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Casting Crowns Wraps Fall Lifesong Tour

With undeniably the most successful tour of the fall 2005 concert season, *Casting Crowns* continues to fuel a significant turnout on the road with nearly *150,000 fans* attending the 38 dates of its "Lifesong Tour," including twelve sold-out nights.

Keeping its sight set on more than just high attendance numbers, Casting Crowns intensified their ministry focus throughout this first leg of their headlining tour, witnessing an incredible *15,000* commitments for Christ and collecting over *5,200* World Vision child sponsorships. The high-impact tour featured labelmate Josh Bates, plus Building 429 and guest speaker Tony Nolan. Jon Robberson of Celebration Concerts in San Jose, California, commented, "The Casting Crowns dates that Celebration Concerts sponsored were such refreshing ministry events that they reminded me of Christian concerts from the early days of the CCM-Jesus Music movement.

It has become so rare that an artist and tour makes evangelism the top priority of the entire concert experience and it was a joy to be sharing that goal with Mark and the group. Casting Crowns is a concert ministry force long overdue in Christian music and I was honored to be part of it." In addition, Greg Maynard from A God Thing Productions, exclaimed, "Wow! Frankfort, Kentucky on Nov. 26th and Dayton, Ohio on Nov 28th, with 1,213 souls brought into the Kingdom of God! What an honor.

Casting Crowns, Building 429, Tony Nolan and Josh Bates were a delight to work with, and we learned so much from them and the crew! Thanks for including us!" Casting Crowns just received the first GRAMMY nomination of their career for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album for its Gold-certified sophomore album Lifesong. While Lifesong has achieved Gold status (for shipping more than 500,000 units) in only twelve weeks, the band has sold nearly two million records in its short two year career.

Even in the middle of their demanding touring schedule, Mark Hall and the band make it a priority to stay focused on the ministry, including the leading of his 400 students each Wednesday night at their home church in Atlanta.

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