It’s easy to have lots of ideas to start songs, it’s a whole other thing to see those ideas make it all the way through to finished songs. I speak from experience!   Let’s say you’ve arrived at the place where your song is shaping up well. Now is the time to look at your song with an objective eye, check a few things, and yourself ask some questions that you give really honest answers to.   For example, Is there anything that could be expressed more clearly? Do some of these

Songs are written in lots of different ways, and therefore co-writing can happen in lots of different ways.   The first worship song I was involved in writing was a song called 'When I was lost' which came about by my husband Miles tinkering around on the piano and he started playing what became the intro and I said, I reckon I could write a song to that. Sometimes it’s a little flash of unexpected inspiration that starts the ball rolling.   When we were in lockdown in the CO

A while ago we attended a wonderful night of worship at the Sydney Opera House led by Keith & Kristyn Getty and their guests CityAlight. And the CityAlight singers came on with just acoustic guitar and piano, and we sang Yet not I but through Christ in me. It might as well have been a capella because the instruments were so minimal. And the experience of thousands of people singing together, this wonderful marriage of truth and melody, I can only describe it as profound.   Ze

Today we’re going to talk about lyric writing for corporate worship. It is a great responsibility and a great honour to put words into other people’s mouths to express their worship. My personal motto is ‘make every word count’.   Miles and I love old hymnbooks. In the introduction of this one, John Wesley wrote, 150 years ago: “In these hymns there is no doggerel; no botches; nothing put in to patch up the rhyme”. In other words, every word counts.   Great lyrics take a lot

Songwriting, of course, has many forms and styles. I started out writing evangelistic songs conveying the gospel and my testimony which were intended to be performed. It has been, and still is, a learning curve for me to transition to writing corporate worship songs, which is our focus here, and which has its own unique skillset.   In writing for corporate worship, obviously, you’re writing songs specifically to be sung together by the Church in worship. What a privilege. So

We belong to a family of churches worldwide named 'Regions Beyond' and, over the last year or so, a number of worship leaders and...

Christmas is coming soon, and that means so too are your Christmas events! Alongside the traditional carols, if you are looking for...

Today we are releasing videos of the remaining tracks from our new album, ‘Acoustic Sessions’. These include new versions of ‘The Stone...

It’s an exciting time as we’ve just released our ‘Acoustic Sessions’ album on streaming platforms! To go with it, we’re giving away a...

Since 2020 we have been on something of a creative journey, ‘fanning into flame’ songwriting that had got a bit lost in all the busyness,...

A few years ago, Nathan Fellingham very generously offered to record some songs I had been writing at the time. He, with other members of...

‘Let the rain come’ is a song I co-wrote with Simon Brading and Ben Hall a few years ago but, until now, have never actually recorded...

Last year, we wrote a song for the kids in our church to sing in our Christmas Carol Service. They had an absolute blast and so did we!...

As we reach December, it’s easy to feel like we’re getting into the ‘diary packing’ season of planning, shopping, decorating, gatherings,...

As 2022 comes to a close, Miles and I realised that our song 'When I was lost' has turned 21 years old and we thought it would be nice to...

Geraldine Latty, Carey Luce and I started writing songs together during the COVID lockdowns and, many Zoom calls later, we're excited to...

Christmas comes every year. Some of us like buying presents and putting up decorations early, some of us get there at the last minute. It...

This song is a celebration of Easter, written with my good friend Colin Webster of Cornerstone Worship UK. This recording was a real joy...

I know it’s only September, but if you’re looking to have an in-person Christmas service this year, then you’re probably already thinking...

Does anyone remember the three-part song, 'Great is He'? Miles and I heard that song when we visited the revival in Pensacola and brought...