Hi everyone!

In July this year Carol & I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, and we both feel very thankful to have lasted so long and still be speaking to each other! 20 years of that time have been in full time music ministry, and although I know I'm the one doing the songwriting and singing, I feel it has been a genuine partnership - Carol has really kept
the business side of Little Misty Music afloat all these years, as well as being a great homemaker and mum, and I'm hugely appreciative of her.

 Recent News

After a quiet summer I was back out on the road with a two week trip to the USA. . First week was spent in Nashville, working on some new material, then it was up to Long Island, New York, for what I thought was going to be series of three concerts.

My friends Doug and Megan Kinney pastor a small Calvary Chapel Church in the area, and they had done a great job working out for me to sing not only in their church, but to minister in a couple of quite large churches in New Jersey.  Three days before arriving I got an e-mail saying the two new places had cancelled at the last minute. I was very puzzled, and heartbroken when I discovered the reason.   One of their pastors had read through the liner notes on the cover of my Pre-revival Days CD, and read a reference I made to a lady pastor.  Because their church does not approve of lady pastors they cancelled me. Doug and Megan felt very bad about it, and have resolved to try really hard this year to open me to some other churches. It's really going to make me think in future as to what I write on my CD sleeves!   One never knows when one is being controversial!  Anyway, I'm home,  and as we’ve seen so often over these 20 years, God’s provision for us often has a swings and roundabouts aspect to it--- last week-end in London, the church in Richmond, without knowing anything about the cancellations the previous week, felt they wanted to give me an extra gift over and above my fee. It amounted to about the same as I would probably have received from the churches that cancelled me.

Up-and coming engagements

As you'll see by the diary page, this next month has concerts around the UK, from Mull down to London, then on October 18th, I'm flying to South Korea. This is a first for me, and I'm looking forward to ministering in a very different culture. In all of my concerts at the moment I'm really enjoying re-visiting lots of the Psalms pieces from the early albums-- there are so many that I just didn't sing for years, and I plan to feature these strongly on the Korean trip.  They have me singing nearly every night for a week.  After that it's a fairly busy six weeks of UK stuff again, culminating in a big Pre-Christmas concert in Belfast, with my partner-in-crime Chris Eaton.   The concert is on December 2nd, and if you live in Ireland, or even fancy a week-end break in Belfast, it's definitely one to catch!  

High Voltage-  shock news--  bass player leaves,  new member joining!

As you probably know , Taylor and Harrison, plus their friend Connor Cousland have been performing with me at several concerts this last two years as High Voltage. Well, as will happen with bands, we're having our first personnel change!    Connor has decided to leave, and we wish him well. He is carrying on with his bass lessons, and if he was being interviewed for a music magazine he would probably put his reason for leaving down as  'musical differences'!!   We're very good friends with his family and will continue to bump into him socially no doubt! Our new member is called David Martin--  look out for the first concert with him, as yet not fixed!

Church News

The children's work at Kinnoull continues to grow.  As with every worshiping community we would love to see more families commit to be there most weeks -this would be Carol talking-  I can't speak as I'm away more that half the time!   But having said that, the average number of children is growing, and our monthly Youth Church' services have been really well received.  We now also hold a monthly youth group here in Hollybush for Primary 7s and above, which the kids appear to love.     

India--  India Ministries Fellowship and Compassion

We continue to be involved in both of the above . Please have a look at the IMF page on our website if you can, for more information on this project.  I am now working 'officially' as a Compassion associate artist, and speak of their work at all of my concerts.   In January I am making another visit to South India, to visit both IMF and Compassion projects. Please consider holding a concert in your area if this kind of work is something that interests you-- it's pretty easy to organise!  Just drop me a line.

Recording projects--  or the lack of them!

I'm afraid I'm still holding back on putting a new project together!   It will most likely be a new children's album. I have built up quite a few new songs with the work in Kinnoull, and it will be fun to try to involve children from the church in the project. Watch this space!

Thanks again for reading,

Best wishes, from Ian White.