Their latest album isn’t scheduled to release until September, but Evensong Rising is already making news.
The worship band at America’s oldest church (the 275-year old Stanwich Congregational Church in Stanwich, CT) just became partners with Bread for the World, an advocacy organization active in the fight against world hunger.
Social justice is the new fad in Christian music. Every artist has some organization or movement that they’re passionate about, and soapboxes all over the industry are filled with musicians vying for fans ears as they try to share their issue du jour.
But Bread for the World is different.
They work on a broader scale by organizing and uniting Christians to rise with one voice to influence our nation’s decision makers, urging them to end hunger at home and abroad. They were also instrumental in the Jubilee campaign for debt cancellation in developing countries.
And they don’t seek out partnerships with artists, something they told Evensong Rising’s lead vocalist Chris Sorenson when he first approached them about working together.
That’s not to say they don’t ever partner with musicians. Bread for the World was a founding partner in Bono’s ONE Campaign.
Once Chris explained that the band didn’t want anything in return, and shared their hearts for humanitarian activism, a partnership began to take form.
And it’s a perfect match.
Evensong Rising’s new album releases in September. In their work on behalf of Bread for the World, Evensong Rising will be encouraging audiences to participate in Bread for the World’s annual Offering of Letters, where church members across the country write personal letters and emails to members of Congress on issues affecting hungry and poor people.
To learn more about this partnership and The Rising tour, visit www.therisingtour.net.
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posted September 11, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’m very interest with your call of songs raising missions for social justice. It is great, I’m Pastor Charles Muga. The Lord Jesus Christ is my seviour. I have been in the work of the Lord since 1982 when I was young. The Lord has kept me well both spiritually and physically fit.
But the problem is, I want to reach many souls with the word of God that all are in vein because of the financial problem that facing the world except Africa we have problem of finance. The capacity of the living standard is very low, somebody can get a half per day and that one is too small for the human being to survive. This is why we cannot do well in the word of God because we need money for crusades, conferences, door to door ministry. In kenya the big problem that is killing the young people is HIV/ AIDs killing them before they hear the word of God. About 1million every year died because of AIDs and poverty. So pray for us so that the Lord may open the way for us to do what is necessary to our people through the word of God.
Your prayer and your support will sustain and equip the children of God and remove them from the captives.
Yours in Christ
PAstor Charles Muga.
I’m looking forward to hear from you. God bless you.