Musicianaries

So a friend of mine invited me to lunch. When we sat down, he asked me why I came to Kona. I told him I was working on music for a year. He said God told him to talk to me.

He presented me with an enormous opportunity.

He asked me to help him pioneer a community of songwriting missionaries. (Musicianaries?)

The premise is that we would move 10 or so musicians, producers, and songwriters into a house off campus and build a recording studio. We then would all commit to live in this house for one year, doing nothing but practicing, writing, recording, producing, performing, promoting, worshipping, interceding, outreaching, and living in community.

The goal is to write amazing music written out of intercession for the world. Not in a Switchfoot sense (they are a Chrisitian Band with secular fans...) but rather as authentic, real indy musicians operating in the secular sphere, writing pop/rock/indy/electronic/whatever music to bring awareness to spiritual and social issues, shining a light for the nations and attempting to bring transformation to music industry and western society as a whole.

We would be full time missionaries with music as our mission field.

Here is an idea of how this would work. We live in community. We pray together, worship together, and make intercession together. As a community, we come together to intercede. We pray about a problem, and ask God to tell us what he thinks about it in intercession, and how to bring change. We then go and write music on what we hear from God: Totally prophetic pop music. It's a new concept.

Except that is has been done before in a sense, during the renaissance. From the renaissance came some of the greatest music ever composed. The church came together behind composers and supported them. The composers were free to write music for God, and write they did. Their music brought spiritual awakening, and the church saw millions of people added to it. Modern music as we know it is a result of this time in history.

We want to revive this model for modern spiritual transformation.

We would also be working with the producer of a documentary film about human sex trafficking in America called "Sex & Money." The producer will be living in the house with us working on editing, and they want us tow write music intercessory music about human trafficking they can use in the film, and then w man end up touring with their group later as they start a campaign to raise awareness.

The main focus of our group is Justice. We want to write prophetic songs about injustice and human trafficking and real problems, and raise awareness to make an impact on the general culture.

I told my friend I would pray about the opportunity. I asked God to give me peace about it if it was where he had called me. For 3 straight days I had people coming from everywhere telling me God told them to tell me to have peace.

I asked more than a dozen people to pray for me and hear what God said. I got lots of confirmation.

After talking about it with the leaders of my current school, and contemplating it for several weeks, I have made a decision to move forward with this project. I will be coming back to Kauai for several weeks starting April 1st (as my friend who is leading this project is teaching ex Al Qaeda members how to worship Yahweh in Nigeria for the next few weeks... a crazy story I'll blog about tomorrow)

We had a meeting with about 8 of us. Our group is full of amazing singer, songwriters, and musicians. As we sat and talked, we got to the topic of words spoken over our lives. We realized that all of us had many of the same words spoken over us, and God had called all of us to come to YWAM and work on music.

So as I come back to Kauai, I will be working to create a network and support base for this project. Following the Renaissance pattern we will be seeking support from the church (the people and the organization) and I will be looking for people who are willing to donate for the upfront costs.

So what can you do right now? Please cover us in prayer. This is an exciting opportunity to create a model we can duplicate among different nations and areas. Brad (my friend) is currently in one of the most dangerous places on earth, he needs prayer for safety. I need prayer for wisdom and prayer for fresh creativity. We all need prayer for resources and funds. We are currently putting together a media packet and filming a trailer for the project, which will be up by the end of april. We need recording equipment, help with designing a website, and as many industry connections as we can build. We plan on moving into the house on July 1st, and there is ALOT to do.

Thank you everyone, and thanks for your support and faith in me.

Alden