Worship Bio. Of The Founder Of HWRM
The founder of HWRM raised his hand to accept Christ in a Baptist church when he was about five years old although he was raised in a Lutheran church from the time he was a baby until about the age of sixteen years. At the age of sixteen he was invited to a Pentecostal worship meeting where he was confronted for the first time in his life with the question: Are you saved, do you know Jesus as your personal Savior? With an assurance in his heart the founder said YES.
As a child the founder sang in both the cherub choir and the children's choir. As a teenager he sang in a teen choir of a different church, and even traveled with this choir during one of the summers from the Midwest all the way to Portland, Oregon and back to the Midwest again and along the way we sang in a number of different churches. Later he sang in an adult choir. But these experiences lay at the bottom of a very deep foundation that was to build upon itself particularly during the Charismatic renewal that swept the Christian church during the 1970s and 1980s.
At the age of nineteen the founder entered an intense four year spiritual experience by living in a Christian communal ministry setting where people shared their lives together and ministered together. The worship experience was deep in this community ministry and many members of the community got songs from the Lord that came right out of the Scriptures, particularly the Psalms. The founder to this day sings several of these Scripture songs from memory.
Right after this communal ministry experience, the founder went to Oral Roberts University and there double majored in Biblical Studies and also Theological and Historical Studies. We had on campus chapel services where all the students and the teachers worshiped God in chapel twice a week together. Again, it was like one big family all worshiping God together and the studies at O.R.U. helped prepare him for later giving himself to worship ministry. That preparation is probably different than you imagine. In fact I know it is.
Following O.R.U. the founder was able to attend the Lutheran conference on the Holy Spirit in Minneapolis year after year, engaged in the worship there and listened to the speakers. In one conference in particular the founder was at a John Wimber meeting at the Lutheran Conference On The Holy Spirit and this was particularly life changing because of the encounter with the breath, presence, and power of God that the founder experienced. Please enjoy this worship changing and worship empowering testimony of being filled with the Holy Spirit as given here.
A number of years went by and then the founder had a personal revival experience over a whole summer which preceded his discovery of the kind of church he had been longing for.
One supernatural blessing after another occurred during this summer of personal revival. The founder was pointed to a church that had extended worship and praise by someone he was sitting next to at one of the spiritual Christian meetings he had attended that summer.
But I believe it was the infilling of the Holy Spirit discussed above that provided the foundation for Spirit empowered worship expression that the founder later developed in his corporate worship life when he entered the right church for that development to take place. It was because of the extended time of praise and worship that the praise movement expressions could continue to develop and become more and more creative because time was given for that.
Before discovering the best "worshiping church", the founder had been longing for a church with extended praise and worship. After attending a McDonald's type worship service for a number of years where the worship and praise time was served up in a carton of about twenty minutes each week, the founder discovered a church assembly where the Sunday morning worship typically went on for sixty minutes and sometimes ninety minutes.
Here was the kind of church he had been longing for that placed the presence of God in the center of Sunday morning worship and valued extended worship and praise. This was so unlike most churches where the pastor and his sermon is the focus and is placed in the center of the worship service thus robbing God of the extended time seeking HIS FACE ( his presence ) through extended worship and praise time.
Sid Roth host of the TV show IT'S SUPERNATURAL, was interviewing a man of God who had a conversation with an angel that visited him. In this conversation the angel told him and I quote the exact words the angel spoke to him: THE ANGELS CRY WHEN WORSHIP IS CUT SHORT. This also confirmed the conviction in my heart that extended worship and praise should be the norm in churches so that extended time becomes normal time for worship. THE FOUNDER LONGS FOR THREE HOUR WORSHIP SERVICES.
At this church of extended worship and praise, the founder continued his inner passion for more of God and because the praise and worship time was adequate, the adequate amount of time in worship and praise allowed him to be led by the Holy Spirit in developing creative praise expressions with his body. But an initial observation of someone waving their arms in worship planted a seed in the founder via the eye gate, and this developed into full praise expression.
