After months of contemplation, we decided on a band name - Fire Rising!  

We have are fuel for creation and Spirit illuminates through us.  And, we are rising to stand in the gap for hurting, oppressed - mentally, emotionally and economically disadvantaged  (MEED)  people and their families.

Pictures of Chuckie and I performing together while we were in Arabie, Lousiana just east of New Orleans in the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Zone. We were there as support relief workers with Emergency Communities Made with Love Kitchen.  Two nights during the dinner meal, we provided respite and diversion in the form of musical entertainment.  This is the MIM's Model of Empowerment in action.  I wonder in a crowd of about 250 people, that either lived through Katrina, or was now volunteering as relief workers, needed our words of encouragement and entertainment those two nights?  We will probably never know exactly, but God does! 

We are Fire Rising!