“A New Heaven & A New Earth”
October 5th, 2023
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…and the One seated on the throne said, “Behold! I make all things new.” Revelation 21:1,5
Leading Christian composers and musicians from the United States have come together and written songs that highlight the need to care for God‘s beautiful and wounded creation.
They want to work with all their brothers and sisters, inside and with this new music they reach outside the Church too, demonstrating that to lift up Creation is to glorify God, and is a powerful way to serve the Lord and protect what he has given us.
The project’s primary focus is to help faith communities and especially evangelicals around the world to understand and to contribute to the worldwide efforts to address climate change in their lives and communities. Primarily the project is an effort to appeal 
through Contemporary Christian Music, to US evangelicals by creating songs that explicitly draw on the biblical creation themes of Laudato Sí and invite them and others to integrate ecological conversion into their spirituality and lifestyle.
(Image by Marian Anbu Juwan from Pixabay)
READ MORE about the project
Eight songs will be released for listening and broadcast on Christian/evangelical radio throughout 2023, culminating with a CD and a number of concerts in the ensuing years. Links to a couple of the songs are at the bottom of this email.
OMIJPIC has been supporting this project in a number of capacities over the past three years.
Songs and release schedule 2023:
| May 12 | Jason Roy, Building 429 – It’s All – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkXEzRIqw8&list=OLAK5uy_maon8nTUQVIEqaqtLjJi358_5tBxEKJWM |
| June 9 | MŌRIAH – You Mean the World: https://youtu.be/zYYfNgk6ByQ?si=Y5wMv3Ebpu94tWCg |
| July 7 | Aaron Cole – Together: https://youtu.be/RuMK5bDOuuQ?si=arF4wrEpetfg9Ix1 |
| August 4 | Phil Joel – Arms Around the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1Q59PyuJE&list=OLAK5uy_mFkdN1q6AmVadTdE-2y9-cCg2jzqJa8ok |
| September 1 | Waterdeep – Into the Unseen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMWyFNEtd3I&list=OLAK5uy_kukytnUOHhNFLoAKF9-hO4d4efbc1FFs0 |
| September 22 | Don Chaffer, Phil Joel, Jason Gray, Jason Roy – Our Common Home – https://youtu.be/1sKq1tI1NkM?si=YP53DFleHQ9ibCMM |
| October 20 | Jason Gray – Awestruck – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQUlL0a4OT4&list=OLAK5uy_n_MUZ2AF3KhE50y4kJk09JqpTp2lZYRCE |
| November 17 | Micah Tyler – So Will I – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTUjQlGsgBg&list=OLAK5uy_nMzLBgtYZfHZAnEGc49YIiwB5AfvGmGx0 |
MORE: https://chvnradio.com/articles/listen-building-429s-jason-roy-releases-new-song-part-of-a-multi-artist-album
Project on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC75eBN73u2HI1I_I6G-dbvA
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