Music

 

 

Week 1 - Peter Gunstone

Peter Gunstone is the Music Director for St Andrew’s, Linton Road, a large, lively and diverse evangelical Anglican church in North Oxford, UK. A classical musician by training, his experience as a worship leader has taken him through a youth congregation, cathedral music, local churches, and more recently as the Music Director for Lee Abbey, an international Christian community in North Devon. He is a passionate believer in the importance of expressing and nurturing of faith through a wide range of the arts, and his worship leading is hallmarked by the comfortable co-existence of material from a wide range of Christian traditions.


Week 2 - Colin Webster

Originally from the coastal town of Stonehaven in Scotland, Colin worked in the oil industry on exploration rigs, it was during this time that he gave his life to Christ. He spent three years on the road with the Saltmine Band, followed by several years working at Westminster Chapel where he met his wife Vicki. After studying at Moorland Bible College he was called to serve on the ministry staff at Cornerstone Church in Nottingham where he has been serving for 14 years. Colin and Vicki have two children, James (9) and Ben (7). His hobbies include body boarding at St Ives, hiking, mackerel fishing and finding other peoples golf balls (which is immensely satisfying)!

Week 3 - Stuart Townend & Phatfish

Stuart Townend is known and respected around the world as one of the leading worship songwriters of his generation. He is also a gifted worship leader, musician, recording artist and seminar speaker, and spends a good part of his year leading worship at major Christian events, doing solo concerts, recording studio albums, and training emerging worship leaders and songwriters. He has featured on numerous live worship albums down the years, in addition to his solo albums - Say the Word (1997), Personal Worship (1999), Lord of Every Heart (2002), Monument to Mercy (2006), The Best of Stuart Townend - Live (2007), and There is a Hope CD & DVD (2008). His new album, Creation Sings, was released in May 2009.