Lynn DeShazo is the author of some of the Church's most loved worship songs of today, many of which have been featured on the live praise and worship recordings produced by Integrity Media.

Lynn is best known for such songs as "More Precious Than Silver," "Lead Me to the Rock," "Turn My Heart," "Be Magnified," "Be Unto Your Name," "Stand Up and Give Him the Praise," "In Your Presence, O God," and "Ancient Words."

Her songs have been performed by a diverse and distinguished group of worship leaders and vocalists that have graced the popular Integrity's Hosanna! Music series from its inception. They include Leanne Albrecht, Rita Baloche, LaMar Boschman, Scott Wesley Brown, Travis Cottrell, Brian Doerksen, the Women of Faith worship team, Bob Fitts, Kent Henry, Graham Kendrick, Robin Mark, Don Moen, Marty Nystrom, Ross Parsley, Randy Rothwell, Paul Wilbur, and Kelly Willard. Her songs have also found their way onto countless other worship recordings, including independent productions as well as the works of artists such as Michael W. Smith and John Tesh.

Lynn has been involved in worship ministry on the local church level for over twenty-five years as a worship leader, a songwriter, and a musician. Her songs have been sung in worship throughout the Body of Christ since the early 1980's, and she has been an exclusive songwriter for Integrity Media since 1989. Lynn has also produced ten of her own music recordings to date. The latest CD was released in 2007 (MORE PRECIOUS THAN SILVER - the Songs of Lynn DeShazo).

Lynn travels frequently as a guest worship leader, instructor, and minister to a wide variety of churches, retreats, and conferences within the USA and abroad. As a psalmist in the Body of Christ, she helps connect worshipers to the flow of God's Spirit, bringing times of refreshing and healing to God's people.

Lynn is a native of Alabama, graduated from Auburn University, and has lived in Birmingham nearly all of her life.

CONFIRMED UPCOMING MINISTRY

August 23-27, 2008
“His Healing Presence”, McLean Ministries, Black Mountain, NC.
See www.mcleanministries.org for information.

MINISTRY INFORMATION

"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV)

October 2007
I have been a songwriter and a worship leader serving the local church for almost thirty years now. My publishing relationship with Integrity Music has extended that ministry to the nations of the world for the last twenty years. I began regularly traveling in ministry around 1994, often to places where my songs had arrived first. I've ministered on college campuses, within the walls of state and federal prisons, for rehabilitation centers, in evangelistic outreaches, for women's ministries, in worship conferences, in healing conferences, to benefit charitable causes, in white churches, in black churches, and to both Protestant and Catholic expressions of the Body of Christ.

I've ministered in 26 U.S. states to date and in countries in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom. Over the past three years, I've even taken a band of fine musicians with me to some of these places, which was a first for me, and tons of fun! Life is better when shared, I must say. I have been enormously enriched by all the people I have co-labored with and ministered to. God's people are the best people, wherever I've been in the world!

Now, if this commentary is starting to sound like an exit speech, you'd be almost right. I have no intention of retiring from ministry. God never gives us that option! I am aware, however, that my season of ministry is changing. I can tell you about what I've done, but I'm not sure how to tell you about what I'll be doing! So until I know more fully what things the Father desires me to put my hand to, I'll only be traveling on a very selective basis. You may certainly contact me about anything, though, and I'll prayerfully consider it (click here to email me).

I still have songs to write, of course, - I think my best ones are still ahead of me - and probably a book in the very near future. I just finished my tenth "indie" recording and I'm quite proud of it! I have this satisfied sense of having properly tied up the loose ends of a closing season with the release of this recording. I hope you'll purchase one. I think you'll find it a great blessing.

In Christ Jesus,
Lynn DeShazo