At the end of December 2002, the weekend between Christmas and New Years’, my husband and I were visiting Ventura from our home in Philadelphia for the holidays. In September we had decided that we were going to move to Ventura within the year to begin work in the family cabinet business. We planned on moving in the spring and, up until four days prior to our Christmas visit, had no immediate plans to move. I was pregnant and did not want to move across the country while pregnant. Then, four days before our trip, we lost our baby. Suddenly our trip had become a time to seriously plan our relocation.
It was a difficult and emotional Christmas season for me. Besides the pregnancy loss, I was facing leaving my tightly knit circle of family and friends for good. We had one Sunday to visit a church and that December 29, 2002 we found ourselves sitting in the CPC sanctuary. A blond, young, surfer/skateboarder, stereotypical “California” kid was leading worship that Sunday. It only took a minute for my husband and I to know we were witnessing a special gift for music and leading worship.
Eight months later that kid, Jordan Frye, ended up in my husband’s core group and in our living room every week. In that year it became clear to both of us that our first impression of Jordan was truly a reflection of a deeper character – a man with an authentic love of Jesus Christ and an incredible gift for making music and leading people in worship using it.
In the nearly seven years that have passed, we have been privileged to watch Jordan use this gift to touch thousands of people, bringing them before the glory and majesty of Jesus Christ. We have also been privileged to know him and hear him make beautiful music. He has a spirit of gentleness and kindness that touches everyone he meets.
He is reading this now, and would want me to tell you that he is not something special. He would say that I make too much of it. I would say that this is what makes him good. He (in his own words) leads out of his brokenness – and God has used him, uses him, to bless others.
To bless us.
Jordan, with Urban Rescue:
Jordan, alone:
