August 27, 2008
Do Something Big
Leeland wants to inspire and encourage their generation to, as their latest CD puts it, live the “opposite way” from the world around them.
by Todd Hertz, Campus Life, June/July 2008
Do Something Big: The band Leeland wants to inspire and encourage their generation to find a real relationship with Christ—and live it out. Or as the band’s newest CD puts it, to live the “opposite way” as the world around them.
“There’s so much pressure put on teens to conform,” says drummer Mike Smith. “But yet, we see so much passion in teens to do something more than that.”
And so, the band longs to show how youthful energy can be used for God’s purposes.
“In every show we do, we want to encourage our generation to do something big,” says lead singer Leeland Mooring. “Whether that means stopping AIDS in Africa, abolishing modern-day slavery, or starting a prayer-time at school, we want to see kids getting close to God and then through that, doing amazing things for him.”
Read the rest of this article to discover what it means when Leeland asks you to “jump off a cliff in faith”.
