TOUR // BIRMINGHAM

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26Oct08

The first ever Worship Central UK Tour is now over, finishing off with a great night in Birmingham at my Dad's church, St. John's, Harborne. The day started with a cooked breakfast. Who cooked it? My Dad - he's multi-talented. Our families had come up for the day so it was amazing to have some time together.

The evening was a great night of worship. It was really moving for me to be leading at the church where I grew up. Leading from the stage where I first ever led worship in a church. It was also fantastic to see lots of familiar faces and friends.

With the tour now complete we are so excited by all that God has done. Meeting worship leaders up and down the country has fueled my passion to see God's Church come alive - to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. A few reflections on the tour would be:

TOGETHER WE'RE STRONGER

Unity in the Church is essential. No one person has all the answers, however together we get a much better picture of what worship could be like. We need to learn to work with others. We need to encourage each other and pray for one another. The times are too urgent for the Church not to be united. I hope as Worship Leaders we can forge a way to work with others in our towns and cities.

TO WORSHIP IS TO CHANGE

In the midst of worship - people change. Over the last 2 weeks we've seen people come to faith, we've seen people healed and lives set free. When we humble ourselves before Jesus and offer up our lives and our worship there's a powerful spiritual dynamic. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom - there is life. We must choose to be expectant in our gathered times of worship. God responds to our hunger and passion.

WE NEED TO PERSEVERE

To see transformation we need to be committed to the long haul. We're in a battle and at times it will be tough work. The exciting thing is that we are on the winning team. Let's not give up. We need to keep going at all costs.

The best is yet to come!

amen Tim been praying for you all glad it went well have a few days break and enjoy the fruits of your labour ive wrote a song Tim and I would love your opinion about it. Showed it to some of my church family and they can see the influences that you have had on my life and in my writing.

little debs

26Oct08

Thank you to all of you involved in making the evening really special. I left feeling challenged and inspired. Alot of questions and thoughts to process. You are (all) truly amazing witnessing to the Lord. Thank you for answering His call. Enjoy a well earned rest and take time to acknowledge so much that you have done. I shall be praying for the Father's continued blessing on you all and also on all those who have been at these events (and those who couldn't make it) who have inspired through the tour.

Janet

26Oct08

Hi Tim, my name is Fabio Franco, 23 years old, from Brazil... it's been too encouraging for me to have this site to support me as a worship leader. I've been a worship leader for 8 years and I've never had a support like this. So thank you very much.

I've been in england last year, at Fun in The Sun where I had the opportunity to meet your brother and it was a great time. The pastor of my church in Brazil who is also my friend told me of your songs and then since that days I've listening your songs and I must say I love it. Congratulations!

So God bless you... and I would like to have the opportunity to communicate with you via email if you want... so we can talk about our experiences in worship leading.

fabiofranco

27Oct08

Hey guys, a fantastic night of worship and a really inspirational and challenging message, I really enjoyed the night, thanks Tim and Al.

I was wondering where the song 'To the ends of the earth we will go' came from, is that a new one of yours Tim? or was it from the compassion art weekend? It was an awesome song and would love to have the chords and lyrics to it if possible, i think it could be a great song to introduce to our church here in birmingham. God bless

Stu

stuart dix

27Oct08

Thank you guys for an exciting and inspiring night. I brought 17 people (aged between 14 and 60 !!) form my worship team in Northampton to this event and we all thouroghly enjoyed it. We loved the new song - will it soon be available on this website?

jussymclean

28Oct08

thank you making the night a great night ive only recently joined the youth group i came with and we all had a great night,

cassie

29Oct08

Your words are inspiring and for someone such as you (yourselves) to have such foresight is indeed moving the right way. We had an amazing experience at Southampton and left very uplifted and inspired. Your vision is indeed, I think, the way the Church needs to go if it is to encourage the young people to attend and be active within the Christian faith. Just one night like this has fired us on to strive with our study and family discussions and we thank you for that alone as well as the awesome night at Central Hall. Amazing!

T W

31Oct08

Thanks guys for some great teaching. I have been cultivating passion and purity in my walk with God but it really struck me about the need to perservere. I was at such a low ebb before saturday. The week in, week out challenge of serving in the worship team had got me down and I was considering leaving. The talk you and Al gave has encouraged me to keep on and continue to invest to see worship central to the life of the church.

God bless

mark