Who We Are
We are a praise and worship ministry, who actively serves the community through the love of God, love of people and the love of music. We actively serve the community through the love of God, love of people and the love of music!
Our Mission
We believe in reaching out to the broken, the needy and the hurt; uplifting people through love, the gift of music and compassion.
Reformation – Connection Between Music And Spirituality
Music is one of our most powerful gateways to connect to our spiritual nature — our divine source — the unseen, as well as to the universe around us and those other divine beings that inhabit it with us.
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
The spiritual nature of music cannot be defined by religion, culture or genre. Music precedes and transcends all those frameworks. To even compare music and spirituality as if they were independent concepts feels a bit odd. Music is, at its essence, the sound of spirit. When created from the heart and with truth and pure intention, music is a spiritual expression of the most universal nature and the highest order.
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” — Plato
Let us attempt to show this relationship between music and spirituality on a more fundamental level by first examining the meaning of “spiritual.” The New Oxford American Dictionary defines spiritual as “relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.” As we go back further in time, spirit comes from Latin spiritus — which is most simply translated as breath, but also identified with courage, vigour and soul. The distinction between soul and spirit was first separated in Christian terminology, with spirit being the “seat of emotions.” A more contemporary definition of spirit might also include “the essential nature of something.”
“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.” — William P. Merrill
Whatever meaning one chooses for spirituality, We believe there are direct correlations to each in the nature of music. Music is essential to human life and an integral part of our development as individuals and as a society. Like breath, music has rhythm, tension and release. One might even claim that the sound of breath, or the waves of the ocean are musical expressions of life
“Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it could not reach if it were left to itself.” — Henry War Beecher