"I'm a 37 year old Scotsman, happily married to my wonderful wife Dorothy and father of five children. We live in Paisley in Scotland (close to Glasgow airport) and worship at Renfrew Christian Fellowship where we have been for 15 years now. I gave my heart to the Lord when I was 14 years old, then I fell away through peer pressure at 16 years. I didn't come back to the Lord until I was almost 21 years old. I trained as a chef. I was working in Aviemore over the Christmas and returned to God
in December 1989. Dorothy and I met at Easter 1990 and married summer 1991. I've been songwriting since I was in high school although perhaps those songs are best forgotten! When I realised that "church music" was as varied and talented as secular music I was inspired; Dave Bilbrough, Graham Kendrick along with Petra and Ian White were among the first material that I listened to. I started writing music to poems my mum had written and my
own songs soon followed. Our church is an independent fellowship grounded in God's word, lively in praise and open to Gods gifts through the Holy Spirit. We reach out to the local community of Renfrew Town.
"The song 'God Breakthrough' was inspired by a conversation with my wife who said, 'Praise breaks through walls and I'm sure there's a song in that somewhere'. Having read Psalm 67 and been inspired by the revelation that when all the people praise him (God), 'then the earth shall see her increase' (Psalm 67: 6), the song was born. God had already supplied the words and then God supplied the music.
"I heard about dB Studios after my wife came back from the Worship Experience Conference in Eastbourne 2005. Dorothy had attended Chris Bowater's seminar on spontaneous song during which he mentioned the worship academy. I had been recording 'God Breakthrough' on my computer and when she came back I got the link through Chris's home page, contacted Mark and Howard and sent the MP3 file off."
