About Almost Home

For Dove Award winning band MercyMe, the video for “Almost Home” is more than a clever clip to further exposure of the group’s rising single, it’s the first step in a journey frontman Bart Millard plans to take fans on with their upcoming album tentatively titled The Spaceman. “We’re trying to shoot a video for every song on the album and make it a continuous story,” Millard tells Billboard. “It may change 20 times, but the original goal is this is going to be the last story of the album, the last song on the album, so you are seeing the very end first and then hopefully we’ll start tying into each character in the video." Toward the end of the poignant "Almost Home" video, premiering below, an astronaut is seen running across a bridge, stumbles and falls. “We are trying to symbolize that all the people he came across in that video are there to lift him up and cheer him on and to say we’re not in this alone,” Millard says, “and also to start pulling off the helmet and the mask, because it’s not needed.” The video also features performance footage of the band, which was shot near the Wave Country water park in Nashville. “We originally weren’t going to have any performance footage, but everybody was saying there’s got to be some and the label definitely wanted it,” he says. “So we flew in from tour and we only had about a four-hour window to perform the song on that bridge.” In casting the young actors in the video, they recruited some of their friends’ children. Matt Hammitt’s son Bowen is the little astronaut in the video, Millard reveals. "He was so excited and was healthy enough to do it,” Millard says of the nine-year-old, who has undergone multiple heart surgeries. “It was cool to have him as part of the video." The little girl is Tim Timmons’ daughter, Anna Timmons; both Hammitt and Timmons are artists who have toured with MercyMe.