One of the many strengths that come out from
CCK, Brighton is their outstanding gifting in worship. The wonderful
Kate Simmonds used to lead the team there until her
recent move to Australia with Peter Brookes. Other worship leaders of course include
Stuart Townend,
Paul Oakley,
Phatfish and the awesome
Simon Brading (who will be helping to lead worship at Together on a Mission 2007!). To be involved in a time of worship there often felt something like being at Stoneleigh. They demonstrate a passionate, Christ-exalting, God-centred prophetic gifting to lead the people of God into the throne room and bask in the Presence of the Holy Spirit and it is just ... heavenly!
However CCK cannot be accused of being exclusivist or hiding their tremendous giftings under a bushel. For some time they have run a Worship School where they invite pastors, worship leaders, and just worshippers in general to come and receive from their experience, passion and gifting. This is no theological, dry time! It is theologically based but the topics give away their passions to draw people in to experience God's love and His pleasure. They hold main sessions and more practical workshops where I believe there is an opportunity to try out songs and music and receive advice from the CCK team.
I've never managed to get to a Worship School although I know that
Pete has and I am sure will testify to it's impact on his life as well as
Mark Heath (and I think my friend
Luke has as well?) So I am tremendously excited that the last Worship School (14th October 2006) has now made their sessions available in MP3 format on the CCK website! It was tucked away in the Archive and I only found it by accident - so I wanted to draw attention to it so that those of us who haven't had the blessing of being able to attend can benefit from the material too.
The sessions are available
here and were as follows -
Main Sessions:
Workshops:
