It was time for change. I’m still making tweaks and adjustments so if you find any weirdness comment back and let me know.

Kendra Rohl, 5’2″, 100lbs of fury

Current Position: vocalist on Life Connection Church’s worship band

Church History: I was raised as a Christian and knew the Lord at a young age. I don’t remember actually going to church until I was about 9 or 10 years old. My mom would do bible studies at our home and I remember feeling connected to God, as much as my immature mind and heart would allow me to at that time in my life. The first church that I really remember going to was the Santa Barbara Vineyard and I pretty much stayed with the Vineyard until moving here to Arizona. I remember the first time I walked into the Vineyard in Santa Barbara. The church was an old converted theatre and it had a very cool vibe, or at least it did to a 10 year old. There was a full band on stage, people dancing, singing, shouting full of passion and it looked like a lot of fun and there was something authentic about the emotions they were expressing. I remember wanting to be a part of that immediately and since my friends who had brought me were a crazy bunch we jumped right in not even fully knowing what it was all about. I loved
the freedom there was to express my love for Jesus in song and it made a big impact on me, I feel like it was the start of God giving me a heart for worship.

Artistic History: I have always been a lover of the arts and all things creative. I think I was put in a dance class as soon as I could walk and was singing and playing piano shortly after that. I grew up on stage in everything from recitals to musicals to singing for a 17 piece swing band and anything in between. I know that God has given me a passion for music and all that goes with it which is why I feel so incredibly blessed to be a part of a church that has a desire for the creative arts to be a part of our service, outreach and expression of worship. I don’t really know how to express my deep love for music and dance into words, it’s something that comes out of such a deep place, I guess it would be best described as my spirit. I know that God has placed that in me and is constantly challenging me to step out in new ways in worship though music, song and dance. It’s a scary and exhilarating journey, one that I’m privileged to be on looking forward with great expectation for what is to come.

Musical taste: My musical taste is all over the board I really just enjoy good music whether that is rock, country, hip hop, jazz or anything else but here are some of my favorite bands/artists.

• U2
• Counting Crows
• John Mayer
• Norah Jones
• Snow Patrol
• Coldplay
• James Taylor
• Michael Buble
• Diana Krall
• Marc Broussard
• John Mark McMillan

You can now reach this blog site by going straight to ourrisingsound.com. Yeehaw!

I just wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that on the right hand side bar of the blog we have rotating polls. Right now we’re asking if there is a place for solos in congregational worship. I’m going to try and keep these questions as controversial as possible so we don’t have 100% voting yes or no, that’s no fun. So this question is easing us into that. If you haven’t chimed in…chime!

This blog will serve to communicate our heart, our style, our passion as expressed through our song at Life Connection Church. We firmly believe that God requires our best in all things, and we refuse to offer anything less in our music. It’s our deepest desire to be intimate with Jesus Christ so we can hear what He is calling us to, what He would require of us, ahve His vision imparted and have that creatively communicated through original song.

We’ll post thought provoking posts, raise some important questions, pass along what we see as new and exciting in music both in our genre and out of it, and try and engage as many as we can in God’s word and inspiration in music. So I invite you to subscribe to the feed and comment as often as you like.