Our History

We started playing together in June of 2004. The four of us met while attending a variety of youth events and jamming with other musicians, it didn't take long for the four to emerge as a group and people starting asking us to play for different church events.

S.H.A.R.C. now plays for summer camps, youth events, county fairs, and area festivals. Other performances include church events, benefits and our own annual concert in the park "Sold Out for Christ" in Pleasant Hill.

Jason and Ahron are from Pittsfield, IL. Adam and Matt are from Pleasant Hill, IL . They are from three different church denominations, but have come together to serve God while doing what they love, playing music. All of these young men have musical backgrounds and have used that experience and knowledge along with God's grace to create what their fans know as S.H.A.R.C.

Matt was the first to bring an original song to the band and Jason followed shortly with two of his own. In the fall of 2005, the band decided to make a CD for their fans. They wanted to put as many of their own songs as possible on the CD, so Ahron joined in on the song writing by contributing two songs. The individual members bring their songs to the band and band's arrangements are a group effort.

In the fall of 2005, the band members attended a Todd Agnew concert where they became sponsers of a little boy from Zimbabwe, named Butholethu Sibanda. When the band received their information from World Vision about this little guy they were moved by his story. This led to a song for Butholethu called "Stranger's Love".

The band took the summer of 2006 off from their summer jobs and devoted their time to serving God. They have had an extremely busy summer with 5 weeks of summer camp plus other concerts. They have been very blessed with the out pouring of interest for bookings and are now looking ahead to their spring/summer schedule for 2007.

JoyFM Christian Radio from St. Louis, MO took a mission trip to Matamoros Mexico in July, 2006. They asked their listening audience to join them if they felt led to do so. S.H.A.R.C. learned of the trip and felt God was leading them to go. They left July 15-21st(06) and had an awesome time. They were very excited about the opportunity to serve God and were very blessed to go to Trinidad this summer(07) on their second mission trip-they think that mission trips are the best! They are hopeful that more mission trips are in their future.

The summer of 2008 was full of trips to Iowa,Illinois,Missouri, and Indiana. We recorded a live CD at the request of our fans. SHARC also had the opportunity to play at Six Flags St Louis twice. We then added a new band member, Curtis Sethaler, who is already helping with new original songs.

S.H.A.R.C. (Serving Him A Risen Christ) has now had many ups, downs, highs, and lows as a band. But they know that as ministers for Gods kingdom, they should be willing to go and fill the needs that are out there. For the past few years they have realized that they need not look far for those needs because God can work through them right here in the midwest.

In the fall of 2008, the band added a new Bassist, Curtis Sethaler. With the new lineup in place, the band pushed hard to pump out some more original music. They are focusing on finishing school and other things and are taking it easy for the holidays of '08-'09.