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Worship Leader and Dove Award winning Songwriter
Paul Baloche begins new chapter in ministry and life

The next new season rarely happens when you plan it. But it happens according to plan.

For more than 26 years, worship leader Paul Baloche and his singer/songwriter wife Rita made their home in east Texas. That’s where he found his
vocation and calling as worship pastor of Lindale’s Community Christian Fellowship and where God had given him a vital ministry and a community
of life-long friends. He and Rita raised their family there, and as his ministry expanded via 16 recordings and numerous teaching resources, the couple
received offers to relocate and join larger ministries. But Paul and Rita stayed because Texas was home.

Then one day, after returning to a house full of empty bedrooms, they knew the time had come to consider a new season. “We pretty much said out
loud: ‘The easy thing would be for us to just stay right here and rock on our porch.’ Nothing was broken; it didn’t need fixing… but it was good to hit the
reset button and let go of the comfort and row the boat into some new waters,” Paul recalls.

The couple put out a fleece, told a realtor they’d consider selling if an offer came along. Without even going on the market, the house sold within a

month.

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