Orphan No More Co release project of intimate and personal worship

Joshua Luke Smith

BATH-based Orphan No More Co have released a seven-song mini-album, described as "raw, stripped back songs capturing the heart and feel of a community that is both intimate and personal as well as welcoming and outward-looking." Speaking about the 'Exhale Vol 1' project, poet and community leader Joshua Luke Smith said, "We wrote these songs because we needed them. We began singing them as we gathered in community each month, marvelling at his goodness, trying to express our gratitude to God. We sung them over our dear friend Esther till our throats were dry believing for her healing. We used these songs like swords, swinging them into the shadows, declaring death wouldn't have the last word because he is the God of resurrection. We sung them together with joy and much sadness as we celebrated both her life and her passing into the next. We sung through tears, but we sung these same songs, still believing, still convinced that despite all the unknown he's the only place we really want to be."