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INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED WORSHIP LEADER
DARLENE ZSCHECH RELEASES LIVE CD/DVD,
“HERE I AM, SEND ME THIS MARCH”
Renowned worship leader, author and pastor Darlene Zs- you’re going to die, and Martin said, ‘Darls, I know you’re
chech releases the Here I Am Send Me (Hineni) CD/DVD going to want to write songs about this season. What do
globally on March 3 from Integrity Music. Recorded live with you want to say?’ And I said, ‘I want to say ‘HE IS GREAT!’
her team at Hope Unlimited Church on the Central Coast And so we wrote this song together and have been singing
of New South Wales, Australia, the album is Zschech’s first it in our church. That’s where it started… In the midst of the
project following a life changing cancer diagnosis in 2014 fire, it doesn’t change who our God is.”
and features 11 new songs penned by her along with guest
writers like Martin Smith, Paul Baloche, Jenn Johnson and “Cancer is a dreadful thing,” continues Zschech. “The medi-
Leeland Mooring. cal world doesn’t like to use the word ‘healed.’ They like to
say the word ‘remission’… but I’m believing God’s report
Here I Am Send Me is also Zschech’s first new album since over my life. I speak Psalm 91 over myself every day, I take
2013’s critically acclaimed Revealing Jesus. Produced by my medicine and I take the word of God and I do my best
Andy Mak, the new recording opens with a full-on declara- with what I can do in the natural and trust God with those
tion of the greatness of God in the song “You Are Great” things over which I have no power.”
written with Martin Smith (Delirious?) in response to the most Following this opening track, the album proceeds to take
challenging season of her life. listeners through a journey declaring God’s greatness, love
and call, and gives worshippers a voice of response, as in
“When I was at my sickest, Martin flew over from England the song, “You Will Be Praised.” Written with Baloche and
to sit with us, sing songs over our church, and walk and talk Johnson upon Zschech’s first return to America after can-
with me and my husband, all the while speaking courage cer treatment, the song unabashedly declares the power
into us,” Zschech says, her voice full of emotion recalling the of the Holy Spirit living among us that makes fearlessness
dark days after her diagnosis of breast cancer that is now possible in every season and circumstance of life. It is, in
in remission. “It’s week one of treatment and you feel like many ways, her testimony.
