New Album from Jesus Culture to be Released Next Week

For their fifth album, Come Away, to be released on November 23^rd, Christian rock band Jesus Culture is doing something new for them – they are releasing the album through both physical and digital retailers.

Most of the Jesus Culture’s past sales have been via online outlets and at events for an international audience. Earlier this year, the Kingsway label began distributing their music to physical retailers in the United States in both the Christian and general markets through EMI CMG.

The album was recorded live earlier this year in Redding, California at the Jesus Culture Encounter Conference in front of a full house of passionate youth and young adults.

The music is much like that played at the newer “casual Christian” churches that are growing so successfully right now across the United States. The music itself sounds like something you might hear while shopping in a hip clothing store, or while attending a rock concert, and only if you listen closely do you hear the words singing about praise and faith.

The songs are sung by worship leaders Kim Walker-Smith and Chris Quilala. Other members of the band include Jeffrey Kunde (lead guitar), Brandon Aaronson (bass), Ian McIntosh (keys) and Josh Fisher (drums).

Jesus Culture conferences began in 1999 as a youth group worship team at Bethel Church in Redding, led by Banning Liebscher and they needed a band for the music and thus this band was born. The Jesus Culture conferences or revivals have been held both nationally and internationally to spread the word of God for young people and the band cut their first album in 2006.

“Our mandate was defined: to raise up, mobilize, equip, encourage, resource, and send these burning ones to fulfill the call of God on their lives, and see entire cities saved, campuses revolutionized, and nations discipled,” according to their website.

The title track “Come Away” is full of this encouragement for anyone who thinks maybe they’ve messed up their lives so much God won’t let him/her back into his grace:

“It’s never too late; it’s not too late

It’s not too late for you

I have a plan for you

I have a plan for you

It’s gonna be wild

It’s gonna be great

It’s gonna be full of me

Open your heart and let me in”

If you need encouragement or your kids do or you know someone who does, please check out this album when it becomes available next week.  For more information check out www.jesusculture.com and follow them on twitter at www.twitter.com/jesusculture