Vision night song

This video played at all of the vision nights, and I never got tired of hearing it. I usually sat there and watched with tears in my eyes. In my previous post I mentioned how God pieced everything together, and here is one specific example...the story behind this song is pretty amazing. Here is what Lauree Austin (she put the video together) says about that:

"Well there are almost 10 different versions of the song on iTunes. I had picked one version by Joanna Martino because it was clear, it was a singular voice, it wasn’t overly produced, it was simple and beautiful. I needed to get Joanna Martino’s permission to use the song so I got on her website hopeful to find her management contact. She didn’t have any contact information. Bummed, I was poking around on her site and started to look through her photo album. I came across this picture that had the caption, “Me and my class after winning the Amazing Race in Slovenia.”

Weird, I thought. Josiah Venture does the Amazing Race with our English classes in Slovenia. I emailed the country director and found out that Joanna Martino, the American Idol finalist and singer that I had selected from the list on iTunes had come over to Slovenia two years before and served with Josiah Venture!!! I was totally stunned.

Well – I got the permission that I needed from her to use the song. But I also learned that she had recorded the song Mighty to Save because of her time in Slovenia working with the youth there! God had used it to show her his power and purpose there."*

God is good!



Mighty to Save - Joanna Martino from Josiah Venture | 2x3 Campaign on Vimeo.

*The whole story can be found here.