Unfailing Love Live DVD

Hi dear friends. 

Hoping that August is finding you well and not too cold (if you are in the Southern Hemisphere :) ).

It has been a busy little season for us with the opportunity to holiday in Indonesia to visit Daniel’s family. We were able to play at a few events there which was a lot of fun. We were able to replicate some DVD’s there and sell a bunch which was fantastic. It was a great joy and privilege to be able to minister even just a little over there. We also just had lots of fun with Jude’s first visit to a Safari Park amongst many other things. Daniel also had the chance to stay on an extra week and join our church mission team working with Compassion in Bandung to video the trip (and do a bit of rough translation on the side :) ). This was a great work to be involved in, and great to be revisiting some of our mission roots.

We landed back just in time to launch the new DVD with our church community. It was a wonderful night - There are some pics below. 

So the great new is the DVD is done! We are so extremely wrapped with how it has come together. Here it the title song for you to have a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPXAWuz_E8

If you like the clip - we would love you to  ‘like’ it or share it with your friends on Facebook or Twitter. We would love to get a bit of a groundswell of interest in it.

We haven’t had the chance to put it on the website for sale yet, so if you would like a copy they are $15. Just reply to this email and we will work out a way to get it to you! 

Blessings from us

Daniel and Jess.

Live DVD Launch

Hi dear friends. 

It is with great excitement that we announce the release of our live DVD. In April we were blessed to be able to record 3 songs live with some close friends to help us sing along. We will be launching the release of the DVD on JULY 27th at One Community Church. We can't wait for the opportunity to celebrate the release with our church family. If you are in or around Melbourne we would love you come along, or just be there in spirit :). We will be releasing some clips on YouTube so stay tuned:

https://www.youtube.com/user/insideoutlife. 

We will let you know details of how to purchase the DVD once it is released, but come along if you can. We would LOVE to see you there.

Jess n Dan

Sunday 27th July  6pm

One Community Church

184 Surrey Rd Blackburn VIC

Hi Dear friends!

We pray that this beautiful season finds you well.

Firstly - A big THANKYOU again to those who voted for our song 'Novum' in the Praise Charts song competition. We didn't manage to win, but we were extremely happy with making the Top 12. Here is a link to the song where you can download it if you haven't had a chance to yet:

http://www.praisecharts.com/detail/arrangement/24744

Things keep rolling along here for us with a few little projects in the wings. The next one is coming up quickly. Next week in fact! We have decided to do something different for the recording of our next song 'Unfailing Love'. We are going to record and video it live in our church foyer. We still need some friends to come and help us sing, so if you are in Melbourne and are free thursday night - here are the details.

Unfailing Love Live Recording
Thursday 24th April 7.30pm
One Community Church

Here is a link to the song also so you will know it ahead of time :). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWbLQZhSrOQ

Easter Reflection

I (Jess) realise that we often end up writing at this time of year. I love the depth, the emotion and the significance for us as Christians. It causes one to stop and reflect, and amazingly this year I had a chance to do this at our staff retreat last week. This was what emerged for me and I thought it might be nice to share it if you have a bit of time to stop and reflect yourself.

Jesus. 

Age 33. 

So full of vision, passion, destiny. 

3 years of intense and exciting ministry. 

A sky rocketing following - healing, miracles, wonders.. 

Led only by a glimpse of the Father's dream, to see His kingdom come on earth. 

Everything was escalating. It seemed that surely there was more… even greater things on the horizon. 

What was God going to do next? A great outpouring? A move of His hand? The greatest work of healing yet?

The disciples would have been hanging out for it! Hanging off His every word. What was God going to do next? 

The anticipation would have been palpable. Such a heady time for them all. 

And then.

Something completely unexpected.

A betrayal and an arrest.

Beating... whipping... flogging.

An accusation... a trial, and a verdict.

Another beating... whipping... flogging. 

A long journey with a wooden cross.

A hammer and a nail.

A gut wrenching cry.

Jesus.

Age 33.

Dead.

All their hopes and dreams, dashed, shattered.

All his hopes and dreams, seemingly forsaken.

A darkness beyond all others.

Who would have thought?

Who could have foreseen this coming?

It didn't end the way they expected... the way everyone expected…except perhaps Him.

Can you imagine the heartbreak... the disillusionment.?

Who was this man they had put all their hope in? What in heaven or earth had the last 3 years been about? 

A complete waste of time? Another madman messiah who had led them astray? 

And what about this dream.. this bogus dream that they had invested everything in?

Shattered...a complete waste of time...

And yet why?

Why was there still this glimmer of hope hidden underneath the layers of grief? 

A glimmer of hope that just would not go away... would not be silenced.

Why?

A night... a day... another night

The tomb… empty… the stone… rolled away!

Angel… encounter…

Miracle

A hope, new hope! 

The dream… revived

A new thing.

The start of a completely New Thing.

Let us hang onto that hope this Easter! 

Hope to see some of you next Thursday!

Daniel, Jess and Jude

Praise Charts Christian Song Competition

So.. wow it is now 2014 - Jude is nearly 15months old and we are starting to feel slightly normal again (whatever that means).

2013 has been a really interesting year. One of extremes: Joy, wonder, beauty and at times complete frustration and perplexity as we undertook the parenting journey. Nothing is more character building than the refining fire of a screaming baby lol!! And yet in the midst of it all there is this amazing miracle! The miracle of new life, a completely clean slate, and the wonder of watching this little person start to figure out what this new world is all about.

In terms of our music, It has also been a really interesting year. One of waiting, hoping, often losing hope, longing and creating. We had the great privilege of finishing our song 'Novum' to introduce to our church community as we embarked on a new season as a church. We hoped and believed for new things, and as a little family we hoped and believed and still hope and believe for God's new things.

There were moments for me - If I am honest (Jess), though, were I really wanted to give up hope. To give up on the dreams that God had placed on our hearts. There were times of great discouragement. But God did not let us give up. He placed great friends in our lives to keep spurring us on and speaking words of life and encouragement just at the right time.

Towards the end of the year in November, we were alerted to a song competition through Praise Charts, which is a great online resource for churches across the world. We decided to enter 'Novum'. To our surprise we received an email in January saying that we had made Top 25! Which was very exciting. Hard to believe as we had entered other competitions like this before, but to no avail. We were then encouraged to invite our friends and supporters to vote for the song in order to make top 10. Which we did (as you amy have been a part of ) over the last few weeks. AND - we made Top 10! We are so delighted. The Top 10 became Top 12 as there were so many strong entries.

The competition continues and we invite you to stay with us on the journey. The winner will be decided over the next month and your 'likes' on Facebook and google and your 'tweets' all still contribute to this. But seriously we are very excited about the exposure just being in the Top 12 will give us. A CD is being complied of the top 12 songs which will be made available and we will posting a song story video so stay tuned for all of that. Here is a link to the competition:

www.praisecharts.com/csc-top12. 

So for those that helped in the journey so far - THANKYOU. We are feeling a sense that God is perhaps starting to move us towards his new things and we are excited for what this year will bring.

'In him we live and move and have our being ' Acts 1:28

Daniel and Jess