There is a Beauty was recorded over several days at Full Moon Studio in Watkinsville GA in 2004-05. Every part of this was recorded on analog 2" Tape.
Here is an email I sent to friends on October 10, 2005
Hello Friends & Family of Mike O....
14 months ago God while sitting in a coffee shop with a fellow worship leader God gave me a vision for a recording project. It was ridiculous. How does a growing but limited resourced local church make a world class record? I heard God say that he wanted me to help our church fashion a record with all original God-centered worship songs, use our church members, and request no money from the church budget. It was crazy but God certainly gave us the response to the vision. We were able to record with Mark Smith at a beautiful analog studio in Athens GA... we raised the money to hire a great mixing engineer, Jimmy Jernigan, and mastered with John Mayfield in Nashville who has done work with everyone from Willie Nelson to Brittany Spears. God gave us the idea to have church and family members adopt songs... the idea was that the worship leaders write the worship songs that are inspired by the testimony of the Church, and in turn, the congregation adopts the songs that inspire them to worship God. All of the songs were adopted and even more money was provided! We are charged by God to lay our lives down for one another and that is exactly what the musicians and songwriters did on this record; there is an amazing connection between the worship leaders at our church in that we were able to lift one another's songs up as if they were our own, knowing that the final result was for God alone.
Poured Out Like Wine (the music ministry of Vineyard Community Church of Marietta, GA) welcomes you to join us for a CD release party FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st 7:30 PM! We will have a night of worship, a great media presentation, and communion.
"There is Beauty" will be on sale for $12 and includes an enhanced CD with guitar chord charts so you can learn the songs. This is the most exhausting and rewarding recording project I have ever worked on and would love for you to join me in celebrating its birth. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
There is a Beauty will be available for purchase at
CDBaby.com/vcc in less than two weeks.