Back in the fall of 2008 Gene Binder (the senior pastor of Cornerstone) gave a sermon on "The Least of These," and there followed an outpouring from the congregation in the form of ideas and projects to help the people described in Matthew 25.
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' - verse 40
One of those projects was envisioned by the worship team, and became "The Least of These" worship project. The idea was to make a CD with original worship music (written and performed by Cornerstone artists) and sell as many as we could to support ministries for the poor in Israel as well as the sex trafficing of children in Asia. During the 2008 Christmas Eve services, Gene asked for a love offering to support the worship project and we received more than enough to cover the production costs of the CD. It reminds me of one of Israel's first worship projects where they were instructed to build the tabernacle and the people responded with overwhelming support. Have a read of Exodus 35:4-29...there's some pretty cool parallels here.
After we received the funding from the church Mikhael Binder (the producer) assembled the artists, and the writers started contributing songs in the form of "scratch tracks." Scratch tracks are basically simple recordings with a minimal set of instrumentation and vocals to capture the jist of the song. This started in Jan. '09. Within a month we had 17 scratch tracks recorded at the Epicenter Studios in Longmont, Colorado. From here forward I'll call Mikhael "Bez", because he's like Bezalel described in the book of Exodus.
"Then Moses said to the Israelites, 'See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic craftsmanship."
By early Feb. '09, Bez had assembled a list of 11 songs that would become the track listing for the first CD. Here's the list as it stands today.
1. You Are
2. Faith
3. The Lord's Prayer
4. Beautiful Jesus
5. Jesus Come Back
6. Holy Father
7. Wide World
8. Let Joy Arise
9. Pslam 23
10. Alpha Omega
11. Our God
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It should be said that within a very short amount of time, we could accumulate enough songs for a 2nd and 3rd CD. . .the challenge is when to say, "when!"
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