Featured Artists
Welcome, we invite you check out artists that express their talents to others
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Our Featured Artist is
Paul Lafrance
Paul is
married to Janna. They along with their children, make their home in a suburb of
Toronto.
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In September of
2000, Paul and Janna began gathering together with
other folks in homes just trying to sort out what father was doing. As these
relationships began to grow, more people were drawn together. They began to have
meetings called Life Gatherings.
Currently, about
11 families and couples meet together in separate homes to worship and share the
life of Christ in an environment small enough that they can interact, and on
alternating weeks, come all together to worship corporately and share the Word.
The Lord has
gathered new musicians around Paul and Janna and they have begun to record a new
CD, which is due out this year. He has graciously allowed us to preview some of
the tracks here.
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When I met Paul, I was immediately struck by the
authority of this music. I knew nothing about the man, but when he began to play
and sing, I immediately connected with him in his depth of love for Father. I
was excited for the opportunity to chat with him and to share his music on this
web site.
Click the links below to listen.
Crazy Love
Daddy I'm Here
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What is it about God and caves?
Seriously, whenever God wants to really get your attention He invites you to
meet with him in a cave. You can talk to Elijah, King David, Jonah (okay so it
was a fish cave), or Paul Lafrance. Since I’ll have to wait awhile before I can
talk to the first three, let me tell you about Paul.
Paul and his wife, Janna’s,
journey began back in 1994. At the time they were youth leaders and part of the
worship ministry of the Toronto Airport Vineyard prior to the great outbreak of
the Toronto Blessing. It wasn’t long before Paul’s ministry grew and soon was a
sought-after worship leader at youth conferences across the US.
In their view, their music
ministry was heading toward "rock star" status in the Christian
music world. The Toronto Airport Vineyard was the center of the Christian
universe at the new millennium. People were flocking from all over the globe to
participate, receive, or judge the Toronto blessing, and Paul was thick in the
middle of it all. At the height of when everything was about to really explode,
God called them to live in a cave. Not
a literal cave mind you, but a place of darkness, silence and death. Death to
idolatry of one’s own abilities, with a desperation for real relationships. They
wanted to leave, but Father wanted them to stay. Offers to invest in their music
ministry came, but they turned them down. They unplugged from the whole
Christian music scene, desperate for intimacy with Jesus and for true life-long
relationship with fellow believers.
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