History

This is likely many more details that you probably wanted to know. We hope to put this timeline into a video/slideshow presentation at some point.

• After their cover band from high school breaks up, Matthew and Mark Lilley sneak away to their parents' garage to spend hours during the summer writing music and rearranging popular worship songs.
• Matthew and Mark attend Camp Oasis and have life-changing encounters with God, including Matthew receiving the vision for 6:22.
• Matthew has a seemingly coincidental IM conversation with Jeremy Jones and finds out Jeremy had a similar encounter at summer camp and is looking to play music for God.
• Pastor Elliotte Pearson of Agape Christian Fellowship allows 6:22 to be hosted on Friday night and provides some much needed counsel and direction.
• Matthew, Mark and Jeremy team up with Matthew's high school buddy Jason Burroughs to form the first 6:22 band.
• Hundreds of flyers are printed on neon paper and distributed to local youth groups and hung in local restaurants and stores.
• August 23. The first 6:22 meeting. Around 80 people gathered for two hours and nobody wanted to leave when the night was over.
• September. Steven Emory steps on stage without an invitation and begins to play bass guitar and is officially in the band by the end of the night.
• October. Friday nights were soon extended to three hours (7-10pm) because people did not want to leave at 9.
• November 15. The band plays its first outside gig beyond the Friday nights meetings.
• By the end of the year, over 100 students were gathering consistently every week and worship was growing in intensity. Many were being saved, healed and set free.

• May. Ben Evans and Ray Hartsfield (both 14 years old) join the band.
• May 23. First 24 Hour Worship.
• Summer. Weekly Friday night meetings are postponed until the fall - this becomes the pattern for years to come. The band uses the summer break to play its first traveling events outside of Greenville.
• August 23. First annual Worshipfest at Church of the Open Door. It started as an idea to have a cookout for our one year anniversary, and turned into a festival with acoustic worship, creative workshops and a large-group evening worship gathering.
• September 12. Following Worshipfest, weekly Friday night meetings resume at Agape Christian Fellowship.
• September 19. First attempted "Techno Night".
• October 3. The first time someone paints at a Friday night meeting.
• Founding band member Jason Burroughs leaves the band to pursue other callings, but continues to be involved sporadically over the upcoming years.

• January 2. Friday night meetings change location to Genesis United Methodist Church.
• June. The band is invited to lead worship for a week of camp at Cragmont Assembly in Black Mountain, NC, which becomes an annual tradition.
• July. 6:22 steps out from under the legal covering of Agape Christian Fellowship and becomes an independent 501(c)3 organization with a separate board of directors.
• September 3-4. Worshipfest '04 expands to a two-day event at Hope of Glory Ministries with Groundzero, Arcanum, Scott Hobbs and Mike Blair.
• September 10. Friday nights resume at Genesis UMC with added band member Trustan Hamilton on percussion.
• September 18. The band opens for Chris Tomlin in front of thousands at the Greenville Town Common. This causes a local stir and Friday night attendance grows in spite of a lack of HVAC.
• November 5. Friday night meetings change location to Faith & Victory Church.

• Friday nights see a continued increase in creativity with musical variety, dancing, painting, and other experimentation including a night with special guests Songs of Water.
• Violinist Leslie King joins the band for a short time.
• July 22-29. The band records its first CD in Matthew and Mark's parent's house - a six-song EP titled Glimpses.
• August 19-20. Third annual Worshipfest at Faith & Victory Church provides the largest attendance to-date. Matthew takes this Worshipfest to share the vision for the [re]discovery tour.
• September 2. Friday night meetings resume at Faith & Victory with the primary purpose of gathering a small community to participate in the [re]discovery tour.

• January 6. The [re]discovery tour launches with every Friday night meeting being in a different church in the Greenville.
• May 26. The tour finale was our first annual Day Seven at the Greenville Town Common.
• August 18-19. Fourth Worshipfest at Faith & Victory Church with special guests Enter the Worship Circle. 6:22 records its first live CD which becomes the Live at Worshipfest album.
• After the most grueling year in the history of the ministry, the band officially disbands after Worshipfest. 6:22 becomes less about a band and more about a community of worshipers.
• September 1. Friday night meetings resume at Abundant Life Church in an intimate worship setting without a full band.

• 6:22 participates in monthly 24 Hour Worship events the third weekend of each month, and 6:22's vision emphasizes prayer, intercession and extended times in God's presence.
• Friday nights are visited by special guests Brandon Willett, Jonathan Helser and John Mark McMillan.
• May 25. The second annual Day Seven event brings a finale to an unusual season of Friday night meetings.
• Summer. After a year of low-key Friday nights, a fresh vision begins to emerge for the 2007-2008 season.
• September 7-8. Fifth annual Worshipfest is hosted at Open Door Ministries with Jonathan David Helser and Scott Hobbs. Matthew shares the vision for the New Beginnings Tour and Worshipfest 08.08.08 at the Greenville Convention Center - over $7000 is received in donations and pledges.
• Also at Worshipfest, four worship leaders and a variety of musicians come together to record the second live 6:22 recording - a CD/DVD titled Relentless.
• September 14. Friday night meetings resume at Abundant Life Church with an entirely new band lineup and a fresh vision for the upcoming year.

• January 4. The New Beginnings Tour with Worship 103 begins in the spirit of the [re]discovery tour, except with Friday night locations stretching beyond Greenville across all of eastern North Carolina.
• Summer. The typical summer break is non-existent. Friday night New Beginnings tour meetings continue all the way to Worshipfest.
• June 16-27. The band records its first authentic studio album at The Sound Barn in Kinston titled A New Day Is Rising which is released at Worshipfest.
• 08.08.08. The sixth annual Worshipfest is a 24-hour non-stop weekend of worship at the Greenville Convention Center. Over twelve people were baptized, hundreds of cans of food were collected for the needy and around 1000 people experienced God's presence together in worship and prayer.
• September 5. For the first time in the ministry's history, Friday night gatherings are reduced to once-a-month First Friday gatherings at St. Paul Pentecostal Holiness Church. Jason Burroughs and Beaty Bass co-lead worship.
• October 31. Our first Burn night - nine hours of prayer, fasting and worship in the spirit of 24 Hour Worships from 2007. There were no arrests in downtown Greenville on Halloween.

• The band aspect of 6:22 shifts again. The "6:22 Band" name is dropped to encompass multiple worship leaders involved. Matthew Lilley and Beaty Bass combine band members to handle Dwell gatherings and growing traveling ministry requests.
• January. Taking advantage of a move of God among local youth groups, First Friday nights morph into a cooperative venture called Dwell, with multiple youth ministries committed to uniting in worship for four straight months.
• April. For the first time, 6:22 acquires its own facility called The Boiler Room in downtown Greenville, NC.
• August 7-8. Seventh annual Worshipfest is hosted at Open Door Ministries with Jonathan David Helser, Scott Hobbs, Brandon Willett, and 6:22.
• August 14. 6:22 resumes weekly Friday night gatherings at the Boiler Room with a collection of new and old faces in leadership.