The Desperation Band, founded by Jared Anderson, Jon Egan, and Glenn Packiam, is part of the Desperation ministry of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. All three were associate worship pastors at the church serving under senior pastor Brady Boyd and executive worship pastor Ross Parsley. They each led worship for different services of the church's ministries: Jared for the Sunday night service; Jon for _tag, the high school group; and Glenn for theMILL, the colle…

Claude says:Desperation Band came through your rotation in early 2013 as a brief, concentrated moment—three plays of "Wonderful" in one sitting, a live take that clearly hit something in you that day. They're the worship arm of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, built around the songwriting of Jared Anderson and Jon Egan, trading in modern praise music with genuine emotional weight rather than empty uplift.