Led by Jon Egan, the Desperation Band was birthed out of the student 
ministries of New Life Church in Colorado Springs. They are recording artist with a great family of worshippers from Integrity Music. They continue to make New Life Church and the Desperation Conferences the core of who they are.

 

The Desperation Band has recorded multiple albums with Integrity music, including “Who You Are”, the critically acclaimed “Everyone Overcome”, and the band’s first studio worship album “Light Up The World”, which was Jon Egan’s first shot at producing! In addition to Desperation Band albums, they have also been featured on three New Life Church recordings… 2006′s “My Savior Lives”, 2008’s “Counting on God”, and the most recent church album “You Hold It All.”

 

Releasing this year are two albums! Fall of 2011 comes an independent release from the Dband called Update:LIVE. This album, raw and barely edited, is a worship experience taken from the Desperation Conferences. On the back of 16 of Dband’s favorite songs from the past few years, this is the sound of the desperation movement, 10 years strong. The second release, coming March of 2012, is a studio worship album with producer Paul Mabury. This is the bands first experience with an outside producer. 11 brand new songs, most of which were collaborations with writers Jason Ingram, Paul Mabury, Mia Fieldes, and others.

 

Dband albums feature “high-energy, passionate new worship songs that convey a raw hunger for God.” Desperation Band was originally formed in 2001, when New Life youth pastor David Perkins launched a youth movement for local churches called Desperation. They hold multiple Desperation Conferences every summer in Colorado Springs. The Conferences draw thousands of high school and college students who are desperate for the greater things of God. The emphasis of the conference is wrapped up in “The Vow,” a commitment to PASSION, INTERCESSION, CONSECRATION, AND MISSION. Over 30,000 young people have signed the vow and the stories continue to pour in about the difference they are making in their world.

 

Made up of several committed musicians, the band often travels to conferences, churches, and concerts throughout the country. They are best known for writing songs like “I Am Free”, “My Savior Lives”, “Amazed”, “Here In Your Presence”, “You Hold It All’, “Yahweh”, “Overcome”, and more. Several of these songs have been covered by mainstream Christian bands and many songs are sung in churches throughout America and around the world.

 

The Desperation Band has found great purpose in “Heartwork”, a ministry to the youth of the world that empowers them to be hope and freedom to the orphans of the world. Starting June of 2010 at the Desperation Conference, Heartwork and the Desperation Band launched “the 1k Campaign”…1,000 orphan projects built by 1,000 student ministries in 1,000 days. Student groups all over the country can log on to www.heartwork.tv and sign on to an orphan care project. The clock is ticking. The needs are waiting to be met.

 

The Desperation Band has always been more of a ministry than a band. Jon and the guys believe that true change comes when people lay aside their agendas to encounter the true and living God. They are passionate about the presence of God and they don’t hide it. They are well aware that music will never impact souls…only the power of God. They don’t perform or entertain. They want to join with real people to worship a real God. The Desperation Band exists to partner with His Kingdom and to pray as Jesus told us… “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

 

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” -Mother Teresa

 

“This I know. We will command life from dead places. We will bring light to the darkness. We will prophecy into the void. We will draw near to our Father and invite everyone to come along. We will hear His heart for others. We will answer with movement. With action. We will pray. Then move. Then pray. Then move. We will risk. We will look like fools, we will look good, and everything in between. We will find our identity in Him. We will walk with a limp because we wrestled with God. We will heal those limping while we ourselves limp. We will be ourselves. As for the world changing…we’re gonna join with many others, stay committed to doing our part, and see God reign.”

 

 -Jon Egan