We want to rave, once again, on our latest album release featuring Karla Adolphe of Jacob and Lily from Winnipeg, Canada. This new Chair and Microphone, Vol. 3 album sounds so beautiful, simple, and contains some incredible pictures of God’s heart looking for family and orphan spirits looking for home! Chord charts will be online in a week or two.

The Fourth Circle, already selling into the thousands, is so much fun…and so much fun to play. Did you know that the lyrics and chord charts are all in our store for FREE? Just click the “More” button by the name of any song you like!

We want to give you 10% off of the new Chair and Microphone, Vol. 3 MP3 Album download. Just put it in your cart and put chair3forme in the coupon code field until June 25th! Enjoy!

Yes, friends, it is finally here! Featured on this album is the lovely and passionate Karla Adolphe of Jacob and Lily from Winnipeg, Canada. We met Karla and Gary, her husband, several years ago at a workshop for developing arts missionaries and just loved them both right away. We have become great friends and love spending time together.

In traditional Chair and Microphone (and Enter The Worship Circle for that matter) style we recorded this album in about 4 or 5 days. We used our studio space here in our home, and captured some wonderful songs on both guitars and piano–an old stanky upright with some gorgeous, thick tones.

The album is available in both MP3 and CD form right away! Come on over and give it a listen for free before you buy!

Yes! The Fourth Circle is available in CD! While our MP3 album and MP3 downloads have been selling like hotcakes we have been hard at work to bring you the album on CD and it is finally here. Our new packaging is sleek and slim, environmentally friendly (no wraps and plastics to trash), and, in our opinion, is just beautiful. Thanks Boyd Dupree and Todd Berger for the excellent job on the artwork!

Visit this link in the store and get your copy now for only $11.98.

Would you like to give an MP3 to a friend? Share this code with them to use in the store checkout and they will receive one free MP3 during the month of May 2008! Code: loveyourpeople
This is, by the way, the kind of regular privilege our TRIBE members share together…unique codes to get tons of free stuff and to share with their tribe!

As of May 1st, early in the am hours, the new premium service called the TRIBE was officially launched! Formerly “Backstage” this new resource is designed to encourage you, equip you, and help you love your tribe of people! When you join you get these two hot privileges:

1. Receive an exclusive, password protected, podcast featuring much more personal conversations with Ben and Robin Pasley, twice a month.

2. You will have FREE access to everthing (everything!) in the FOR THE TRIBE area of our online store! This stuff–and the coupon codes you use to get the stuff–are for you to share with your tribe! See…we told you we wanted to help!

How do I get my Username and Password? Simple! Join the TRIBE! Then you will receive coupon codes (in each downloaded episode) that give you access to all the free stuff in the online store!

If you have already been a Backstage Member then you will receive an email from us today providing Username and Password for one full year! (Sorry, if your iTunes subscription to the premium podcast caused you a scare today. As soon as you get your email from us with your access info you will plug it in, and all will work as it has before!)

Bonus: The Fourth Circle CD will be shipping by Monday, May 5th!

Oh, we just love it that you have subscribed to our blog…we get to give you stuff! We want to share a free song with you through Monday the 21st. Get the song “Never Again” from the Fourth Circle (this same song is featured on today’s Worship Circle Podcast) for free when you punch in this code at checkout: neveragain

Have you been to the iTunes store to check out our amazing podcast? Consider dropping by just to see the posts that are there for you…for free. Click this link to open up the iTunes store and see what we mean.

In the Worship Circle podcast we share songs, audio clips and interviews that feature Worship Circle artists and songs from our albums. Right now this podcast is giving behind the scenes stuff on the Fourth Circle you will find nowhere else.

Lastly, please, please, if you have even sampled the podcast click the “Write a Review” link in the lower right of the iTunes page and leave a note…it helps us and others so much when we get some feedback!

I don’t know if you know it, but we have just rolled out a serious invitation to you–our Worship Circle tribe. We just figured out that we could combine two things that we love the most in one Premium podcast (instead of the many we were projecting previously):

1) Get our tribe closer to us and one another, and

2) Give the tribe the stuff they need to love each other better!

Here is the super tight summary: sign up for TRIBE Podcast here, and get personal notes from Robin and I every other week, AND in each TRIBE Podcast get coupons for a TRIBE store area that only our tribe can enjoy for free! Right now: get 6 songs from Fourth Circle for free.

