02 People Who Walk in Darkness
Here's a little something we commissioned for a project that isn't out yet.
"The People Who Walked in Darkness" by Wayne Culling. Enjoy.
Just move the "i" one notch back and your trials turn to trails.
Before we can make any difference for the kids around the world, we must first make a difference in the world around the kids.
You gotta open the kid before you open the book.
So we've got this Bible Song project going, see, and we wanted to find at least one scripture from every book in the Bible that one could learn - something that both represented the overall message of the book and had a catchy hook for the chorus so it stuck in the minds and hearts and ears and arts of the people preaching/teaching on it and could be repeated every night in every home as the week's theme scripture.
We chose "The Day of the Lord is against all nations. What you have done, it shall be done to you." (In other words, if you dish it out, it's coming right back at you, kiddo!") I wrote the song and gave it to the Killer Hayseeds to arrange/interpret. And it came out with this smoking Charlie Daniel's style dueling fiddle and guitar! Good on ya, Todd Ernster and Darrin Essery.
I'm off to Mount Carmel Bible Camp tomorrow to test our first Cross+Gen FAITH5 camp. If you'd like to get your local/regional camp trained in how to do one of these things for the summer of 2015, have the director contact me personally at rich@faithink.com. We'll be inviting a dozen camps to be test sties, and training their directors Sept 25-28 at a yurt on 400 acres my buddy Arlen Nordhagen bought on a mountainside near Howard, CO. The Rainbow Trail cuts through the top 80 acres, West Creek rolls right down the mountainside, and there's a hole in the middle of the mountain we're calling "Grandma's Eye." You can see the sun rise through it if you get up early enough.
Here's a little lyric I wrote and handed to the brilliant Jon Anderson for a tune. He came up the the tune in about 7 minutes.
We're on the F week and "Forgive" is our theme at the preschool incubators project in Chennai, India.
All the 3-4-5 year olds will know this song by Friday.