Thanks for supporting the launch of WomenInWorshipNetwork.com We had over 2,000 visits on just the first day! Woohoo.

The site you’ve seen is only the tip of the iceberg of the ACTUAL site. On the surface WIWN.com is a helpful and informative site with great interviews and articles. But inside the site is way more, and that part just launched TODAY!

On the WIWN.com homepage, you’ll see a new “Member’s Area” button. Click on it and you’ll enter the all-new WIWN social networking area. We already have people who’ve signed up and are loving the growing community!

We have over 65 groups already, ranging from “Songwriters” to “Girls/Women Who Lead Worship On Guitar”, one for Keyboard players, one for those who lead from vocals, and one for non-worship leaders!

There are also groups for each of the 50 States in America, and a group for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. If there isn’t the right group for your country, then come and start one!

You get your own profile, where you can upload a photo, a status, and post your own songs for us all to hear! It’s a great place to expose your new songs to listening ears…if people like them, maybe they’ll use them in their church!

You can also message-board your prayer requests, like telling us when you are leading worship & asking us to pray for you!

Joining is totally free, and creating a profile takes less than 5 minutes. So come and join the gang! If you come over now you’ll be among the first, so come be part of the foundational gang who will build this community into a place of encouragement, equipping, laughter and community! Click here.… and I’ll see you in the member’s area to welcome you!

Love,

Vicky

Thanks to Josimar, a fan from Brazil, who wrote and told us about these two YouTube videos, where Brazilian worship leaders have used Vicky’s songs.

We enjoyed hearing Extravagant Worship and Awesome God (From her first globally released album “Yesterday Today and Forever”) in a different language. Sounds beautiful!

Enjoy!

If you haven’t already checked out my new Women In Worship Network site, hop over there and see what’s going on! The Rita Springer interview has had lots of hits, and people have been impacted by her thoughts and wisdom.

Just posted two new interviews- one with Mia Fieldes, from Hillsong, who shares about being mentored by Darlene Zschech, and one by Audrey Assad who toured with Chris Tomlin back in December and who is an incredible wordsmith.

You can also follow WIWN on Twitter…the conversations on there have been awesome already!! http://twitter.com/womeninworship

See you there!

http://womeninworshipnetwork.com/

Love,

Vicky

I’m delighted to say that the WomenInWorshipNetwork site just went live tonight! Check it out here! We’re kicking off with a great interview from Rita Springer and Jaime Jamgochian.

I’ll embed the Welcome Video here so you can catch the vision for what WIWN is all about!

Guys – there will be plenty of the site that’s relevant for you too… so don’t be shy about checking out the site!

Also, guys and girls, you can follow the WIWN on Twitter for updates on new posts to the site, and soundbytes on worship! I’m hosting the site, and also running the Twitter account…so sign up and I’ll make sure it’s interesting!!!   http://twitter.com/womeninworship

Women In Worship Network Welcome Video from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

Love,
Vicky

Thanks to ALL of you for your submissions to my WomenInWorshipNetwork logo and banner contest!

Having looked through all the entries and being impressed, this is the winner! Joel Klampert sent the two banners above, and the twitter icon. Don’t they rock?

Here is some more info about Joel and his design work:

Check out his blog (below is a snapshot of how it looks…his banner is very cool!).omen He has great thoughts to share on music, life and faith. He reviewed my EP a few weeks ago, and I re-tweeted the link. So some of you may have been on his site already.

Thanks again to everyone for participating in the contest!

WomenInWorshipNetwork, complete with Joel’s banner and twitter icon will be live tomorrow… woohoo : )

We are kicking off with an interview with Rita Springer… so watch out for the announcement that it has gone live!

Love,

Vicky

Salvation Day – Vicky Shares About The Song from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on Twitter about the Deliverer & Blessing and Honour tutorial videos!

Here is the 3rd one, so that all the songs on my EP are represented! Hope you enjoy “Salvation Day” and find it useful to see the guitar chords and hear its song-story!

