GMA Week, 3D Give, and life on the road.

This past month I got to enjoy the GMA (Gospel Music Association) music week with NewFire for my first time.  It was a really neat experience.  Here are a few photos.

This is me with my artist badge, I was quite proud of it.  ha ha.

Close up of the badge.

The Springboard Entertainment Suite had a Wii party for a bunch of their artists and invited a bunch of industry people so we could make connections.  It was a lot of fun.  This picture is of Josh Wii bowling with a guy who owns a management company.

Here we were entering the Springboard Entertainment Suite.  There were probably 40 people in that little place.  All of them either artists, writers, publicists, magazine execs,  managers, radio DJs, plus there was a video crew there as well. It was packed.

This was dinner with our publicists Anita.  NewFire plus several of her other artists all went out to eat at PF Changs.  It was scrumptous.  I’m very very fond of chinese food.

Does this guy look familiar?  Well he should.  He was one of the funny fireman in the movie “Fireproof” and he also played in “Facing the Giants.”  He was good friends with Two Empty Chairs (one of Springboards other artist) and he hung out with us Sunday night.

This was me taking a pic of NewFire minus me on our way to the Springboard Entertainment Suite right after we had gotten there.

This is obviously self explanatory.

This is where we stayed while we were in Nashville.  It is an apartment that is owned by the bass player of Tree 63 and it doubles as a recording studio.  While we were there the band Glorious Unseen that toured with Leeland was working on an album.  I thought that was pretty cool.

This is Jon with his new princess travel bag on our way to a show.  HA HA.

I’m getting to where i really enjoy hotels a lot.  They’re starting to feel kind of like home.

Josh jamming in our room.

One thing that i always look forward too and enjoy on our trips is our game nights.  Usually at least one night of a trip (if not more) Josh and I (and whoever else happens to be with us) will go over to Jon and Alli’s room and we will play games.  In the background there you see the band playing a game of Skip Bo, our usual game of choice.

People checking out the NewFire table after a show.

While I was in the green room before a concert I was able to see the parking lot and some of the surrounding churches that were bussing in their youthgroups.  So i tried to get a shot of some of them, but I sort of missed.

Josh during sound check.  I love the look on his face.  Ha ha.

One of the attendees with her signed NewFire shirt.  lol.

In one of the host homes we stayed in the owner took us to check out his collection of antiques including a model A and a model T.  It was pretty neat.

And this was me getting ready for a little Extreme Ironing.  My sport of choice.

I started going to an outreach called 3D Give that we have every Saturday morning.  We all just meet, take a bus to the less fortunate side of town and do random acts of kindness.  This was this weeks crew before we headed out.

And here was my random act of kindness.  : )  We just walked up and down the street saying, “Hi, we’re with Victory Christian Center and we’re just trying to show the love of Jesus to the neighborhood.  Is there anything we can do for you?”  We got to pray with people and serve them.  I love it.  As you can see here these people wanted their lawm mowed.  So that’s what we did.  It was great.  Seriously, serving and the feeling you get from doing it becomes addicting.