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"Born To Save" Music Video OFFICIAL Worldwide release!!
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ABOUT THE MUSIC VIDEO
The idea for the music video was so clear to me; it was to be about those who feel left out in the cold. It would be about the stranger - who Jesus talks about when He says "as you have done for the least of these, you did for me." The beauty of that now is in how we discovered the location for the main part of the music video. It was 9PM and I was the stranger on the front porch - knocking. Knock, knock, knock...
FACEBOOK POST DATED OCTOBER 25 - So for those of you who know, I've been searching for a location for a scene for my music video which is being shot this weekend. This particular shot is a classic Christmas dinner scene with light, warmth, and love emanating from inside the house. I have all the cast already lined up and have found generous volunteers to make each item in a true banquet spread. Naturally, having the shoot, the dinner and cast, all planned while I haven't quite finalized the location, has made me a bit nervous, to say the least. Ready or not this Sunday night 20 people are going to converge on, what has been up until tonight, an UNKNOWN location. Gulp.
I had a few houses offered, but the storyline was very specific and required a view from the street into the home's living room with an adjoining dining room. It needed to be beautiful, but not pretentious; preferably a turn of the century home, and in my wildest dreams there would also be a baby grand piano for me to play. I was just not ready to give up on that vision, so tonight found me driving Old North End, street by street, praying and, functionally, stalking the whole neighborhood.
I went up and knocked on two doors - the people were not very receptive to my spontaneous request to use their house for a fake Christmas dinner with a cast of 20 people for my music video shoot on Sunday. Go figure!? They were not convinced even when I told them about how this music video is all about homelessness and the theme is, "I was a stranger and you invited me in." Hmmm. Ironic, eh?
So anyway, it was almost 8:45 PM. Aria and I were both starving. I was getting car sick from driving in circles, but still I just couldn't shake my faith. I just kept praying, "Lord, you know all these people. You know just which ones know You, would "get" what this is all about, and would be just crazy enough to say, "Yes!" You know which house will be just right, and You even have a piano for me to play." ...And then I saw it. On North Nevada. It was perfect.
I pulled over. Big picture window. Streaming light from the house. Living room with adjoining dining room. I walked to the front porch, taking it all in, leaves crunching beneath my feet. It was almost 9 PM now. I was hesitant to go up and knock. I was the stranger, and now, not just a stranger, but a stranger knocking on the door at night. I told myself I would just go up to the front porch and take a peek. If it had a piano, I would knock - if it didn't, I would leave...
Right behind the front door was a BEAUTIFUL, 86 year old, baby grand piano. So I knocked. I now know the age of the piano because the kind, elderly woman, in a purple, fleece robe, that answered the door volunteered the information when some of my very first words contained an exclamation about its beauty. (I think she liked that.) The piano had been hers all her life before she had shipped it here to her daughter's house after her husband died four years ago. That was before she, too, had made the move. She was happy to be reunited with it now. She added that the piano was 86 and that she knows exactly how old the piano is because it is exactly as old as she is - 86. Her parents bought it for her when she was born. Then I told her all about who I am, what I was doing, and about my very odd request. She took it in stride and said she was holding down the fort for her daughter and her son-in-law while they were out of the country for a month; that she would have to ask them, but that he is one of the leaders of a well known ministry here in town. "They are very religious," she said, and were sympathetic with causes and visions like mine; that she didn't see why they would say no. She would talk to her daughter about it first thing it in the morning.
Then I sheepishly shared what I was most afraid to share, "The shoot is on Sunday and I will have to come even tomorrow to get it all decorated for Christmas if they say yes." She said with a smile, "Oh my! Well, I was wondering what I was going to do Saturday and Sunday."
I'm so excited; humbled and thankful. So, what's my point? ...God...is...AWESOME!
So pray with me friends. Agree in the Spirit that THIS is the place. In Jesus name, Let it be.
