Bruce Greer

ATLANTA – Dove Award-winning recording artist Bruce Greer has released a new album he compiled after a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions tour of Asia.

"The Mission," which debuted at October’s We Love Missions conference, is a "collage of songs about mission," Greer said. In February, Greer was part of a six-person team from First Baptist Church, Lewisville, Texas, sent to explore potential people group partnerships. As the team rode on a boat passing impoverished people, Greer wrote "Faces," the song that inspired the album. "These people were living in shacks on stilts over the river yet they would smile and wave at us as we drove by," he said. "Their faces were ingrained [on me]."

Greer said he’s always tried to bring missions to music, although this is his first album devoted to Christian mission. The concept recording contains new songs, hymns about mission, and songs that Greer wrote "20 years ago that never fit in other albums," he said.

The 74-minute album has 26 songs including:

• People Need the Lord
• Shine Jesus Shine
• I Have Decided To Follow Jesus
• He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
• That Song About the Neighbors
• Kingdom of Priests
• Because You Prayed
• Send the Light
• Rescue the Perishing
• I’ll Follow Him
• Faces
• Tell Me the Story of Jesus
• Let Others See Jesus in You

The album is available online at www.brucegreer.com.

Greer has been a full-time songwriter and concert artist since 1990, following a six-year stint as creative director for Word Records.

CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.