We are entering an awesome new season of availability for concerts and itinerant worship leading and we are trying to get the word out.  We have been full-time arts and worship pastors at our local fellowship, New Covenant Christian Fellowship since 2005 and it has been an amazing experience.  We have benefited so much by putting down roots here in Colorado.  It has been good for our kids to come off of the road for a season too.  By September, we will be working only half-time at New Covenant and to us, it seems the best of both worlds.  Since we have been off the road, we have missed live performance and the adventure and joy that comes from being with new people in new places. We will still be leading worship at New Covenant on a fairly regular basis and pastoring a group of folks as well.  But we can't WAIT to come see you…..

In the past six months we have been experimenting with traveling again and we are loving it. We have been loading up our bambinos and doing a mixture of house concerts, church concerts and worship events.  We love all three of these avenues and are chomping at the bit to do more.  So, tell your friends – the Pattys are back.  If we can serve you, wherever you are, in any of those capacities, please let us know.  We are booking for the summer and fall right now. 

And now to the woman who makes it all possible, Melissa Clegg.  Melissa has been working with us since October 2008.  As you may remember from our blog back then, she gave up her secure employment and took a risk on us.  Her duties have included childcare, admin. and everything that goes with travel and performance.  She has wiped noses, typed memos, practiced for hours, loaded and unloaded bazillions of times, performed and ministered to audiences of all sizes and has done it all like a champ. Her servant's heart is her motivation and in the process, she has become a part of our family.

It is hard for us to convey what she means to us.  It's like duplicating ourselves in so many ways.  With Melissa around, the admin. work is divided and conquered.  The kid to adult ratio goes up and the overwhelmed feeling goes down.  The music sounds better.  She is a huge source of blessing to us and we are stupendously grateful to all of you who have given towards her salary to give the gift of Melissa to us.  If you are interested in giving us some more Melissa, we would be so blessed!  You can do that by either clicking on the donations tab to your right or sending a check payable to Ascension Arts to the mailing address listed on our contact page.  All gifts are tax-deductible.

P.S.  We are touring in Alberta in July, so you Albertans let us know if you want some Pattersons!