To Serve and Equip Local Churches

The focus of WorshipAlive.com is to serve and equip local churches, worship
leaders, and their teams by providing original and reproducible worship songs
and resources. WorshipAlive.com is associated with GraceChapel.com and is led by the songwriting team of Mary and with Chris Meade. Both Mary and Chris are seasoned worship leaders and musicians.

Chris is the founding and lead pastor of Grace Chapel, a vibrant,
intergenerational and multicultural church located in Boise, Idaho. Mary is
the worship pastor. Chris is also the president of LeadershipAlive.com. Together, they have over 50 worship songs listed with CCLI. They are currently are in the process of writing and recording a fourth original worship album.

Mary Meade

As far back as I can remember, I knew I wanted to learn to play the piano and sing. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree with a piano teaching emphasis, I soon started teaching private piano lessons (which I still teach today). During the last couple years of college, through a series of happenings, I finally learned what it meant to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and I gave my life to Him. From that point on, it was evident to me why I had such a strong desire to learn everything I could about music.

I started writing songs for worship almost immediately after becoming a follower of Jesus. Most of the songs I wrote were shaped from different things I was experiencing and learning. In 1984 I met a very special friend, Chris Meade, my co-partner in song writing. We became friends almost immediately and begin writing worship songs together. We were married and eventually moved to Tucson to be a part of Grace Chapel. After being in Tucson for about five years, we felt like God was calling us to plant a church in a capitol city and we ended up in Boise, Idaho where we started GraceChapel.com. I’ve been leading worship and writing worship songs for our congregation for fourteen years, along with my husband Chris.

What a privilege it is and has been to be a mouthpiece for our congregation and to be able to express the many wonders God has done in each of us and to be able to express those wonders through the vehicle of writing worship songs. My prayer is that as you learn these songs, they’ll be more than just songs to you, but that you will be inspired to live the songs!

 

Chris Meade

I too, like Mary was introduced into a family culture of music at a very early age. I began playing piano as a child. Later, I began playing the guitar and writing songs. I was a part of many rock and jazz-fusion bands. Like many of my friends in those days, I wanted to be a “rock star.” So, at 19, I moved to San Diego, California to try and make it in the music business as guitarist in the club scene.

It was in the summer of 1982 that a friend slipped me a cassette tape of a Christian band. I had never heard anything quite like it. God used that album to catapult me on a spiritual quest. It wasn’t long after, that Jesus Christ gained royal entrance into my heart and changed the meter, tempo, rhythm and song of my life (Psalm 40:3).

I soon joined a local church and began to use my musical gift in a worship team helping others connect to God. It was during that time that I learned the difference between performing to an audience and performing for an audience of One, from my friend, Mary Zoller (now Mary Meade).  Writing worship songs and leading people into worship has been part of our life calling together.

We currently co-pastor GraceChapel.com, which is one of the many great churches in the Pacific Northwest. It’s a vibrant, multi-generational and multi-cultural church community that is filled with amazing people who love to worship God with a diversity of styles and grooves.

As you explore this site, it’s our desire to encourage and resource you. If you are a musician who is just starting to ask questions about God or if you are a seasoned worship leader in a local church, it’s our hope that these CDs and resources will serve you and be a blessing in your life and ministry.