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Carried Away’s Colleen, Pam and Christie have some of the most beautiful spirits you’ll ever find in the Christian music scene. Their hearts are first to please the Lord and their music is to reach the hearts of all ages.
In this blessed interview, you’ll learn about what holiness means to them. You will get a look into how their personal lives have inspired their music and most important why they believe it’s important for us to encourage others to experience Jesus for themselves.


AWOE MAGAZINE FEATURE INTERVIEW
THE CARRIED AWAY INTERVIEW
With Jen G~ Publisher of AWOE Magazine

AWOE: When did you all come to Christ?

Pam: I became a Christian when I was 4 years old. I gave my life to Jesus, but it wasn’t until I was 12 where I fully started understanding what it meant to live the life of a Christian. And that’s when I really started living for God and giving everyday to Him.

Christine: For me I was probably about 6 years old and like Pam said, I didn’t really know what it meant to really live for Christ. When I was in grade 7 or so I really fell away from God though. It was just for a time and then God gave me a verse in high school, Romans 12:1-2 to offer our bodies as living sacrifices to God. And that’s when my life like completely just turned around and really changed and that scripture just spoke so much to me. So I re-dedicated my life to Him. (Laughs out of joy)

Colleen: Well, I’m Pam’s sister, Colleen.
I as well grew up in a Christian home so when my parents said, whenever you want us to tell you about Salvation and how Christ has saved you from all of the sin and I did decided to make that decision. I was probably around 4 or 5 too. But I didn’t understand the knowledge and my understanding wasn’t complete so I lived my life as best as I could. I think at that age growing up you copy and you mimic your parent’s cause that’s all you know and they’re your role models.
We all went to Christian schools so I was definitely surrounded by everything and I felt like I was Christian all my life. But it’s probably when God decided to just take Carried Away to this higher level and that’s when He revealed that He had a plan for my life. And I was like, He actually cares. So I think that’s when He became more real and more personal to me and that was probably around the age of 15ish. So that was when I decided to be serious about my Christianity.

AWOE: So who’s the oldest, youngest?

Colleen: I’m the oldest.

AWOE: Wow you all look the same.

(Everyone laughs)

AWOE: So after you guys started singing and you got on the road, you traveled with Women of Faith. So how did that impact you guys?

Pam: It was awesome, we did a couple of days with them in Canada and it was just awesome to be able to see the conference and everything and see the different speakers and everything. It was amazing, they were all just such women of God. And to look at them as examples was amazing. (Laughter)

Colleen: It’s a real experience, cause I think the second one we went to there was 8,000 women there. And it was like whoa, why are we here? (Laughter)

Pam: All those women in one room, it was crazy just to see it.

AWOE: Wow. So a lot of energy, and mentoring and everything?

Christine: They were just such great women of God like Pam said. And they were so into like seeing where we were at in our group ya know? It was just awesome.

Pam: Like a bunch of mothers.

Christine: Yeah, it really was.

Colleen: And it’s cool because that’s where we see our ministry. Cause ya know women and young girls we see how they are really just drawn to us I guess because we are women and young girls. It was such a cool opportunity.

AWOE: So what is your idea of holiness? I mean what does that mean to you if you had to put it in your own words?

Colleen: Well we have mentors back in Nashville. They’re a married couple and they are so grounded. They’ve lived there for so long which is really rare to find in Nashville because it’s a music industry. And you can get sucked into the wrong crowd. Christian doesn’t mean anything in Nashville or in the Christian music industry. You need to know someone. So holiness is something that we’ve always wanted to dive deep into. Because we’re the type of girls I guess that are considered a bit weird because we do believe in modesty and we believe in how we can make our selves better as women of God.
These mentors told us something so wise and I’ll never forget, they said, “There’s no standard of holiness.” Which means you can never be too holy. You can never try too hard to be Godly and that always stuck with me, and the whole group actually.

“Our goal is to just please God in
everything that we do.”

Pam: Definitely, that’s the thing that sometimes we talk about. A lot of times we think how close the edge can we go of like okay you’re almost sinning but you’re not. Or living that kind of lifestyle. The thing is if we retire and we need to go, what would Christ want us to do?
Like how would Christ want us to live as like Godly women?
So that we can mentor younger girls, and tell them in our life what we do and how we act. Show them what holiness is and we know that we’re not perfect at all. Our goal is to just please God in everything that we do.