Using the arms and hands in creative expressions to God became the norm besides having his legs and feet ignited by the Holy Spirit in a simple dance step to the Most High. This creativity continued to develop and became the norm for him in corporate worship and praise. When he was on the worship stage team it was more subdued, but when he was worshiping within the congregation, it could reach its fullness.
As this creativity was developing, the founder of HWRM started wondering if he was really on the right track. Because he was breaking new ground and going outside of the status quo norm, the founder was understandably concerned. Then in God's providence about two weeks later, on the Sid Roth show where enactments are made of real life experiences that people have had in God, the founder of HWRM received a needed confirmation.
In this particular Sid Roth program a scene in heaven was enacted and to the delight of the founder, there was a whole room full of beings doing the same main heaven's praise culture upper body praise movements that the Holy Spirit was developing in the future founder of HWRM. The founder never doubted he was on the right track after that confirmation he got from the Sid Roth Program.
After about one year at this church the founder of HWRM started attending worship team practice on Thursday nights and for the first year he had no real desire to go up on stage with the stage worship team, but during the first year was content with being a praise example on the front row so as to encourage people in back of him to be more alive and expressive in their worship and praise. How did he get the idea of doing that?
Well, in a previous church that I attended for over five years I will never forget what the pastor said about one of the worship leaders in that church. He said: "The reason I picked xxxxx to be a worship leader is because when I saw him in the congregation he was so lively in his worship and the people in back of him were more lively than the people sitting in other parts of the church. So the pastor asked him to come up and lead worship before the congregation. It was not the goal of the founder to have his pastor ask him to lead worship.
Because once the young man who unknowingly functioned as a "within the congregation worship leader" went up on stage then no one anywhere in the congregation was lively again. I know, because I was in that church for over five years and I never saw anyone lively anywhere in the congregation and very few raising their hands during the praise time. So the worship leader really lost his effectiveness in igniting lively worship and praise in a section of the congregation by joining the "on stage worship team".
Another confirmation for creative praise movements being a normal part of worship came years later from a man of God at another church who told me that in Dean Braxton's journey to heaven he witnessed beings in heaven doing all kinds of creative things with their body while praising the Lord. He communicated that creative praise movements were just as normal in heaven as creative songs to the Lord were. Dean Braxton's book confirms this insight also.
So after one year of attending worship practice meetings at this church of extended praise and worship, the founder joined the worship team on stage and for four years had been on the team. This experience helped him improve his voice but at the same time restricted the praise movement ministry to the Lord that was developing in him. But it all was done to the Glory of God so the founder is very thankful for being a part of this worship team ministry.
When two years previously I had first told the worship pastor / leader that I wanted to join the singers up on stage, she said to me: "You want to join the worship team?" She looked very happy when she said this, but I was taken back by this question because I had already considered myself a part of the worship team on the front row of the congregation where I hoped to sow seeds into the heart of anyone who would observe my example of whole person worship with creative praise expressions unto the Most High. Leadership by example is a very powerful way of leading and is scriptural also ( 1 Peter 5:3 and 1 Timothy 4:12).
Many thanks go to that previous worship pastor and the next worship pastor, and the many worship leaders and singers and instrumentalists that I had the honor of uniting with in spiritual worship and praise unto the Most High. I pray a special blessing upon them right now, and may they ever reflect God's glory and may they ever be freshly infilled by the Holy Spirit as they lead any congregation into creative worship and praise. Many thanks go to the pastors of that church for allowing me to participate on the worship team and for the life changing opportunity that is and was. Thank you so much.
The founder is now serving as a worship pastor in a smaller church, and is a worship teacher, mostly by example, when participating in Heaven's Worship Restoration Ministries, which is an outreach ministry of both the smaller church, and spiritually of the worldwide Christian church. This website is another teaching ministry of the outreach ministries of that smaller church that Heaven's Worship Restoration Ministries is an integrated part of. Hallelujah !!!
