Hi Everyone!

It’s been a while since I updated you on everything, so I just wanted to keep in touch with you all! Firstly, thank you for all of your prayers through these past few months. Knowing that I have so many fantastic people standing with me in prayer during this has been such a comfort.

Well, tbc is finished!! We had our final concert on the 26^th April, and wow, what an amazing night! We had it in a big beautiful, old church just outside of Manchester. We weren’t sure how many would come as we didn’t have loads of time to promote it, but to our wonderful surprise the place was absolutely PACKED full of screaming kids and their parents and of course all of our own friends and family. The line to get in the concert was out the door and half way down the street!! It was such a special night. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end it all! It was also a very emotional night, but lovely. Innervation all went out for a meal together afterwards for one last goodbye, which was also very emotional but again, a lovely way to end it all. So thank you for all your prayers.

To be honest, I was dreading the weeks following the concert, because I knew it would really hit me that it’s finished. I can’t go back home and I just felt like it was going to be a really hard time. But God is so kind, and I’ve actually been really busy!!  I’ve been able to go to my church more, and see more people from church that I couldn’t normally because of traveling so much, I’ve been down to see Aimee quite a bit and just been resting and having a break! I’m not going to deny that some days it’s hard knowing I no longer have a job and it’s scary not knowing what’s next, but God has been so faithful and has given me many words of encouragement about Him giving me clarity about the next step, and to not worry because it’s coming. So I’m just clinging onto that really!

I would appreciate your prayers for the next step, I’ve had quite a few wonderful offers over these past couple of weeks, which is a real blessing, but I do need clarity on which is the right one. I need God to make it so clear to me that there is no doubt in my mind!

Another thing I wanted to tell you guys about was a mission trip I’m going on this summer with OM. Many of you may know that OM is doing an outreach this summer in the Mediterranean called Transform 2010. They will have groups in all Mediterranean countries doing outreach in different ways. Well mums ministry, Dancelink, is also a part of it but she needed at Dance Team Leader for her group in Portugal (she’ll be staying in Italy). It may come as a shock to you all…but I love traveling!! Haha. So any chance to travel and see a new country, AND do what I love is very exciting for me! My dad is also leading a prayer group before the Outreach in Spain and Morocco and has asked if I’d like to go. So, I will be going to Spain, then onto Morocco with dad, flying to Rome, Italy for the conference that starts the whole Outreach, then flying to Portugal to be the dance team leader.  I am very excited about all this. One little thing, that I thought was amazing and very kind of God, was that years ago I said to a few people that the summer of the year that tbc ended, I wanted to travel around Europe!! I totally forgot about it, until a couple of weeks ago when it hit me that I’m actually doing that! God doesn’t forget anything!

So, after saying all of that, I would like to ask you all a favour. I need to raise the funds to go on this trip! Would any of you be willing to support me on this mission trip? If you feel that you’d like to help me financially, I’d greatly appreciate it!! You’ve all been so wonderful and supportive over these years so it’s difficult to ask for more!  However, if you are interested in supporting me, please contact me or my dad! Anything helps. Thank you so much.

If you are in the UK, please send a cheque made out to me to:
22 Elms Road
Heaton Moor
Stockport
SK4 4PJ

If you are in the States, please send a cheque made out to me to:
313 Ivy Vale Court
Tyrone, GA 30290

Thanks again for everything you’ve done for me!! I will continue to keep you all informed on where God leads me next!! Although scary, this is a very exciting time because I’m at a Crossroads and I know God could do some amazing things!

Thanks again for all your prayers.

Lots of love,

Lucy-Jayne xx

Hi everyone!

First of all, I just want to apologize for not sending out a newsletter recently or an e-mail to let you know all that has happened and that is happening! As you can imagine, so far this year has been all about traveling and loads of concerts! So unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to write a newsletter…..but I’m able to write an e-mail! So thank you for being patient with me.

