Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Open Air

We got last minute permission to play an open air concert in Prague. We love to praise in the high places! Located at the Prague Castle and overlooking the city of Prague, the Worshiplanet band set up.  Carrie & Manu will had the time off since there was no electricity. 

A big thanks to Klara, the bands violinist and long time friend of the Tedders, for getting the permit. 


Saturday, September 18, 2010

Worshiptogether.com

Hey everyone!

Worshiptogether.com has included a never released version of "Be Still" on their site. Please hit the front page, hit the song Be Still, download the song and make a comment. :)

Thank you!


Practice, Practice, Practice

Before the RESTORE tour - Mark, Carrie, & Mike got in their first live practice with a full band. While our tour bass player, vocalist, violinist, and poet were missing, local friends stepped forward to fill in the gap. Don McCaleb, a bassist from Colorado Springs, and Kristin Wood a local worship leader, made our sound complete. On May 14th, this same Colorado based band will hosed a home concert which included the new pieces of spoken worship and all of Mark's original songs. 

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Worshiplanet

RESTORE is a special project inspired and funded by Worshiplanet, Inc. It took a small army of generous donors to make this CD/DVD happen.To learn more about the purpose and focus of Worsiplanet, check them out at www.worshiplanet.com  or find them on Facebook. 


Other projects by Worshiplanet include The Door, the first-ever live worship event recorded in mainland China.  Learn more at http://www.thedoorchina.blogspot.com/

Monday, September 13, 2010

Pre-release Party!

In preparation for next week's RESTORE CD/DVD launch, the American based team met up for a pre-release party last night.

Camera man Jim, Percussionist Mike, Front of House Soundman Josh, Bus Driver and Powerpoint Perry all met up at Mark & Carrie Tedder's house. They all watched the RESTORE DVD together and enjoyed a steaming bowl of spicy chili!

Excited to see what God does with this Worshiplanet project!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Integrity

The link below is exciting info Integrity Europe put out about the upcoming October release of Restore!

Monday, September 6, 2010

Spoken Worship

One of the coolest things about the RESTORE project is the inclusion of Spoken Worship. UK poet and our friend of more than 20 years, Gerard Kelly, has written new material for RESTORE.  We are so excited to see how the Holy Spirit will use the marriage of music & the spoken word.

Here's a bit more info on Gerard.

Author BiographyBorn in the City of Bath in South West England, Gerard Kelly has lived in the UK, Ireland, Canada, France and the Netherlands. He is today the co-leader with his wife Chrissie of a missional community and training centre in Normandy.

Gerard has worked for over 20 years in Christian mission to contemporary European cultures, and is the author of 10 books published in the UK, USA, Finland, Germany and France. He is the founder of 'twitturgies', an innovative prayer stream on twitter.com. His poetry has been featured on BBC Radio and Television and is featured in the Lion Book of Christian Poetry and the Young Oxford Book of Christmas Verse. In 2009 Gerard contributed live poetry to 'The Door' - the first ever live worship event to be recorded on CD and DVD from Beijing, China.

Gerard's blog can be found at www.gerardkelly.tumblr.com and he contributes to www.blessent.eu and www.liveforothers.eu

Current Projects:
The first twitturgies collection will be published in book form in 2009
'A Prismatic Church" - reframing mission for the 21st Century will follow

Family:
Gerard is married to Chrissie and has four children - Joseph, Aaron, Anna and Jake
Charities/Causes:
Gerard is a trustee of the Bless Network and of the Lacey Theatre Company in the UK, and a member of the Schuman Council in the Netherlands

Thursday, September 2, 2010

RESTORE in the Jungle!

RESTORE will hit the international church community of Chiang Mai this weekend! The Tedders are in northern Thailand for 5 days of ministry and worship leadership training. And of course, where the Tedders go, RESTORE follows!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Special Guest in Lincoln

We had a special guest for the UK concert date on Friday, May 21st.

Guitarist and Lincoln native, Martin Clark, played acoustic on the RESTORE CD/DVD. We worshiped alongside Martin at Woodmen Valley Chapel when he visited Colorado Springs last year.  It was a great delight to have him accompany us for the UK portion of the tour. Thanks Martin!