Word to Release WOW Worship (Purple) on March 2

Newest title in the multi-platinum series features worship songs
by favorite Christian artists with three brand new recordings

Word Entertainment is proud to announce its continued partnership in the WOW brand with the March 2 release of WOW Worship (Purple). This new collection compiles the biggest worship songs of the Church, sung by the most popular artists in Christian music.

Featuring 30 songs on two CDs, WOW Worship (Purple)’s songlist includes “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)” by Chris Tomlin, “Mighty To Save (Live)” from Hillsong United, MercyMe’s “You Reign,” “Everything Glorious” by David Crowder*Band, Casting Crowns’ “All Because Of Jesus” and “Shout Unto God” from Michael W. Smith. In addition to these popular songs, this project also features three brand new recordings – Francesca Battistelli singing “Lead Me To The Cross,” Leeland covering Delirious?’s “Majesty (Here I Am)” and Matthew West’s version of “The Wonderful Cross.”

This newest title in the WOW series will see promotional support from various partners in the retail, radio and online communities. National account retailers and independent Christian stores are promoting WOW Worship (Purple) as a key traffic-driver for the Easter selling season by providing ideal positioning and aggressive sale pricing. On the radio front, the KLOVE radio network will host several radio contests sponsored by WOW, including fly-aways and private concerts with WOW artists. And the online space will be spearheaded by HereItFirst.com and the re-designed WOWiloveChristianmusic.com, the home for the entire WOW brand. Aggressive marketing though Tangle.com, social media networks like Facebook and various Christian music blogs brings significant online awareness to this release.

The Word Entertainment-distributed release is part of the multi-platinum WOW brand series. Created through the partnership between the three largest Christian music/entertainment companies in the industry, including, EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Music Group and Word Entertainment, the marketing and distribution of WOW projects are shared among the companies, with Word leading efforts for Wow Worship (Purple). The entire WOW branded series (Worship, Gospel, Hits and specialty releases) now tops 22 million units in sales.

For more information, visit the official WOW website at WOWiloveChristianmusic.com.


WOW Worship (Purple) Track Listing:
DISC 1:
1. Your Grace Is Enough – Matt Maher
2. Everlasting God – Lincoln Brewster
3. Shout Unto God – Michael W. Smith
4. You Never Let Go – Matt Redman
5. Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) – Chris Tomlin
6. Mighty To Save – Hillsong United
7. Revelation Song – Kari Jobe
8. Lead Me To The Cross – Francesca Battistelli
9. Hosanna (Praise Is Rising) – Brenton Brown
10. All Because Of Jesus – Casting Crowns
11. The Wonderful Cross – Matthew West
12. Your Name – Paul Baloche
13. You Reign – MercyMe
14. New Song We Sing – Meredith Andrews
15. Beautiful Jesus – Kristian Stanfill

DISC 2:
1. I Am Free – Newsboys
2. Everything Glorious – David Crowder*Band
3. How Great Is Our God – Hillsong London
4. God Of This City – Passion
5. Majesty (Here I Am) – Leeland
6. Give Us Clean Hands – Kutless
7. Hosanna – Selah
8. Marvelous Light – Charlie Hall
9. Song Of Hope (Heaven Come Down) – Robbie Seay Band
10. Desert Song – Natalie Grant
11. You’re Worthy Of My Praise – Big Daddy Weave/BarlowGirl
12. My Savior My God – Aaron Shust
13. You Are Good – Israel Houghton
14. Happy Day – Tim Hughes
15. Forever Reign – One Sonic Society


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Hillsong United turns lens on world's neediest

Christian band's movie is a call to action


Imagine finding yourself in the center of an African clinic one day, a Malaysian orphanage a day later, a Brazilian slum the next, and a Los Angeles soup kitchen the following day.

These drop-in visits continue, day after day, for three years in a row as you circle the globe, coming face to face with the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the orphaned, the abandoned in 93 cities on six continents.

In between the heartwrenching scenarios, you and your buddies go on stage and lead thousands of Christians in a few hours of praise and worship music.

Then it's on to the next location.

That's the sort of daily schedule the members of Australian band Hillsong United experienced over the last few years and which they have documented in the new movie The I Heart Revolution: We're All in this Together.

The two-hour documentary premiered in the United States and Canada Wednesday for a one-night-only showing, including the Cinema De Lux theaters in Maumee.

Preceding the movie debut, band members discussed the project and played a few songs in a live video sent by satellite from their home turf in Sydney, Australia. The program, which was not advertised much in the Toledo area, drew about 50 people locally.

Joel Houston, one of the founders of Hillsong United and son of Hillsong Church's pastor Brian Houston, said the initial idea for the movie was to tell the stories of people they encountered in their travels.

