Every Nation Churches & Ministries

We were based in Johannesburg, and, uh, I went and studied music there at, uh, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits, and it's there I met my wife as well.

At that time that we made the record, I was also, uh, concurrently working as music director for Every Nation Ministries in Johannesburg, and that's kind of where the, the project was birthed out of.

So at the top of this episode, we played "His Eye is on the Sparrow." How does that song fit into the overall scheme of the project, and what does it mean to you?

Eliska was, when she was researching the repertoire for the album, she was interested in a lot of Mahalia Jackson, and so we were trying to find all the songs that could lend themselves to that sort of vocal delivery.

You do have some African language songs on this album.

How did you come up with those, and how were those done authentically for this album?

This was 2017, so I'd been working for Every Nation Ministries for a number of years, maybe two or three years.

I was music director there, and we had a, we had a massive team of, like, anywhere between 45 to 80 musicians at different points, and vocalists and things.