Where I am is the latest album release from the choir of First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, NY. Drawing on a diversity of musical traditions and talent, this album uses the mediums of traditional and contemporary gospel, African American spiritual, world music, folk, jazz, Broadway, and traditional hymnody to guide its listeners through the full range of the human experience and its search for connection to God and to a be a part of a better world. Since its revitalization in 1986 to look forward from its shrinking traditional congregation to a vision of an intentionally multicultural and inclusive church, First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn has drawn in a lively and diverse congregation and friends, Ambassador Andrew Young, the late civil rights lawyer, Derrick Bell, Engine 205 / Hook and Ladder 118, first responders to 9/11 tragedy. Its choir is robust and full of the talent of teenagers to octogenarians, black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, unemployed to overworked, amateurs to Broadway singers to jazz musicians, who all sing and play from the depths of their souls to bring you out of the busy, ambivalent streets of where you are and into the intimate sanctuary of where you want to be. Where I am will speak to you on many levels, whatever you may be going through that day. From the title track, sung by choir member, Jami Jackson, about her struggles to get to where she wants to be and her gratitude for finally finding herself, fully there, to the ensemble piece, I Need You to Survive, featuring everyone’s voice in solo phrases, each one distinct with the wounds and balms of life, no voice or experience is left out. Even the city (New York? New Jerusalem? Your neighborhood) and your capacity to change it for the better is embraced in the evocative Beautiful City and With My Own Two Hands. "I Want Jesus to Walk With Me," the FPCB choir knows the trials and tribulations of urban life and ministry. They have weathered the storms as individuals, as a church and as a city and sing with a hope that can only be born in the deepest wells of the spirit. Listen and let them awaken that hope in you for I Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now and Freedom is Coming, O yes, it is!