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These past few months have been a whirlwind but I would not change a thing. We kicked off our Spring with an amazing five days in Destin Florida with our dear friends (The Stuarts) from Franklin, TN. That was one of the most relaxing vacations we have ever been on. We literally slept, ate and ran around in our bathing suits all day, everyday. Insert note for the reader, from the author: of which I wore a two piece, first time in years! At the end of day five we were golden brown and revived to take on the world. Let me pause again to laugh at that! With every good intention comes a whole lot of obstacle. One thing I can say for certain is patience is having its good work in me! The more I am made to wait, the more patient I become. Isn’t that phenomenal how that works like that. You can fight it and get really anxious or you can roll with it and learn things will hardly ever go as you plan but by all means, keep on planning. Alot of times, they will go way better than you had planned, after you stop and take a moment to look back on how it all worked out.

One of my current favorite authors says it best: Faith is the patience with mystery that allows you to negotiate the stages. It allows God to lead you through darkness, where God knows and I don’t. This is the only way to come to love. Love is the true goal. Faith is the process of getting there and hope is the willingness to live without resolution or closure. If we are not trained in a trust of mystery and some degree of tolerance for ambiguity, frankly we will not proceed very far on the spiritual journey! R. Rohr

Go ahead and read that again if you must. It’s worth the time invested to read it and then read it again. The more I learn to enjoy the moment I am in, the less I am concerned with the moments of all my tomorrows. I am truly learning to make every moment count and to keep myself alert yet at rest. That in and of itself is a tricky balance, one that can only be kept by staying nestled under the wings of Truth and Love! I have found that if I do not tuck under daily, the balance begins to shift and everything leans to the left. I then find myself walking at a slant and I sure get a lot of funny stares.

Considering the fact that it’s way past my bedtime, I will end this journal entry the way it began (hey look, we are full circle). Now for the updates and hoopla of Annagail and the Adams Family: Our very first music video is being finalized, Annagail’s interview is complete and soon to be on youtube, a fun new sitcom is in the works, our single has made it to the movie of the month, “Decision” and will be out in September on the GMC channel, our story is being aired on TCT this fall, radio tour continues, Jared got his first tatoo and I was supposed to get a matching one and instead decided my nose piercing was enough, Faith is adding to her list of experiences more voice overs and has a heart bigger than the sky, Grace is learning to sing more than one note and they both keep us laughing, we are signed up to adopt again, we have walked with family members through loss of job and home, we have faced more illness in the past year than in the past fifteen years, we laugh more, love more, cry more and forgive more than ever before and we are alive to tell about it!

Stay tuned for more exciting updates at non regular intervals.

Truly yours,

Sparrow

We are honored by all the amazing folks that have, are, and will pledge to be a part of this process and contribute to ensure we are able to continue our journey to see some moments of joy brought to broken hearts and weary lives. Family, friend and fan all mean the same thing here.  Thank you for your courage and faith to partner with us.  It’s a beautiful and exciting thing to witness when steps of faith and commitment lead you into levels and places you never knew were possible.

If you would like to partner financially with Annagail but are a little leery of the crazy intraweb and your money doing a cybernetic tango, then you can make checks payable to Havilah Global (a wonderful non-profit that processes our donations) and mail to:

Havilah GlobalPO Box 113Zeeland, MI  49464

All donations to Havilah Global are tax deductible under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

The Cabin Sessions // 2010

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Annagail has always defied and stretched genres. But this focused EP, produced by Nashville hit-maker Keith Follese’ (Emerson Drive, Everfound, Adam Gregory) for Bigger Dog Productions, is a four song glimpse into the collection of influences that come through in their songs. Electronic flourishes meet undeniable organic hooks. It perfectly captures the powerful dynamics they’re known for. The production of this stellar project moves and builds each song into veritable anthems.

One of our lovely daughters, (and namesake of the band) Faith Annagail, has added “voice-over talent” to her resume.   She just completed a voice over for our friends at The Hands And Feet Project who do some amazing work in and around Jacmel Haiti.  The organization and orphanage was started by the late, great Audio Adrenaline and continues to bring awareness and relief to the suffering and devastation there.  The video she was involved in is a VBS project and is a free video based “add on” to a church’s existing VBS curriculum.  She was a natural in the studio, to no one’s surprise, and already has several more “in the works.”   Crazy…she can say she has job experience already.  She’ll be a veteran by 7 years old.  The project is five 3 minute video segments hosted by children from the Hands and Feet Project in Haiti. The videos describe day-to-day living at an orphanage in Haiti, and aim to teach, entertain and inspire.
The goal is to partner with churches and VBS programs to raise money to build homes and care for the orphans of Haiti.  Check it out below and pass it on.

