are in prayer for all of you as you prepare the next CD and conference. It's powerful when we don't just talk about being Jesus to the world, but when we actually ARE.

Katherine said...

Hey bro!

Continued prayers for all of you as you pour out your hearts to God in worship and allow us to experience it!! Wish I could hear it live! ;-)

Have fun and God bless~

Owen B. said...

Brandon -- Sorry, I'm not aware of anything like that but it sounded cool to me. So check your email, bro.

BTW, would Jeff Berryman know of something like this?

Owen

Anonymous said...

How about including a ZOE version of We Want To See Jesus Lifted High