Sunday Night Worship - June 24, 2012

Matt Stinton

Matt grew up in a home filled with music in a small farming town in southern Wisconsin. He always loved music and started playing the piano at age 5. He began writing music early on and finished his first song when he was only 6. He later taught himself to play guitar in his early teens.

After finishing high school, he enrolled in a small music college in Lakeland, Tennessee, where he studied audio production and engineering. After completing the program, he transferred to a liberal arts school in Springfield, Missouri, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcasting and journalism.

He graduated in 2006 and then took a job at a small church in New London, New Hampshire. There he served and was mentored by the worship leader for several months. After his mentor moved away, Matt took over the worship leaders position and worked there until moving to Redding in 2009.

Karen Peterson

Karen has been involved in worship leading for over 15 years and has served Bethel Church as a worship leader since 2006. As a child, Karen was powerfully impacted with an experience of Gods presence in worship, placing in her a passion to play the piano and write worship songs. In her young adulthood, she pursued an education at North Central University in Minneapolis, MN, studying music for 4 years. She is a voice for the church with a heart to see a generation raise a unified voice in worship and praise. Karen now lives in Redding, CA with her husband Joshua, and serves Bethel Church in many other capacities. She travels and ministers in churches locally and abroad and has plans to record her first music project in the near future. You can follow Karen at Like Karen on Facebook.