DaySpring Records was a subsidiary of Word Records which started in the seventies and ended in the mid-1990's. Petra was on this label from 1989 to 1993. Word Records is a giant in Christian Music. ... Petra is a Christian Rock band formed in the 70s. ...
Dayspring has enrolled 132 students and is renting classroom space from the Cavalry Worship Center on Trouble Creek Road, although the school's three-year contract with the school district mandates that the school be non-sectarian.
Dayspring teachers and organizers also realize that, as the county's first charter school, the School Board, local media and others will be scrutinizing their progress this year.
Dayspring will receive about $590,000 from the school district this year to operate the school, which has one class of students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Word Records is a Christian record label based in Nashville, Tennessee which was founded in Waco, TX in 1951 by Jarrell McCracken.
The label's name is based on a recording by McCracken, the first recording by the label, of a fictitious American football match held at the "Great Stadium of Life," known as the Game of Life.
Several subsidiary labels were started over the years: Canaan Records in the sixties, Myrrh Records and DaySpringRecords in the seventies, Home Sweet Home Records and Rejoice Records in the eighties.