Dear Friends,
“The Fest” on October 28-30 in Gainesville, Florida is one of the biggest punk rock festivals in America. The first one took place on May 24th and 25th of 2002 and was thought to have gone down in history as the drunkest and rowdiest time ever to be had in Gainesville and it has grown in size and reputation ever since.
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Dear Friends,
No Longer Music was in Dohuk, Iraq - a Kurdish city near the Turkish border and less than 45 minutes from Mosul - one of the most dangerous places in all of Iraq. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
To say that our Middle East tour was miraculous would be an understatement. Here is only one example. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
It has been an amazing month! As I write this, we're back in Krögis, Germany after a very intense No Longer Music tour to Ukraine and Poland. In Ukraine, we had 6 concerts in 4 cities and in Poland, we had 10 concerts in 10 different cities. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
We arrived at the Ukrainian/Polish border only to be told that we had to drive to another border. Robert, our polish promoter, thought that the police may have been looking for a bribe. So after an all-night drive on crazy roads we arrived at another border where we carried, by hand, all of our personal gear and band equipment in the pouring rain from the Ukrainian border to the Polish border. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Jennifer and Tiffany were raised by a single mother who struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. School was optional and stealing was acceptable. At age ten, the life Jennifer knew was completely turned upside down when their mother, who often had abusive relationships, was killed by her boyfriend. Jennifer and Tiffany – who had different dads – were separated. Jennifer was adopted and Tiffany went to live with her biological father. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
We will be publicly lifting up the message of the cross in 3 cities in Northern Iraq during our upcoming European/Middle Eastern No Longer Music Evangelistic tour. This obviously will be a spiritual battle and we need your support! Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Last summer, our ministry No Longer Music played a concert in a large amphitheater in "Park Praski" near the center of Warsaw, Poland. After the concert, I invited people interested in a real relationship with Jesus to come to the torch next to the stage. Around 75 people knelt on the grass and asked Jesus into their lives, while hundreds more watched. Many wept and embraced us because they were so moved by God's presence. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
My first trip to Sumy, Ukraine was nine months ago. Sumy is not easy to get to because there is no airport in the city and your only option is a crazy 5 hour drive from Kiev. Since the fall of communism the country is almost totally controlled by organized crime. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
I first met Cocke about 4 years ago when we were on tour in Chile. He was not a follower of Jesus at that time and he was playing in a well known Chilean metal band. Our band, No Longer Music, was playing in a club in Santiago and he was mixing our sound. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Radek is considered to be an intellectual and leader among the radical left wing political scene in Poland. He meets with other intellectuals in a club called "Rebel" in Krakow, Poland. This is a club that he started to discuss ways to change society and how to emulate revolutionaries like Che Guevara. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
On Saturday November 20th in Beirut, Lebanon, I did a live interview on a popular program on MTV Lebanon and millions of people saw it all over Lebanon and the Arab world. The program director told me that it reaches the educated young and trendy 15-30 year old demographic. Many I talked to in Lebanon said that war could break out again any day, which I think made it even more significant. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Jyad is credited with bringing rock music to the Middle East and I met him during our first tour in Lebanon in 2008. He is the CEO of a multi-media and broadcasting conglomerate in Lebanon that includes MTV, a network of top radio stations (including the #1 radio station among the young demographic), Virgin Megastores (70% of the market share), recording and art studios, and an event production company. His company organizes most of the concerts and festivals for western bands in Lebanon. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Sarah* was a devout Catholic. She was so committed that she went on a pilgrimage to Palestine and was planning to become a nun. But it all changed when she was the victim of some terrible sins against her within the church. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
"DJ Satan" played music after our concert in a night club called "Klub Madness" in Wroclaw, Poland and the club lived up to its name! The stage was very small, but somehow we managed to creatively fit all our gear on to it. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Andrew who is 24 was brought by his girlfriend to the No Longer Music Send Off show on July 23rd in Minneapolis, USA. Shortly after the concert began he started feeling “something welling up” inside him. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
The church you could see from our old apartment in Amsterdam was surrounded by houses of prostitution and sex shops and it was often closed on Sunday morning. Most nights you could see junkies shooting up heroin in the narrow alleyways by the church. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
REPORT FROM OUR NEW INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN KRÖGIS, GERMANY
God moved powerfully during our first Evangelistic Concert in Krögis, Gemany at our new International Center on May 8th. Ben Pierce – our son and on staff at the Radical Missionary Training School - spoke after the concert and told the young people listening that they needed to surrender their lives to Jesus and follow Him totally. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
Amanda was born in Wales and before the age of two was abandoned by her mother. Her father, a former US Marine, had similar intentions but was beaten to the task. Left with no choice, he stuck it out and raised Amanda and her sister on his own. Soon, Amanda’s uncle paid for her family to move to the US; life wasn’t going to be getting any easier. Download pdf
Dear Friends,
On May 9th, I will be preaching in Polaryie Zori in northwestern Russia (east of Northern Finland), a place so polluted that it has been described as hell on earth. Miku Taivaanlahja, a Steiger missionary based in Helsinki, Finland, told me that living near Chernobyl would be healthier. Download pdf