SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (KTIV) – A Sioux Center worship ministry has taken the next steps in connecting with people outside of the Siouxland area by releasing a music album produced right in Sioux County in their homemade music studio.
The Sioux Center ministry, “HOME,” stands for “House of Missions and Equipping.” The group hosts a variety of daily worship sets and over the years has written songs.
“We have services every weekend and a lot of the time in service will sing original songs that we’ve kind of been given by the Lord over the past couple of years or so. We had all these songs that were a lot of them just lifted pretty much right out of Scripture,” said Tyler Miller, Worship Leader at HOME.
Leaders said worship is at the heart of every step and decision written with their community’s needs in mind.
Marcus Deweerd is one of the writers, composers, and singers on the new album. He said, “Just knowing how many of the songs stemmed from in this space during a prayer set where we were worshiping and praying for a specific topic that they were written for, people in this community as we were praying for them.”
Then was the birth of the idea for a music album getting the words and songs beyond the walls of this space.
“We’d like to have a space dedicated to making this album and other worship albums in the future,” said Lydia Jayaputra, an audio-visual technician.
The music studio is upstairs in an old break room transformed, and recording HOME’s first worship album, “Foundations.”
“It’s been a huge blessing and it’s equipped. Now we can release albums, but also we can now bring in younger worshippers or people who are curious about recording and have a space for them to be like, ‘Hey, I wrote a song. Is there is there a way I could get a copy of it?’ ‘Can I record this?’” said Miller.
With more songs in their hearts, the writing continues.
“Whenever those songs decide to come to light, then we have space for that,” said Alecia Heard, another writer, composer and singer at the ministry.
“It’s a way for people to touch the Lord and have an encounter with them. When we would come into this studio and stand at this mic, we would always pray before we would start recording that whoever needs these songs, like whoever needs to hear them. That they would. They would receive them someday,” added Miller.
Jayaputra spent a lot of time on the technical side of the booth, at the computerand playing around with the mixes.
“I was a part of deciding what technology we used in this studio when we decided to completely make it in January. I was a part of the recording, you know, being behind the computer and taking those recordings and then mixing, mastering, But we also had a lot of like collaboration with our songwriters during that entire process,” she said.
“I think it was a desire for people to get to encounter the Lord the way that we get to in our services with our community here,” said Miller.
Miller added that a local construction company donated the time to transform the room, “He came in and worked on this piece by piece and connecting the two rooms through this window to give us a space that we can actually do the work.”
Heard said that she loves that anyone can listen to these songs, “They come from our hearts and from our time with the Lord, where it’s from really intimate and sweet places with the Lord.”
Miller hopes it’s a way others can find a way to interact with the Lord.
“People are struggling, people that are going through trials, they’re going to have these anthems that they can sing to the Lord and just receive mercy, healing, whatever they need in those moments,” he said.
The album was released on Jan. 19 and is out now on all streaming platforms.
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