Angie Lendon

Angie Lendon is a business woman, a minister and a volunteer. Angie talks about her music and her relationship with Jesus.   

https://www.angielendon.com/

https://www.angielendon.com/kyria-network

Redemption Song
https://www.kyrianetwork.com

Transcript

Nicola: Welcome to Coldwater Podcast. I’m Nicola Halton. We all know the importance of getting out there and doing a great work for Jesus. In this podcast we will learn more about the people who are involved in changing lives for good, for God. I would like to welcome Angie Lendon to the Coldwater Podcast. Hi Angie. 

Angie: Hi there how are you. 

Nicola: I’m fine thank you. It’s lovely to see you and meet you. I know you as a leader of worship. Would you like to talk about that. 

Angie: Yes well I’ve been leading worship now for over 20 years and my background is performance. I was a professional singer for a number of years and gave all that up and never thought that God would want to use me and use my voice again until one day I just started to get this sense that that was what he was saying. And erm and so yes I’ve been leading worship ever since really. He really spoke quite clearly to me but I made sure of that as well because I didn’t want it to be me. I didn’t.. I wanted to be so sure that it was Him that was calling me and not just me thinking, “oh it would be nice to sing again.” You know, there is a difference isn’t there? 

Nicola: Yes yes there is. You know I’ve seen you lead worship and you are phenomenal, you know you are really wonderful. How long have you been a Christian and how did you become a Christian? 

Angie: I’ve been a Christian for, oh my gosh, about, let me think, probably about 30+ yeasrs now. I can’t tell you exactly. But I, it was an interesting one because I, like I said I was a professional singer and that took me to America and so I moved to American, to California. I live in Los Angeles for a number of years and I moved out there because I got the opportunity to be managed by a manager out there and it all fell apart. Within about a year, it fell apart, it turned out he was an alcoholic and his business just dissolved and it all just went really, just pear shaped really. But in the meantime I met my now husband and we started going out together, we moved in together for a while and then we decided to get married. And we went to this church to get married and they were just lovely, it was a Presbyterian church and you know they were really lovely people and they just said to us, “You know we just as you to come to a service just so that when you have your wedding here, it doesn’t feel like its alien to you, you are familiar with the building.” So we were “Yeh, ok we’ll go.” So its quarter past eight is the first service, so we go to the first service and we can crack on with our Sunday and do what ever we normally do. So we went along and everybodywas just so lovely that we decided that we would go again and we just, you know we loved it so much and neither one of us knew that God had actually been speaking to the other one and been drawing us. 

Nicola: Right

Angie: We didn’t say anything to the each one because I think we thought the other one would think we were weird or whatever and so we started to go and we did a new members class there and they said, “can we take you through the Presbyterian you know new arrivals kind of thing and at the end you sign a statement of faith. 

Nicola:Yes

Angie: You know I grew up in the church of England when I was about fifteen you know I thought, “I’m not doing this anymore, its not cool, I’m not going to be here, I want to be with my mates.” You know kind of thing. So I had a background, Nigel didn’t have any background at all really only the odd Sunday school class when he was little. Yeh and then so then we really got involved, I sang in the choir, I did youth work and all sorts of stuff. Then we moved back to England and it wasn’t until we moved back to the UK that we actually got Spirit filled. 

Nicola: Yes there is a difference

Angie: That is why I hesitated to say, “When did I get saved?” Because it was 1985 I signed that statement of faith so in my head I was saved  but I can honestly say that I don’t really think I was saved in my heart because I didn’t have the relationship with Jesus that I have now. And it wasn’t until I got Spirit filled that everything clicked into place that everything made sense, you know the whole.. I had the whole father, son bit but it was father, son, holy spirit and he is like the catalyst for me and it all started to make sense then. 

Nicola: That’s perfect, there is lots of people out there who may be on that journey. And I hope that speaks to people. Your music certainly will. I know you as a family women, how has lockdown affected you. 

Angie: Ermmmm, yes I mean I, I’ve been very busy during lockdown cos I’ve got a business as well, that I run alongside ministry and that actually got really, really busy because we were doing things online and so my time was really quite taken up with working etc. so but like everybody else I missed my family but I did get to see some of them because some of the bubbles and things so some of my grandchildren I got to see but like we had a baby born during lockdown which fortunately we were in the bubble with them so we were able see him. But I think like everybody else at first it was ok because it was different and you think oh well, the weather was lovely and you could sit in the garden and you had time. The pace of life was slower but then as it went on, the winter came you know it started to take it’s toll, you know so I think I struggled as much as everybody else did. 

Nicola: Yes some people, God changed their ministry and the dynamics of the ministry. You know but you said you wrote a song during lockdown. 

Angie: I did yes that’s the lovely things isn’t it? Having more time. So I wrote my first Christmas song in lockdown it was the first Christmas song that I wrote and then I wrote another song.

Nicola: That’s wonderful. Would you like to talk about your albumn, Honesty, and what is your favourite song on the album. Mine is the church that I see. 

Angie: Is it? Well its that album is always going to be very special to me because it’s the very first album that I made, so I recorded that in 1995. So its quite old now. (Laughs)

Nicola: It is isn’t it. I love it.

