First, let me welcome all the new subscribers and especially those at NumberOneMusic.com. This site is our new focus for exposing our current projects along with our history. More details on our current projects are going up on our Patreon site https://www.patreon.com/jael. If you are new, a standard statement of our philosophy and how it creates value for you is always included at the end of this newsletter. This first paragraph will begin every newsletter. I am not getting much feedback from our newsletter. Does this stuff matter to you guys? Still looking for some reviews and feedback on the Lorne James, April’s Fool Demo Project. We have now begun work on the new websites and will soon have news for you about the songs you have asked us about purchasing. The festivals are taking a back seat to the tours we have planned and will be developed later. Approximately two weeks from now, we should have a lot more about this published in this space. Make sure you open the email. The Status of the Projects That Are Up Next. Audio recordings: 1. Playing for an Audience of One - Jael. This will be open for pre-orders by the next newsletter and is expected just before Christmas. Almost finished the recording, mixing and mastering are the final stages. We still need to raise some money to finish it but the end is clearly in sight. There is an island feel to one of the bonus tracks that is a Christmas version of the song. 2. Concert for Whale World - Jay and the Rubber Band - 2nd in the Children's album set similar to Dynamite the Dinosaur. Cover art is in progress. Songs are written and demo’s done. This is an older album that was lost to a flood before it was released. Live video of a few songs are floating around the web. 3. Where's Peter Duo EP. Jael with John Krasinkiewicz - 6 songs. This is still being written. 3 Songs have now been completed. We are making progress though our focus has been the Jael album. 4 Tanzen re-release of Piece by Peace album. An import has been licensed by us and re-released from Italy a few weeks ago, our domestic version will have some surprises and be slightly different but is being delayed while the import is hot in all markets. Not sure if we have our sights on Christmas for this. 5. Release of Legion's boxed set. 3 albums. with extra demos. We are thinking this might get out for Christmas as well. Pre-orders will be available once the web is up again. 6. Jael's Boxed set - For the Record - 5 Discs. Target for release is post Where’s Peter. 7. For next year there will be a new Danter release. Possibly 2. The one for sure will probably not be the continuance of the trilogy but if there are two another element of that will be out. The reason for the constant rethinking of this project has everything to do with the re-emergence of Teaze. So much is happening there that it’s almost a full time job keeping up events as they unfold. Live events. 1. Jael & Band will be doing a fundraiser for Haiti near Valentine’s Day 2. Teaze will reunite in Japan. This has gotten very complex. New offshoot projects, sponsors, and the need to build anticipation with international co-operation has pushed the actual projections for the peak event into the fall of 2019. In the meantime there are a myriad of small events happening and we have a book to get out… 4. Jael will do a missions tour to Africa, India & Thailand. Africa keeps expanding to include new countries. We started with 2 and may end up with 6 on the continent as well as 2 in Asia. 5. No changes to the grassroots West Coast tour to report. Books. 1. We are working on a Biography of Brian's story. This is now high priority to complete. Look for 1st draft completion by New Years Day. 2. Jael will release a number of his Children's Picture Books and has 2 non-fiction, a novel and a poetry gift book in the works. Work on promoting those already out has to get better so please help spread the word. Look for Eight Keys to Lasting Success or for Dynamite the Dinosaur (The book…there is also a CD) if you want to check out what’s already out. Demand is growing and the websites will be out soon after the music ones are finished. 3. Rachel Starr Thomson of Lamenting Vinyl is well established as an author and speaker. She has begun work on a new Christian Fantasy series (her 4th) and has finished the first book of the set. It's called Seeds. More about her and her work here. https://rachelstarrthomson.com/ Recently we were asked about Rachel’s latest book and when we started talking about Seeds, they seemed confused. They meant her latest non-fiction work which is called, Fearless (Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety). Co-authored with her two ministry partners, It’s well worth checking out. As you can see, we have our work cut out for us. In the meantime, we have to find time to eat and sleep, and the means to be able to do so. If this inspires you, go to Patreon and pledge. Check back often, we'll be updating regularly. We will reward you handsomely for being a more significant part of the team that will make this happen. We will be launching 2 more crowdfunding projects on other sites if you’d rather pledge a one-time gift to make something specific happen. Details are coming in the next newsletter. Love you all. https://www.patreon.com/jael Our Philosophy and How We Are Creating Value for You Our goal is to give away all digital products we create and sell the stuff that's physical merchandise. To do this we need support. The older stuff that is under a contract, of course, we won't be able to make the same offer but starting with a few of my (Jael) older albums and the new projects, the digital copies of music will intentionally be given under a new license and they will be free. My idea is that the music comes to me as a gift from God and you should pay more attention than money. I give it because people tell me that the joy, the encouragement, the praise, the lessons, the parables, the calls to action found in it have helped them in some way. It's a theme of my life. It's called ministry and I have been dubbed a parable singer by some who know me well. It's not all religious but it is all intended to honour the Creator God I serve. So thank Him if you like it. For subscribers, I send links to things you might have missed in other places. For this newsletter, I am putting up a video link to one of the first songs I posted to N1M that somehow just disappeared back before I had really made a commitment to be on N1M, It is a Danter song that actually started to show up on Canadian radio but was pulled due to a bout with cancer right after release. Brian has fully recovered, thank God but it was a bit scary then. We are now just getting to seriously promote it for the second time. So here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqe3e3m-AT4 Click to watch. Most of the product that is on N1M, you can buy on I-tunes or similar sites and once we get our own sites back up and running I'll be announcing the grand opening in this newsletter. Please consider supporting our mission on Patreon. Here's the link again. https://www.patreon.com/jael