Christy   
Music is an open book.  When you start to sing, you’re wide open and everybody can see what you have to offer.  I love music, and am passionate about promoting a kind of healing and hope in people’s relationship with God and with other people.  

I grew up in Averill Park, NY with my parents and two younger sisters.   I started taking piano lessons when I was in 2nd grade.  I sang in choirs through elementary and high school, while regularly playing piano in service at my local church.    

After high school I attended a community college in Troy, NY and then studied at Gordon College in Wenham, MA.  This was when I began to feel adrift, a very low point in my life.  I didn’t have anything solid in front of me. I didn’t have a strong sense of purpose.  I grew up in a Christian home, received Christ as my savior when I was 4 years old, went to a Christian school and knew a lot about the Bible.   However, Christianity hadn’t become real to me.  I began to wonder where I stood with myself both physically and spiritually and volunteered to go on a six week mission trip to Brazil.  It was an incredible time of solitude and  reflection, which was life changing.   This gave me an opportunity to realize that I had to get things straight in my relationship with God.   He met me there in a big way.  I found faith in His love for me as opposed to the Bible just being ‘a bunch of rules”.  I recommitted my life to Him then!

After Brazil I married my husband Andy and have been blessed with 3 beautiful children.   I started playing keyboard, singing and songwriting  throughout Central Massachusetts in 1998.  In 2003, I led the band Harvest as we toured along the East Coast and then ventured out on my own before encouraging my youngest sister Kelly to join me.  It was a natural connection as we have been harmonizing together all our lives! As we searched for name that represented us, we both  felt strongly that our lives have been filled with favor, something we feel we do not necessarily deserve but have received regardless.  So Undue Favor was launched.  “what a man desires is unfailing love” - Proverbs19:22

What we share is a message for everyone.  We sincerely believe When Kelly and I are on stage; people see two sisters who love each other.  There’s so much conflict in the world.  People need love.  It is a message for everyone, just as Solomon shares in Proverbs 19:22 , “What a man desires is unfailing love“.  We know that God  desires us to be reconciled to each other, but most importantly to himself.  Undue Favor is knowing that God has sent his only Son to take on our punishment for sin, not because of anything we have done, but because of His love for us.  A love that is completely undeserved.

   Kelly

When I was young I remember sitting in a cupboard in the kitchen of the Stephentown house, praying to Jesus that He would be my savior.  I can remember praying that often.   Apparently I was afraid that as soon as I did something bad, He would be too disappointed to be my savior.   Growing up I remember reading a lot in Proverbs and asking the Lord to give me wisdom like Solomon.  I found myself asking the Lord, “why is it so hard for grown-ups to have faith in you God”?  I believed that if I could just be perfect then everything would go great for my life.   I didn’t realize until recently, that being perfect was Jesus’  job! God already knows we aren’t going to be perfect and He made a way for me to be right with him anyway.  I spent many years not understanding the love that God had for us through His death on the cross.  I saw God as sort of  a meanie, with a twisted sense of humor that was glad when I was suffering.  After some fresh perspective on some major ugliness in my life, the Lord lovingly wooed me back to himself. Over and over I have felt too dirty, too wretched to be close to Him, and yet he keeps pulling me toward Him! What a friend! I don’t know any other friend that can give peace, comfort, strength, or the ability to move forward other than Jesus.  I was handcuffed to everything that hurt me, but Jesus gave me the keys, and helped me escape!