Like a bird afraid to fly, the gift of worship that once flourished in Maya felt dormant and grounded in the Levant.
From a young age she had a desire to lead worship vocationally, and when that fell through it left her disappointed and discouraged. Maya’s husband was a worship leader at their local church in the Levant. As they built their life together there, she hoped that it would lead to her being restored and rejuvenated to lead again. Instead, she faced hardships and struggled to find her place in the flock - which left her lacking the courage to step back into the place of leading worship.
She had a heart for prayer, worship, and the presence of God - but needed a family that would equip her and awaken this gift of worship now laid dormant. That’s when she found the Levant Missions Base, which housed a prayer room and a training program focused on theological development and equipping people to serve in vocational ministry.
When Maya joined the school, what she found wasn’t just teaching, but a singing seminary: a family of people eating together, worshipping together and training together. Other students and staff showed up together, week after week, and noticed her. Maya felt seen, valued and empowered in her assignment to lead.
She began to come alive and stretch her wings again. The leaders of the training school described seeing the gifts and desires that God had set inside of her as being “brought back to life.” You can now find her with the team in the Levant leading worship sets, joining teams, singing again in front of people - what went quiet all those years ago has now come alive.
Restoration for Maya didn’t come from trying harder alone. It came from finding a family that would take her under their wings. That is the power of a training school that is part of a spiritual family; it is a flock of people who stay close enough and long enough, to notice what is dormant in someone and call it back to life. With the help of a community that trains and sends, Maya has caught the wind again, and now she is soaring.