After four critically-acclaimed live albums, including their recent Everyone Overcome, the Desperation Band, a worship band birthed out of the student ministries at Colorado Springs' New Life Church, returns with Light Up The World. This, their first studio release, is a project inspired by deep prayer and "Heartwork", a student-driven ministry at their church which is helping to build orphan homes in Africa.

"This project is prayer and intimacy colliding with compassion and purpose. I think so often believers are waiting on a move of God when God is waiting on a move of man. We are realizing now more then ever that God's love and power is inside us. We have what we need to turn this planet upside down. We just need to act!"

Egan, who is also one of New Life's Worship Pastors, penned most of the songs for the new project including the title track, "Light Up The World," which was inspired by the first youth offering and the songs "Be The Change", "Joy Will Come" and "Burning Tree," which he co-wrote with Hillsong Music's Mia Fieldes. The result is an album of high-energy, passionate new worship songs that convey a deep and defining hunger for God.