Time to Begin Raising Funds

Well I have a final price for the album that I hope to have released in Spring 2010! The album will be recorded locally at Furball Studio with an executive producer that has been featured on over 10 Hosanna/Integrity worship albums. He is an accomplished musician and worship leader and knows the music business especially in the genres of Christian music and Praise and Worship.

I will be recording with hired studio musicians so that I save time & money in the studio and have a full quality project that can be used to promote this ministry and message of The One Life Project - changing the world one life at a time! The project will be a full length album with full band instrumentation and multiple vocal tracks. It will be mastered at a studio in Nashville, TN and packaged in earth-friendly ecowallets.

A portion of the proceeds from this album will go directly to The One Life Project for the purposes of child sponsorship in South East Asia and life-saving heart surgeries in Tibet for children suffering from congenital heart disease. These projects are through the non-profit Christian organization South East Asia Prayer Center www.seapc.us.

I hope to raise a total of $8,000 in donations and album support to pay for the project and then additionally raise tour support for a South East Asia tour in the summer of 2010. On this tour I will be giving away the CDs to people in some of the poorer countries (i.e., Cambodia, parts of Thailand, etc.) and selling the album elsewhere. I have set the $8,000 goal to include the following support - $4,000 in donations and $4,000 in no-interest loans to be paid back to the investors from the sales of the first 400 CDs.

Please join me in prayer because this goal is huge to a person like me. I make an honest living but I am not well-to-do and have a young family to support in the early years of my career. But I have a dream and have waited for ten years to begin this album. I believe now more than ever that this is the time to realize this dream and make it happen. At the same time I have a call on my life to make a difference in our world through this one life that has been given to me - I want to use it to change another life and another and another...

The message of this album is all about using the gift of life that we've been given to change another life significantly. It is about both being and doing. It is about worship - a true and full definition of worship - to give glory to our Creator through the words, actions and thoughts of our lives.

Details on the fund-raising will be forthcoming. I will be collecting the funds through a PayPal account and paying the costs of the CD production directly from that account. I am sorry that I cannot offer tax-deductible donations but I am not a non-profit organization. I will be using an online fund-raising website called www.chipin.com.