Terry MacAlmon
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We are very pleased to tell you that our brother and friend Terry MacAlmon
will once again come over to The Netherlands, to lead worship during The Heart
of Worship Conference 2012 in Amsterdam. During the conference he will not only
lead worship, but also teach about what worship in spirit and in truth really
is. We really look forward to some anointed times of worship and teaching.
Background info
Upon Terry's birth the doctor informed his parents that he would likely not live
through his first month due to cranial stenosis (a premature closure of the soft
spot in his head). His mother remembers pacing the floor with him every day and
praying, "Lord, if You let him live, I will give him to You for Your service."
The Lord heard a mother’s cry and miraculously healed her baby. Terry believes
that he not only received the gift of life at that time but also a special
anointing and gift of music.
It was at the age of three that Terry's mom began sitting him on the piano bench
to occupy him while she looked after his brothers. Terry quickly began to
discover the notes of “Jesus Loves Me,” a song he had learned in Sunday School.
A steady progression took place. By the time he was five, he played his first
solo in church.
The gift continued to develop; Terry became the church pianist at the age of 11.
Winning state and national talent awards in his denomination became a regular
event during Terry's teenage years.
It was in the summer of 1973 when Terry had a very unusual visitation from the
Lord after an evening service at a youth retreat. He recalls, "It was as if
God's presence was sitting on me like a cloud. His presence was so heavy that I
physically could not even lift my head. I just knelt and trembled while His
Spirit dealt with me. I knew that He was placing His mantle of worship upon me.
I have never been the same since that special August night.”
The start of his ministry
The next 17 years of Terry’s life were spent serving in music ministry positions
for several churches and traveling in concert work across America. Then, in
December 1990, Terry moved his family to Colorado Springs. They started a church
with a vision of raising Jesus up through worship over the city. Instead of a
successful ministry venture, it was the beginning of a long season of wilderness
for the MacAlmons.
Terry describes this: “We threw a worship party, and nobody came. In fact, they
stayed away by the busloads!” After waiting on the Lord’s promotion for 8 years,
Terry heard God speak to him in August 1998. He said to gather the worshipers,
for He wanted to bring an open heaven to Colorado Springs. Terry was reluctant
to step out again after so many years of seeing nothing happen. He finally did
launch a Wednesday noon worship hour at the Spirit’s insistence, which became
known as “Lunch with the Lord”. For more than 6 years, it touched several
hundred people each week.
An accomplished songwriter and recording artist, Terry is called to lead and
teach praise and worship to fellow believers everywhere. The path to the throne
room is a familiar one for Terry, who is sensitive to the ebb and flow of the
Spirit. He makes others comfortable with entering into the Lord’s presence. They
are then drawn into a place of deeper intimacy with the Lord.
Terry now sees the hand of God through all of the waiting. He freely shares in
his seminars, “I had the Lord’s vision, but I never bothered to seek Him for His
timing. The increase came when He chose for it to happen in our city. It’s all
God, all the time. Man is but a vessel, a channel for God’s anointing to flow
through. I’m very thankful He chose to flow through me at this hour.”
