“Joining Our Voices” is taken from the text of the Eucharistic liturgy of the Anglican/Episcopal Church. It is excerpted from the prayers that lead into recalling what our Saviour did to restore us to the Father, just before the singing of the Sanctus. "Therefore, joining our voices with angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven, who forever sing this hymn to glorify your name, ..."

The mission of Joining Our Voices is to find expression of the sounds of heavenly worship here on earth. The sound of heavenly worship will not necessarily be just what we hear in our church on Sunday mornings, nor of that heard in the new "outer sanctuaries" of fields, stadiums, and concert halls with modern "edgy" music (that I happen to love and enjoy leading). It will be the sound of multitudes from different tribes and tongues and nations, expressing their heartfelt worship in a blended sound of world-beat! Worship that represents much more than the church of the west which shrinks in comparison to the rapidly emerging church in developing nations! Nations such as Sudan, China, and other places where worship often takes the form of literally offering up one's life unto death.

This offering of one's life unto death is where Even In Sorrow comes in as an inaugural project, "eaves-dropping" on the sound of worship in heaven. It is introducing the songs of the persecuted multitudes in Sudan to the rest of the western world, a sound and concept that is unfamiliar to our ears and to our hearts. The intention of this project is to help the church in the west begin to merge with the church in the rest of the world, truly functioning as "One Body", singing as one, and caring enough about the other members of this Body so that we realize the truth of the statement, "when one member suffers, the whole body suffers!"