by Matthew Paden | Jul 24, 2025 | 2025, 2025 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Real quick before I get started, you still have the opportunity to help the Salvation Army in Bowling Green, KY. Just go to www.ngsingers.com click donate now and put Salvation Army AC in the reason. Maybe I’m a bit of a sadist. I think it’s more that I’m just...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 23, 2025 | 2025, 2025 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
“I hope this letter finds you strong in the faith. I also hope that circumstances will soon make it possible for me to meet each of you, not as an integrationist or a civil-rights leader but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother. Let us all hope that the dark...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 23, 2025 | 2025, 2025 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Hey everybody! The blog is immediately below this paragraph, but I wanted to start with a call to action for the Salvation Army in Bowling Green, KY. The A/C in this branch is out. The Captains at that location are in the trenches every day trying to provide just a...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 21, 2025 | 2025, 2025 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
The last few years of tour have felt a little off. In one way or another they weren’t fully “tour”. Don’t get me wrong, they were amazing and great in their own right, but they just were quite what they used to be. How is it possible that we could still be talking...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 21, 2025 | 2025, 2025 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
Hey everybody! If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m Joseph. One of my contributions to tour is writing these blog posts every night. It is kind of a nice wind down to the night and I feel like maybe, in some way, I get to connect with all of you. This morning...
by Matthew Paden | Jul 20, 2025 | 2025, 2025 Tour, Featured, For Hosts, For Parents, For Singers, Public
As we were driving into St. Joseph this morning, Emily mentioned that it really seemed like tour exists in this parallel timeline that somehow skips over real life – it seems kind of like we just had homecoming, went home long enough to wash laundry and take...
