First single for Plymouth-based Rising Hope

A BAPTIST minister has released his first single under the name Rising Hope. Read a press release, "The Revd Andrew Gardiner, minister at Hope Baptist Church in Plymouth, has found himself able to write songs, poems and even a book during aggressive chemotherapy treatment for bowel and liver cancer. He said, 'To my astonishment, it started in the middle of the night in a hospital ward. Three songs came. I haven't done anything like this for decades.'" Andrew's single "True Identity" reached number three in the iTunes religion and gospel chart.