Songs for the Soul,  

        Hope for the Hurting

More than Music Inc. 

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June 2010
Latest News
Latest Press
Highlights & Prayers
From the Heart
Latest Press
Now Available on Pandora Stephanie Pauline Radio!
 
Twin Cities Praise FM interview Featuring Stephanie Pauline w/ Alex Whitworth

Operation Administrator

 
KTIG/KFCB 2010 Interview
Featuring Stephanie Pauline w/ Phil Kvamme

Program Director

 

Breaking Free!
 
Thanks to ALL who came out to support the concert put on in St. Paul MN for BREAKING FREE.  A special thanks to the key sponsors and group ticket purchasers!  Thanks also to Heather Guerin for all her hard work to promote the concert and help the night to go so smoothly. 
 
It was a tremendous success.  We raised much needed awareness of the plight of so many women trapped in the bondage of human trafficking and prostitution in the Twin Citites.  We also raised $15,000 net to further the work of this phenomenal ministry!     
Praise God! 
 
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Treasurers Corner
 by Genny Moellring

I'm so encouraged when I see God moving in the hearts of people to help His servants meet His call.  For example, those who responded to the call for the Breaking Free benefit concert put on through a partnership with MtM in April; those who have responded to the immense need in Haiti.

Why do we support ministries such as More than Music?  Because God is using this ministry to touch the hearts and lives of people in need.  Because God calls us to come around and support His servants.  Because they are doing what we can't do.

I thank God that He has blessed me with resources to give, and that I can sacrifice to help others in need.  Even if what I can do is ever so little - it is my gift of thanks to Him.

It is truly miraculous what has been accomplished through More than Music to date, given the relatively small band of faithful, private, financial supporters we have.  This has been due to God's faithfulness and grace, and the blessed law of multiplicity
in action.   It has also been due to the many sacrifices made by Stephanie Pauline and her family.  Stephanie has worked more than full-time for many years and has waived any salary since this nonprofit was founded in2003 to commit more funds to the program and work of MtM.  So we can do so much with so little!  Still realistically speaking, for More than Music, Inc. to move to the next level of service, MtM needs $1700 a month in base donor support.  We currently have a shortfall of $1,100.

I was thinking the other day....if we just had...

*10 giving $100/mo =  $1000.
*20 giving $100/mo = $2000.
*50 giving $25/mo = $1250.
*100 giving $20/mo = $2000.

*200 giving $10/mo = $2000.

Are you prompted in your spirit to join with the other partners called to support this ministry?  
 

Support & Donations
Online:
If you would like to help support the More Than Music Ministry and would like to make a secure tax deductible donation online through paypal you may do so by logging into your paypal account and sending your gift to
Donations@MorethanMusicInc.com.

Otherwise you may simply click on one of the three amounts below:

Via Check or Money Order:
mail to More than Music Inc.
P.O. Box 31
Farmington, MN 55024.

Remember all gifts are tax deductible, and are very much appreciated. We do have monthly partnerships if you are interested in making a commitment to help support us through finances or prayer.

 
Well - I know they say June 20th is the official start of Summer, but in my world Summer has surely arrived!  My kids have had more fruit popsicles than I can count already, my neighbors and I are reaquainted by the evening's spent on our respective front porches, my husband is sporting his usual farmer's tan and I - well, I...am loving every second of it all.
Upcoming Events
Spiritfest on the Riverwalk Pueblo CO Saturday June 12th-4PM
Pikes Peak Christian Artists Festival Woodland Park CO June 27th-4PM
 
Highlights & Prayers 
  •  Since the last newsletter, Stephanie Pauline performed 3 concerts in MN and 2 in CO,1 of which was for the Children's Arc in CO.  Pictured below is the scene of the full floor of the Benson Great Hall, the phenomenal venue More than Music used to host Bebo Norman's Benefit Concert for Breaking Free (Stephanie Pauline opened).  See more left
     

     
         Full Floor of the Benson Great Hall

Photo by Noah Wolf Phtography  

  • With the help of Heather Guerin, Jon Collins and Brian Kagan we are still working towards re-branding and honing the focus of MtMExpect major revamps in the months to come to the website and more concise communications about what we do and why we do it.  We pray for guidance as we develop the terminology and goals that will steer this work.
  • We are working hard to find funding for 30 Detention and drug rehab facility concerts this year.  This will involve developing an ongoing mentorship program in some facilities through partnerships with churches in their locale.
From the Heart
  By Stephanie Pauline
I'm tired.  Maybe it's the heat.  Maybe it's the judgment inside that I "should" somehow be farther down the road than I am.  Maybe it's the knowledge of Iran's imminent nuclear threat.  Maybe it's the oil seeping into the blue by the barrels, thousands and thousands, everyday.  Maybe it's the  two year-old, or the fifteen year-old for that matter.  :)  Maybe it's life in general - all my years so far have been both shorter and WAY longer then I ever thought they would be.  Time has a way of breaking our expectations...no matter what they are.
 
There is a verse in the Bible that says, "Men grow tired and weary, even youths stumble and fall, but those that wait on the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings as eagles.  They will run and not grow weary.  They will walk and not faint."
 
This promise is not that we won't get tired - but that when we do if we will wait on God and not try to find our own way without Him, He will come and will fill us with new strength.  We don't need to pretend that we are not bone dry - we can stand in our emptiness and ask God to fill us.  "There are seasons to ALL things" the Bible says.  Even Jesus Himself found need of time with God away from the cares of the world.
 
Then again, you know, I sometimes get frustrated that Jesus was a single man.  It seems an unfair portrait of life to have Him as our example when so many of us find ourselves smack in the center of familial demands.  How do you escape the cares of the world to regroup with a two year-old clinging to your legs?  How do you live like Jesus as a wife and mother?  A husband?  A father?  As a person living in the nuclear age here in the 21st century?  If I could tell my disciples I'll be back in a couple days and go into the hills right now - I would. 
 
Here I am though - dry, but full of love for my family.  Tired, but digging in deep to give yet more to this work.  Despairing - yet wanting to find hope for a planet so desperately in need.  This is life.  Grown up - real life. 
 
So Lord come.  Come to us.  Come to me.  Fill me with your thoughts, your plans, your priorities, and most of all with your love.  Show me how to live like Jesus would here and now in this right here.  God, give us the strength to stand for what you want in our lives and in this world.  God fortify us.  Let us bring, by your grace, something beautiful into this place.  We are waiting on you.
 
In Jesus name I pray - Amen (let it be).
In Closing
Thank you for your investment in More than Music.  We can't do what we do without the support of people like you.  I am forever humbled by the gift of being able to help chart this ministry.  I do pray that we will truly serve as a blessing to you and to the world. 
 
And there it is now - my daughter calls. 
 
 
Stephanie Pauline
More than Music Inc. 
 

Booking and Promotions Manager; Heather Gunn

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Development Director; Heather Guerin

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PR Manager; Kathy Morford

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Administrative Director; Genny Moellring

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 For  the past 5 years, More than Music has sponsored over 50 free concerts in correctional facilities and chemical dependency centers, as well as supported social service ministries by hosting benefit concerts for them.  Through God's anointing on More than Music concerts, ministries have been strengthened, thousands have heard the message of hope and forgiveness and lives have been transformed by Christ.