Today, Bruce continues to set trends and change lives in ways that only God could inspire.

Bruce serves as the Director of Arts and Music at Hope Church, in Cordova, Tennessee. Craig Strickland started Hope in 1988 with a vision to minister to the unchurched people of East Shelby County. With a congregation of 25 core members, they began worshiping in Shelby Place Restaurant (now The Butcher Shop) at the corner of Germantown Parkway and Walnut Grove Road, and later in the auditorium of Evangelical Christian School. Hope built its first permanent home in the Germantown community in 1996. Since then, Hope has grown from 400 to over 6,000 in weekly attendance, making it one of the ten fastest-growing churches in America.

With a 10-member live performance band, Bruce leads congregational music four times every weekend in a state-of-the-art auditorium that has been specially designed for an intimate and meaningful worship experience.

In addition, Bruce helps lead several monthly workshops on the Hope campus that are geared toward helping local and regional singers, songwriters, recording engineers, worship leaders and budding artists pursue and perfect their calling. And during the summer, Bruce and his team produce and promote a concert series that features many of the most popular and inspiring artists in contemporary Christian and modern worship music.

Under Bruce's leadership, Hope has also launched The Grove, an innovative record label that uses proprietary Internet tools to record, promote, distribute and perform original Christian music. Bruce's decades of experience in the traditional record business has given The Grove unique insights and advantages in discovering new talent. In addition to publishing Bruce's music, The Grove recently signed Jeremy Horn, another trend-setting Memphian who just released his first CD, Atmosphere.

Across the hall from his label's offices, Bruce leads a digital recording studio that is more advanced than most you'd find on Music Row.

Learn more at the Hope Church website...