Free Song for the Easter Season

Fam,

Things have been going well in the ministry of Making a Melody. Our spring conference season is coming to a close. It was a joy to be a part of the Missio Alliance Conference and the Bifrost Arts Conference in the month of April. Both conferences had great content and conversations for ministry in the 21st Century. The last conference we'll be at this spring season will be the Duke Center for Reconciliaiton's Summer Institute. We're looking forward to this gathering.

The Arrabon 2 CD is on track to be released towards the end of May. We'll keep you posted!

Meanwhile, just in case you've missed it on our various social media outlets, we wanted to make sure you know that we have released a worship song for the Easter Season as free download. You can get it by clicking on the link below:

Arrabon 2 Poster

Fam, I want you to know that the Arrabon 2 Concert poster is availble, so if you want to tell friends about it, you can by sending them to the Facebook link or downloading the poster.

Arrabon 2 Concert & Other Awesome Announcements

Yes, you read it right!

We're doing another Arrabon 2 Concert:

7:30pm, Friday, March 8 @ Bon Air Baptist Church

We're in the studio working on the Arrabon 2 project and will be finished by March 8th. We will either do a digital release or a CD release depending on if we the raise support. More info to come...

URBAN SONGWRITING INTERNSHIP!

Another awesome announcement is that we are now accepting applications for the Urban Songwriting Internship. You can check it out by clicking on this link.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Feb. 23-24 | Dallas, TX | Christ the King PCA
• Mar. 21 | Chapel Hill, NC | I'll be speaking @ UNC Chapel Hill
• Mar. 22-23 | Durham, NC | Arrabon Seminar @ Durham Church
• Apr. 11-13 | Missio Alliance Conference 
• Apr. 22-24 | Bifrost Arts Conference 

Merry Christmas... Free Music... and an Advent Sing-a-Long

Merry Christmas Fam!

I'm excited to let you know that another project that I produced is officially released!

LJM's sophmore project is out and available for purchase! 

LJM will be having an Advent Sing-a-Long and a CD Release Concert 7pm, Saturday Dec. 8 @ Northminster Baptist Church, 3121 Mosside Ave. 23223.

I said "Merry Christmas" because you LJM is giving away one of their songs on their Noise Trade site. You can download their single "How Long?" (one of my favorites) for free here!

Where is David Bailey?

Hey Friends,

I have a lot to write about, but I haven’t made the time to write.  I’m hoping to make the time to write in the next few months. If you continue to read, you’ll understand why it’s been so hard to keep up with writing.

We finished the 2^nd Annual Urban Songwriting Internship. It was a great year! There were over 15 songs written this summer! We’re hoping to do a professional recording of the songs from past two years, so stay tune. 

Meanwhile, you can see a performance by one of the 2012 Interns, Chris Mazzen. There is a video on the Making a Melody Facebook Page of Chris’ group, Ekklesia singing, “He’ll Never Change” in New Orleans. This song was written in the 2012 summer internship.

Here’s a quick update about my whereabouts from now until Jan 1, 2013:

This week, I’m in Orlando, FL attending the Experience Conference. If you’re here in Orlando, please send me a line and let’s connect!

At the end of the month, I’ll be in Minneapolis, MN leading worship and presenting workshop at the CCDA National Conference, September 26-29. I’ll be leading worship in the morning and Sandra Van Opstal and Urbana Plenary Worship Team will be leading worship in the evening. I hope to see you all there!

October will be a full month.

11am, Wednesday, October 10^th, I’ll be speaking at Charleston Southern University for their chapel service. I don’t know if this is a public event or not, but if you want to sneak on campus for a college chapel service… I wonder if Jesus would mind?

October 25-27, I’ll be doing some training on multicultural worship with the Multicultural Worship Leaders Network at Bridgeway Community Church in Columbia, Maryland. This training session is going to be great because 100% of the training is being led by some of the best practitioners in the country. Make sure you make your way to Columbia, MD!

I’ll be leading worship for the Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia, Nov. 2-4. It’s a women’s get away. If you’re a woman that wants to get away for a refreshing, make sure you register. Details are on the link here.

October and November, I’ll be speaking on the High Street Hymns’ Reconciliation Tour. More details about this tour are to come, but I know for sure that we will be doing a show 7:30pm, Sunday, October 21 @ West End Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA. Here’s more info about the new High Street Hymns Record.

The last announcement for now is that I’ll be in St. Louis, MO at Urbana, December 26-Jan 1, leading worship with the group Kingdom Reflections for the International Students Track. My friends from Aradhna will also be there again doing a concert. It’s 

If you haven’t been to Urbana, it’s well worth going at least once. Period. If you know that you aren’t going to go. Please sponsor a student to go. Conferences like these change student’s lives. For some students, their faith is strengthened. For other students, they come to know Jesus. Some students get involved in missions. Other students find their spouse! (It’s been known to happen Kenny & Achali Wallace!)

If you could sponsor a student, that would be great!

Well, I hope to see you in some city. Thanks for supporting our ministry of reconciliation and music.

Blessings,

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