Earlier this year, I had the privilege of leading my first HSI team to Eastern Europe! We gave two songwriting workshops, one in each country. Some very beautiful songs emerged in Albanian from these two workshops. The depth of lyrics and quality of the songs are obvious, even to a non-native, non-Albanian speaker. One of…Read more …
Heart Sounds International’s mission statement includes helping ignite worship in places where Christ-followers are “restricted, persecuted or unknown.” Because of our focus in these places, many stories are hard to share online. But I’d like to share what I can from this past year over a series of blog posts. Here’s a story from Southeast…Read more …
Written by Emily Dickey and Erica Logan We were a team of almost 20 people (Filipino and American), representing multiple organisations and a variety of art disciplines: music, dance, visual art, photography, audio recording, drama, storytelling, jewelry-making, 3D paper crafts and even quilling. Heart Sounds International’s trips are typically limited to music and recording. This…Read more …
Heart Sounds has been partnering with YWAM Surigao since 2007. In 2014, HSI and YWAM provided a worship workshop for church worship teams in Surigao del Norte. The 2017 workshop is an expansion of that workshop. On this particular trip, HSI is collaborating with a visual artist from OM Arts as well as local artists to provide a comprehensive arts team for the workshop. I am thrilled to be going on…Read more …
Tomorrow I hop on a plane and head to Belgium for an HSI songwriting workshop! We are partnering with WEC International’s art division, Resonance. The team leader and three teammates are from WEC. I’m the HSI representative. Please pray as we hold two workshops. The purposes of the workshops are: Workshop 1: Seminar for Trainers • Inspire and excite regarding ethnodoxology (heart music, releasing…Read more …
These two delectable snacks are as good in Belgium as they are plentiful. Also plentiful in Belgium is the spiritual need. But OM Belgium has seen the evangelical presence in their town of Zaventem grow from zero to at least four churches since they began ministry 50 years ago! I had the opportunity to travel…Read more …
The co-founder of Heart Sounds International and my esteemed teammate, Frank Fortunato, recently wrote a 2-part article in celebration of HSI’s 15th anniversary. In part 2, he begins by saying, It was an epochal moment that day in the late nineties, in Pretoria, South Africa. When it was my turn I gave a brief report…Read more …
A Gift From Heart Sounds International To You! In celebration of 15 years of Heart Sounds International ••• Global worship coming from 70+ projects in about 40 countries ••• Helping to release indigenous worship in the developing Church around the world ••• We invite you to download and listen to HSI’s first album, Sounds of Global Worship…Read more …
A little over a month ago, our team gathered outside of Atlanta for the annual Heart Sounds International Summit. The Summit is the one time of year that our entire team is together in one place. We had a marvelous time discussing “synergy”—how each department can contribute to the others and work together to do…Read more …
Heart Sounds has had over 791,000 views on youtube! If you want to see over 50 videos of people worshiping Jesus through their own cultural expressions, check out our channel. One of my favorites is “I Adore You.”
