Know Hope Collective – UNVEILED!

There’s always a shroud of mystery and excitement when a new music project is announced, especially when it involves one of the biggest names in Christian music history.   Sometimes you just don't know who an opening band is, but sometimes you hear a clip of them on the radio and "know that sound" but just can't palce it.  That’s why you keep your eye on Every Eye, to find out what’s going on inside the new music project from Mark Stuart and Will McGinnis of (+) AUDIO ADRENALINE (+). The new project has been announced for several months, but we couldn’t find info anywhere. Contacting the bands management group, Paradigm Management and Current Talent Agency all showed us versions of bio you can find in Every Eye's Know Hope Collective's Artist Profile.
 
Initially, the bands website www.knowhopecollective.com linked to http://www.instinctandresolution.com/ a Nashville based design company. Google didn’t even help us out that much either, so we went straight to the source – Will. Here’s what he had to say over the course of a few emails with Every Eye. 
 
Begin email from Will:
 
 
Hey Every Eye,
 
I’m so sorry you have had a tough time getting the items you need to help you with what you do, so I thought i would go ahead and send some more info about what the Know Hope Collective is and some of our other assets. I’ll include some pics and our first single from the new record as well (+) ps – you can now pick this up on itunes or your local Christian bookstore - find one near you at YourMusicZone (+). This is our normal booking email, below, that we send out to churches/promoters. This partnership with Newsboys is out of the box for us, but we are excited to join up with them as God see fit in ministry.  We are definitely feeling more called today then ever to get back out there and exhort the church body and encourage them in these end times. It will take a couple emails to get you everything but ill send more then you will need in hopes to get you what you might need. :).
 
My best,
will

(+) Every Eye likes Will, definitely good people. Anytime someone can show heart and business in the same email – that’s awesome. When someone feels called to exhort the body of Christ and encourage the end times… count us in to help out. Our mission isto help Every Eye see Christ, and we’re happy to be part of bringing them to Ontario to help build up the body! (+)

First off, ill let you know, Mark and I have a new event, we call it the Know Hope Collective, it features Mark and myself and several of our artist friends from back home here in Nashville, most who attend our church with us, young worshipers, with a heart after Gods and who we enjoy spending time with and mentoring them in the Lord (journeyfranklin.org). We have signed a new record deal with Integrity Music and are putting out a new worship record (+) AWESOME (+).

The best way i can describe it to you, is that…. out of brokenness, failure, and heartache, God can bring restoration and turn the toughest situation into miracle. We serve a very redemptive God, who restores even the toughest of situations. Visually, it is a VH1 storytellers approach to the career God allowed us to be apart of, or rather, surprised us with!  This crazy journey we have been on the last two decades.  He continues to use us and we want to be out there encouraging people with the fact that we serve a redeeming God. There is no situation or struggle that he cannot turn around and carry us through for his glory. For this reason, Mark and I want to be back out there right in the midst of people, the church, and whoever, letting them know that God wants to give them an abundant life, the life of the overflow (Him overflowing out of us), not things and stuff, but that He wants to author an amazing story in them and through them and turn the mistakes in their life into miracles. Even in spite of our self he want to use us. That is the case with Mark and myself.

So we bring a full band (6 people), We lead the audience in some of our old Audio A songs which people know and love (+) and we love too! (+), we share our story and the stories that go deep and the back stories from the songs and the road, and then we lead them in new worship music that we feel like God has been laying on our heart.  I personally think it is a great opportunity to use this new event as an outreach to your community, and to have the group of people that normally comes in on a Wed or Sun night to bring folks who might be going through struggle or heartache, or they might be on the fence, spiritually speaking, or even spiritually bankrupt. These are the people that need to hear from God and need uplifted and encouraged.
 
God has been using this new event in amazing ways, that far exceeds us every night. Mark and I share the highs and the lows from our story, as in, we get very honest and vulnerable, gut level real at times, but God is using it to connect with people and then we worship with them and he brings healing to the brokenhearted. One of the biggest parts of our story during this new event, and one were most proud of, is the part of our story where we highlight Haiti, and the Hands and Feet Project (handsandfeetproject.org).
 
So we basically want to go back to the old school if you will, when the likes of Keith Green or Rich Mullens, these characters, people that God use in a real an honest way, because they simply said yes to Him and they were not trying to be rock stars or anything other then followers of Him, allowing God to write his story on their hearts. This is where Mark and I are in this season. We want to have spoken word and music come together powerfully to encourage and bless the church. We want God to have the pen and to author amazing stories with our life! One last thing, we use PowerPoint, lyrics, and video to weave and compliment this message through out the event. Every song has all the lyrics for it and scripture is used frequently as well, with the projection and screens we use. We feel this only reinforces Gods word and the level at which God can speak to someone at this new event. For us it is all about the connection with the audience and then the move of Gods spirit. We pray God could join us together in ministry.

(+) There you have it folks. If you were wondering what this whole “Know Hope Collective” / Audio Adrenaline thing was all about… this is it.  Industry professionals breaking out into what God has for them with amazing heart felt worship.  We’re really excited for this collective of artists and music and hope you are too.  If you have the opportunity, we would love it if you could come and be our guest as we worship with the Know Hope Collective and the Newsboys in Ontario, June 2010. (+)