Another Adventures in Odyssey Social Shout Out video from Brock Eastman and Evan Reedall has been released online. They answer your questions about Get in the Show voting, Album 56: The Grand Design, and Keebler elves! You can watch it all on the YouTube clip below:
For those of you not already following the Journey of Our Hearts Facebook page, we encourage you to like it to stay up to date on Dave Arnold's upcoming heart surgery. A post was just made on the page confirming that the surgery has been moved from October 4th to Thursday, October 11th, at 8:30 AM because the doctor had something come up and will be out of town next week. Please pray for Adventures in Odyssey executive producer Dave Arnold. And if you would like you can also get any further updates on Facebook here. The Adventures in Odyssey library is nearing completion in the iTunes store. With the two latest releases it seems there isn't much else that's left to be uploaded, unless of course they decide to re-release the two Eugene Sings albums. The most recent additions to iTunes are the special collections of The Truth Chronicles, available for $17.99, and Passages: Darien's Rise, which is only $11.99. You can download iTunes here. The latest AIO special collection, called the Silver Celebration, is now available for purchase. It has already arrived at Christianbook warehouses and is ready for shipping right now. It includes an Adventures in Odyssey episode from every year since the program's creation in 1987. Because some of these are multiple part episodes, there are a total of 36 episodes on 12 CDs. You can order your copy here. Thanks to The Odyssey Scoop for the news. According to Brock Eastman, after a lot of very hard work and tough choices they have finished selecting the 12 semi-finalists from the more than 5,500 video auditions they received for the Get in the Show contest. These twelve contestants have already been contacted by the Odyssey team. On October 1st you can go to WhitsEnd.org and vote for your favorite contestant. From there the twelve will be narrowed down again to three. These three contestants will come to Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs in November to audition live with Katie Leigh, Zach Callison, and Andre Stojka. More details are available here. In this episode of the Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast, Bob and Jesse chat with the creators of the new Captain Absolutely comics in Focus on the Family's Clubhouse Magazine. Christopher Maselli is the author of the new comic strips and Dennis Edwards is the illustrator. After you listen to this latest podcast, you can also read a PDF version of the first Captain Absolutely comic strip for free. Listen to the podcast here. Dave Arnold, who is the executive producer for Adventures in Odyssey, is scheduled for open heart surgery on Thursday, October 4th, to remove a tumor in his left ventricle. You can find out the details of his condition on the Journey of Our Hearts Facebook page. During this difficult time we would encourage you to keep Dave Arnold and his whole family in your prayers. After previously being released for digital download in August and then on iTunes in early September, Album 56: The Grand Design is now available for purchase at your local Christian bookstore. If you've been collecting the Adventures in Odyssey CD sets, you might want to add this latest one to your collection as well, as it's sort of a celebration album for AIO's 25th anniversary. Find out more details about Album 56 here. The second new Adventures in Odyssey devotional book, after 90 Devotions for Kids, was formerly known as Whit's End Mealtime Moments. But now it has been retitled "Whit's End Mealtime Devotions" to make its purpose more clear when seen at a quick glance. The book is written by Crystal Bowman and Tricia Goyer, although it seems to be from the perspective of the character of John Avery Whittaker. Also, the full description of what this book entails has been released. Read the full summary here. This devotional will be released in stores in spring 2013. Thanks to The Odyssey Scoop for this news. The front cover artwork for Book 10 in the Imagination Station series has now been released. You can click on the image to the left to view a higher resolution. This upcoming book, written by Marianne Hering and Nancy Sanders, is called Challenge on the Hill of Fire and takes place in Ireland. It will be released in Spring 2013. You can read the full summary here. It was originally reported that Brock Eastman would be writing this latest installment in the series, but it appears that may not be the case. Eastman authored Book 5 in the IS series, Showdown with the Shepherd. What do you think of this brand new cover? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below. |