For Immediate Release! Contact: Tour Publicist Debra Akins [email protected] 321-747-0078

CHRIS TOMLIN KICKS OFF “THE ” TOUR

PASTOR VISIONARY, , JOINS CHRIS TOMLIN ON THE NATION WIDE TOUR * * * * RUPP ARENA SUNDAY - OCTOBER 13 On Sale Friday, June 21

LEXINGTON, KY (6/17/13) - Chris Tomlin has dedicated his life career to bringing people closer to God through music. June 21st, Chris is kicking off The Burning Lights Tour at the Big Ticket Festival in Gaylord, MI. Louie Giglio, the pastor of Passion City Church in , is taking time to join Chris’s tour speaking at various venues to go a long with the performance. On October 13th Chris and Louie will be stopping in Lexington, KY at Rupp Arena to experience his creative and inspirational music.

Pre-Sale information for the tour are available at www.christomlin.com/tour. For the Lexington show, the presale opportunity STARTS TUESDAY, June 18 at 10:00am and ENDS on Thursday June 20 at 10:00pm. To purchase tickets click the Ticketmaster link below during the presale time and enter the password provided below. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday June 21 at 10am. For more information, call the Lexington Center Ticket Office at (859) 233-3535. PASSWORD: CROSS

(MORE) This is Chris’s tenth record and he doesn’t plan to stop there. The Burning Lights album, released on January 8th of this year, reached the number one spot in the Christian/Gospel genre on iTunes the first day of release. The top-selling album also debuted number one on Billboards Top 200. Chris’s inspirational lyrics and pop sounds have gained him many fans that have made him “likely the most often sung artist anywhere”.

“I want to write songs that people sing to God. There's nothing wrong with a three-minute pop song, but I want these songs to be special to the church. There's more of a laser focus on that than ever,” Chris Tomlin stated and there is no doubt in that. Chris is a Grammy Awarded artist and been nominated on eight different occasions. A long with the Grammy’s Chris has been awarded with ten No. 1 radio singles, 21 Dove Awards, a platinum album and four gold discs.

For more information, please visit www.christomlin.com and @Christomlin

About Louie Giglio:

In 1995, Louie began the Passion Conference Tour. He traveled around colleges nation-wide speaking to audiences up to 40,000 (Christianity Today). To branch off of the tour Louie decided to settle down in Atlanta building a church he would regularly preach for. He has become a world renowned pastor since then, even to receive an offer to speak at the Presidential Inauguration. Louie has engaged audiences for years with his many books, Christian record label (Six Steps Records) , and his Passion Conference Tour across colleges.

@louiegiglio

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