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

???

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