This website ministry is the culmination of two passions that the founder has. One passion is to write and the other passion is to worship. So when you combine two passions into one endeavor, need I say that it is a delight to be involved in creating this worship teaching website? I hope you enjoy reading the pages because I believe much of the insight is revelation knowledge and is meant to bring about Heaven's Worship Restoration and affect many churches for God's glory. This website is not intended to advertise the ministry.
As a child the founder sang in both the cherub choir and the children's choir. As a teenager he sang in a teen choir of a different church, and even traveled with this choir during one of the summers from the Midwest all the way to Portland, Oregon and back to the Midwest again and along the way we sang in a number of different churches. Later he sang in an adult choir. But these experiences lay at the bottom of a very deep foundation that was to build upon itself particularly during the Charismatic renewal that swept the Christian church during the 1970s and 1980s.
At the age of nineteen the founder entered an intense four year spiritual experience by living in a Christian communal ministry setting where people shared their lives together and ministered together. The worship experience was deep in this community ministry and many members of the community got songs from the Lord that came right out of the Scriptures, particularly the Psalms. The founder to this day sings several of these Scripture songs from memory.
Right after this communal ministry experience, the founder went to Oral Roberts University and there double majored in Biblical Studies and also Theological and Historical Studies. We had on campus chapel services where all the students and the teachers worshiped God in chapel twice a week together. Again, it was like one big family all worshiping God together and the studies at O.R.U. helped prepare him for later giving himself to worship ministry. That preparation is probably different than you imagine. In fact I know it is.
Following O.R.U. the founder was able to attend the Lutheran conference on the Holy Spirit in Minneapolis year after year, engaged in the worship there and listened to the speakers. In one conference in particular the founder was at a John Wimber meeting at the Lutheran Conference On The Holy Spirit and this was particularly life changing because of the encounter with the breath, presence, and power of God that the founder experienced. Please enjoy this worship changing and worship empowering testimony of being filled with the Holy Spirit as given here.
A number of years went by and then the founder had a personal revival experience over a whole summer which preceded his discovery of the kind of church he had been longing for.
One supernatural blessing after another occurred during this summer of personal revival. The founder was pointed to a church that had extended worship and praise by someone he was sitting next to at one of the spiritual Christian meetings he had attended that summer.
But I believe it was the infilling of the Holy Spirit discussed above that provided the foundation for Spirit empowered worship expression that the founder later developed in his corporate worship life when he entered the right church for that development to take place. It was because of the extended time of praise and worship that the praise movement expressions could continue to develop and become more and more creative because time was given for that.
Before discovering the best "worshiping church", the founder had been longing for a church with extended praise and worship. After attending a McDonald's type worship service for a number of years where the worship and praise time was served up in a carton of about twenty minutes each week, the founder discovered a church assembly where the Sunday morning worship typically went on for sixty minutes and sometimes ninety minutes.
Here was the kind of church he had been longing for that placed the presence of God in the center of Sunday morning worship and valued extended worship and praise. This was so unlike most churches where the pastor and his sermon is the focus and is placed in the center of the worship service thus robbing God of the extended time seeking HIS FACE ( his presence ) through extended worship and praise time.
Sid Roth host of the TV show IT'S SUPERNATURAL, was interviewing a man of God who had a conversation with an angel that visited him. In this conversation the angel told him and I quote the exact words the angel spoke to him: THE ANGELS CRY WHEN WORSHIP IS CUT SHORT. This also confirmed the conviction in my heart that extended worship and praise should be the norm in churches so that extended time becomes normal time for worship. THE FOUNDER LONGS FOR THREE HOUR WORSHIP SERVICES.
At this church of extended worship and praise, the founder continued his inner passion for more of God and because the praise and worship time was adequate, the adequate amount of time in worship and praise allowed him to be led by the Holy Spirit in developing creative praise expressions with his body. But an initial observation of someone waving their arms in worship planted a seed in the founder via the eye gate, and this developed into full praise expression.
Using the arms and hands in creative expressions to God became the norm besides having his legs and feet ignited by the Holy Spirit in a simple dance step to the Most High. This creativity continued to develop and became the norm for him in corporate worship and praise. When he was on the worship stage team it was more subdued, but when he was worshiping within the congregation, it could reach its fullness.
