wrecked for the ordinary
Anberlin has been well-associated in the past with Jamie Tworkowski's grassroots initiative To Write Love On Her Arms. Now you have started Faceless International as your own humanitarian foundation. Can you tell us a little about this effort?
Faceless is an organization i helped co-found with my friend Sarah Freeman. It started a few years ago on a trip we took to Mano, Haiti to work with a small community. We both were greatly affected not just by the people we had the opportunity to help but also by watching the lives change of those that came on the trip with us.
We knew that this trip could not just be a once in a lifetime humanitarian effort, thus began faceless. We do not pretend to fight just one cause, for us we want to go where the need is utilizing the gifts and talents that each individual person brings with them on a faceless trip.
What made you decide to start your own project, and how are you partnering up with existing organizations committed to similar causes?
The ironic part is that we took the first trip excited that we had no ties or affiliations of any kind, that we were just a group of friends excited to help change our world; then faceless started. Honestly I believe we have kept the mentality that we are still just a group of friends that still believe we can make a positive impact on the world and are not constrained by tittles or positions.
Beyond Faceless I am still very active in several causes around the world. The goal of faceless was NEVER to corner the market on non-profit org’s or anything of the sort. We simply wanted people to get involved with the world around them.
We don’t care WHERE people get involved only that they simply GET INVOLVED.
Are there any particular stories that stand out in your mind from your travels, which solidified the need for this kind of work?
Several but i think that one that hits everyone who went to the last trip to India was seeing the aftermath of girls, very young young girls, who were affected by human trafficking. It was tragic and hurt and made me personally feel so overwhelmed.
In the end it only propelled what we already knew: we MUST do something, or nothing will get done. and thus faceless exists.
At Wrecked for the Ordinary, we are always looking for ways that artistic endeavors and social justice can complement each other rather than compete for our energy and resources. As a writer, musician, and social justice advocate, what can you say about this possibility?
Like i mentioned above we don’t care where you go to ‘complement’ each other, its that you attempt. We are very much involved in the whole picture thus we work with many different org’s such as TWLOHA and several others.
In the past few months, you have published your first novel, released Anberlin's newest album, and started promoting Faceless International. Where do you find all that energy? How do you stay focused?
‘The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along to its fulfillment’.
-Earl Nightingale
I must admit it is getting harder with the more and more demands that arise. PASSION. Passion is the most intense & necessary drug for a motivated soul.
Everything from writing to faceless to side projects all require quite a bit of work but when everything you have been involved in is something you have only dreamt of it is quite easy to pursue all these goals with all your energy.
Faceless is an organization i helped co-found with my friend Sarah Freeman. It started a few years ago on a trip we took to Mano, Haiti to work with a small community. We both were greatly affected not just by the people we had the opportunity to help but also by watching the lives change of those that came on the trip with us.
We knew that this trip could not just be a once in a lifetime humanitarian effort, thus began faceless. We do not pretend to fight just one cause, for us we want to go where the need is utilizing the gifts and talents that each individual person brings with them on a faceless trip.
What made you decide to start your own project, and how are you partnering up with existing organizations committed to similar causes?
The ironic part is that we took the first trip excited that we had no ties or affiliations of any kind, that we were just a group of friends excited to help change our world; then faceless started. Honestly I believe we have kept the mentality that we are still just a group of friends that still believe we can make a positive impact on the world and are not constrained by tittles or positions.
Beyond Faceless I am still very active in several causes around the world. The goal of faceless was NEVER to corner the market on non-profit org’s or anything of the sort. We simply wanted people to get involved with the world around them.
We don’t care WHERE people get involved only that they simply GET INVOLVED.
Are there any particular stories that stand out in your mind from your travels, which solidified the need for this kind of work?
Several but i think that one that hits everyone who went to the last trip to India was seeing the aftermath of girls, very young young girls, who were affected by human trafficking. It was tragic and hurt and made me personally feel so overwhelmed.
In the end it only propelled what we already knew: we MUST do something, or nothing will get done. and thus faceless exists.
At Wrecked for the Ordinary, we are always looking for ways that artistic endeavors and social justice can complement each other rather than compete for our energy and resources. As a writer, musician, and social justice advocate, what can you say about this possibility?
Like i mentioned above we don’t care where you go to ‘complement’ each other, its that you attempt. We are very much involved in the whole picture thus we work with many different org’s such as TWLOHA and several others.
In the past few months, you have published your first novel, released Anberlin's newest album, and started promoting Faceless International. Where do you find all that energy? How do you stay focused?
‘The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along to its fulfillment’.
-Earl Nightingale
I must admit it is getting harder with the more and more demands that arise. PASSION. Passion is the most intense & necessary drug for a motivated soul.
Everything from writing to faceless to side projects all require quite a bit of work but when everything you have been involved in is something you have only dreamt of it is quite easy to pursue all these goals with all your energy.
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