CD RELEASE PARTY A HIT!

O Lord, thank you. Thank you for this day and for all the blessings of the release party! To see friends from days gone by: Lyndy & Diane, Phil & Meredith, Paul & Terry, Meg Corrigan – not to mention a whole bunch of new friends through the Progressive Baptist Church choir and the Head Start families!

What a night! Thanks to the great staff at Dunn Brothers for hosting our event and for your top notch service (even though we went a tad past closing!). Your understanding and hospitality is much appreciated!

Thanks to my brothers, Rod & Dale, and for Robbie Seagraves & Kendall Johnson for pulling together the band on short notice to back us up for the night! How cool is it to get the Stiles boys up there making music together? You’d better believe Mom & Dad were smiling down on us – right there with every beat. For my wife, Sandy, and her whole side of the family showing up! Bless you everyone of yous!

For Glenn Berg Moberg, Sam Butler, Pat Rygg, Anna Fehring, and Jorie Mallinger jumping in for a couple songs along the way. That’s the power of this project: the many talented and dedicated people who said ‘yes’ to being a part of it!

And just when I thought it couldn’t get any better – when I was about to wrap things up with one more song – in walks Pippi Ardennia (whose GPS left her in a mess getting there). “I think we got time for a couple more songs,” I said. (ya think?)

As always, this has been an effort to help families in need. The bonus is that we get to do something we love doing in the process – singing uplifting music for the soul. Along with sales last Sunday in church, we raised over a thousand dollars ($1020) through CD sales to be donated to families in need and the Building Bridges tutoring program. Plus, $140 was raised to defray the production costs of the project. Thanks to Lynea Geinert for staffing the CD table and to Jim Denham who took pictures. (By the way, if you have any photos you’d like to share, email them to me at johnstiles@holycrosslc.org.) Below are some pics Jim Ostrander sent. Thanks Jim!

Again, THANK YOU, for being a part of the project and for helping to make a difference. And thank God for the gift of music that inspires us to fuller living. Now take that hope and go tell the world!

Blessings,
John