As this creativity was developing, the founder of HWRM started wondering if he was really on the right track. Because he was breaking new ground and going outside of the status quo norm, the founder was understandably concerned. Then in God's providence about two weeks later, on the Sid Roth show where enactments are made of real life experiences that people have had in God, the founder of HWRM received a needed confirmation.
In this particular Sid Roth program a scene in heaven was enacted and to the delight of the founder, there was a whole room full of beings doing the same main heaven's praise culture upper body praise movements that the Holy Spirit was developing in the future founder of HWRM. The founder never doubted he was on the right track after that confirmation he got from the Sid Roth Program.
After about one year at this church the founder of HWRM started attending worship team practice on Thursday nights and for the first year he had no real desire to go up on stage with the stage worship team, but during the first year was content with being a praise example on the front row so as to encourage people in back of him to be more alive and expressive in their worship and praise. How did he get the idea of doing that?
Well, in a previous church that I attended for over five years I will never forget what the pastor said about one of the worship leaders in that church. He said: "The reason I picked xxxxx to be a worship leader is because when I saw him in the congregation he was so lively in his worship and the people in back of him were more lively than the people sitting in other parts of the church. So the pastor asked him to come up and lead worship before the congregation. It was not the goal of the founder to have his pastor ask him to lead worship.
Because once the young man who unknowingly functioned as a "within the congregation worship leader" went up on stage then no one anywhere in the congregation was lively again. I know, because I was in that church for over five years and I never saw anyone lively anywhere in the congregation and very few raising their hands during the praise time. So the worship leader really lost his effectiveness in igniting lively worship and praise in a section of the congregation by joining the "on stage worship team".
Another confirmation for creative praise movements being a normal part of worship came years later from a man of God at another church who told me that in Dean Braxton's journey to heaven he witnessed beings in heaven doing all kinds of creative things with their body while praising the Lord. He communicated that creative praise movements were just as normal in heaven as creative songs to the Lord were. Dean Braxton's book confirms this insight also.
So after one year of attending worship practice meetings at this church of extended praise and worship, the founder joined the worship team on stage and for four years had been on the team. This experience helped him improve his voice but at the same time restricted the praise movement ministry to the Lord that was developing in him. But it all was done to the Glory of God so the founder is very thankful for being a part of this worship team ministry.
When two years previously I had first told the worship pastor / leader that I wanted to join the singers up on stage, she said to me: "You want to join the worship team?" She looked very happy when she said this, but I was taken back by this question because I had already considered myself a part of the worship team on the front row of the congregation where I hoped to sow seeds into the heart of anyone who would observe my example of whole person worship with creative praise expressions unto the Most High. Leadership by example is a very powerful way of leading and is scriptural also ( 1 Peter 5:3 and 1 Timothy 4:12).
Many thanks go to that previous worship pastor and the next worship pastor, and the many worship leaders and singers and instrumentalists that I had the honor of uniting with in spiritual worship and praise unto the Most High. I pray a special blessing upon them right now, and may they ever reflect God's glory and may they ever be freshly infilled by the Holy Spirit as they lead any congregation into creative worship and praise. Many thanks go to the pastors of that church for allowing me to participate on the worship team and for the life changing opportunity that is and was. Thank you so much.
The founder is now serving as a worship pastor in a smaller church, and is a worship teacher, mostly by example, when participating in Heaven's Worship Restoration Ministries, which is an outreach ministry of both the smaller church, and spiritually of the worldwide Christian church. This website is another teaching ministry of the outreach ministries of that smaller church that Heaven's Worship Restoration Ministries is an integrated part of. Hallelujah !!!
This website ministry is the culmination of two passions that the founder has. One passion is to write and the other passion is to worship. So when you combine two passions into one endeavor, need I say that it is a delight to be involved in creating this worship teaching website? I hope you enjoy reading the pages because I believe much of the insight is revelation knowledge and is meant to bring about Heaven's Worship Restoration and affect many churches for God's glory. This website is not intended to advertise the ministry.