In November 2006, we released our first CD, an independent Christmas project, in our three county region. When our dad ordered 2500 copies, we thought he was crazy. We sent the CD to a few local radio stations, but we didn't expect it to get played so we forgot about it. We had no plan for marketing or promoting the CDs, and our mom was afraid that the boxes filled with them would never leave our basement. Our dad set them up as furniture only further fueling Mom’s fears.

About a week after sending the CDs to the local Christian radio stations, we got a call at about 7:00 am from Pete Hamel, the morning DJ and station manager at Fortress 1230—the station was actually playing our CD, and people were calling in to the station to find out who we were and how to buy the CD. The station couldn't tell them anything, however, because our website (the only contact information on the CD) was still under construction. We had never envisioned anyone going to our website so we hadn’t pushed to get the website done before the CD release!

Since that time we’ve been blessed to do spots with Lisa Landis at WJTL and Ross Willard at 720 the Rock and to be featured on the EWTN Radio Network. We’ve played in seven states and the District of Columbia and sold CDs in England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, and Slovakia (though not enough to interest anyone in sponsoring our international tour!). We do hold sales records at four stores in the United States for seasonal and independent projects, and one store has sold over 130 of our CDs. The West Shore Borders in Camp Hill sold 28 of them in two hours last Christmas.

When you consider that we never really expected that anyone we didn’t know would ever hear our music, you get a sense, not only of God’s sense of humor, but also of how really, really blessed we feel we have been already. For example, God has been incredibly good to us with our first CD in spite of our best efforts to mess up. Fortunately the love of God is like that.

We have no idea where God wants to lead us musically or otherwise. He takes us one step at a time, and sometimes we struggle with that. But we also are really thankful for where we are: God has invited us as a band to make music a big part of our lives and lets each of us in the band play our music with people who know who we really are but see us and love us as God does (which is, of course, better than we deserve!). God has also led us to great audiences who have graciously responded to what we have to share. We trust that whatever God has planned for us will be better than anything we could imagine (and between the three of us we have some pretty vivid imaginations!), and we appreciate the prayers of those people God places in our path.