Now I have just released an album
New Day Dawning in collaboration with a musician friend Rob Whelan.
The song writing journey
The journey began one Sunday morning at church. I was singing in a low quiet monotone, while everybody else were singing loudly and joyfully. I was too embarrassed to sing in public.
I said to the Lord, “Lord, I would love to be able to sing.”
The Lord answered this prayer in a totally unexpected way.
A few weeks later I was at a worship conference in Te Aroha, and international artist Jason Upton was leading worship on stage.
Premium Content THE 2011 floods in Ipswich were not a first for Blair MP Shayne Neumann. As a boy living with his family in Trumper St, East Ipswich in 1974, he experienced the devastation inflicted on a city unprepared for such an environmental disaster. With his own house under more than two metres of water in 74, Mr Neumann s family fled to North Booval, only to be forced to evacuate a second time when the Bremer River rose there. He still remembers the vital contribution made by then-councillor Des Freeman and his wife Colleen in helping flood victims. The ability of the community to help its own is a theme that still resonates.