history
Here's our artist, web, and album release timeline:
1-1-2004
The team was born with the following founding members:
Mike Mains (acoustic guitar)
Ed Hampton (acoustic guitar)
Pam Hopkins (vocals)
Kirk Hopkins (vocals and acoustic guitar, to later play electric guitar, bass, and drums)
2005
Mike Mains' last Sunday
Ed Hampton's last Sunday
Spencer Ford joined (drums) (Kirk switched to guitar)
Michael Brock joined (guitar & bass)
7-30-2006
Sarah Focht joined (keyboards)
2007
Michael Brock's last Sunday (Kirk switched to bass)
Kenny Phillips joined (guitar)
Eric Welsh joined (bass) (Kirk switched to drums)
2008
Alex Mains joined (vocals, then drums) (Kirk switched to guitar)
Kenny Phillips' last Sunday -> college
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Eric Welsh's last Sunday
2009
Greg Mathena joined (bass) (Kirk switched to guitar)
9-6-2009
Alex Mains' last Sunday (Kirk switched to drums)
9-13-2009
Sarah Focht's last Sunday -> college
Kyle Quinlivan joined (guitar)
6-6-2010
Sam Freese joined (guitar)
2-20-2011
Greg Mathena's last Sunday -> playing with the adult worship praise team (Kyle & Sam took turns on bass)
9-4-2011
Bob Conly joined (bass and guitar) (Kyle and Sam on guitar only again)
10-2-2011
Sam Freese's last Sunday -> playing with the adult worship praise team
10-9-2011
Aaron Edwards joined (drums)
1-29-2012
Brianna Quinn joined (vocals)
8-5-2012
https://sites.google.com/site/gzuslivzmusic/ web site created
http://www.gzuslivz.com domain name purchased
8-10-2012
Our 1st album titled "Worship from Okeana" released
8-12-2012
Kyle's last Sunday -> college
11-21-2012
web address forwarding from http://www.gzuslivz.com to https://sites.google.com/site/gzuslivzmusic/
2-14-2013
Our 2nd album titled "What's Next" released
2-24-2013
Aaron Edwards last Sunday -> taking on a larger role in another praise team
3-3-2013
Kirk switches to drums for one week
Bob switches to guitar
3-17-2013
Kevin Quinlivan joined (drums)
Kirk back on electric guitar
3-24-2013
Josh Mains joined (bass) -> and guitar, and Uke, and banjo
3-31-2013
Brianna Quinn's last Sunday -> acting in a play (Legally Blonde) with a company in Covedale, then drum corps over the summer, then off to college
8-4-2013
Carley Wesseler joined (vocals)
8-10-2014
Kevin Quinlivan's last Sunday -> off to college for Sound Engineering
Natalie Hopkins joined (vocals)
Kirk switched to drums
8-31-2014
Our 3rd album titled "Jesus Lives" released
12-01-2015
Our 4th album titled "Typically Christmas" released
5-15-2016
Josh out for a little while for a mission trip to Mexico and other commitments
Kirk switched to acoustic guitar/bass drum (and later snare drum)
7-31-2016
Josh back, Kirk back on drums
8-28-2016
Josh's last Sunday -> may be serving in other music ministry areas
Kirk back on acoustic guitar/bass drum/snare drum