[Johnny] There are definitely things that we
learned at Biola that really stuck with us, like an
emphasis on Biblical truth in lyrics and the idea
of worship not being limited to music but of
music being a means of worship. I think those
things really stuck with us from Biola, but Hume
was definitely a forming time because we had
to make the decision, “OK, are we going to
really leave everything behind and pursue this
100% - like quitting our job or quitting whatever
career we were going for or plans we had?”
and we put everything on hold just to go for
it. Because, at Hume, you would move up
there for like months at a time and that turned
into over half the year, we were up there. Then
in the fall, we would tour. So, that was very
formative in our own walk with the Lord and in
our faith. Hume is not a place where bands can
be “divas” or bands can just do their thing on
stage and then leave and not talk to anyone. It’s
a place where your running recreation games…
you’re up at 7AM doing a dawn patrol acoustic
worship service or worship under the stars…
worship around the fire for a victory circle at
the end of the week. We were just full bore!
Worship was a small part of what we did and
I feel like that really formed how we view what
we do and also how we view the people we
are interacting with and how important it is for
us to interact with people outside of being on
a microphone. We would do things like leading
devotions or just having coffee with students –
learning about their lives. One of the first tag-
lines we ever put to our name was “A Life of
Worship” and I think that’s something we really
learned at Hume. Music was a small part of our
worship lifestyle. We’re very indebted to that
time. We grew a lot and it kept us in a really
of leading people in worship and not becoming shut out my influences and the bands that I a distraction, but cohesively working as a unit like because I was just trying to sound different in leading people. than them. But realizing that no one else can [WM] When did you begin to shift from being
have my combination of likes and passions and a worship band playing other people’s songs to
There have been plenty of lines that we’ve especially in a group setting when you put it writing your own? And do you still mix up your
written and we’re like, “it just feels too showy” together and you all are excited about it, it will set with originals and covers?
and it did not feel like it accomplishes the heart be uniquely different.
of the song. It just felt like I was trying to show
humble place doing what we’re doing.
[Emily] I think Hume definitely played a part
off. Or, it can be the other way around where [WM] Tell us about your time at the Hume in that. Up until Hume, we really didn’t have a
the song feels like it needs more because it’s Lake Youth camp, how that came about, and reason to name ourselves in any way. It was
just too basic. I think for a long time, I tried to how you grew as a band there? like, we would play a couple of conferences and
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