Love

Vicky

Blessing and Honour – Vicky Shares About The Song from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

After getting so many hits on the Deliverer tutorial video, I thought I’d post one on Blessing and Honour.

Salvation Day will be next!

Do you like Blessing and Honour?If so, why?

Vicky

Deliverer – Vicky Shares About The Song from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

Hi friends!

Hope your week is going well. I’m spending mine in Eastbourne England, in meetings with Spring Harvest (Europe’s biggest Christian event) dreaming and planning about this year’s event (April 2010) and next year’s event (April 2011). I love being part of this team!

Thanks SO much for your ongoing support of the EP. Looking at the stats on which song of the 3 is the most popular, Deliverer seems to be winning the polls! So I’m focusing on Deliverer in this blog post.

Ever since we recorded the EP, I’ve wanted to make a video about each of the three songs, to give you an introduction, a guided tour of sorts, to each song!

So here is the first one! The video contains three parts so feel free to skip if you want to focus on only one or two sections. First I play the song on my acoustic guitar so you can see how to play it on just one instrument… sometimes it’s hard to imagine a song without the full album arrangement, so here it is, stripped down and simple!

Second I show you how to play the chords (piano players I apologize this is guitar-led…but my piano skills are bad!! Hopefully you can translate these chords onto keys!).

Third, I give you the story about why the song was written… so you can get some insight into what inspired me in the writing process.

Hope you enjoy… Has “Deliverer” touched you? Why and in what way? I know some of you have used it at church – I’d love you to share when you used it, and how it went!

Love,

Vicky

I love blogging and tweeting, but my favorite part of this online community is when YOU speak and YOU tell me about your life, your story, what’s going on in your world and heart.

“Salvation Day” is the first song on my EP, and is also a radio single right now. If you haven’t heard it yet, you can get it from iTunes by clicking here!

My song, Salvation Day, is a celebration of God rescuing us, and us remembering the season or moment when we gave ourselves to him. Salvation means….

“Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.

1. 1. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or deliverance.
2. Christianity.
   1. Deliverance from the power or penalty of sin; redemption.
   2. The agent or means that brings about such deliverance.

It means we have been rescued and that is worth singing and shouting about

Some people have a ‘date’ where they can remember a prayer they prayed. Other people can’t pinpoint the day, the week or even the year…their surrender to Jesus was more gradual, like slowly falling in love. Whichever is your story, they are all precious and powerful testimonies. Some people come to know Jesus through tragedy and crisis, others through joy and miracles…some had a Christian upbringing…some didn’t…every story is unique.

Salvation in Greek is ’sozo’ and it encapsulates the meaning of being completely saved, in our totality… So not only are our souls rescued from death, but salvation encorporates the entire work of the Holy Spirit as He heals, restores and sanctifies us every day. So even though we receive our salvation the moment we ask Jesus to be our Savior, the work of salvation continues in us as we are more and more formed into holiness.

I’ve launched a page where we can all share our story! It’s called MySalvationDay.com and that link will take you there! Go share your story – do it for your own heart, to remember what drew you to Jesus… do it for others, as we are encouraged when we hear how others found Him! It’s like a colorful tapestry that grows brighter and bigger the more piece of fabric are woven into it…

You can either tell the story of the season or moment when you first surrendered to Jesus… or in the wider meaning of the word “Sozo” you can tell everyone of a work that God is currently doing in your life to continue His “Sozo” in you… a recent breakthrough, a recent healing or deliverance in your personal journey!

I look forward to reading what you write there…I’ll be checking the page every day.

Love,

Vicky

I’m very encouraged by the banner ads on iTunes! And that they put the EP in the “New and Noteworthy” section too.

Don’t really know who makes all those choices about what gets pushed on iTunes, but whoever you are thanks for believing in me and my team and the music we are creating. It means a lot to feel like people are being touched by it and that you think it’s worth shouting about

Ok….back to editing some video here… watch for it soon on this site!

Love,

Vicky