FACEBOOK POST DATED OCTOBER 26th - Of course it happened as we all believed it would! Just got the call from Anne's daughter (Anne is the 86 year old's name). SHE SAID - YES. Her first words were actually, "Stephanie, we feel like we know you!" She said it was an easy decision. She and her husband have seen me in concert, and just this last May saw me opening for Nichole Nordeman at Woodmen Valley Chapel. They said it was a big blessing, and that I must have been led to them by God. That her mom was a brand new Christian (only 6 months) and so the fact that her mom was calling saying, "We have to do this. This girl is FOR REAL." was such a miracle to them all. She thanked me profusely for being, "So gracious and kind to my mom." Wow. Isn't that amazing? SHE was thanking ME. So humbling. She revealed, as a crowning proof of God's grace in all this, that they had just, the night before, bought polish so, "Mom could make her piano shine."
Going to buy decorations to go put them up at the house now. THIS is going to a fun couple days!FACEBOOK POST DATED OCTOBER 27th - Such a full day. God is AWESOME. Can't wait to share this poignant, beautiful, powerful story with you. THANK YOU to the over 35 crew members, volunteers, and friends who showed up throughout the day of filming to make this music video shine. I COULD NOT have done this - at all - without you. I am humbled and blessed. Thank you.   MUSIC VIDEO CREDITS
Directed and Produced by Chad Tipps and Stephanie Pauline
Production Assistant: Elissa Leander Tipps
CAST
Matthew Orsillo - Husband
Aria Groninger - Daughter
Colleen and Dave Briggs, with children - Christmas dinner guests
Emily Rossback Howard with family - Christmas dinner guests
Marti Jensen - Matriarch
Mike Rueffert - Patriarch
STRINGS
Linda Tennies - Cello
Faye Palmer - Viola
Jory Lane - Violin
McKenzie Johnston - Violin
Turkey Artisan Extraordinaire - Susan Adams
The Rest of the Scrumptious Meal - brought by many generous, kind supporters
Interior Decorations - Marti Jensen and Pamela
Exterior Decorations - Mike Rueffert and Stephanie Pauline
To Liz and Martin McCartey for the generous use of your house while you were away. Thank you for your work with young people around the world. Anne Powers, for your open, warm, fun "Yes!" spirit. I knew I was going to love you the second I saw you shuffle up in a purple robe. Cindy and Bill for putting up with all of us. To Linda Tennies and Charlie Hall for pulling together the string players for me. To Moni for helping me find baby Jesus. To Colleen, for being willing to open your home to a stranger. To Emily Stone for talking me through that drive and being crazy enough to believe with me too. Marti and Pamela - my capable decorating committee who served without complaint and with last minutes notice. To Mike Rueffert for giving so much of yourself all these years to see More than Music blessed. Thank you for coming with a ladder and getting up on the roof with me to put up decorations against "doctor's" orders. To Chad and Elissa, I know - I'm a perfectionist...but just LOOK what we created! Chad, your ideas were spot on and brought so much more life and meaning to the original storyline I brought you. It's so much better because of your input and expertise. Well done. You tireless effort in editing made this - truly - a work of art. Trevor, my son, and Tim Collins for all the reviewing time you helped me through. :) You know what I mean. To Aria, my daughter - for putting up with me driving in circles looking for THE house and being, let's just be honest, obsessed with this for the last couple of months. From one visionary to the next - this is how it's done. Can't wait to see what you create! To Barb Novak, and my precious parents, your support means so much to me. Can't put it into words - it just falls from my eyes instead. To all my More than Music teammates, workers, and generous supporters - I am so thankful to be one small part of the great work YOU are doing in the world.
THANK YOU. All of you. You know who you are. _____________________
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ABOUT THE SONG
- Released through CRW last month - "Born to Save" is currently #1 overall on the Indie Adds Chart, with 119 outlets spinning the song currently; it is #1 in Canada, #2 in The US and #2 Internationally. VIEW CHART
DOWNLOAD "BORN TO SAVE" FOR FREE HERE and Purchase the newly remixed More than a Story album here!
