Vicky Beeching

Ask Vicky Your Questions & Get A Video Reply!

Hi gang,

I love it when I’m at conferences or concerts and at the end, people come up and ask me questions about leading worship, songwriting, or following Jesus… it’s great to share our experience and help others avoid the pitfalls we encountered, and to share any insights we’ve gathered along the way. I usually turn the question round on them after I’ve given an answer – or ask them one of my own. I always learn a lot from the people I meet, as the churches, cities and nations we go to are so wonderfully diverse.

Face to face is the best way for these kind of Q and A conversations… so I’m starting a new series of Q and A VIDEO BLOGS! These will show up in the right hand column on the blog site, so you can easily see and access them. Email me your question by clicking on the envelope icon (near the facebook and itunes icons on the right hand of my blog) and I’ll get started answering them!

Love,
Vicky

Vicky Leading Worship on GOD-TV

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Hey there : )

This Friday I’ll be leading worship in Springfield MO, alongside Leeland, The Afters, Israel Houghton and others. It’s a live TV event hosted by God-TV, broadcasting to millions across the nations. I’d love your prayers, that God will really touch people through the words and music we play, and that lives will be changed!

It’s exciting that one of the themes of the event is providing clean water for Africa. That was part of the legacy my Grandparents have left there – they worked in Zimbabwe providing wells for towns and villages to get clean water, for 20 years. So it’s cool to continue their work by being part of this big concert.

If you live nearby, come along!

Vicky

Vicky and Steve Fee Song!

I just got home from the Saddleback worship conference. I had the pleasure of hanging out with my friend Steve Fee and his band mates. We did a seminar together, sharing new songs… he played Glory to God Forever, the song that he and I co-wrote. It’s getting added on a lot of Christian radio stations at the moment which is exciting. Here is some video of him talking about the song…

Vicky

Leading Worship in Florida

Hey!

So this was Beejay and I, fast asleep on the flight home from Florida… I nick-named this photo “The Stripey Sleepers”

Let me show you some other photos of the trip… so you can see why we are tired! We had a great time…played four different times in two different venues in the Florida panhandle area… it was great… God really showed up and touched us and the folks there…

Hotel room rehearsal….. running through a brand new song I wrote last week with Sarah MacIntosh called “Deliverer”. I love it!

Morning church….

Evening church sound-check… it was a 2 week old, brand new building!

It was a great weekend… we had a time of extended spontaneous worship at the end of Sunday night’s service…it was powerful…we kept pressing in for more of God.. the church were really hungry for more of Jesus.

One more pic…..This restaurant had fish on the walls…so random…. I had to take a photo of Beejay in the booth as it made me smile…

Love you guys!

Vicky

Photos from The Past Week!

Seriously, I think baby Scarlett wins the prize for the cutest studio mascot EVER!

Here are some snap shots of my studio time over the past week with Jonathan and Sarah MacIntosh…. I love that they bring their little girl into the studio (with her awesomely cute headphones to protect her ears!) and that she is part of the process and one of the team!

Vicky

Live on BBC Television..

Hi friends!

One of my songs “The Wonder of The Cross” was broadcasted on BBC TV last week – on May 31st 2009.

Exciting! : )

I wrote that song for my Grandparents, as a tribute to them….they love hymns, so I wanted to write one for them It’s great to see other people using it too. As post modern people we often get excited about something, then move onto something else when the initial enthusiasm grows dim. We love the latest Starbucks drink…then after a few weeks we want to try a new one. Or we get a new CD, wear it out, then buy another.

How do we avoid losing the sense of wonder and amazement about what Jesus did for us on the cross? “Familiarity breeds contempt”, or so they say! How do we avoid time and familiarity taking away it’s impact – when we ‘ve heard the story a thousand times, how do we make sure we are still able to hear it like for the first time?

Love,

Vicky

Worship and Justice…. are we living it out?

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I love that Jesus was so passionate about the oppressed and the under-dog.

The Gospel for Him, meant not just talking but walking – not just thinking about ideals, but living it out in a nitty-gritty way. Oxford University was a place of lofty ideas and ivory towers… When I graduated I vowed to myself that I wanted my Christianity to be practical and REAL. To make a difference in my street and community, not just talk about theological concepts…

The kind of worship, sacrifice or ‘fast’ that God desires from us as worshipers is described powerfully in Isaiah 58… This is The Message version..

” The people complain,
‘Why do we fast and you don’t look our way?
Why do we humble ourselves and you don’t even notice?’

^3-5“Well, here’s why:

“The bottom line on your ‘fast days’ is profit.
You drive your employees much too hard.
You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight.

You fast, but you swing a mean fist.
The kind of fasting you do won’t get your prayers off the ground.
Do you think this is the kind of fast day I’m after:
A day to show off humility?
To put on a pious long face and parade around solemnly in black?
Do you call that fasting, a fast day that I, God, would like?

^6-9“This is the kind of fast day I’m after:
To break the chains of injustice,
Get rid of exploitation in the workplace,
Free the oppressed,
Cancel debts.
What I’m interested in seeing you do is:
Sharing your food with the hungry,
Inviting the homeless poor into your homes,
Putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,
Being available to your own families.
Do this and the lights will turn on,
And your lives will turn around at once.
Your righteousness will pave your way.
The God of glory will secure your passage.
Then when you pray, God will answer.
You’ll call out for help – And I’ll say, ‘Here I am.’

A new friend of mine, Danielle Strickland (the social justice director for the The Salvation Army in Australia) really IS living out the kind of worship and fasting that God desires!

She is fighting against the injustice of legalized prostitution in Australia…. getting her hands dirty in loosing chains and opening prison doors.. Check out the story here!