On Sunday I played Djembe for Andy Park who came to Aberdeen Vineyard after being involved with the Compassionart writers retreat. Andy was a nice guy, at church he spoke about the link between justice and worship in amos and how the outworking of worship always has to be justice, and at lunch he spoke about song writing, worship and his church plant in Vancouver.
Chris Tomlin didn’t make it after getting ill apparently, but there were plenty writers about, Martin Smith wrote a 4 day blog detailing the retreat here
Part of the press release copied below - click here for the full release
Songs To Be Forever Donated To Help the Poorest of the Poor
Unprecedented Retreat Features, Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Darlene Zschech, Matt and Beth Redman, Tim Hughes, Paul Baloche, Israel Houghton, Graham Kendrick, Andy Park, Stu Garrard and Martin Smith from Delirious?
(Littlehampton, England) December 3, 2007 – Compassionart is hosting internationally recognized songwriters Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Darlene Zschech, Matt and Beth Redman, Tim Hughes, Paul Baloche, Israel Houghton, Graham Kendrick, Andy Park, Martin Smith and Stu Garrard (Delirious?), at a gathering in Perthshire, Scotland Jan. 7 – 11. 2008. The songwriters’ unprecedented goal is to collectively write 10-12 songs that will be given to the world not just to sing but to raise money for the relief of suffering around the planet. Together these songwriters account for at least 42 million albums sold, 82 No. 1 songs, nine GRAMMY Awards, 110 Dove Awards, two Stellar Awards, two American Music Awards, and 98 current CCLI Top 500 songs sung by millions in churches around the world. Now, for the first time ever, the songwriters offer their time and talents with one voice to make a stand.
One hundred percent of the proceeds derived from the songs written at the Compassionart retreat will go directly to charity. One half of the monies will go to the songwriters’ charity of choice, and the other 50% will go to a charitable project agreed upon by all the songwriters involved.
Find out more at http://compassionart.co.uk/
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1 End of Week round up | Byrnesys Blabberings // Mar 21, 2008 at 12:07 pm
[...] as he doesn’t care who gets the credit.” Andy Park was in Aberdeen right after this retreat and I blogged about it when he was up here. I’ve often wondered whether this is a useful element in how the Vineyard have released [...]
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