Second of all, I just want to thank all of you for your amazing support and prayer this year especially for our USA tour! It was a huge success, and it couldn’t have happened without you all praying for us and supporting us by coming along to the concerts! It was lovely to see so many of you at one of them. God showed me so much through that tour. I felt so inadequate and unable to help organize such a huge thing; that sort of thing is way out of my comfort zone and I just didn’t feel I could do it. But He showed me that I can do anything through His strength. In my own strength, it just wouldn’t have happened….and believe me I tried! I couldn’t understand why He had called ME to do this, but one thing I knew for sure was that he HAD called me to do it, so I knew I didn’t have to worry. And you know what? It was BETTER than I expected, I didn’t even know what to expect but God had His hand all over it. More things happened in those 5 weeks than I could ever have imagined. I know it also would not have happened without the amazing Heidi Winter and Libby Baker, and of course my dad. They put so much work into everything to make it happen, and for that I am so grateful.

We were able to go into loads of schools in the Fayette County area, including my old school Tyrone Elementary! It was wonderful to go back and perform there and see a few of my teachers! The response we got at all these schools was phenomenal! We were unsure how it would work because we weren’t allowed to share our faith AT ALL in the schools…which is so different than England. But each day we just prayed that even though we couldn’t speak the words, they would just SEE God in us. We would then invite them all to a big concert that they could come along to and then could hear all about Gods incredible love for them. We found out that over all the concerts we did in Georgia, North Carolina and Connecticut…over 100 people made decisions for Christ!! How exciting!! We were also able to minister to a lot of the kids that came to our concerts, with young kids having thoughts of suicide and struggling with issues such as low self-esteem, bullying, and drugs! God used us in
ways we couldn’t even imagine.

After America it was off to one of the biggest Christian Festivals in Europe, Spring Harvest. Spring Harvest is also our new record label, so it was exciting to be a part of that festival this year. We were there for all three weeks so it was quite intense!! Every morning, afternoon and most evenings we were working including weekends. We were performing at least 2 times a day, sometimes 4 or 5 times! With radio interviews, selling our merchandise and being youth workers thrown into it all too! So needless to say we were shattered by the end, but I wouldn’t change any of it for the world! It was definitely one of my most memorable and exciting experiences of being in the band.

I do have some very sad, but exciting news to tell you all. One of our members, Natalie, who has been in the band the longest…..for 5 years, has decided to move on from the band and pursue other things. Although we will miss her soooo much, we are excited to see what God is going to do in this next part of her life. Her and her husband are moving to South Africa to work with a church in Pretoria….one of the churches that we visited whilst out there. So we are now in the process of looking for a new member! It is strange for us, as the 4 of us have been so close and have worked so well together these past 2 years. So now with someone else just coming in it seems quite hard. But we are excited. Please pray for the right girl to come in!

We do need to find her soon, as we want to start recording our next album as soon as possible. That is our biggest prayer request at the moment. Please just continue to pray for that!!! If you know a girl between the ages of 18-25, who is a singer, dancer and has a heart for evangelism and would be interested in auditioning, please let me know! It would be greatly appreciated.

I am currently at home in Atlanta on my summer holiday! So I’m very excited, and looking forward to these next 2 weeks break. I’m definitely in need of it! I’m sure I’ll see some of you during that time!

Sorry for this MASSIVE e-mail…I had loads to say. Again, sorry for it being so late. I could NOT be doing this without all of you and your amazing support and encouragements!!

Lots and lots of love,

Lucy-Jayne xxx

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to send you an e-mail to remind you about our upcoming 5 WEEK USA TOUR!! Yes, I realise that I told you it was 4 weeks….but it has been extended since then. We leave this Thursday, the 22nd of January until the 25th of February. We cannot belive how quickly it has come around….it feels like it was only just December. Our schedule is looking very good at the moment which is exciting, however the first week we are there, the 26th-30th of Jan, we could really do with a few more bookings. We will be in North Carolina for one weekend, Atlanta Georgia for 2-3 weeks, and Connecticut for 1 week…then after all is done we are going to New York just for a couple of days to explore which we are all very excited about!

As you would probably be aware, 5 weeks away is a long time, especially for the other girls. It’s still long for me but I’m going to be at home for 2-3 weeks so I’m not complaining!! : ) In America, going into schools is alot different than in the UK. You can’t talk at all about God or Christianity, so we have had to completely change our assembly to fit that criteria. It is a bit discourageing as the whole reason we do what we do is to tell kids about God! But we are hoping and praying that even though we can’t talk about God in the assemblies, that loads of kids will come to the various concerts around the city where we can full on let go and not hold anything back about our faith.

