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Heritage Vol. II

Here's the promo video (in French) for Heritage Vol. II. This is the project that Gen has been participating in for the last year. There's a shot of her towards the second half. This music has been something of a phenomenon in the Francophone Churches across the world. The concerts have been moving spiritual experiences and there's a sense that a movement has been started with some of these songs being reintroduced to Christians. 

You can listen to both Heritage and Heritage Vol. II in their entirety at http://heritagemusique.com

Would you take a minute and pray for our brothers and sisters in the Francophone churches? Pray for revival, pray for more pastors, missionaries, church planters, evangelists, apostles, songwriters, worship songs and worship leaders. Pray for Sebastian Demrey, Jimmy Lahaie and the rest of the people at CIME Musique who are giving their gifts, talents and lives for the cause of Christ among the French speaking peoples. 

 

 

I Love God Clip

I neglected to put this in the post this a couple of weeks ago. 

I Love God - 30 Sec Clip

It's hard to believe that this was recorded live at Calvary in the Jack Purcell Community Centre. Dan did a great job of editing, mixing and producing it. I need to get him some more midnight oil to burn...

soon!

Gen Christmas Concert

I'm pretty excited about this!

Martin Smith from Delirious? in Ottawa

This is pretty cool. This guy has had a tremendous influence on modern praise and worship. It looks like Ottawa is getting on the map as a tour stop for Christian Artists...

Here's the details. 

Let Them Be Little Video

My father in law in Florida sent this to me. This one goes under the fatherhood category, and it's a great reminder. 

He saw Billy Dean at the Florida Folk Festival and loved his songs and told me there was a wonderful moment as he was singing. 

This video is from a performance he did at Saddleback church. Check it out and let me know what you think...

 

New Calvary St. Pete Worship Album

Our good friend Bob Corry from Calvary Chapel St. Pete finally finished a new worship album. Here's a video of him talking about it. 

 

We love these guys and have been serving with them for years. Bob has been a HUGE encouragement to both of us, especially Gen in her music. I'm excited for these guys, and the songs they recorded are very familiar to us, with that signature CC St. Pete sound.... I can close my eyes and be back there... love it!

You can hear samples here...

Colin Bernard's new Christmas Song

Speaking of Colin in yesterday's post, He wrote a new song with his brother Joel for Christmas. And, they were able to record it and he put it on YouTube a little over a week ago. He's had 444 views already, and I think I can help him get to at least 450 through my blog here.

Check it out!

 

Gen on Heritage Musique

This Saturday, December 4th, there's a concert in St-Lambert, QC with Sebastian Demrey and Jimmy Lahaie. They've been working this fall on a new French Hymns album called Heritage. 

Gen went into the studio a couple of months ago and recorded background vocals for this project and a duet with Sebastien on one of the songs (Mon Dieu Est Si Bon). We've been listening to it for a few days now, and it's AWESOME! Gen nailed it! But haven't been able to share it with anyone until now. 

Gen won't be at the concert because it's baby#4's due date! (And, yes, I can't wait!) Her friend Cristelle will be subbing in for her. It should be an awesome concert. Our good friends Lisa and Liz are planning on making it out there to help out and enjoy themselves. 

In my mind, this is a big deal for French Christian music. Sebastian is at the top of his game as a producer, arranger and recording artist. I don't know a better guitarist than Jimmy. Taking all of that and putting it together with some old French hymns that have blessed the church over the years will make this a classic album that won't wear out any time soon. And, Gen's on it! C'mon! It's awesome!

Let's keep praying for our Francophone brothers and sisters. Let's pray for more singer/songwriters, more songs, more worship to Jesus, more churches, more pastors, more evangelism, more conversions... It's the language of love, you know we'll be speaking French in heaven!

You can buy it here and it will be on iTunes on Dec. 6th. You can listen to it here.

Gen at Centre Reveil

Lisa found this video on the internet from when Gen sang at Centre Reveil, here in Ottawa on November 1st. You'll have to skip ahead to the 1:08, that's one hour and 8 minutes mark to get to the part where she is introduced and singing. 

 

 

Gen gets a lotta love from this church because so many of these people have known her since she was a little girl. They have watched her grow up, mature in the Lord, Jean and Louise Turpin (the pastor's) started a church in Clearwater, FL which is how we met back in 1993, and Jean is the one that married us in 1994. So, yeah, she gets a lotta love here.

And she did a great job on her songs. 

Look how pregnant she is! It will be any day now!

Big Night for Gen Falleur

Last night was a BIG night for Gen Falleur.

First, I got to drop in last night at the annual Jericho Road Christian Ministries Fundraising Auction. Gen had donated a private, in home concert with posters and 5 CD's of each album. The value of the donation was around 4-500$. It was the last item in the live auction. At that point in the night I was sitting next to Lynne Fraser and her friend Deborah and on the other side of me was Bill Stevens from CHRI. Lynne and her friend couldn't recall hearing Gen's song on the radio, and then they played a clip of "Whosoever Will" her current single. Both ladies caught their breath, and exclaimed. "I know that song, I love it! I love her voice! That's your wife?" That was pretty cool. Then the bidding started at 250. Ray, Paul and Ashley's friend (John) started at it. And it went pretty quickly into the 400 range. Then there was a pause and then boom it was up at 600. Another pause, as there was some regrouping. The tension in the room was awesome, everyone was listening and watching. Ashley ended up with the bid card and the bidding stopped at $775.00 I was happy for Gen and I was happy for Jericho Road. An awesome night!

Meanwhile, in Calgary, the GMA Canada awards banquet was going on. Gen was nominated in 3 categories:
Folk Album of the Year for "Whosoever Will"
Francophone Song of the Year for "Que Tout Ce Qui Respire"
Francophone Album of the Year for "Des Le Reveil"
We didn't see the news until this morning (Saturday), Gen won a Covenant Award in both Francophone categories. We were elated! Francophone Song of the Year and Francophone Album of the Year. I'm so proud of her! I'm also very grateful to Sebastian Demrey for all the hard work and creativity that he poured into her album.

Gen had a BIG night!

The weekend isn't over though. She's leading worship and communion tonight at Calvary Ottawa. Tomorrow, she's singing a special song at the Met for their first French service at 11am. And, Monday night, she's singing a couple of special songs at Centre Reveil here in Orleans for their Annual Holy Spirit Conference with Paul Goulet. 

And then she's hanging up her guitar until spring. We're having a baby in December. She's going out on a HIGH NOTE!

You can send her a note of congratulations here, here or genfalleur(at)gmail.com