The song "Born to Save" is one I didn't expect to write all these years after the experience behind it, but it fell over me and left me weeping while I was in my bedroom last November. I will share the story behind the song with you...
I was 15. My world had fallen apart. My mom, the emotional rock of the family, had left several months ago (she was gone for over a year). In the span of one day, my sister ran away, and my alcoholic dad tried to take his own life in the next room - I was the only one home with him. That December there was nowhere I felt at home in the world. I used to leave and carve out a hole in the snow beside a furnace outtake on top of a school to sleep some nights just to have some peace. Christmas that year found me walking, the snow crunching beneath my feet, peering into others' windows from the sidewalk in Minneapolis. That memory is what birthed this song. The liner notes in my Christmas CD "More than a Story" is newly remixed and ready for order now, say it this way... "This is a song for those who feel left out in the cold. Please remember that people couldn't find room even for Jesus, the Son of God, Himself. His mother was sent to the barn to bear him - our King of Kings. This world can be cruel, but just because people fall and fail you doesn't mean YOU aren't precious. There is room for you here beside the manger, beside the cross. Take your place and find yourself truly home. At last." "I was a stranger and you invited me in" -Jesus
THE CHRISTMAS DETENTION CENTER TOUR
I, along with the More than Music team, have been doing Christmas concerts for CO Detention Centers for years. In fact, the Christmas CD, More than a Story, I originally released last year was inspired after finding that the majority of young people in Juvenile Detention Centers have never even heard most of the Christian Christmas classics. When I do a Christmas sing-a-long with 70 or so kids, and call out, "This is one of my absolute favorites! Who knows the song 'Silent Night,' or 'O Little Town of Bethlehem,' or 'O Holy Night?'" early on, years ago, I was shocked to find that only 5 or 6 hands would go up. I always hands out sheet music and every one of these Christmas concerts as I go around collecting the music several kids walk up to me and shyly ask if they can keep their copy. They want to pore over it in their cells later. They are hungry, and something in these songs resounds in them. Like C.S. Lewis wrote: "It's a music that resembles some earlier music that we are born remembering." I, and my CO guitarist, Tim Collins, recorded the More than a Story CD so we would have something to put in the hands of these young people at the end of these concerts.
SONG CREDITS
Produced by Stephanie Pauline, Steve Dady and Jon Collins
Words and Music by Stephanie Pauline
Dave Cleveland - electric guitar
Pat McGrath - Acoustic guitars -
Stephanie Pauline - Piano, Lead Vocal, and BGVs
David Davidson - Arrangements and Performance of String Parts
Craig Nelson - Upright bowed and plucked bass
Percussion by Jon Collins
Recorded at Sunset Blvd Studios, Nashville
Engineered by Steve Dady, Gary Lancaster, and Jon Collins
Mixed by Ben Fowler (I was referred to Ben by Tim Akers [thank you, Tim!] the touring pianist for the Rascal Flatts. Ben has worked with MANY great artists probably most notably with Eric Clapton albums such as Rush, journeyman
and the song Tears in Heaven.)
Mastered by Hank Williams - MasterMix Nashville, TN
Photography by Paul Arrellano
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THE RELEASE
- The "Born to Save" Music video was released in Colorado Springs Sunday, the 15th of December, to a room full of joyous supporters.
THANK YOU to all who came out and a special thanks to my son, Trevor, and my long time music partner, Tim Collins. You were rock stars and I couldn't have pulled this event off without you. THANK YOU.
ALSO THANK YOU TO SUBWAY and CHEERS LIQUOR MART for your support with this event! It went wonderfully!
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IN CLOSING
Thank you for taking the time to view the music video and download the song. There is SO MUCH MORE to do. I have a file full of over 500 songs. This is just one. Thank you for listening and supporting my craft.
Your sister and servant In Christ,
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More than Music Inc.
PO BOX 31 Farmington MN 55024 719.258.8977
www.MorethanMusicInc.com
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