St Luke Church May 7th

Very special Thankyou to the generous and thoughtful folks at St Luke's! Janelle and i really enjoyed sharing our story and songs with you. We are overwhelmed by your hearts and prayers on our behalf. Please feel free to connect on Facebook or vie email! Blessings and Peace!

Sam and Janelle

Looking Forward to good music and Good News with our Celina, Ohio friends tomorrow 3-16-2014!

Thanks to the folks at Hoagland Community Church for the opportunity to worship with you and the kind reception to my songs and comments. May you continue to grow in your awareness of the Father's amazing love!

Sam

Finish Line

Thanks to all of you who attended the concert last Sunday night! Your support is overwhelming and very exciting! Thanks also if you've purchased a cd. I hope you enjoy the songs and are encouraged!

I'm so proud of the whole project from all of Jeremy's expertise to Mike Gerber's (Crash31) magic on the cover design. Thanks also to Derek Miles Taylor for some great Photos and Express Printing for their service on printing. Everyone's contribution has been 'top-shelf' and I'm so excited!

So here we are at a sort of finish line, release concert complete and pre-sale cd's being delivered! It's a mixture of relief and disbelief that we've come this far in only 8 months. While this is an ending it opens the doors to new things ahead; what all those are I have no clue! For now I'm ready to rest a bit and celebrate where we've been!

Thanks for your encouragement along the way,

Love to y'all

Sam

There will be childcare too!

CD (ep) Release Concert

It's a mix of nervous excitement as I look forward to the culmination of this years music efforts!

It all started with random email to Jeremy Casella about how to pick songs if I were thinking of putting together a collection of original tunes. So here we are 7 1/2 months later having dreamed, practiced, asked for support, practiced, worried, prayed, edited lyrics, rejoiced, recorded, met phil keaggy, listened, liked, asked for more support, thanked, received help, and so much more.... any way if you're still reading disc makers should have the discs back early October and we'll stuff the jackets number the pre-orders and tune and go! Its gonna be an awesome night!!! Jeremy is so hugely talented and just an awesome person!! Dave Smith will be joining with percussion and he rocks too! I'll post more details as we get closer. Email me If I'm missing some major details.

Love to you all!

Sam

Joy!!!

Yes! We're back home and were glad to sleep in our own beds last night! Friday was amazing recording at Phil's and watching him work! He's got parts on three songs and skillfully wove his signature all around while keeping the song in fine focus! It was such a joy to meet him; he is such a down to earth guy with a very generous heart. It was sweet to see his own joy as he played 'blistering' solo licks and then listened back to the track with a warm smile of appreciation for his work!

Upon arriving home last night I downloaded the rough mixes Jeremy had sent me and tears filled my eyes as I listened; the solo at the end of Who You Are captured perfectly the feel of that song and put the words of praise into music! Great job Phil! If I would summarize this project so far it would be something similar to me buying an expensive picture frame to put one of my kids crayon drawings into! I feel like my songs are a child's attempt to honor God with the gifts He's given and He's taken those efforts, valued them and placed them into a very decorative frame.

What a joy to see this project come this far! My prayer is that it will bring joy to your heart to when you get to hear it. We're still thinking it will be sometime this fall before duplication is done. Thanks for your prayers and walking this journey with me!!

Love to you all,

Sam