Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

At the bottom of this email, I will be showing you a couple of pictures but first I want to let you know what this is all about.

After we had recorded our third album, I was content but I felt extremely burdened because I knew that Christians were enjoying our music but the ministry that I grew up with from the day I was born was engaged in winning the lost and confronting evil in the Latin American Countries. My Father, Bob Tyson, was a man that stood up and faced followers of Satan, Witches and People who were demon possesed. He never showed any fear and God gave him the strength to destroy many walls that Satan had put up.

There are less Religious people today and more God Haters than anytime before. I wanted our fourth album to do two things, First, to show that Religion does not save anyone, only by turning your life over to Jesus, and Two, to find and sing songs with strong lyrics confronting demons, addictions, and anything that would have to do with satan and the hold that he has on the youth.

We started uploading the music on Youtube and I started a spanish blog. My strategy was first was to show that I am a normal person with a past and with problems just like anyone but the difference is that I have someone living inside of me who gives me strength. I did not want to start off forcing God on anyone but I started little by little talking about my faith. In just a few months, we had over 45,000 subscribers with our videos being seen over 3 million times. 64 Percent of our subscribers our from Mexico and their ages range between 13 and 19 years old.

Once the CD came, our music started flooding the internet. Even some spanish sites were pirating some of the songs where people could download them for free. (This did not bother us a bit because our goal is for people to listen to the message). Just one site alone had over 11,000 downloads of Stephany singing At your Feet.

One of the songs that we sing is called Set me Free. The lyrics are extremely strong against Satan. Just one verse of the songs says "It hasn't always been this way, I remember brighter days, Before the dark ones came, Stole my mind, And wrapped my souls in chains. Now I live among the dead, Fighting voices in my head, Hoping someone hears me crying in the night And carries me away. Set me Free from the chains holding me, Is anybody out there hearing me? Who is this man that comes my way? The dark ones shriek They scream His name Is this the One they say will set the captives free? Jesus, rescue me"

Countless number of churches in just about every spanish speaking country in the world started downloading this song and their youth groups started doing dramas and skits with this song. They would go to parks and do it in public places. Most spanish christian music is mainly worship style like "lift your hands toward heaven" which is fine but to someone who does not believe in God, this kind of music is ignored.

Today, I received a video from Mexico. The email was anonymous and all they wrote was, "God cannot Set you Free, Only Satan". I cannot show you the video because it is very disturbing but I will put a couple of screen shots. It is from a Satanic Cult doing a ritual with some type of pentagram with a picture of my son on one side and my picture on the othe side. First a voice comes up asking for my death and suffering in the name of satan and then chanting starts with people dancing around the pentagram with knives and some type of symbols in their hands.

ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT SATAN IS ON THE RUN

This has inspired me to record once again in September. Hundreds of thousands of people are happy to receive any music we give them. We are going to continue to put swords in the hands of Christians in these spanish speaking countries where EVIL lives.

If you have any suggestions on songs that you believe that can help change the minds and hearts of the youth, we can translate them, get the permissions and record them. You can email me at philip@samaritanrevival.com or leave me a comment below with your suggestions.

Thank you for reading this and keep us in your prayers as we start visiting churches here in the US in September. The pictures are below.

Your Brother in Christ,
Philip Tyson
Samaritan Revival
www.samaritanrevival.com

As we have traveled through this uncharted territory in christian music and ministry for us, we have come to realize that everyone has an opinion what which way we should go, which songs we should sing and how we should present ourselves before people. Everyone on the outside has an opinion but we have to live with the consequences on whatever decision we make. 

I remember one person telling me to stick with one denomination and he did not mean baptist or pentecostal, he meant one type of baptist. I remember him saying "Don't you go be mixing beans with chicken soup, you stick with the independents, they are the real christians". I will never forget that day. I remember my dad answering after being asked if he was southern baptist or independent, he said "I am neither, I am a dependent baptist. I depend only on God".  Those words have never left my mind. Even though people all have ideas and some are good and we appreciate any kind of advice or help, the truth is we have to depend on the Lord because when problems come, people will run but God will stay by your side. 

One decision we made this year was to reach out to the world is a massive way. To sing music that would lift an eye brow from a catholic or a lutheran. To find songs that would make people think and before they realized it was a christian song, they would be enveloped in its message. Music that would have lost people wanting to hear more and not just turn away. At first, the devil attacked by saying "this does not sound spiritual". I have learned that sometimes the devil can use people who supposedly are very spiritual but I also remember God saying "My ways are not your ways" and we should never believe that we have rights on how ministry should be done. John the Baptist proved that one for us.

We decided to use Youtube as a way to reach people. Yes Youtube. One Billion Subscribers. 14 percent of the worlds population has a Youtube account. That seems hard to believe with so many poor countries but even in small villages, you will see an internet cafe. In the last three months, are videos have reached over 1.6 million people with thousands subscribing and friending us. We are now receiving request to visit countries around the world for evangelistic concerts. All because we decided to step away form the norm and do things just a little different. 

I don't know what the future holds for us but I am excited. I have found Youtube. Another World. A place that brings people together, people of all races, colors and definitely beliefs. 

One email that we received from a youtube user said this "I am a satanist and I like going around youtube leaving hateful comments on peoples videos but for some reason, I just cant bring myself to leave any of your videos a bad nasty comment. I don't know why. Something is wrong with me". What he does not know is that the Holy Spirit was dealing with him and the music was keeping his fingers from typing and dealing with his heart.

Keep our ministry in your prayers and we love you all of you.

May God Bless You,
Philip