As a featured highlight of the June Billy Graham TV Special, “Longing For Change”, Rebecca St. James will be bringing a special message that is close to her heart. The special will air throughout the U.S. between May 31st through June 8th.

St. James will be seen via video in a special live performance of her song, “Forgive Me”, taped in October 2006 during the Franklin Graham Festival in Winnipeg. The video can be seen at www.billygraham.org/TV.

The “Longing For Change” television special shares the stories of people who have searched for change in all the wrong places, discovering that lasting change comes only through Jesus Christ. It is a message that the Australian born singer has shared from stages worldwide and in the past several years, she has seen an outpouring of response to the “Forgive Me” song itself. In fact, the song’s message resonated so deeply within St. James, it secured a place on her 2005 album release, If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something.

“I actually heard ‘Forgive Me’ for the first time five or six years ago at Willow Creek Church in Chicago,” she recalls. “I was so moved by hearing the song in the service that I actually went up to the worship team afterwards and asked about this song. I ended up meeting the writer, Scott Dyer. He had actually just written the song for that particular service. To me it was so inspired and so anointed, I asked him if he would send me a tape of the song with the idea of maybe recording it. It was sent it to me probably six months to a year later and I had it sitting in my bedside table for literally years. Every once in awhile I’d pull the song out and listen to it again – and really be touched by it. It’s really a song of confession; something that’s too often absent today in our lives as Christians, to our own detriment. We all need to be reminded, as we will be by the Billy Graham Special next week, of God’s continued love and forgiveness.”

For additional information about the “Longing For Change” special, including promo videos, web-casts, local broadcasting dates, times and stations, and other resources online, visit www.billygraham.org/TV.

On the heels of the major U.S. television exposure next week, St. James is set to take her message and music that rocks to Europe for a series of concerts that will include stops in Scotland, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria.

For more information on St. James, visit her YMZ artist page.