My friends Russell and Elora recently returned from a trip to Nairobi with the students from Reagan High in Austin.
While on the trip one of the American students, Ni-D (Nijalon), connected with one of the Kenyan students, Daniel, while the two “battled it” out on the soccer field.
A brotherhood was formed, a song was written, recorded there in Kenya and then a video was shot in the largest slum area in the world, Kibera, Kenya, during the last few days of the trip. The video was later edited back in the States.
I love the collaboration between not only the two cultures but also everyone involved in the process.
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
He lived a life of humility, suffered undeservingly, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He conquered death on the third day and ascended into heaven where he sits at the right hand of the Father and Creator.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and an abundant everlasting life.
I believe in the priesthood of all believers, who are ordained to be bearers of this message to their sphere of influence, through their public confession and the physical act of baptism.
I believe we are invited us to join Jesus in the redemption of all creation, leading us to the day when he will return to create a new heaven and a new earth.
I believe we are called to reconcile all relationships and build greater spaces of grace through the regular invitation and celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
Tuesday night I came across a couple sweet cassette tapes while sorting through and trying to archive some of my old audio tapes.
The first one is audio from my days with Lighthouse 21 (KVTT 91.7 and KTPW 89.7) and the second was an air check tape from my KEOM 88.5 days).
What’s so special about The Lighthouse 21 tape is that it has two of my first “real” interviews — the first with John Roberts of Shaded Red and the second with Dan, Charlie and Matt of Jars of Clay.
The interviews took place Sept. 26, 1999 (aka almost 11 years ago – wow!), at an outdoor concert both bands were performing at (along with Plumb) here in the Megaplex.
Now I know there are some who could care less about these tapes — but for me, it was definitely a highlight of my time with Lighthouse 21. Sure, it wasn’t Sting or U2 — but these were fairly big names in the CCM market at the time.
And this first interview with John Roberts led to a follow-up interview with both John and Jamie of Shaded Red later on and led to me bringing them to perform at UMHB while I was in charge of the UMHB Concert Company.
So without further ado… here are my interviews…
John Roberts:
[audio:http://www.casadeblundell.com/media/johnroberts-shadedred.mp3]
