Jo D – This Time Is For You (Radio)

Labels: A-Sides Radio Promotion
Number of Tracks: 1
Total Time: 3:23
From the Album: Single
Formats: Christian, Christian AC, Christian Hot AC
Available Date & Time: April 27, 2017 09:00 AM ET
Impact Date: April 27, 2017
Country: USA

Christian singer Jo D was solidly on the path to fulfilling his dream to be a professional baseball player when his mother’s breast cancer diagnosis resulted in him leaving college – and baseball – to care for her. What happened in the subsequent years resulted in the young man feeling a call to music ministry.

Jo D is now one of the worship leaders at Calvary Chapel in Jacksonville, Florida.

Jo D (nee Jody Finch) wrote the single, which incorporates pop and R&B influences. Big Hack produced the project.

Jo D had discovered music and singing as a child, a passion he shared with his mother. Because he was too shy to sing in public, Jo D focused on his love of baseball. His talent for the game earned him recognition that led to his college baseball career. During the two years that Jo D cared for his mom before she passed away, the two of them spent time singing together and, Jo D said, she introduced him to God. Soon after her death, Jo D signed a contract to play minor league baseball in Louisiana. Alone in a new city, Jo D says he turned to women to fill his loneliness, a choice that led to remorse and the feeling that God was pursuing him.

Jo D left baseball and returned home, where he met and married his wife. After he began writing and performing music again, a manager in Atlanta contacted him about recording R&B music. His involvement in the music industry coincided with his marriage deteriorating.

In what Jo D calls "a pivotal moment," he fell to his knees and cried out to God.

"I realized I had been religious, but did not have a personal relationship with God," he said, adding that although he had grown up in church, he had moved away from his faith as a teenager and young adult. "In that moment, I surrendered my life to Christ and asked God to take away everything not pleasing to Him."

Soon after, Jo D read Matthew 9:11-13 ("For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.") and realized God had a plan for him in which he was to use his musical talents to reflect Christ’s love. God also restored Jo D’s marriage.

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