First Recording!



April 22, 2010

In February of 2009 at the end of a concert in Searcy, Arkansas, the pastor said he felt led to take an offering for our kids before we dismissed. He specifically asked that we not spend the money on any kind of expense but strictly on the children. That little Church of God congregation took up $99 for the children that day and that was the beginning of their savings envelope. We made the decision to use their money on things like amusement parks, museums, zoos, etc. Giving the children each a dollar or two was something that people just started doing. It wasn't much until Bobby began getting requests for a CD of the children singing. After a few requests he decided to go ahead and let people know about what the children's goal was and if they felt led to give a dollar or more to the kids it would be set aside in a savings envelope to be used for their first recording. People began to give

more than ever and soon, after tithing and with a little help from Bobby, the kids had enough to go to the studio and record the music tracks.

Thursday morning, April 22^nd, Bobby, Landis and Hope left the house to go to the Mark Five Company in Hendersonville where
they met Jeremy Medkiff and Johnny Brown. Engineer, Rick Sandidge owns and operates his recording studio on the second floor of his home and normally, music tracks are not recorded there because of the small space. However, we had planned to keep the children's first project as simple and inexpensive as possible so Bobby played bass, Johnny was on keys and Jeremy, of course played not only guitar, but a drum machine via a keyboard.

Faith went to Mother's Day Out so knowing it was going to be only Grace and I in the house most of the day, I had big plans to prime and paint the girls' bathroom. You know, you can make plans but things don't always go the way you expect. Only 30 minutes after they'd gone, Landis called, wheezing, saying he needed his inhaler. He doesn't use an inhaler on a regular basis but it seems every April he has a flare up of asthma due to pollen (or something). Since he doesn't use it every day he didn't remember to take it with him. I had no choice but to load Grace up in the van and drive 35 minutes to Hendersonville and take Landis his puffer. Once I was there, I stayed for a little while prodding Landis on to get his school work done and admiring the music being created. Suffice it to say I didn't get much priming done, but a little, after picking Faith up from Mother's Day Out.

Grace, Faith and I went to our monthly Ministry Dinner at Cornerstone that evening and afterward swung by the studio to cheer our musicians on to the finish line. I think it was about 11:00 when we finally returned home. With the music tracks finished we had the foundation ready to build and complete the project as our schedule allowed.

I'm so thankful for what God is allowing our children to see and do at this early age. My prayer is that they will always have a heart for people and ministry.