Mind blowing things have happened with us in the past couple months—some exciting, some heart breaking. This update is long overdue and hopefully will help everyone understand why we haven’t played any shows or updated much on the web recently. I’ll start with the exciting news first: Ryan and his wife Kate are having a baby! Wow, he’s the first in the band to get married and now the first to have a kid as well. The rest of us have some catching up to do. We’re all super excited and can’t wait to be like uncles—I’ll turn her/him into a bass player in no time.

Luke and I just graduated college. It was definitely a rigorous last few months, but we did it. Many times we were doing homework back stage or late after the shows, but we love the extreme lifestyle of having crazy hours and no sleep—how could you not when you play music?

Well on to the hard stuff. There’s no easy way to say this. There’s a reason why I couldn’t write about this for at least a couple months—it’s still hard to talk about. Matt and Luke are no longer playing in Endeverance. This was quite a hard decision for them to make, but they feel that God is leading them on to different endeavors. For most of you that know us, you know that the five of us are like a family. Matt is literally my brother, but the rest of us consider each other brothers. Matt, Luke, Seth, and I have been friends since we were ten years old and started playing music together ever since. We met Ryan in drivers ed class! It’s been us five ever since. Matt and Luke will always be a part of the Endeverance family.

This is only the beginning of an amazing new chapter with Endeverance. We weren’t sure what to do for a couple months; we were all in shock and grieving, but I want to assure everyone that Endeverance is not giving up—the adventure continues! The name Endeverance is a combination of the words endurance and deliverance. The band revolves around a Hope that can deliver us all from the complexities in life by helping us endure and become stronger. We’re not giving up.

It might be a couple months before we get back on our feet and start playing full on with two new members, but Ryan, Seth, and I are planning on doing some acoustic sets until them. We’ll post them on our website and profiles; we’d love to see you guys and get to talk more personally about what’s going on with our lives and yours as well.

 Sincerely,

 John