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CHRISTINE PRANKARD: Actually, um, we got our name about four years ago now I would say and what happened was we were all just sitting around in our living room and we were actually listening to a Sonic Flood CD and the song “Carried Away” came on and Colleen says to us hey that’d be a really cool band name to call ourselves.

And we just loved it. We loved it for the meaning because you know one day you know we will be carried away to heaven to be with Jesus.

And also for the fact that sometimes we do get a little bit carried away. But, um, that’s sort of the story behind the song.

PAM WALKER: There’s been times where—um, we all write songs so there’s been times where I just—I’ll read scripture and it will just come alive to me and I’ll be like that would be a great song.

And one song that comes to mind was—and this is going to sound really weird but it’s from, um, the song of songs and, um, it’s “Don’t Awaken Love Before it’s Time”, and it’s a simple verse but it’s so powerful because being young girls, you know, we like to—we like to feel loved and sometimes girls turn to the wrong people to feel loved and they turn to guys.

And, um, we struggle with that all the time and that verse really—that was one I realized that I need to wait for my husband and just wait for God’s timing because God has it in his hands. Like everything else, we can trust him with that.

Christine Prankard: I have grown up in a Christian home, and it’s sort of been–it’s hard to explain sort of because my parents are divorced, and so I come from a divorced family. They divorced when I was three years old. And after my dad got remarried again he got a divorce, and that’s when I really strayed away from God. I was sort of just angry and I didn’t understand and I didn’t feel loved. It was like I was just living and I wasn’t really living. You know, I wasn’t living the life that God has made me to live.

So I remember I was lying in my bed and all I kept hearing in my spirit was “Romans 12, Romans 12,” and I was like “What, what?” I had never really experienced God really speaking to me very strongly, because I didn’t really think that that could happen for me. So I was like “Okay God, I’ll open my Bible”, and so I opened up my Bible to Romans 12 and I read it. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Him—this is your spiritual act of worship.” When I read that, I was just like blown away. God just totally touched my heart like crazy. I’m sorry, I’m getting emotional, I’m sorry… and that scripture has been like my theme song, my life song, to offer my body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to Him. And that is what he’s called me to do, and that is what–I’m going to strive every day to just go for it and just to give all that I have and all that I am and all that I ever will be, and just to give Him the glory in everything in my life.

So that is when I changed and I re-gave my life to Him and I said, “Jesus, it is all for you,” and that was in the middle of a high school. So ever since then, I have just–it’s a struggle. But that verse just keeps me going, it just makes me really think “What would God really want me to do? How can I live, how can I go for it and just give Him everything?” So that’s my story.