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Grammy Award Winner
Grammy Award Winner

Number One Christian Band Billboard Magazine...Last Four Years!
Number One Christian Band Billboard Magazine...Last Four Years!
By Ian Cone

trying to draw from a career, you’re in
trouble. If you are trying to draw from
your strengths, strengths come and go. All
these things are really holes, not wells.
Jesus is the well.”
Remembering that simple, but powerful
truth has served Hall and his bandmates
(Megan Garrett, Melodee DeVevo, Hector
Cervantes, Chris Huffman, Juan DeVevo
and Brian Scoggin) well, particularly
over the last few years as they’ve juggled
faith, family, music and ministry. Even
as Casting Crowns has become Christian
music’s most successful act, Hall and his
fellow band members have continued
working at their home churches. Hall has
remained a youth pastor at Eagles Landing
Baptist Church, even as the band’s music
ministry has gained global acclaim.

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On its fifth studio album, Hall once again
takes some of the messages he’s shared with
students and parents at Eagles Landing and
pours them into songs. “Teaching through
the story of the woman at the well with my
teenagers and my families is where it all
came from,” Hall says of the inspiration
for the new album.
n the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it is often hard to stay
focused on the things that are truly important, but sometimes
all it takes is a song to remind us.

Over the past eight years, Atlanta-based Casting Crowns has
consistently delivered music that points believers back to what
truly matters, and the band does so yet again on “Come to the Well.”
Casting Crowns continues to deliver passionate, thought provoking
music; yet, these songs are among the most intensely personal offerings
the group has ever shared.
“As a believer, all of your life has to stem from what you draw
from,” says Casting Crowns front man and principal songwriter
Mark Hall. “If you’re drawing from a marriage, you’re in trouble
because that person wasn’t created to complete you. If you are

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“Your friends aren’t the well. They aren’t
always going to do the right thing or be
there for you. You draw from Jesus. You pour into your friends.
Your scholarship can’t be the well. If your knee goes out, your
well is dry. You need to draw from Jesus, pour into that. It became
such a theme for everything that I have been teaching. Your walk
with Jesus is where it all starts. It’s where it all comes from. That
is where it started with the idea of Jesus being the well versus other
things. I knew before any other songs were written that this album
had to be called ‘Come to the Well,’ because that’s the central theme
of everything we’re going to talk about in the next two years.” In
addition to the new album, Hall has also authored a new book titled,
‘The Well: Why Are So Many Still Thirsty?’ “It’s the story of the
woman at the well and when she first meets Jesus,” Hall explains.
Jesus says: ‘If you knew who you were [