Annagail’s “If All I Had” has been included on the new “We Are The World” disc released to radio. Annagail’s radio promoter for their current single “If All I Had,” Rick Hendrix Company, and “We Are the World” have partnered to release the song. Following the earthquake in Haiti, which devastated the area, it was agreed that the song would be re-recorded by new artists, in the hope that it would reach a new generation and help benefit the people of Haiti. The song was recorded in fourteen hours by over eighty artists on February 1, and was released and debuted on February 12, 2010, during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Rick Hendrix and his Rick Hendrix Foundation have been active in Haiti since the devastation. “We opened several short term medical facilities in the area and treated over 5000 people within 9 days,” stated Lavon Coleman chairman of the Rick Hendrix Foundation. The Hendrix company’s heart is on Haiti and feels the partnership with “We Are the World 25 for Haiti” is a perfect fit.

“We are honored to be included on such an amazing project,” say’s Annagail’s Jared Adams. “It’s humbling…not only for the scope of it’s compassion but to be listed alongside some truly legendary artists like The Gaither Vocal Band to Michael Jackson and the myriad of artist that this song brought together. Annagail’s Jennifer Adams agrees, “We are grateful and can only pray this helps the situation in Haiti and brings more awareness to the on-going needs.”

I realized, during my subsequent ‘identity-crisis-inducing-sabbatical from performing music,’ that I had justified spiritual inertia with rational hesitancy. Meaning, I had deep, literate excuses of why I had been withholding pursuing prayer for a perspective shift on how to be great in the kingdom. And how to craft a legacy by the direction of the Holy Spirit though the very tools that have been in front of me all along.  It just seemed like too much work.  Let’s be honest….who really wants to work on…*yawn*…changing themselves. I’ve seen and often downplayed the calling on our lives and it’s only increased since Jen and I have strived to walk in unity and longing to fulfill all he has for us. But laying it down to re-polarize has made a world of difference. So, we’re not afraid to be great anymore for the kingdom; and that is spoken from a place of spiritual maturity we’ve never been at before. I’m ready to let the gifts he has placed in us and the amazing, radical team of friends and associates from Nashville, which share our vision and heart for the kingdom, be turned loose.  If that isn’t an impressive thought, surely the run-on sentence is.

Ambition has died and been replaced with a sweet understanding of spiritual fulfillment.

The view is remarkable.

The element of struggle is gone.  The restlessness is at peace.   A joyous ‘leadership death’ of all the ways I have steered this career and band has occurred and it’s worth celebrating.  I was climbing the ladder with an ever present twinge of discontent and unsettled spirit because it always needed something more to keep it’s appetite satisfied by ambitious endeavors to conquer.  I was quite literally, building my own kingdom and then hoping God would approve it for His own when I was finished with it.  We hadn’t been “un-successful” by any standards; lots of incredible opportunities. But chasing the promise we thought we had been given so many years ago had led to a perpetual pursuit that fed daily on our once pure passion. It slowly contorted into this monster that’s plagued so many artists: AMBITION

Webster’s defines it as: “an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as wealth or fame, and the willingness to strive for it.”   The word translated “ambition” in the New American Standard is rendered “strife” in the King James.   Left blindly unchecked for many years, it takes on an insatiable life of its own.  We’ve fought the strife dragon for years.   It’s left a shattered trail of neighborhood shrapnel long enough to make Mr. Rogers flip in his grave. It eats away community through competition, comparison and envy…all the while we felt the “earnest” engine chugging away to keep turning an ignorant eye.

I think I can, I think I can…I think I…can lose my mind… It robs valuable time from your assignment and it steals relationships because the focus is on ‘attaining’ and not ‘attention.’ Read any bio on a band’s website, read an article, listen to an interview. “If you like (band x) then check out my site.”  Or “Check out my new songs and let me know what you think.!” A virus of desperation can creep in. We are living in the age of artists riding the technological ‘slip and slide’ of affirmation. Once aware, you see and hear the influence and danger of rouge ambition in every angle and language. The music industry is wrought with it. “Unmet Needs.” The modern musican’s cologne.

Sweet Lord.  It comes out in desperate yet subtle ways, needing to be affirmed, moving up one more rung in the artists heart until it poisons the motive and purity of what God put there first place as a beautiful creative seed. The mission can be from God, but the motive is your own. Man can make plans but God orders his steps. Whether rock star or worship leader…