danny Donnelly

www.stevegrace.com

The first song played in The Barn was a song called ‘Come To Jesus’. Steve Grace hadn’t picked up a a guitar for a long while and was visiting the Willers Perry and MaryAnn from Australia. I had met Steve before but it had been a while. It was freezing out in this massive box that we had hoped would be a place to record one day. I will never forget that night. Two years later Steve would come back and record Come To Jesus for the ‘Better Days Ahead’ project. We use the rhythm section from the Monday night at Metro Calvary band. Timeless simple songs that don’t skirt the issue of truth which is Jesus. It’s the best how Steve is not afraid to just say it in a lyric and he is always writing where ever I see him in his blackberry. An evangelist, truck driver, spray painter, and great songwriter. As I write this the Grace family is on the Better Days Ahead tour. Looking forward to the flood of God stories and how the Lord used this cd to encourage the desperate, hurting farmers in the outback of Australia. Since the making of Better Days Ahead the Grace family has taken on a non- profit ministry out of Northern California called World Missions International.

www.pottersfield.org

Mike and Pam have been a huge encouragement in Rachel and my Life. I remember watching a video tape of Mike and Pam’s ministry at Rachel’s grand parents when no one was home, and just crying as Mike shared about the potter and the clay and their testimony as a couple. This cd project is pre-barn So Cal days. The picture I have in my memory of record this is playing the solo on ‘There Is A Redeemer’ and being in this tiny tiny space Stick to record in. And at the plumbing company next store they had a huge pipe break and I remember watching the water move through the carpet under my feet and we just kept working! This is a neat collection of worship songs arranged by Pam and myself. This project opened a huge door of tons of ministry and lives being encouraged and souls being ultimately won to Christ. Later, once Rachel and I moved to Northern California Mike and Pam came up to work again on more music including re-recording and producing the original tracks for the Potters Field presentation. Mike and Pam head up Potters Field Ranch in Montana and an started an Orphanage in El Salvador.

www.stevegrace.com

Jordan Grace asked me to help him capture some songs he had been working on for awhile and really wanted to put them on cd for the fall tour with his pops Steve Grace. I was impressed as this 15 year old came with 30 songs and a heart to charge for the Lord. It was really sweet to pray for this young man as he would be leaving the next day to a small village in Alaska to bring hope and the Gospel message accompanied with music to hurting people who had lost everything. It will be a blast to see how the Lord uses Jordan’s gifts in the years to come.