Here is the crazy part(s): We encourage you to give…give the TRIBE coupons to your tribe (in love), and we will let you set your own price for Backstage membership on May 1st…monthly donation style. To find out more–and get your free Fourth Circle songs–just sign up for the podcast or the blogfeed.

March 17th, on time, the album is up! You guys receiving our email or RSS feed will be able to nab a copy of the MP3 album (downloaded in a ZIP file) in the next 48 hours for 50% off! Crazy. Just go to this link to find the album, and put in this code in checkout: justice

The code will be hot until midnight March 21st, 2008!

Here is a excerpted review from a friend who just got the album: “OH MAN THIS IS FREAKIN’ INCREDIBLE! I can’t tell you guys how much I love the new CD–really, it has moved me and I’m wearing it out. When y’all sing for God to wake up and deal with the injustice and wickedness, a spirit of fire dances around inside and I can’t sit still. It brought me back to this moment in Eritrea along the border when a Tigray shepherd boy, probably 11 or 12 years old, stepped on one of the million land mines there. Much of one leg was destroyed as well a wounding to his hands and other leg. We got him to some basic medical help rather quickly, but the Eritrean President refused to allow a UN helicopter to pick him up, so he had to travel in truck for several hours to reach a hospital in Asmara. My guess is he probably didn’t survive. The song just brings out the pain of that injustice, yet leaves me with a sense of hope that God is with us. Thank you for letting your prophetic voices sing about family. The whole CD gives me hope that love is gaining momentum like the weight of a wave that is building and I want to ride it. “

Why? Because we made them just for you. Over the years it has been clear to us that what Enter The Worship Circle does best is equip others to say, “I can do it!” Our podcasts take this usefulness to the next level! Ever wanted to see a Worship Circle song being recorded? Ever wanted to hear the artist talk about why and where the song was written? Want to hear Ben and Robin teaching and equipping even though you couldn’t be there? We think the next 10 years for us will be more about these podcasts and less about many other kinds of media production…so get on board!

Here is how it works. First download iTunes if you don’t have it, it is fast, safe, and free. Then visit our Podcasts page at our website and choose one or all! The link will open iTunes, you choose “Subscribe” on the iTunes page, and you are done! Another way it go to the iTunes store and search “Worship Circle” to find all at one time. The new episodes will download whenever we release them, old ones will disappear off your computer, and if you don’t ever listen to the show the subscription will just go away. Wow.

Ok, we just couldn’t help it, we wanted to share more photos! Arequipa was a beautiful place, and though a small slice of Peruvian life, we are sure it was representative in many ways of the beauty of Peru. These pics (you can click them for a bigger view) give you a pic of a team breakfast, a big Saturday night concert shot, Tim feeding a fried cuy (guinea pig) who eventually fed us, and Jonadab a boy about seven who love percussion and is holding a little shaker we gave him that night at the concert. His family, and many friends, lost much in the earthquake in Peru last year and so were pleased to give them a drum and a guitar as well since they lost most of their possessions in the destruction.

I would like to take the time to commend our team Tim Thornton, Aaron Strumpel, Tracy Howe, Doug and Rita Roberts, who Robin and I had the pleasure to serve with…it was wonderful to work alongside family.  We would also drop this website address to our new friends there so you can read more and take interest in the work of great people.  In the right hand side of the page you will see more links to others in the area and more…

Hello, everyone! I am typing on a little table in our hotel the last night of our 10 days or so here in Arequipa, Peru. It has been great. Other than the usual stomach adventures we have had no serious obstacles to the work of encouraging the leaders, pastors, and people that we came to serve! Thanks for your prayers.

The picture is a shot of a songwriting session held in this very same room (where I am typing). Though we performed a large concert event, and had larger events during the week, these three songwriting sessions were some of our favorite works of the whole trip because we got to share our favorite Worship Circle encouragement: “You can do it!” In every session, every person–whether from this city or from a village high in the mountains where Spanish is not even their native tongue–wrote a new worship song on their own! This was as important fulfillment to the wishes of local leaders who wanted their people to be empowered to put worship and intercession into their own voice, in their own tongue…fantastic.