By Leann Callaway
Correspondent, The Alabama Baptist
More than providing a fun concert, the pop/contemporary group known as 1 Girl Nation hopes to connect young girls to a life-changing message.
The group is made up of Lauryn Taylor Bach, Kayli Robinson and Carmen Hadley.
Through their music and message, these three young women desire to shine a light on the truth of the gospel as they encourage young girls to stand strong against the lies that the enemy tries to put before them.
“I love when we get to meet with girls at our shows and hear stories about how our songs are impacting them,” Hadley said.
“We’ve heard some really special things that God has done through our music. During one of our shows last year, we heard about how a song reached this girl who was overcoming a drug addiction. It’s been incredible how these girls come up to us and share about their insecurities, and then tell us how these songs have given them confidence because of realizing that their identity is found in Christ alone. There is nothing that compares with knowing that we are doing the will of God and seeing the fruit of our labor.”
With the songs on their sophomore album “Unite,” the group tackles relevant subjects and introspective questions for the purpose of pointing teenage girls to the answers found in Scripture and an identity found in Christ.
Bach said, “We are so excited about this new album and have really put our hearts into it. I feel like as our faith has grown and we have grown as women, we put a lot of our experiences into these songs. We hope when people hear these songs they would be encouraged to live more boldly for Christ. One of the main messages on this album comes from a song called ‘Guard Your Heart’ and is based on Proverbs 4:23, which says, ‘Above all else guard your heart because everything you do flows from it.’
“Even recently we’ve been talking as a band about how that’s so important since our generation is being given so many mixed messages from social media, movies and magazines. We want the lyrics of this song to combat those messages by pointing to God and reminding girls above all else to guard their hearts against those lies from the enemy. We feel passionate that this song and the message will speak words of encouragement to our generation.”
Uplifting message
With their energetic music and uplifting message, 1 Girl Nation has received encouraging feedback from mothers of teenage girls.
“We’ve received so many comments from moms thanking us for being positive role models for their daughters,” Bach said. “When we started working on the songs for this record, we asked moms about the messages they would like to share with their daughters and what they would like us to communicate.
“One of my favorite songs on the new album is called ‘Cinema.’ It’s been a hard year for us and really made us step back and re-evaluate why we are doing what we do. I feel like this song is a heart check, asking if my life was a cinema would it point to Christ or point to myself? That really stops and makes you think about what you are focusing your priorities on.”
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