We worship an AWESOME God - nothing is impossible with Him!Nov. 26, 2009
Profile Information
Home Town:
Guildford
Home Church:
Guildford Baptist Church
Musical Gift(s):
Guitar, Vocals
About Me:
I'm 28, married and love God and love worshipping Him - that's what we were created to do after all!
I enjoy playing and watching tennis, strumming my guitar and watching TV shows like 24 and Prison Break. I also enjoy a good movie, like Dumb and Dumber ;-), or if i'm in a less comical mood the Bourne films!
Hillsong United, Tim Hughes, Tree63, Jars of Clay, Lou Fellingham, Third Day, Chris Rice, Paul Baloche
Favourite Books / Authors
Biographies: "The Heavenly Man", "Killing Fields, Living Fields", "Chasing The Dragon", "Taming The Tiger", "Smith Wigglesworth: Apostle of Faith", "God's Smuggler", "The Cross and the Switchblade", "I dared to call Him Father", "Through Gates of Splendour"
Teaching: "The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind"
Fiction: "The Shack"
Favourite Bible Verses / Passages
I'm not very good at favourites but I do like John 10:10
The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. (New Living Translation)
King of angels, King of saints
Praise is rising
You are mighty, You are holy
Everlasting God (yesterday, today and forever)
I believe in Jesus
You are holy, holy, Lord there is none like You
I give You all the honour
Hi Phil the site is fantastic.... good job. I will certainly check out the international site as well!
I just posted an event I am hosting in London in February so I hope your subscribers can get along to the conference... its gonna be a blast.
There is a lad called Samuel who has posted a discussion on the forum about Worship and Praise. http://www.hemustincrease.com/forum/topics/is-worship-different-from
Having just written out a reply I find he appears to have locked the discussion so nobody can reply. Is there any chance you could unlock it.
David Bull.
Hi Phil,
Back on here after a bit of a break (mainly because things have been a bit mad busy in reecnt months).
Looks like the sites developing nicely!
Cheers for now
Rob
Dear Phil. I wanted to let you know about one fantastic way in which God has used your ministry of He Must Increase. I joined He Must Increase back in July, and immediately signed up with the Welsh Worship Leaders Group. If you have a look at the group postings, you will see the conversation I got into with James Goodman and Magnus Forrester Barker from Bangor, where we were discussing the need to bring people together in Wales in order to get resourcing and training, networking etc going in our nation. This led to my husband and I, and a small group of other worship leaders putting together a National Consultation Day for Worship Leaders across Wales which happened yesterday. It was an absolutely fantastic day, and a great deal of good stuff has come out of it. People particularly loved worshipping together with other Welsh worship leaders, and having lots of time to share and network together. Out of this is going to come a strategy for helping and resourcing Worship Leaders in Wales, and also a website, doing something similar to He Must Increase, but for Wales, which will help to network worship people across Wales in an unprecedented way. All this because you were faithful to God in running this website, and without knowing it became part of God's purposes to affect the whole of the nation of Wales.
Thanks and blessings
Yvonne Mason
Hi Phil,
Thanks for the message.
I guess I have been very absent in all things worship for a while.
Work and family life is fantastic and loving my new photography business!
Everything was moving forward with my song writing and worship leading etc until last year when problems in my church surfaced. Our Vicar was asked to resign due to some kind of naughtiness and members of the worship team were behind the complaints. Feeling very let down by my colleagues who didn't do things biblically and ended up leaving the church and area, I was kind of moved down the pecking order by people trying to run the church in the period between vicars.
2 of my dear friends and fantastic musicians have now moved away leaving our worship team decimated. ALSO the local 'Creationfest' music festival didn't ask me to play again after a great time the year before. (Maybe because of the associations with our broken Church)
The photography business grew and due to staff shortages I could not attend church for the whole of this summer.
so.......................
I am due to all my work being in the summer I am now approaching 3 months break when I will be starting to lead worship once more under the new vicar in charge. My faith is still strong but musically I have been left with very few good musicians to play with and It is very frustrating!
So many closed doors but God is good and I have to trust that He knows best!