Judah's Fire: Liner Notes

Judah's Fire, the musicians.: Judah's Fire is a group of Christians from the worship team at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Santa Maria, California. We did not produce all of the varieties of sounds on this CD by ourselves though. We were very blessed and privileged to have friends from many other church streams join with us in the adventure of making our first studio album. We especially wish to thank them all for their time, skill, and anointing.

Judah's Fire is:: Bass guitar on Most High God, Falling On Our Knees, and King Of Peace; Rhythm electric guitar on King of Peace and Strong Tower: Chris Bengs.
Background vocals: Alysha Bengs, Cindy Dirlam, Randy Sechler, and Toni Tuller.
Acoustic guitar, mandolin, tambourine, guitar synthesizer, lead vocals; bass on King Jesus; BGVs on King Of Peace: Kevin Elling.
Percussion: Ron Oneto and Randy Turner.
Roland V drums: Russell Sechler.
Lead vocal on My Victorious King: Lani Sechler.
Additional backing vocals: Kathy Sechler and Kathryn Turner.
Additional musicians and their churches:: Electric guitars, e-bow, volume swells: Chris Kohler, Pismo Church of the Nazarene.

Percussion and Harmonica: Brad Bisquera, Crosspoint Community Church.
Synthesizer on Great Are You Lord, Victor Muro, Burn Vineyard.
Fretless bass on: Great Are You Lord, In Spirit and Truth, and We Believe It: Grant Nordwall, Burn Vineyard.
Bass guitar on My Victorious King, Strong Tower, You're So Good To Me, and Rain: Mark Koch, Kingsway Foursquare Church.

Acoustic drums on My Victorious King, Strong Tower, You're So Good To Me, and Rain: Steve Goetz, Orcutt Foursquare Church.

Background vocals on: Falling On Our Knees, Strong Tower, Most High God, King Jesus, and Rain: God's Women of Treasure (Lydia Haley, Geanell Robinson, and Charlotte Magee). Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, San Pedro, CA.

Electric slide guitar: Darren Clarke, worship leader, Burn Vineyard.
Violin on Great Are You Lord: Gerry Chavez, worship leader, Vision of Hope Community Church.
Second lead vocal on Strong Tower and King of Peace: Scott Underwood, worship leader, itinerate.

B-3 Organ, Saxophones, synth. horns, and piano: Terry Lawless. (Thanks Terry!)

This project was recorded, mixed and mastered at Moon Productions and Recording Studio in Arroyo Grande, CA. From June 1999 through January 2000 by Thomas E. Gingell. (Thanks Tom!)

Photography by Carson Bell.

Executive producer: Steve Dastic, pastor of the Vineyard in Santa Maria, CA.

All songs written, arranged, and produced by Kevin Elling for God and Kev-X music.
For e-mail correspondence (only if you like us!) you can reach us at: kevin@vineyardsmv.com.
God's Women Of Treasure can be reached at:
P.O. Box 37, San Pedro, CA 90733
(310) 521-0131 or (310) 519-1278
Thanks: Thank You, Father God for creating the language of the heart (music) by which we express our love and thanks to You. Thank You, Jesus for giving all of yourself and not looking back. You are the reason for the songs we sing! Thank You, Spirit for inspiration and anointing and for the gift of spontaneity and creativity in music.
Thanks to the intercessors and worshippers from all of the churches involved in this multi-denominational project. I am so blessed to have had so much support. Thanks to the multitalented musicians who took this project to another level. If any of you are looking for a church to attend in Santa Maria ... no I won't go there! Suffice to say that you guys and gals have been a tremendous blessing to me for giving of yourselves and your gifts on this project. Blessings to you all!
Thanks to the VCF worship team for understanding why this took so long to complete and for your sacrificial giving. I pray that your work on this project is a continual blessing to you. We did it!
Special Thanks: Special thanks to my wife, Teresa, and the kids for putting up with the "daddy's going to the studio" stuff. I hope you all enjoy the music (and having dad back again!). I love you!
All proceeds from this CD go to support worship at the VCF of Santa Maria.