Bob Herdman, Mark Stuart, and Will McGinniss, representing both Audio Adrenaline and Flicker Records, have announced the launch of the Hands & Feet Project in Haiti. The project is dedicated to building a community of cottages to raise orphans in a land suffering political upheaval and extreme poverty. The Hands & Feet Project will be under the leadership of Drex and Jo Stuart, parents of co-founder Mark Stuart and lifetime missionaries who have previously served in Haiti. Known for their high energy performances, Audio Adrenaline named the foundation after their song of the same name.

To seed the funding of the Hands & Feet Project, Audio Adrenaline and Flicker Records have committed financial resources for the foundation's development and launch. In addition, Audio Adrenaline will auction a concert on eBay, with the concert going to the highest bidder. Further, the band will provide personal items, band gear, and several recognizable Audio Adrenaline souvenirs for auction on eBay. The auction start announcement is forthcoming. Specific information will be available at www.handsandfeetproject.org.

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress . . .

The heart of the Hands & Feet Project is the core of the admonition of James – rescue the orphans from their suffering. “When we look into the eyes of these children, we see despair. When we see the adults, we see no hope, only darkness, emptiness,” says Flicker President and Audio Adrenaline co-founder (along with Mark Stuart and Will McGinniss) Bob Herdman. “If there is hope for Haiti, it is in the children. If the Hands & Feet Project can reach a child, we can plant seeds of faith through a new generation. When we impact the lives of these orphans, we impact future leaders of communities, cities, and a nation. Touch a child and you can rescue a nation. It begins with the children. They need love, hugs, and a caring family – a home.

Imaging not having a home, no bed, nearly naked and starving, no family, and all alone – imagine you are 5 years old. Sadly, that is the life of too many children in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. In Haiti, half of the people are under 14 years of age, and the many abandoned children need our help – now. Children – infants - are often found abandoned young mothers on drugs on under the influence of Voodoo. Many die discarded yet others meet death when left to fend for themselves or when left only in the care of other children. This is truly tragic.

“All of us in Audio Adrenaline have felt God’s call to make a difference,” say’s front man Mark Stuart. “We are building a community of homes through the Hands & Feet Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to the health, welfare, and education of the orphaned children of Haiti. Many years ago my parents were missionaries in Haiti. They left there because my sister had leukemia, and was admitted to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Praise God she was cured. Through all of this, I’ve come to know a lot about Haiti, and from trips there, have seen first hand the poverty the children live in surrounded by the despair of a 4th world country”

Hands & Feet Project is an autonomous ministry which was founded by members of Audio Adrenaline and the leadership of Flicker Records. To maintain the proper spiritual guidance, structure, and accountability, Hands & Feet Project will operate under the guidance of its own board and the oversight of Franklin Christian Church in Franklin, TN.

Haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, and nearly 50 percent of the population is under the age of 14 years. The need for such a ministry is clear and evident. Moreover, whereas Voodoo has become the religion of dominant influence in Haiti, the orphaned children lack a credible Christian witness in the family setting.

This mission will be accomplished through the building and operation of family cottages, clustered on the campus of the Hands & Feet Project community. Each cottage will house six to eight children and will have a Haitian couple serving as foster parents. The outworking of these family units will be to provide for the family nurturing of a loving home, a viable Christian witness, attention to the medical needs of the children, and the proper education of each child. Children accepted in the home will all be orphans. The leadership of Drex and Jo Stuart affords the project the seasoning and ministry heart of veteran missionaries who also understand the culture and people of Haiti. “In addition, another missionary that is giving guidance to the Hands & Feet Project in Haiti is Tina Isenhower, a full time missionary there for 20 years,” says Herdman. “Tina operates a school close to the Hands & Feet Project site. She has been instrumental in hooking us up with the property and providing a place to stay, in addition to helping us make decisions on how to run the orphanage in that setting.”

To this end, the stated goals of Hands & Feet Project are:

• To minister to the orphans of Haiti through a primary care residential outreach through foster care, facilitating education, and procuring adequate health care for the children in their charge
• To motivate youth and church leadership in the U.S. to become involved in the outreach through material, financial, and personal on-site support, taking an active role in missions, specifically through Hands and Feet