Please do pray that lives will be impacted and transformed in these areas, and that God would blow our minds at the work that he does there. Please also pray for strength, and lots of passion even in the times that we are feeling exhausted….that we will get our peace, joy and enthusiasm from the One who has called us to go there in the first place. He can use both our strengths and our weakness to bring people into His Kingdom!!!

Just imagine the miracles and salvations that could happen if people stand behind us and pray for Gods Will to be done! We CANNOT do this mammoth task alone, please do think of us. We want this whole tour to be saturated in prayer.
Continue to pray for more bookings to come in, even whilst we’re there, but thank God for the amount of concerts and schools bookings that have already come in!

I would love it if those of you who are in Atlanta could come along to one of our concerts and support us! Here are some details of the concerts:

• Wednesday, February 4th at 6:00 PM – Crossroads Church
  2564 Highway 154, Newnan
• Wednesday, February 11th at 6:00 PM – 1st Baptist Church PTC
  208 Willowbend Rd, Peachtree City
• Friday, February 13th at 6:00 PM – New Hope South Campus
  Hwy 74 & Hwy 85, Fayetteville

All concerts are free, so bring along your friends and family! There all going to be fantastic nights!!

To find out more about TBC visit our website www.tbcmusic.com, where you can see a list of all the schools we are going to.

Thanks again!! Looking forward to seeing you all in a couple of days!!

Lots of Love,

Lucy-Jayne

Hi again!

So sorry, but the times to the concerts have changed. The concerts at New Hope South and Crossroads are now at 7pm instead of 6pm. Sorry about that! Hope you all can come to one of them!

Take care,

Lucy-Jayne

Hello again!

I hope you are all doing great, and I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Autumn weather! You may be wondering why I am sending an e-mail so soon after sending you a Newsletter. Well, I just wanted to tell you about the next couple of weeks that are sure to be very busy. Starting next week, we have 4 weeks of long hours and many concerts. First of all though, to prepare us for it, we have been given a 2 day retreat at a beautiful castle! A very generous lady wanted to bless us with this, and what a blessing it will be! We are going to spend those two days praying, and just being with God and seeking His heart for tbc this coming year. So praise God for that!!

The following week, the craziness begins. We have a schools week in a lovely little town called Marple. We did a schools week here last year, actually it was 2 weeks before our album launch at the Apollo! It was an amazing week, and so we are thrilled to have been invited back for yet another week!! It will be days full of school assemblies, probably 2 schools a day, and of course….the end of week concert! We loved Marple so much last year, and the kids were lovely. It’s always so exciting to go back to a place you’ve already been. So please pray for stamina, as we haven’t had a concert in over a month!! It’s been nice to have September as a restful month, but I think we are all very excited to get back to the schools!

The day after our end-of-week concert, we are off to……SOUTH AFRICA!! (can you tell I’m particularly excited about this???) I love traveling, so I’m estatic that we are finally going abroad! It wont just be a little holiday though; we have a packed schedule of schools, churches and radio stations. I have already told quite a few people who are apart of OM South Africa that we are coming over, and so some are going to come to the concert. We will mainly be around Johannesburg and Pretoria. Praise God for the people who gave us the finances to be able to go over. Please especially pray for safety as we travel, and also for when we are there. Apparantly it is not the safest place to be at the moment, so please pray for protection. Thank you!

Almost done, I promise!! The day after we arrive back from South Africa, we are off to another schools week in a place called Bradford, hosted by a church called Abundant Life. This is a schools week that we’ve been looking forward to for quite sometime. So please pray for a fantastic response by all the kids and families…and that kids will be saved, but also that God will do infinately more than we could possibly imagine. We can’t do anything alone, or in our own strength, because we are nothing without Him!!

Please pray for strength for all of us!! that God will help us get through this busy time. We do have many more schools weeks in November aswell, but I will talk about those in my next newsletter….and of course, let you know how these 4 weeks go.

Thanks for all your prayers!!!!! Please write back to me, and let me know how you are doing!!

Lots of Love,

Lucy : )