sneak peak of acoustic EP posted on myspace 

go check it out!

This coming Saturday, July 19th, Joe and I will be playing an acoustic set at Winan's Coffee and Chocolates in front of the Dayton Mall.  We start at 7:30.  We'll definitely be playing a lot of our new songs as well as a few surprises.  Come on out and join us!!!

May 2nd, 7pm, at Apex:

philwing, charis, and blackburn

 



Please mark your calendars for Friday, May 2nd - 7pm. We’ll be having a benefit concert for Phil and Amber's upcoming adoption. It will feature philwing, charis, and the debut performance of blackburn. It’ll be a night to hear some good music, how God has led Amber and I to adopt, and how you can possibly help. Please come!!!!!!!

there's a "home recording" of a new Christmas song I wrote on myspace...it's called "He Has Come to Us"...check it out.   

we had the pleasure of playing at a great camp called Velocity at the end of June and...wow...what an experience!  First of all, many thanks to Ivan who was kind enough to fill in for Joel who couldn't get the time off work.  Ivan tore it up and we couldn't have been more pleased. 

It was a great week!  It's definitely the weirdest camp I've ever been a part of...but amazing nonetheless.  What was weird about it, you may ask?  Well, I've never heard so much talk of puke, poop, pee, and gold bond in my whole life.  Also, what other camp can you go to that has a "dude looks like a lady" competition...yes, it was a cross dressing competition.  What other camp can you go to where they have an "afro" contest?  What other camp can you go to where the leaders will try to frame Ivan as a bad jump-rope-er?  That's right, no other camp! 

Musically, we had a lot of fun.  We expirimented with Coldplay and Kelly Clarkson intros.  We taught a few new songs.  There were even people crowdsurfing and hardcore dancing to "Undignified". 
Truthfully, God really sustained us.  We were pretty tired all week - not sleeping more than 5 hrs. a night.  We also practiced a LOT!  The first few days, we probably practiced between 7-10 hrs each day.  Needless to say, by Tuesday night, my voice was really hurting.  I was talking like a 60 yr. old smoker.  We would pray each night that God would give us just enough for the service that night... and He did it every time.  As soon as we starting each session, God restored my voice just long enough to make it through, as well as giving us all the energy we needed. 

We met lots of good people from all 13 of the churches and it was really a privilege to join them.  We'll remember some of those conversations for a long time to come.  Hopefully we'll get to meet them all again soon. 
In the end, I found myself very grateful for the chance to spend a whole week with the guys of the band.  Lots of laughter, lots of Taco Bell, lots of encouragement, and lots of challenge.  What a pleasure!

 if you've got some pics from Velocity...hook us up - send them to bandATphilwing.com 

some of you have been asking where we've been...we've been asking that too.  We've all had a lot going on personally but we should be back to rockin' pretty soon.  Outside of the acoustic show, we're doin' a camp this summer and a retreat this fall and hopefully a few more shows will be added to that list as well.  Hopefully we'll see YOU soon...

We've been down for a bit since the birth of my baby girl, but we are finally doing a show on November 3rd at the Attic.  Along with the Dustin Burke Band, and Jared Mahone, we're going to be opening for Building 429 - the 2005 Dove Award Winner for New Artist of the Year.


Rumor has it that Dustin Burke Band will also be releasing their first full length album that night!!!
You can check out our schedule page for more details. 

If there's still anyone out there that checks in, I thought I'd chime in real quick and 1) apologize that we don't update often, and 2) to say that Phil and his wife Amber delivered a beautiful baby girl (I haven't seen her yet, but I trust his word) last night a little after 10pm. Her name is Maya and she weighed 7lbs 10oz. Both mom and baby are doing great and Phil is again in a state of awe at being a new father (for the second time).

I'm sure Phil will post more when he has some more free time (like in 18 years), so this is rather short. Come on it is only a quick update...what do you expect?

I'm heading to Namibia, Africa to work with some of our missionaries from our home church (Apex) for a few weeks in September and other than that, things are going well. A busy time for all of us to be sure.

Pressing On,
Joel

We had the privilege of playing for AsOne last night.  Let me just say, AsOne has got to be one of the coolest ministries I've seen in a long time!  Around 12 churches have decided to do their youth programming TOGETHER over the summer.  So, each Sunday night, those 12 youth ministries gather and do their "youth service" together...as one.  FINALLY, something that screams of "KINGDOM CHURCH", and not "our church, our group, our way".  What a great thing the Lord is doing there!

The guys and I had a blast playing there last night.  It truly was a blessing to be there.  Matt Woodburn gave a great message on the proper response to sin which was followed by God reminding His people that He had "paid it all".  At the end, we had one more song to do.  It was going to be "Here is Our King" by Crowder and we were gonna rock it.  It was gonna be big, fun, and all kinds of praising craziness.  Well, for some reason, my guitar wouldn't work.  At first I got a little frustrated, but then I just felt like it was God's way of saying "do something different here, phil."  So, we let go of our instruments, and with the choir of about 150 AsOne students and 30-40 youth leaders, we just decided to sing (acappella) that we were here to worship, to bow down, to say that HE is our God.  A God who is altogether lovely, worthy, and wonderful.  God showed up and His people responded.  What a joy.
Even better than all of that, I truly believe the Lord was pleased - which means the night was a success. 

We'll be back at AsOne on August 13th...and we can't wait!

Well, the last month has been quite a trip!  We launched a website, released a CD, and started writing new songs for our full length album.  It's been great!  Here's a little recap...

The CD release party, "the True Light Art Exhibit", was a blast!  14 local artists displayed their work and I've just got to say, I was extremely impressed.  So many art forms were represented: painting, sculpting, graphic design, fashion design, drawing, writing, and probably a few others that I've missed.  Seriously, this stuff was so good!  Here's one of the displays >>>

We got to play all the songs from the EP as well as some new ones.  The highlight of the night was when we were getting ready to start a new song called "Made Free", we got a note on stage that said "we have a new sister!!!"  Yeah, that's God!  He saves people at an artshow.  :o)  Laney, welcome to the family sister! [hint, hint, you can see Laney in this pic...

Many thanks to the Outpour crew who made it all happen.  Job well done. 

Some other decent news - we are officially out of debt!  You may not think that's all that great, but for us, we were blown away to have all of our recording, mastering, duplicating, etc. costs paid off in less than 1 week after the CD released.  Talk about a relief.  We've sold nearly 500 CD's now in the first 2 weeks.  Whoa, crazy!


Be on the lookout for new schedule dates, new pics, and hopefully some new songs coming your way soon. 

Phil