The Color Morale

The Color Morale is a christian metalcore band from Chicago, Illinois. They are not a widely popular, but in the "metalcore scene" they are definitely growing in popularity. Their first album, We All Have Demons, was written mostly with the idea that we all encounter different things in life that pull us away from our relationships with God and we how cope with them. The song "I, The Jury" is the last song on the album and it is heavier song with more melodic choruses. The album over all is heavy with Garrett Rapp's intense screams, but does have melodic aspects to it with Rapp's very impressive singing voice as well. While the album is not quite the typical metalcore album with lots of breakdowns in them, they use many creative chords that don't take away from the tight rhythmic style of their music.
April 5, 2011 The Color Morale put out their sophomore album, My Devil In Your Eyes. This album is quite different than the first album, and much better in my opinion. The lyrics are much more thought out, first of all. The rhythmic aspect of the album is much tighter and cleaner. Any listener can tell that the breakdowns were much more thought out on this album. The song Devil Teeth is actually much different than any other songs they have written. This shows that TCM has really progressed as a band.

Romanian Gypsies

A huge growing passion in my life has been international mission work. I have felt like God has been telling me that spreading His word and love to people who live in much, much worse conditions than I. Those who, because of the country or region they live in hinders there chances at hearing God's word. This past saturday He laid Romania on my heart and specifically the village of Tinca. I think that people should be more willing to go to this country and serve these broken people.
In Romania, Gypsies are the outcasts of society. They are thought of on the same level as dogs. Some signs in the restaurant in the city even read, "No dogs or gypsies." Because of the harsh treatments gypsies live in complete poverty. There children have no one to take care of them, because there parents are out in the streets begging for money.
There is a ministry located right in the town of Tinca now. The Forget-Me-Not ministry was founded my Rachel Ross, a graduate of Lincoln Christian College. She started the Isaiah Center which is a 24 hour care center for the children of Tinca and surrounding areas. It currently has 8 permanent residents; all children. The center is in constant need of volunteers to help take care of the children that come in and out of the center daily.

If the thought of children living on the street, being abused, and starving is not a scary enough thought, then I do not know what is.