I remember when Ten Shekel Shirt came out with their first CD, Much. I thought it was an amazing collection of worship songs that were, too me, more personal than some of the other worship CDs that were coming out at the time. Songs like "Unashamed Love", "Healer", and "Peace" were so intimate, so intensely personal, that Much became my favorite "personal worship" CD that I would put in during my time with God. We ended up in my first youth ministry in Colorado doing "Meet With Me" and "Healer" regularly in our student worship times. When I lived in Dallas, we went to a Ten Shekel Shirt/Waterdeep concert at The Door down in Deep Ellum, and it was an amazing show.
Later on, when my daughter was born and we celebrated her first birthday, I surprised my wife with a DVD of pictures of her first year. The song I put with the slideshow? House of Memories off of Much by Ten Shekel Shirt. And actually that song has had a lot of meaning to me right now, considering that for half of this year I have been without my family due to sacrifices that we made in order to help plant a church in Colorado.
I had wondered after the release of Risk, Ten Shekel Shirt's second CD, what happened to the band, since they seemed to disappear. I decided to google Lamont's name (the singer of Ten Shekel Shirt), and found out that he had helped start an organization called Love146. This was my first contact with Love146, and now it has become my favorite organization fighting human trafficking and child slavery. THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES! The fact that I was already getting involved in the cause of fighting trafficking and then finding out that the Ten Shekel Shirt leader was also involved in the fight was an amazing thing.
This past month, Ten Shekel Shirt put out their third CD, called Jubilee. These songs were written over the last four years as Lamont worked with Love146 and helped lead it to where it is today. They are all songs that deal with the issue of human trafficking. I had the privilege of going to a benefit concert on Sunday night, and saw them in concert and got to pick up the CD. The money collected for the concert went to Love146 and a local organization called iempathize. I would encourage you to pick up this CD, it is great and powerful and very moving.
Here is a video about Ten Shekel Shirt.
Pictures Of The Event
13 years ago
2 comments:
I couldn't remember who they were so I went into Darrell's CD collection and there it was..."Much" so I listened to it.
I think it's interesting that God uses us in so many ways and through different seasons of time.
You might be used for music or youth ministry and then the next thing you know he puts it in your heart to start s ministry for human trafficking...
Or perhaps a combination...I've been thinking about an idea for the last week or so, but I'm still letting it simmer in my brain and heart.
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