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Seventh Day Slumber blew me away at Extreme Camp in Garden Valley, Texas earlier this summer.  After the concert, I stood in line with our youth group to meet them and then invited the to do a show at my church in Chouteau, OK.  They gladly accepted our invitation.   

As a youth worker, I had to do a lot of behind the scenes work to help bring them to town but from the start, I knew this was not just a band.  They requested that we set the ticket prices low, because, “we are not here to make money.  We are here as an outreach to the youth.”

Seventh Day Slumber opened with their hard-hitting smash “Innocence.”  From the get go, the crowd of over 300 was into the music.  After that first song, the quartet did not directly go into the next song.  Instead, SDS front man Joseph Rojas talked about his haunting past.

Rojas talked about his $400 a day coke habit, and how it took his mom praying to God, after he had overdosed, to make him wake up. That got the crowd’s attention! SDS blasted into their other songs, such as “Candy” and “My Struggle.”  

“We’re going to do a new song for you,” Rojas said.  “We want to know if you-all will like it.” SDS, which has been touring their Picking Up the Pieces CD, decided to test the waters a bit, and give a hint of a future CD.

The new song, which is entitled “Brand New Man,” is about finding God and changing ones lifestyle. The song sounded like something we would expect from SDS; another great song. “We have been recording some new stuff, and testing Brand New Man at concerts,” said Rojas.  “We hope to have it out in eight months or so, but we’re not rushing it”

The show, which sounded much like the Picking Up the Pieces CD (minus “When the Children Cry”), had everything you could want in a show;  loud, hard music with some ballads added to the set.  Every song had a positive message behind it.

The show ended, then Rojas asked the crowd who all had ever thought of suicide.  He then asked the crowd to take 10 steps back, and if anyone needed prayer, to come forward.  It was at that moment that 30 to 40 people, ranging in age from 10 to 25, went forward.

As they are at every show, Seventh Day was down to earth after the concert. They stayed and signed autographs, pose for pictures, even prayed with people, until the last person left. 

All in all, Seventh Day Slumber is a one of a kind. But don’t call them a rock band. “We don’t want to be a rock band,” said Rojas.  “As long as we continue to glorify God, then we will be blessed.”

Do yourself a favor, and go see this band…I mean this ministry.  It will be worth your while.