Happy 2023! Hope you had a good 2022 and as usual I’m dropping below a quick reminder of all the 2022 happenings to encourage and inspire you through this New Year…so little space and so much to share 🙂 Enjoy the round up and I hope to see you sometime in 2023 – stay blessed.

First up is the last minute gig in December 2022 right before Christmas on a snowy Monday evening in Blackburn! Despite a crazy journey on the M6 (motorway shut due to an accident in which thankfully no-one lost their life) we made it in time to share testimony of Gods faithfulness and love, along with songs (of course) and prayer for people needing Jesus’ healing power. Thank you Blackburn Baptist for sharing your Christmas meal and fellowship with us!

Then for anyone who wasn’t able to make the musical in September, we had such a great time delivering the RSVP Christian arts event written by Frank McGregor- so many people were moved by the accounts of the persecuted church and inspired by their bravery and encouraged by the word of God presented in a beautiful way. Was a joyful, wonderful night! And the latest word on the street is that we are planning more performances for 2023 so watch this space.

If you haven’t seen any posts on social media (Facebook and Instagram) this year, then please do check out the 12 teachings on the names of God study that we looked at each month in 2022 which was such a blessing.

And last but not least 2 new lyric videos:

2021 – an unusual year to say the least! This year the Lord has really had me focus on making songs available via YouTube so that no matter what the restrictions are everyone can meet with Him and be encouraged by being near Him. It was also time of beginning to get back to singing and ministering live, fulfilling the bookings that had to be postponed due to the various lock down measures.

One of these was with a precious group of believers ‘up north’! in County Durham where we were able to share and sing for a weekend of testimony and praise to God in October – Friday night at a local tearoom and 2 meetings Sunday at the church building. The culmination landed on Sunday 31^st October 2021 when we had a Hallelujah Party (whilst the world was having Halloween parties!) – we had the Holy Spirit with us and were blessed by His presence and love in the midst of us.

I’m useless at remembering to take photos whilst we are out and about ministering, but this is one of the lovely ‘Fifteas Vintage Tearoom’ we met in on the Friday evening:

It was a great weekend with like-minded believers and special conversations with those who don’t know Him yet – in the midst of dark times for every one of us, as always God continues to be full of compassion, faithfulness and love.

On the topic of love, God has led me to create lyric videos for the songs across all 3 Eps to enable people to use to tune into Him. We used a lot of these kinds of worship resources when our church was only meeting virtually via zoom, so they are such a blessing. Here are 4 from 2021 that I know will be a great encouragement!

This is an unusual type of song for me, but I know He led me to write it! earlier this year I took part in an artist song writing workshop to connect with other artists and improve my writing skills! (always looking to work with what God has given to reach more people!)

And so during this few weeks of online tutorials, we were challenged to think of a completely different audience to write for. Normally as you know, my songs are focused on drawing believers into a deeper, higher, wider, longer relationship with God….but I felt the Lord prompting me to think of all those that don’t know Him yet. So many people I’ve spoken to over the years (family, work, friends, neighbours, strangers on the street!) tell me about their hope in an afterlife, that things work out like ‘fate’, belief in aliens, ghosts – everything and anything! But they never really had that certainty, that assurance in life that everyone is seeking.

And this is the song He gave me to reach out to those people who want to know what life is about…but haven’t met Him yet.

I have been blessed to be able to write and record 2 Christian Parody songs with Rob Tromans (pen name Jude Meritus) over the last 12 months. God put us together in an amazing way to encourage and help one another – and these are 2 of the great results. Rob really has a heart to reach people that don’t know Jesus yet by re-writing well known songs with Gospel lyrics – please listen, enjoy and share with those you feel it will touch! And do comment on the YouTube videos – it’s precious to hear your thoughts xx

New for 2020 – these are 2 new lyric videos for tracks from my last EP Look up and See! It was great to produce these videos to share with you all – more to come this year along with brand new live music vids!

In March 2020 I was thrilled to support Ministry of Music again on their stand at the annual Christian Resources Exhibition. It’s a landmark year for Ministry of Music as they celebrate 10 years of connecting Christian music artists with churches to this year also – and so I’ll be supporting their celebration later this year in September down in Felixstowe! More on that later this year! Sharing the stage at CRE were a bevy of talented acts like Bean Baker, Andrew Robinson and Out of the Ashes:

This December we were overjoyed to sing carols and love songs to shoppers at Affinity Freeport whilst they shopped for Christmas. Sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ for all who need hope and love in their lives…He is the Christ in Christmas after all! At the same time people had the opportunity to give to a wonderful Children’s Charity that we are proud to support, and as always the public were super generous and donated £350 for a worthy cause. Thank you everyone and Merry Christmas to all!

My first ever collaboration! 🙂 Delighted to announce the release of Make my Path Straight written with Rob Tromans and Andy Baker. God put Rob and I together at CRE earlier this year in March – surely a divine appointment as we help one another to do all God has put in our hearts. This is the first of 4 songs that we have written and will release together…listen and be blessed!

What an amazing weekend at RCCG Derby at the annual Lifted concert. Dayo Bello headlined and backed by a talented band of musicians and singers also from Staffordshire, we had 2 days of sharing the presence of God. It was a great time of remembering that God is for us, He is our Healer and that He is coming back soon! You can watch a couple of facebook slideshows right here!

Supporting Ministry of Music on their superb CRE 2019 stand in Manchester this March, I and Trace Taylor were privileged to share a stage with Andy Flanagan in the white and pink inflatable arena. We sang, shared God’s greatness and encouraged our fellow inflatable dwellers to lift up His name! New songs from the latest EP got their first live airing and we had lots of great conversations with some precious people. Looking forward to being with Ministry of Music again on the Open Mic stage in August at the Kingsstock festival! https://www.kingsstock.co.uk/