Worth Dying For will release its newest album Live Riot February 7, 2012
Worth Dying For: New Church, New Album, New Baby
Its been a busy year for Christie and Jeremy Johnson, founders of Worth Dying For. With their first child on the way and planting a church this month, this powerful duo is pushing forward as they release their fourth album Live Riot.
Live Riot, an album filled with the fresh sounds that include new worship leaders Dalisha Turner, Deanna Joven, Nick Morris, Rochelle Leguern, and Sarah Agbayani, as well as the group's original members, presents Worth Dying For in way we haven't heard them before.
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"Its live, its not a studio album. We've been doing a lot of studio albums in the past. Its been going great but we just wanted to do something live because it captures another side of Worth Dying For that the world doesn't even know of that we've always had in us because we do live stuff all the time and its exciting."
"I thought, why don't we just do another record though this time capturing what it is to…interact with thousands of people in a room worshiping God with one voice, one sound and the record just had so much energy, so much passion captured. We just – we love it. We feel like its one of our best projects yet." Christie told BREATHEcast.
With the energy that a live recording brings, along with new voices, this album finds the group tapping back into their roots, expressing the newly birthed passion of one who has just come to Christ.
"It really captures where we started, the roots of what we do. Our whole band was birthed out of our teenagers back home just getting saved for the first time, coming from ruff families, just whatever, all different backgrounds; and us, really feeling like, we need a right sound that echoed our culture in our church and what God was building in the church and the youth ministry of Calvary Temple."
"And so, that's where Worth Dying For started. Starting with our worship team from our youth group just writing songs that echoed what we were hearing God do in students lives, in our own lives, and the message being preached," said Jeremy, co founder of the group.
Planting a church in Los Angeles in 2012, the church won't be the first time that they've raised people but a continuation of their fearless ministry.
"Me and my husband really have a mandate for our lives that I think everyone does. Its to go make disciples and so I know I'm not in it [for] – God hasn't just given me this gift just to live and breathe and to die with it but to impart into this next generation and empower them."
" I have such a passion to other young men and women rise up in this area. If they're called to lead worship, if they're called to the creative arts, to pull that strand of God that's inside of them out and push them. That's what somebody did for me when I was young and I wouldn't be singing if wasn't for this lady [named] Angela doing it in my life. You know, seeing something in me that I didn't see in myself."
"So I think me and my husband really believe in these kids and we started an internship a couple of years ago and it grew from about – actually it was probably about zero people. It was either one or zero (she laughs)…"
"We still had this vision and burning desire in our hearts to see this next generation rise up in their call and so we actually started doing this a couple years ago, training up pastors, training up youth pastors, senior pastors. I mean it didn't matter who it was. Worship leaders, musicians of many kinds and we had about 40 interns that its grown to and half of those are, about 20 of those were worship interns…" said Christie.
With their hands on the next generation in more than one way, they are about to experience the most intimate means of raising people with the forth coming birth of their first child.
Despite the excited couple undergoing a painful miscarriage last year, they didn't waver and faith.
"I served the Lord through my miscarriage last year. We lost a baby but we kept trying and believing and I'm just excited to say that God has given us what we have believed for for so long and I am almost six months pregnant now with a little girl. And God just been so faithful to us through the good times and the bad times."
