(BRENTWOOD, Tennessee) – In the winter of 2019, a group of well-known female authors, artists, and songwriters gathered as a community to write and share songs. Their work came to be known as FAITHFUL (songs and stories of God’s kindness to women throughout history and here with us today).

Their debut album, FAITHFUL: Go and Speak released in 2021 and featured familiar voices like Amy Grant, Ellie Holcomb, Sarah Kroger, Leslie Jordan, Rachael Lampa, and more. The collective also released a book boasting an eclectic collection of written stories, lyrics, photos, and art, as well as the FAITHFUL podcast, which launched that same year.

On January 12, 2024, FAITHFUL releases their brand-new album Daybreak: Psalms of Action, born from the intimate moments of an expanded group of creative women studying the Psalms together and writing music that embodies the freedom and vastness of God’s love. The women behind Daybreak hope to encourage the church and the world to move beyond beliefs toward action.

The new album features artists Taylor Leonhardt, Jillian Edwards, Savannah Locke, Tamar Chipp, Sarah Kroger, Sandra McCracken, JJ Heller, Janice Gaines, Jess Ray, Leslie Jordan, Ginny Owens, Sarah Macintosh, and Rachael Lampa, with additional songwriting by Trilla Newbell, Ann Voskamp, Patsy Clairmont, Amanda Bible Williams, Lina Abujamra, Amanda Pittman, and Ruth Chou Simons.

Savannah Locke hopes churches bring these songs into their worship sets, allowing room for new voices to be heard. “I also hope people are drawn closer to the purpose of God for the church in this world and are moved to take action that promotes love and justice,” she said.

She believes the song “True Belonging” is prophetic and timely as it calls people to live in humility and seek to understand before being understood, saying, “If we could embrace this attitude as the people of God, I think peacemaking would flourish.”

Sarah Macintosh’s favorite song on the album is “Take Off Running” because, “It is lyrically fresh, melodically addictive, and when I listen to it, I feel like I have taken a deep deep breath. There is something, as a woman, to thinking that God and God’s love is a wide and open space that is safe for a woman to take off running within.”

Integrity Music is part of the David C. Cook family, a nonprofit global resource provider serving the Church with
life-transforming materials. With offices in both the US and the UK, Nashville, Tennessee and Brighton, East Sussex,
Integrity Music is committed to taking songs of substance to the local church and its leaders around the world.

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