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Audrey Assad in Concert at Truro Anglican Church , January 25 (Sat) at 7:30pm 10520 Main St. Fairfax, VA - Tickets Audrey Assad is an independent singer, musician, and songwriter whose musical influences range from Paul Simon and the Carpenters to Feist and Jack White. Her new album Fortunate Fall  was released on August 13, 2013. Fortunate Fall  was funded through Kickstarter in the Spring of 2013. The album is full of songs for liturgy, personal prayer, and corporate worship and the title is taken from the Exsultet (Easter Proclamation) – "O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! O happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!"   Tickets are $15.00 and may be ordered online here .  More information is available here  and you can learn more about Audrey at her website  here . -- via Anglican Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic

On January 11, 7:00pm at the Church at Clarendon (immediately adjacent to the Leland Center) The John Leland Center for Theological Studies will honor Dr. Bill O'Brien for his many years of outstanding teaching and leadership in a Symposium on Globalization, Ministry, and Mission.  The Symposium guest speaker will be the internationally recognized Urban Missiologist, Ray Bakke. Ray will speak and then these two venerable servants of God will reflect together on their respective journeys in ministry and posit their hopes for the future. Everyone is invited to attend this wonderful celebration of Bill's ministry. A reception will follow immediately after the Symposium.   -- TheChurchinDC