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Hungry
1999
Vineyard Music UK/Eire
Various Artists
Produced by: Brian Doerksen & Nigel Hemming

 

Tracks
Hungry (Falling on my knees)
Your name is holy
Humble King
There's No One Like Our God
Make Your Home In Me
Child of God
Be the centre
All creation
Rhythm Of Heaven
I Surrender
Only You
Refuge In You
You Are A Holy God
Breathe

Story of the "Hungry" recording :

My final project while I was living in England, this recording is packed with emotion and memories for me. The night itself when we recorded in SW London in February 1999 was very special. The place was totally "heaving" with people (in case you need translation that's a British phrase for "jammed to the rafters") and the sense of God's presence and favour was very near.

The "Hungry" recording was a total team effort, but one of the names most people connect with this recording is Kathryn Scott. I won't forget meeting Kathryn for the first time. Actually it wasn't in person, but via video. As part of my training of Vineyard worship leaders, I had the churches in the British Isles video their Sunday morning worship times and send me the tapes so I could get a sense of what was happening to help me focus my training efforts. One of the tapes was from the Glasgow, Scotland Vineyard, where Alan and Kathryn Scott, a young married couple, were living at the time. As soon as I heard and saw Kathryn leading worship (and I can assure you that the quality of the video was "low-fi" all the way!) I knew she had a call to lead worship. What I didn't know at the time was how much some of her songs would move me and other people around the world. I had considered having Kathryn involved in our first UK Vineyard recording ("Come, Now is the Time") a year earlier, but the timing didn't seem right, and she was still re-writing a song she ended up calling "Hungry." Of course, the "Hungry" recording includes many others beyond Kathryn that by this point were very dear friends to me. Brenton Brown included one of his new songs, "Humble King" (If you ever get the chance, ask Brenton to tell you about how I drove him nuts getting him to do a few lyrical revisions on that one). The "sleeper" song on this recording was "Be the Centre." When the song panel that helped choose songs for the project first heard the demo, the whole group almost unanimously said "Not a great song; it won't work congregationally." Now there have been numerous times where I have missed songs initially too (like "Holy & Anointed One") but this time, I was sure that this song would work great. It's turned out to be a core song in my repertoire as a worship leader, and that story is being repeated in many places. I love the new recording that Vineyard Music India did of it, and you get a sense of the way this song can adapt to many cultures.

I believe, at this point, that this recording has turned out to be Vineyard Music's best-selling recording, and for that I am so grateful to God, and to the friends who joined together in worship, especially John & Eleanor Mumford and the other pastoral leaders of the Vineyard in the UK & Ireland.

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