But like many creative projects, the concept shifted and evolved as the filming progressed.

It became something more. Much more.

We're All in this Together is not just a bunch of individual stories strung together, it's a call to action.

Filmed in a fast-changing, often frenetic pace of scenes and viewpoints that are hallmarks of buster-generation filmography, the movie will push American audiences way out of their comfort zones.

Early on, we see grainy images of Hillsong United musicians and crew hauling luggage, waiting in lines, staring wearily at airline arrival and departure screens, wondering even where they are.

A blur of city signs whips across the screen: Sao Paolo, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Rio, Phoenix, Paris, Quezon City. …

Disjointed at first and occasionally rambling, the film's big-hearted message starts coming to life with Robert F. Kennedy's eloquent and visionary speech - given at Cape Town University in 1966 - cutting through the chaos.

"Everywhere new technology and communications [bring] men and nations closer together, the concerns of one inevitably [become] the concerns of all. And our new closeness is stripping away the false masks, the illusion of differences which is the root of injustice and of hate and of war. Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ends at river shore, his common humanity is enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town or his views and the color of his skin.

"It is - It is your job, the task of young people in this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man," Kennedy says in his famously nasal Bostonian voice.

Condensed history lessons, presented with flashy graphics and voice-overs, pop up throughout the film, explaining such landmark events as the British abolition movement, the Little Rock 9, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The most compelling scenes, by far, are when the camera zeroes in on the forlorn faces and ragged clothes of children living on the streets, apparently in every major city and nation the band visits.

The contrasts are striking. One moment Hillsong United is at a press conference being treated like rock stars, or performing concerts before tens of thousands of fans. Then we see them walking along dirt paths holding hands with emaciated orphans, or playing soccer with street kids.

Martin Smith of the British band Delirious?, who is interviewed several times in the film, said it "messes with your head" to be feeding the poor and destitute during the day and then jetting off to spend the night in a luxury hotel.

Hillsong United's band members, wearing their fashionable skinny jeans, T shirts, and hoodies, express the questions and feelings that will be weighing on the minds of everyone watching.

What can one person do? The needs are overwhelming. I feel so inept.

The only antidote they can think of is love.

"From the beggar to the king, from the famous to the faceless, everybody needs love," one voice-over states.

That leads into some Bible verses and "the one story," as Joel Houston says of Jesus' death on the cross.

"To be honest, I feel I don't know anything except the one thing - God is love," he says.

Another voice offers this compelling insight: "Jesus didn't die to give us religion. He died to show us love."

The Christian message of the movie is clear and fitting for a documentary about a globe-trotting Christian rock band. But the goal of the filmmakers has no religious or social boundaries or limits: Get off the couch, get out of the house, get involved.

More information on The I Heart Revolution: We're All in this Together is available online at i-heart.org.

- David Yonke


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Hillsong film plays on local screens

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International Christian group Hillsong United makes its U.S. big screen debut featuring "The I Heart Revolution" project in "Hillsong United: We're All In This Together" special in-theater event at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4. Tickets are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com.

Local screens include: Cantera 30, 28250 Diehl Rd., Warrenville, $15; South Barrington 30 With Imax, 175 Studio Dr., Barrington, $15; Cinemark Woodridge 17 With Imax, 6500 Route 53, Woodridge, $15; Cinemark -- Joliet, 3340 Mall Loop Dr., Joliet, $15; Randall 15 With Imax, 550 N. Randall Rd., Batavia, $12.50; Naperville Showplace, 2815 Show Place Dr., Naperville, $15; New Lenox Showplace, 1320 W. Maple St., New Lenox, $15; Showplace 16, 5000 Northwest Hwy., Crystal Lake, $15.

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Hillsong United on screen

INTERNATIONAL Christian music sensation Hillsong United makes its South African big-screen debut on November 18 at 8 pm at all Nu Metro cinemas.

The film features the band’s The I Heart Revolution project in Hillsong United: We’re All In This Together, and a series of new songs documents its cross-cultural journey through six continents, 42 nations and 93 cities where they encounter people of faith addressing ­human slavery, child soldiers, displaced refugees, extreme poverty and other ­global concerns.

Filmed over three years, the documentary follows the band as it is confronted by stories of individuals facing injustice and hardships around the globe.

“It’s a story made up of many stories, told by many voices, and no individual voice is any more or any less important than any other,” says lead singer Joel Houston. “Yet every voice working together ultimately tells the one story — a story that involves everyone; that captures our collective and idiosyncratic purpose in one.”

Hillsong United began in Sydney, Australia, as the youth movement in Hillsong Church. Over a decade later, the band travels globally with a message of hope.

Book at any Nu Metro cinema, at www.numetro.co.za 0861 Cinema (0861 246362) or by cellphone at m.numetro.co.za

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