Angie: My favourite song on there is, That’s My God on the Horizon because I remember when I wrote that song, we played it in church and my dad was in the congregation and I remember looking at my dad and he was in floods of tears. Since then my dad has obviously gone to be with Jesus now but I looked back on that and he was just like.. it was just one of those moments when God really touched Him and it was like wow, you know, it’s a gift to do something and you know and it and it and it really touches your family so and I loved it as a song I love it you know because it just describes God in my life, it describes Him in the beauty of creation, it describes Him in you know, circumstances where you know, people maybe people don’t see eye to eye but people choose to put their differences aside and choose unity and all of those things that are in that song so you know, that’s definitely one of my favourites and the other one I guess if I could have two would be my prayer. 

Nicola: Yes

Angie: I wrote on the M62 (Laughs)

Nicola: Right I think that everyone’s prayer on the M62 isn’t it (Laughs) Just get off it!

Angie: Obviously I didn’t write it as I was driving. I got the tune so I literally had to pull over,  find somewhere to pull over. 

Nicola: Yes

Angie: I think it turned into the A63 on the way to Hull so then you have laybys. 

Nicola: That is amazing. 

Angie: Just singing it into my phone. (Laughs)

Nicola: That’s amazing. You know I really really do… would love that gift of music like that. It is a gift. You know I struggle to put a few sentences together when it comes to words. 

Angie: We are all gifted in different ways, aren’t we? 

Nicola: We are, we are. We are all blessed in different ways but it is absolutely absolutely wonderful. You say you have got other albums, what are the other albums that you have done?

Angie: So in 2008 that I released from Hull With Love and that is an album that is full of worship, corporate worship songs. The songs were written as I led worship in Revive Church. It used to be Newlife. Its Revive Church now. And some of them would be off the back of sermons that were preached. There is a song on there called Amazing Days. And the first line is, we are living in amazing days and that literally came of the back off Jarrod who is my senior leader. He just got up at the front and he just said that, he said we are living in amazing days and it just resonated with me and I remember writing it down and coming home and that afternoon after lunch just sitting down and writing the song. 

Nicola: Yes

Angie: And it’s very prophetic. I think that that album its quite a prophetic album there is quite a lot of prophetic declarations in the song. It talks about blind eyes being opened and broken hearts being made new and that kind of thing. 

Nicola: Yes, yes wonderful and have you done any more since then?

Angie: And then I branched out into something completely different. I really love soaking music you know, I wouldn’t say its worship its more like reflection you know, where you can put it on in the background and you can just ..  if you are praying or you just want to sit in the presence of God and so I met a guy called Mark Walker who is based over in Halifax and Mark is a phenomenal musician and I kept praying and I kept saying to the Lord, “I really want to do this soaking album and it has got to be someone who is really an amazing pianist and keyboard player.” And I kept praying and then all of a sudden the penny dropped and the Lord was saying, “What about Mark,” I’d known him for ages. “What about Mark.” And so I went across to his house, he has got a studio and we literally just prayed beforehand and we literally just said to the Holy Spirit, right you lead us and we’ll follow you and that whole album is completely spontaneous. 

Nicola: Wonderful 

Angie: Absolutely wonderful, well I hope to put some links on so that people can connect to.. to your albums and to your work.

Nicola: You also work for KYRIA, K  Y R  I  A is that right yes?

Angie: KYRIA that’s right, KYRIA network, so what it is, its an organisation it’s a ministry for women in leadership and so we resource women in leadership we advocates for wome .. ooh.. women, I can’t speak, women in leadership and so we, are you know, we are very kind of like an organsation that really champions women and women in leadership whether that be in the market place or in the church setting and we just advocate for women to rise up and take their place. You know we are not trying to overcome men as it were, you know it’s not about that, its not a women’s lib movement, you know a Christian women’s lib movement and its not that its just encouraging, encouraging women to be strong and you know and just to, yeh, just to rise up and take their place that Jesus ordained for them kind of thing, so we’ve got.. we are just in the process of developing KYRIA North. So that’s anywhere from the Midlands up to Scotland cos in Scotland we have got our own KYRIA Scotland as well and so we have got our first online event in July.

Nicola: Wow Yes

Angie: Its going to be a couple of hours and hour and a half on a Saturday morning. I think it’s the 11 July. And its just a place where women in leadership can come, we have called it Oasis and it is just going to be a time of encouragement. We have got Ariana Walker from Mercy Ministries speaking for us and Amy Somerfield who is our CEO of KRYRA and they are both going to speak. We have got Mark Walker and his daughter doing worship and it is just going to be a beautiful couple of hours online. 

Nicola: Yes

Angie: You know we just didn’t feel to do it in person yet with everything that is going on, you know we are not even sure we would be able to so we thought we would do it online. But yes it’s a great organisation. You know we have really seen a massive growth spurt if you like in this past year and God has really, really blessed the ministry and I work alongside some amazing, amazing women, who are on our leadership team and our counsel of reference. We have got Cathy Maddison. We have got Cathy Maddison on our counsel of reference and various other amazing people, you know so.. 

Nicola: Sounds amazing. So how would you find the … do you have a website for KRYRA. 

Angie: yes its https://www.kyrianetwork.com

Nicola: I’ll put the link on the podcast.

Angie: I’ll send you the proper link. 

Nicola: That’s wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you and I’ll let you go. Finally so thank you. Bye Bye. Thank you for listening to the Cold Water Podcast. Please remember to subscribe and join next week.