One day…grateful
Wednesday night during our CCF Bible Study, I mentioned about being slightly distracted during a night session at Passion06 by a beautiful female lead worshipper. Basically, it was Christy Nockels. If you’ve heard of the duo Watermark or listened to some Passion CDs, you’ll probably heard of Christy. Think back on songs like Knees to the Earth, vocals on Take My Life, Glory to Your Name….and most memorable for me, Grace Flows Down. She led it once at our Community Group at Passion06, and I was blown away completely by God’s grace once again.
I admire Christy, not just for her powerful voice, but for the life of praise and ministry she leads. She’s been doing this for as long as I can remember with her husband Nathan Nockels. Nathan produces like all of the recent Passion CDs, as well as the CDs of many Passion artist/worshippers…probaly best known for his piano melody on the chorus of “Take My Life”.
Whenever I look at them, I think of a relationship that is completely a gift from God, a blessing of grace. In their music ministry, Nathan hardly sings–Christy is the voice behind it all, vocally in the music. Nevertheless, in all the songs, I hear Nathan’s words of leadership in their relationship, in their family, in Word and in righteousness…how it all sticks close to a firm foundation of God’s Scripture. And in Christy, her following of Nathan’s life leadership, her gift as a worship leader, and her heart of a mom (of 2 kids: 5yrs old and 3yrs old).
I just read this, and was just wowed by Christy’s sharing in this interview:
So, how did you meet Nathan?
I met Nathan. . . Well, it’s really kind of woven through several years because we were acquaintances for a couple of years before we saw each other out in Estes Park, Colorado. But, August of 1993 - that is when we actually were both single and interested in each other. I met Charlie Hall at a church camp when I was 16 and that’s when I really started hearing about Nathan. Charlie was his best friend - we’re still good friends - and now, of course, he’s a worship leader with Passion and he’s on Six Steps Records. So, I always knew about Nathan and I always thought he was just so darling and wonderful, but he always had the same girlfriend in high school. They were really just good friends, but I never thought he was an option, so I just dated his friends. (laughs)
So, 1993 is when we really saw each other out there. I was still kind of dating somebody, but we ended up spending the entire week together and I really knew that week that, if it was an option, I wanted to marry him. I thought he was “it”.
