{"id":111481,"date":"2014-01-06T04:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/baby-boomer-couple-spotlights-homeless-through-music-and-street-ministry\/"},"modified":"2014-01-06T04:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T09:59:23","slug":"baby-boomer-couple-spotlights-homeless-through-music-and-street-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/baby-boomer-couple-spotlights-homeless-through-music-and-street-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boomer Couple Spotlights Homeless through Music and Street Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: SoulDirection1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 6, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; SoulDirection1 announced this week the release of a new contemporary Christian album, &#8220;To the Least of These,&#8221; a compilation of 13 songs they have written to inspire and uplift most anyone who is experiencing a difficult time in their lives or for the simple enjoyment of listening to good music. <\/p>\n<p> Indie artists, and husband and wife team, Zaricor Jackson, Jr. and Lillie Jackson, are the face of the music and also run a non-profit street ministry, Sold Out Souldoers for Jesus Christ Street Ministry.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Souldoers is a play on the word, soldiers, which explains why we wear camouflage,&#8221; Lillie says. &#8220;Combining our music with our ministry was a natural move. We are advocates for the homeless and want to spread the word however we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Zaricor says that their music has played on radio stations around the country and has received a great deal of positive responses.<\/p>\n<p> Connie Ribas, vice president of administration at Indie Connect, Inc., a business club that educates and connects indie artists and music professionals, worldwide, says that she listened to the CD while running errands.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The first two songs are music to get speeding tickets by. Loved it!&#8221; says Ribas.<\/p>\n<p> Ribas adds that she shared it with her husband, Vinnie Ribas, the CEO of Indie Connect, who typically listens to a few seconds of a track and then skips to the next, and the next and the next.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This time, he just let it play all the way through,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We talked about the album, the music, the instrumentation and the possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Zaricor and Lillie have a passion for practicing random acts of kindness and hope that through their music and ministry they can inspire others to practice the same. Their heart is to help the homeless.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We are baby boomers who continue to reach for our dreams,&#8221; Zaricor says. &#8220;We want to help those who need it most and we won&#8217;t give up until we&#8217;ve done all that we feel we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Their Christian music has no specific genre attached to it. It crosses many musical borders ranging from contemporary, gospel, and Latin to country western, Christian rock and worship music. A second CD is in the works.<\/p>\n<p> A music video can be viewed on YouTube at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4vjW9cTPcm4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/4vjW9cTPcm4<\/a> and songs can be purchased on CD Baby at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/souldirection1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/souldirection1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Music can also be auditioned on SoundCloud at: <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/souldirection\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/souldirection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> For more information about the ministry and the music, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souldirection1.com\/\">http:\/\/www.souldirection1.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><br \/> Zaricor Jackson, Jr. <br \/> of SoulDirection1 <br \/> +1-562-927-5152<br \/> ReachingOut[at]SoulDirection1.com .<\/p>\n<p> * Photo 300dpi: Send2Press.com\/wire\/images\/14-0106-leastthese_300dpi.jpg .<\/p>\n<p> * Photo Caption: Zaricor Jackson, Jr. and Lillie Jackson (L-R) release &#8220;To the Least of These&#8221; as SoulDirection1.<\/p>\n<p>News issued by: SoulDirection1<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/14-0106-leastthese_400x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"SoulDirection1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/14-0106-leastthese_400x300.jpg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/14-0106-leastthese_400x300.jpg<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p> # # # <\/p>\n<p><small>Original Story ID: 2014-01-0106-001 (9159) :: Baby-Boomer-Couple-Spotlights-Homeless-through-Music-and-Street-Ministry_2014-01-0106-001<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Keywords: Zaricor Jackson, Jr. and Lillie Jackson, SoulDirection1, Indie Connect, non-profit street ministry, Sold Out Souldoers for Jesus Christ Street Ministry, contemporary Christian album, To the Least of These SoulDirection1 Los Angeles California LOS ANGELES, Calif.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Alternate Headline: Contemporary Christian album, &#8216;To the Least of These&#8217; announced by SoulDirection1<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>NEWS ARCHIVE NOTE:<\/strong> this archival news content, issued by the news source via Send2Press Newswire, was originally located in the Send2Press&reg; 2004-2015 2.0 news platform and has been permanently converted\/moved (and redirected) into our 3.0 platform. Also note the story &#8220;reads&#8221; counter (bottom of page) does not include any data prior to Oct. 30, 2016. This press release was originally published\/issued: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 04:59:23 +0000<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p><code><small>Original Shortcode for Story: http:\/\/i.send2press.com\/cRheo<\/small><\/code><\/p>\n<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: SoulDirection1<\/strong> | Published: 2014-01-06 04:59:23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 6, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; SoulDirection1 announced this week the release of a new contemporary Christian album, &#8216;To the Least of These,&#8217; a compilation of 13 songs they have written to inspire and uplift most anyone who is experiencing a difficult time in their lives or for the simple enjoyment of listening to good music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"singles-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases-archive","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":489,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}