One of the great features of being on the Winterjam tour has been the opportunity to get re-acquainted with the Newsboys. My first adventures in the Contemporary Christian Music industry were with the Newsboys in the UK and Europe in the summers of 1995 and 1996, and they were the guys who first invited me to work over on a tour in the USA in late 1998. One of the support bands on that tour was Third Day...and the rest is history. Besides that, Third Day's current tour manager, and good friend of mine, Lott Shudde was Newsboys road manager when I first met them. So tonight was one of those special nights- involving me stepping on a Newsboys tour bus for the first time in over 10 years- when their production manager Steve Campbell, also a long-time friend, invited me and some of the Third Day guys over for a curry. It was such fun to hang out with Dunny, Steve, Wes, Jody, Jeff, and to have a long chat with recent Newsboys addition Michael Tait (once of legendary group DC Talk). Dunny came back onto our bus for a couple of episodes of Ricky Gervais' Extras. I owe a lot to Newsboys, and to their founding guy Peter Furler who is no longer in the band. They took a risk on me, I took a faith step not knowing what the outcome would be, and my life was immeasurably changed and my ministry experience enriched.