MILWAUKEE, WI - Chart-topping band We Are Messengers has announced plans to extend its Where The Joy Is Tour this spring, following a successful global run in 2024 that took them around the world playing to the largest audiences of their career. Presented by Compassion International, the spring tour features special guests Austin French and Leanna Crawford.

On Saturday, April 26, 2025, Wisconsin Lutheran College and the Center for Christian Leadership will host the Where The Joy Is Tour, with the concert beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Time of Grace Center inside WLC's Recreation Complex. Tickets are on sale now exclusively through iTickets.

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ABOUT WE ARE MESSENGERS

We Are Messengers has over 550 million career streams, over three billion airplay audience, and a multi-week #1 Billboard radio song (“Come What May”), along with six Top 5 and ten Top 10 Christian Airplay hits with “God Be The Glory,” “Image of God,” “Power,” “Maybe It’s Ok,” “Magnify,” “Point To You,” “Love,” “Everything Comes Alive,” “God With Us,” “This Is Jesus,” and “From Heaven To Earth (Joy To The World).” The band has had multiple film and TV sync placements on major networks including Lionsgate, MTV, and CBC. We Are Messengers has played for a live audience of over two million people across 45 states and five countries, including selling out shows in the Netherlands, England, and lead vocalist Darren Mulligan’s native Ireland. The band has toured with TobyMac, Casting Crowns, Phil Wickham, and Brandon Lake, among others, and in 2024 completed a successful global tour that took them around the world playing to the largest audiences of their career. The Dove-nominated and K-LOVE Fan Award winning group recently released its new five-song Christmas EP Rejoice! (A Celtic Christmas), featuring the lead single “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.”

ABOUT AUSTIN FRENCH

Raised as the son of a worship pastor and a music teacher, Austin French gained prominence with his finalist finish on the reality ABC TV show "Rising Star" in 2014. Bursting onto the music scene in 2017, he embraced a Contemporary Christian pop style infused with soul, swiftly climbing the Billboard Christian Songs chart with his debut single, "Freedom Hymn." His follow-up hit singles - including "Why God," "Wake Up Sleeper," "Good Feeling," and "Jesus Can" - solidified his place in the genre. Most recently, French has been featured on Winter Jam (2023), the Danny Gokey Tour (Fall 2023), and the Big Daddy Weave Tour (Spring 2024).

ABOUT LEANNA CRAWFORD

From a young age, growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Leanna Crawford was inspired by the beauty of God’s creation that surrounded her. Songwriting was her artistic vehicle to navigate her faith, relationships, and questions in a world of insecurities and difficulties. Her latest single, “Still Waters,” a tribute to Crawford’s Great Aunt Maurine, is a top streaming song with multiple viral moments on Leanna’s combined 1.6 million-follower social media platforms. Leanna is married to NBA player Cody Zeller. Her latest album, “Still Waters” (Provident Label Group), was released in 2024 to much critical acclaim.