New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Rick Hoganson Media) It's a fact: God chooses the most unlikely people to accomplish great things. Moses the stutterer.
David the "runt of the litter." Mary, a young girl.
So it makes sense somehow that God would pluck an enthusiastic youth worker with an earnest desire to serve Him, but without any professional music experience, tell him to pay attention, write some songs, let the people sing and then take him around the world to lead and teach about worship.
But that, in reality, is the short version of
Dustin Smith's ministry.
Set for release this fall,
Dustin Smith's second solo effort, COMING ALIVE, is anything but your typical worship album because for Dustin, these songs aren't lyrics written out of personally emotive places he's been to as a singer/songwriter and worship leader. In truth, these songs represent the move of God among the people he serves.
Dustin would be the first to say he's just the note taker.
"When I started writing songs for our church I realized that there were songs that we needed that weren't out there. One night I was in the basement working after the kids were asleep, and I felt God tell me, 'I don't want you to be a songwriter. I want you to be a chronicler. Watch what I'm doing and chronicle it so that others will see and know that it can happen to them too.' I was supposed to chronicle the move of God through song... I went from never writing a song to writing 20 songs a week."
How
Dustin came to be at World Revival Church, now in Kansas City, Missouri, is, in itself, an unlikely story. What began as "the cornfield revival" of Smithton, Missouri, World Revival Church became a magnet for people hungry to experience God's presence in tangible ways.
Formerly on staff at a large church on the east coast,
Dustin and his family were tired of going through the religious motions week in and week out. When they heard about the Smithton revival from family, they packed up the car and headed west, desperate to breathe deeply again. There was no job and certainly not a job at the church, but
Dustin and his wife didn't care. "I said, 'I will clean the toilets. I just want to be there. I want to help in any way I can, but I'm not looking for a job or a position to do anything,'" he says of the couple's move to Kansas City in 2002.
It's a fact: God chooses the most unlikely people to accomplish great things. Moses the stutterer.
David the "runt of the litter." Mary, a young girl.
So it makes sense somehow that God would pluck an enthusiastic youth worker with an earnest desire to serve Him, but without any professional music experience, tell him to pay attention, write some songs, let the people sing and then take him around the world to lead and teach about worship.
But that, in reality, is the short version of
Dustin Smith's ministry.
Set for release this fall,
Dustin Smith's second solo effort, COMING ALIVE, is anything but your typical worship album because for Dustin, these songs aren't lyrics written out of personally emotive places he's been to as a singer/songwriter and worship leader. In truth, these songs represent the move of God among the people he serves.
Dustin would be the first to say he's just the note taker.
"When I started writing songs for our church I realized that there were songs that we needed that weren't out there. One night I was in the basement working after the kids were asleep, and I felt God tell me, 'I don't want you to be a songwriter. I want you to be a chronicler. Watch what I'm doing and chronicle it so that others will see and know that it can happen to them too.' I was supposed to chronicle the move of God through song... I went from never writing a song to writing 20 songs a week."
How
Dustin came to be at World Revival Church, now in Kansas City, Missouri, is, in itself, an unlikely story. What began as "the cornfield revival" of Smithton, Missouri, World Revival Church became a magnet for people hungry to experience God's presence in tangible ways.
Formerly on staff at a large church on the east coast,
Dustin and his family were tired of going through the religious motions week in and week out. When they heard about the Smithton revival from family, they packed up the car and headed west, desperate to breathe deeply again. There was no job and certainly not a job at the church, but
Dustin and his wife didn't care. "I said, 'I will clean the toilets. I just want to be there. I want to help in any way I can, but I'm not looking for a job or a position to do anything,'" he says of the couple's move to Kansas City in 2002.
