Leeland

We're getting ready to hit the road with Phil Wickham & Matt Maher for the Night of Worship Tour in April and as we're putting the setlist together, we thought we'd see what you want to hear. What song(s) do you most want to hear live on the Night of Worship Tour?
 
Follow You
Holy Spirit Have Your Way
Beautiful Lord
May Our Praise
Enter This Temple
Majesty
How He Loves
Healer
Lead Me To the Cross
Glorious
Other (write-in your answer)

Chime in by leaving a comment here or replying to the band on Twitter (@leelandofficial).

Our friend, Marcus Hackler, created this video for our tour last fall. Wanted to share it on the site today and let you refelect on the message of this song. God's raising up a generation of people that know they're the righteousness of God. And we have access to the purity of the Holy Spirit, and can release that love and purity into the world around us. Take some time to pray right now, and ask God if there's anything that stands between you and him. You CAN defeat it, because God has given you authority over the enemy. We're on the winning side! So be encouraged.

Remember...

Ephesians 1:3-8

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding."

Oh... and we're playing rugby today against some Kiwis. We're going to get OWNED! We'll post more stuff when we get back to the states (the land of the free internet).

Much love.

jack

Then the band headed to Turner Field to serve lunch with the Fish Atlanta and Hosea Feed The Hungry. Here are a few photos from Twitter (click on the photos to see bigger versions):

 
Hair nets haha! (@leelandmooring)

 
Trying to figure out how to cover mikes beard! (@leelandmooring)

 
I've been scooping yams baby!!! (@jackmooring)

Later that night, the band played at Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church, where Mark Hall from Casting Crowns is the youth pastor.

Tuesday, the band taped an episode of Gospel Music Channel's Joyful Noise Cafe. It airs this Thursday, January 28, at 7am ET.

 
Did a taping at the @gospelmusicchnl today for Joyful Noise Cafe. (@jackmooring)

On Wednesday morning, Leeland and Jack performed "Follow You" live on the local Nashville FOX affiliate. Then, the band went to the Nashville Rescue Mission to serve lunch:

 
We had a blast at the Nashville Rescue Mission. We met some awesome guys, and heard cool stories! (@jackmooring)

Wednesday night, the band played a show with the Fish Nashville in the middle of Opry Mills Mall, near the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Brandon Heath showed up with only about an hour's notice to sing "Follow You." 

Thanks to everyone who came out to worship with us tonight at Opry Mills in Nashville! (@leelandofficial)

To end the week, the guys headed to Tulsa on Thursday to play a show with KXOJ. They're estimating that more than 1,300 people showed up and donated 3,800+ lbs of food! Thanks to everyone who came out! We'll try to post pics if we can find some!

A couple months later we found ourselves in Japan, Cambodia, and Bangladesh (Brandon joing us for the first two) and God truly spoke to us while we were abroad. For me it was an unexpected lesson. I learned that poverty is complex, but the God we serve is truly omniscient and all-powerful. He knows the solution even when we don't. He is more than capable of healing broken lives, cities, & nations. Here's the amazing thing though... He's wanting US to play a vital role in this process.

I'm God's child, but so is the poor kid in Cambodia, as well as their mom & dad, and so is the investment banker in Manhattan. God's love is for EVERYONE, and as followers of Christ we CAN show this love in very tangible ways. Just try it.

This tour is about following God into the hard places, whether it be Cambodia or Cleveland... London or Little Rock. People are hurting, and they need the healer. His name is Jesus. 

We're four shows into this tour and God has already done great things. We're expecting more, and we would like to ask two things of you:

1) Would you pray for us? That we would keep our hearts aflame for God. That we would speak with boldness on behalf of the forgotten. For safety as we bus across America, and for our families while we're away.

2) Would you commit to falling more and more in love with Jesus? If we're not doing this first, everything else is for naught. Let simple intimacy with God overflow into your actions so that justice, love & righteousness can be known in the world. 

Please come to a show and partner with our ministry and we'll see God's kingdom come!

Much love.

-jack

Got some drinks w/ our buddy Hai at @cremacrema before tour rehersals! "The Cuban" is very tasty indeed. (@leelandofficial)

Finally soundchecking! It's exciting to see the Follow You tour coming together. Still a lot to do, but it's looking GOOD! (@jackmooring)

Home sweet home baby...Grrrr! (@Rattatattat)

(@leelandofficial)

Guy time!!! (@Jake_Holtz)

The first night of the tour is a packed house!!! Go Norfolk! Mike and Jake are playing for Brandon... (@leelandofficial)

Here's a few pix from the past few days...

4th show on the Texas run: Dallas Chic Fil-A. It was hot, and the people out there were champs for braving the sun.


Driving through the planes of Texas to make our 9pm Waco show after the 5pm Dallas show!

Played to a packed out Common Grounds coffee shop by the Baylor campus. People were in trees and on the roof. It was crazy!

After the Waco show. Marcus, our production/sound guy. He works very hard, as you can tell.

Then me and Leeland flew to Chicago to do some interviews on the Moody Bible campus downtown.

They had a really cool radio studio from the 40's...

We played some songs and interviewed for Midday Connection. Really great talk show!

Lee found a furniture store to do his phone interview in...

Hid a copy of Donald Miller's new book on the Moody campus. Someone found it in like five minutes!

Then we all flew to Vegas for a show. Flying over the Grand Canyon was incredible.

Watched Blindside perform. One of our favorite bands! They're back. Thousands of kid's got saved!

 
After our show we went to the strip and saw the fountains. God is doing amazing things in Vegas right now. Pray for a great harvest souls in the years to come!

Great Day SA (San Antonio CBS Morning Show)

After the KSBJ event, we loaded up the van, grabbed some food, and drove to San Antonio. Our promoter for several of the Follow You Tour dates helped us land a spot on the local CBS morning show in San Antonio on Tuesday morning - the same day Love Is On The Move came out! It was an early call time (6:45!) after only a few hours of sleep, but it was awesome to have the opportunity to sing and talk about Jesus on live mainstream TV! We played the hosts in and out of commercial breaks and also performed "Follow You." Visit the show's web site to watch the performance.

Still trying to wake up while unloading for the taping


Imitating one of our movie heroes, Ron Burgundy

San Antonio LifeWay Event with K-LOVE

After some R&R at the hotel and a late lunch at PF Changs, we met up with the stage that's going to be following us to a couple more of these Texas events. A huge thanks to the crew who is braving the hot Texas sun with us this week! People started showing up in the parking lot about an hour before the show and the first 50 people to buy the new CD at LifeWay got a free T-shirt. We signed as many autographs as we could after the show before having dinner with some of our families. Oh, and I almost forgot - Leeland beatboxed as the rest of us rapped Happy Birthday to a guy in the crowd! Thanks for having us, SA!

Humble, TX with KSBJ

We started our week-long Texas run on Monday with a private, intimate event in Humble, TX (just outside Houston) for KSBJ's MoveMeant fan club. We played a few songs, answered questions from the audience, listened to a few tracks from the new CD, and then Leeland and Jack were able to share a message of encouragement. It was a great kick off event so thanks to everyone who came!

And the mountains in the background, this means one thing...

... we play soccer! It had been a while since the last band soccer match. So we hooked up with our friends in Desperation Band and had quite the match!

The kids at the Desperation Conference were so hungry for God!


That night we teamed up with the Dband for an amazing night of worship! We had tons of people on stage. God was so evident in the room. And we sought after God with all our hearts. So fun!