“The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few, ask the Lord of the harvest therefore to send out workers into his harvest field.”    - Matt. 9:37

This was our first CD.  We called it “The Harvest” for a number of reasons.  First of all, the content is very evangelistic, speaking to the unbeliever about the need to be saved and also to the believer about the need to share Christ.  Secondly, we got married with the intent to serve God in the fields of lost souls.  Also, since I wasn’t a songwriter (or a musician for that matter) until after I got saved, I looked at the songs as tools for ministry and felt God had given a harvest of songs born from His heart, not mine.

When Mary Ann and I were married just a few years, God was working seemingly a lifetime worth of trials and fires in our lives.  Some people we knew were convinced we would fall down and perish.  This only strengthened our resolve and our mindset was and always has been, “Launch Out into the Deep.”  
We have worked hard all our life and the great catch just hasn’t come but we heed the voice of our Savior as He said to Peter after they had been fishing all night, “Simon, launch out into the deep and prepare for a catch (literally a haul).  Peter said, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing, nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net.”  Luke 5:4.  

This CD is interesting because we finished ten songs and were just about ready to go to press when the folks at National Day of Prayer (NDP) asked if I could write them a song to match a video they produced to promote NDP at various churches worldwide. So I wrote “Heaven’s Calling” and when the video arrived, this song seemed like a perfect fit. I ended up adding this song to the CD and used it as my title track. Mary Ann sings a lot more on the project than the previous two, so enjoy.