[Lindy] So I actually came home from that At the same time YWAM in Kona was starting funny, we all laugh because anyone could be a
mission trip and asked my parents if I could a house of prayer. And I was like, what is a worship leader. I showed up not really singing
take a gap year. And that’s how I got to YWAM, house of prayer? Like, do you live at a house and was so terrified of the microphone. I did
I literally Googled “mission school” and YWAM and pray? What? It was a paradigm shift for choir in high school because all of my friends
was the first thing that came up. So how I YWAM because YWAM is so focused on going did it, but I wasn’t like a singer, you know? So,
got into music was I showed up to YWAM in and the task. It was really a season where God one thing led to another, I started singing in
Kona, Hawaii in 2007. In my DTS (Discipleship was trying to breathe life back into… first things the prayer room and then had a tremendous
Training School) there I got totally rocked by first… to worship in His presence. It was a revelation of worship, and the power of worship,
God. That’s when I was like, “This is real, the beautiful season I didn’t ever realize I walked and the beauty of being called to it. Then of
Bible is real, this story is real, this is all real”. into. I was young, showed up to YWAM with course Romans 12 began to unfold, our whole
I remember thinking that I finally understood no agenda other than I wanted to take a gap lives are worship to God, that’s really where the
evangelism. I never had understood, I felt like year and try to find God. So I asked my parents song “Obedience” came from. I’ll love you with
it was always forced and I didn’t want to shove if I could stay on staff at YWAM and maybe do my obedience more than words and more than
something down someone’s throat. But then I school online and they said absolutely. I think a song, it’s my life laid down. So now ten years
realized that everyone deserves the opportunity they could tell this was what I wanted to do at later I’m leading worship at YWAM and all over,
to know about this love. The love that was in least for a season in my life. and we all just laugh about how that happened.
God’s heart that He sent His only son. The love
It’s a fun story.
that enabled Jesus to walk to the cross so we So now I’m at YWAM Kona, Andy Byrd and can be forgiven for our sins in our life… so we his wife Holly moved there to start the house [WM] When did the Circuit Riders name come
could live. This love is like nothing I had ever of prayer. And no one really goes to YWAM for along? I love it!
known. I had a real revelation both in spirit and music, at least not at this point, so if you could in truth of who God is and I surrendered my life. hold a note you were leading worship. It’s so
April 2019
[Lindy] Yeah that’s another fun story. So,
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