Christine: I think also that Jesus is holy. That He is the prime example of holiness. I know it’s so often and so easy to say, “Oh I want to be like her. I want to have my hair like her or do things like her.” Its so easy to compare ourselves, but if we could just let Jesus be what we compare ourselves to and let Him be what we strive to be we’re on the right track.

Behind I Want You

AWOE: Okay, “Sweet One”, and “Wasting My Words?“ It’s about relationships right?

Pam: “Wasting My Words” was actually written for my sister and she was just dating this guy, and I was just like, Hilary you’re like 14 years old, and I was like what are you doing?
That’s totally me when I was your age and I was like don’t be me! Don’t be me! So that’s where it sort of came from. I was telling her ya know, you don’t need to seek out guys right now. It’s God and those things will come, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. And I believe that also it’s like for a husband and a man that we are supposed to date.
So I think it also cannot only go from a sister to a sister, but also from a parent to their daughter or their son. Because our parents are very wise and I know in my life I totally had just been like whatever dad, you don’t know what you’re talking about I know what I’m talking about. Then I’d learned afterwards, and I’d be like okay dad you were right ya know? (Laughs) And they do have a lot of wisdom and we really need to just listen to them more. Because they’ve lived longer than we have and they are wise and they want the best for us and God wants the best for us. So that’s pretty much what’s behind “Wasting My Words”. Just having a relationship.

AWOE: “Sweet One”?

Colleen: Well that song was derived from a time in my life where I was in this relationship and it had ended pretty badly. I just sat down with my guitar as I often do and I was just thinking, why am I so silly? Like I keep dating guys and getting into relationships that just end up like… like I end up heart broken after. And I’m like God is the only one who won’t break my heart and why don’t I just stay close to Him and just wait on the one that God has set aside for me?
So that’s where Sweet One came from, and the chorus is just like “Cause I can’t break your heart”.
So that’s where that came from, but we have a friend who’s getting married and she wants to play that song at her wedding. She wants us to sing it at her wedding and I’m like that’s weird. So I guess she interpreted as her husband won’t break her heart. So I was like that’s pretty cool.

What if my heart has been broken?

AWOE: So what would you say to someone who’s like, my heart has been broken. I’ve been lost and I believe there could be a God but I’m not sure. All three of you, what would you say to somebody who’s just not sure?

Pam: I would say it’s sort of like seek ye first the kingdom of God. It’s hard to, especially for somebody that doesn’t believe or is looking for something to believe in. It’s hard to know what to say to them. But I think it’s something you have to find on your own.
I mean we can say God is real, He’s such a great God, He’s awesome and you need to believe in Him. But you have to experience Him for yourself. You have to maybe read the Bible or go to church and experience his presents and stuff like that. Just get to know God. Get to know who He is. And hopefully you’ll believe in Him and know that He is real.

Colleen: I think also like you (Pam) were saying, you can preach the gospel all you want. Everyday all day and I think that yeah that’s good, and that’s good that you feel like you can be a spokesperson for the gospel and that’s awesome. But I think like Pam said, each person has this divine appointment with God. It’s setup by God. It’s like that song, “I Want You”. I don’t know if you’ve heard it. Its like everyone needs to experience that want for God. Everyone has it, but it’s like until you say I don’t want this from the world, I don’t want this from people. I’m not here to please man. I’m here to please God. You have to come to that decision mentally and spiritually that nothing else will satisfy that longing that’s in your heart.
I think that’s what I would actually tell someone who’s lost, I’d say you know what, this is what I know to be true for my life, this is what I’ve experienced. But if you’re not at that place then I would just say just keep searching for Him. Search for Him in relationships and just situations.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17

Christine: I believe it says in the Bible, I’m not really sure what verse it is, but faith comes from hearing the word of God. So I think that whenever you speak the word in even like prayer for people that it will not come back void. God is listening and He hears.
So I think like what I would tell somebody, cause like this actually just happened the other day when we were at a show. There was a girl and we were talking about Christ and just talking about her relationship with God. And she was like, “I just don’t believe.”
And I said, “Why don’t you believe?” And she was like, “Well because I can’t see Him and I’ve never experienced Him before.” She said that people were really pressuring her into believing.
But it’s a personal decision that we all have to make.
Are we going to accept the One’s love that first loved us?
Or are we going to keep going and just try and live on our own?
So I don’t know. I think for me personally when I came to that point it was when God just gave me a scripture and He just whispered it into my heart and He said, “I want you to live for me. I want you for myself.” And I think something that I told even that girl is that she’s loved by God, and He has his arms opened wide.
And He’s saying, “Come to me, come.”

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