"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