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MS. VICKY BEECHING: My grandparents have been probably the main sort of spiritual impact on my life. And they’ve been missionaries for many years. They were in Israel first, then they were in Zimbabwe, Africa for many years, about 20 years. And they would tell me stories of how they’d seen God’s Word in action on the mission field. And I kind of knew that it happened, you know, I had faith to believe that you know people hear the Words of the Gospel that they, you know, just break down and accept Christ. Or you know you talk about promises of healing or forgiveness and see them working in lives.

But it’s probably only on my mission trips that I’ve really, it’s really kind of come together you know first hand eye witness for me. And I went for two weeks to Lima, the capital of Peru, South America back in the summer. And it was just a phenomenal time for me to see God working through His Word in the lives of people that have nothing. You just like, you can pray with someone, they can accept Christ and they may have no home, no bed, nothing, but you just know that you’re leaving them rich, you know. And if you can leave them with a copy of God’s Word you just know that they’ve got the comfort that they need.

VICKY BEECHING: The Bible is probably my main inspiration for most songs, because my passion is really to write worship songs for the Church, so I figured that the best way to do that is to put as much common material in as possible. I think whenever you have lyrics that have scripture in, there’s an instant connection because it resonates with everyone. You know, it’s God’s Truth and we all know it, so it’s an easy way. So probably the most successful song that I’ve seen connected with the Church has been one called “Yesterday, Today and Forever,” it’s out of Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” I just kind of started with that verse and then branched out from there, just thinking about the faithfulness of God, you know the fact that He is the foundation beneath our feet. And this song talks about Him being Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and I just wanted to give it that feel of a song that kind of leans a bit on the Old Testament as well as the New Testament Jesus. So that verse in Hebrew was really the whole kind of foundation of the song. The verse continues to really mean a lot to me.