Silent Substitute

Dynamite, they say.

Those, that is, who aren't totally speechless after witnessing Silent Substitute's explosive rock set. Meghan, Ryan, Becca, and Willie McCann are the seemingly tailor-made players in Silent Substitute, a sibling rock band from The City of Brotherly Love, Minnesota. You'd never mistake the matching heads on stage for four strangers. That they are siblings is Providence.

The McCann kids aren't your typical high school- to just-graduated- from-college-age bunch. Having just returned from China with the orphan care organization Bring Me Hope, the four eagerly anticipate visiting the country again in the future--as well as ministering to families in the U.S. "Gray Skies" and "One" sum up the China experience for them. Ryan wrote "Gray Skies" while there, witnessing the orphans' childlike faith. "They didn't seem to care how scary the future might be, only that they were with us, even for a short time," says frontwoman Becca McCann.

Like fire to a fuse, the band explodes with words and songs that only begin to say what they need people to hear. "We want families to be set apart. To do specific things the ominous 'people' might patronize. Like adopt. Or homeschool. We have a burning desire in our hearts to challenge people to take up that kind of life."

Dynamite.