SPARK IN THE DARK’S 1st MUSICIANARY JOURNEY
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WHAT A LONG, BLESSED TRIP IT’S BEEN!
Two and a half weeks, nine states, and nearly 3,500 miles later, we’ve recently completed what we call our “1st Musicianary Journey”. It was a journey of faith, discovery, spiritual warfare, and great friends and fellowship. The story really started in May of this year. We were invited to go to Nashville, TN to be a part of a movement called “The Objective”. Briefly, The Objective, founded by Ted Bruun, is a movement among musicians, dancers, actors, and other performing artists to have a spiritual impact on culture. It seeks, among other things, to encourage and raise up artists of integrity. We were blessed to be invited, so we went to Nashville in early May. It was at The Objective when we first heard the term “musicianary”. It would take far too long to share everything that we learned and experienced there. We need to note, though, that while there we met some amazing and godly people who have had a real impact on our lives and music. One of whom is Geno Gramm, who became, and still is, our mentor. We’ll speak more of him in an upcoming installment. The other was Glen Clark and the Family. While at The Objective, we had a glorious opportunity to do some street music and ministry with Glen Clark, a man who has a real heart for reaching out to the poor and homeless wherever he finds them. During this time, Glen asked us to be a part of a festival called the “Harvest Gathering Festival” that he puts on in Asheville, NC each year in October. We told him we’d pray about it, and after we did we told him we believed it was something we were supposed to do. The Objective meeting in Nashville ended, time passed, and we kept in touch with Glen and the Family.
While preparing to go to Asheville, we tried to set-up a number of other gigs to help pay for the trip, the most promising of which was in Atlanta, GA. We applied to play at a concert series called “Music @ Noon” in the heart of Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park. However, after a few phone calls, it looked like the gig in Atlanta wasn’t going to happen. We don’t worry about things like that, so we just moved on with our lives and work. As the time drew near to go to Asheville for the Harvest Gathering Festival, we came up with a list of (about 45) practical things we needed to do before we could leave. We knew with work we could get them done in about 5 days, so that was the time we budgeted. We would be leaving on a Tuesday to give us plenty of time to be in Asheville on a Thursday night…then we got an email from Atlanta on Friday saying we could have the gig on Tuesday if we wanted it. We said yes, we wanted it, and this now left 2 days to do our list of 45 things. Suffice it to say that we got all 45 things done, and on 3 hours sleep we left Corpus Christi on Monday afternoon, drove 17 1/2 hours straight, and made it to Atlanta in time to play the gig. We were very well received, invited to play “Music @ Noon” again the next season, and drove 3 1/2 hours to Asheville. In Asheville we found our hotel, unpacked a few things, and collapsed in our bed!
Spark in the Dark 