Rex Allchurch

Songwriting/Vocals/Guitar

I love to write songs and to sing them but what I love the most is my Father in heaven. I find myself writing songs that are used to encourage, inspire and echo the sound of many other Christians around the world and within the local church.

The Many Successes!

I certainly can not make anyone worship, it is entirely over to my great King and the move of the Holy Spirit.

So what do I actually do?

I do my best to listen intently to what the Lord is saying, sometimes this is manifest on the streets where I find myself evangelising through a prophetic word. Sometimes this is apparent in the songs I write, and more often than not I will see the Holy Spirit use me to communicate to people during corporate times of worship. But most of all I am chosen by God by the saving grace of Jesus Christ who took my worldly success, my daily failures, my insurmountable sin and through it all in the bin for true success for real love to be able to have a direct line to the almighty Lord through his Son Jesus Christ manifest in me by the power of Holy Spirit. So what I actually do is much the same as millions of other believers all around the globe, I celebrate my Fathers love.

Who I am?

I am a husband to Emma, a beautiful, intelligent, artistic, musical, lover of Jesus. Truth be known she is more talented than me at singing, songwriting and music in general. I live in a house in Cowplain and lead worship at church in Leatherhead with a great friend and pastor Gerald Coates. I run a small business that keeps us both fed.

I have a first class honours degree which I don't use for anything, but it passed the time. I teach one day a week in a secondary school (age 11-16) instrumental lessons. And of course travel singing songs!

If you want to know more check out the blog, forum or facebook.

LATEST INTERVIEW/ARTICLE WITH INTEGRITY OCT 1ST 2010.

Resting in His Presence - Rex Allchurch

In 2004, Rex Allchurch was an up-and-coming worship leader with a debut album, ‘To Love The Lost’, under his belt.  Playing at churches and Christian festivals across the UK, Rex was already working passionately for the Kingdom when God stopped him in his tracks and changed his focus forever.

“I was at a conference in Toronto,” Rex remembers, “People around me were worshipping, but I was analysing everything - from the guitars to the chord sequences to the lyrical content.  God really struck me and I realised I’d put all this weight on the quality of the music, judging whether it was ‘good enough’ to lead me into the presence of God!  I didn’t know what it was to just enjoy my Father’s love.”  Later in the conference, Rex was introduced to the concept of ‘soaking’, a practice that has become central to his life and ministry.  “Soaking is just waiting on the Lord, being in His presence and giving yourself to Him.  It changes your perspective – earthly things slow down and your way of thinking is transformed as you say, ‘Father, what’s on your heart today?’”

Power and Purpose

Today, Rex’s ministry is based on his biggest goal: to love God.  He sees himself not as a ‘worship leader’ but as a son who simply wants to be intimate with his Father.  “I don’t feel like I need to lead people,” Rex says.  “That’s the Holy Spirit’s responsibility, not mine. I’m just going to jump straight in and invite people to jump straight in with me!  I think if you focus on being in God’s presence, then whatever wells up and comes out of you is going to draw others into His presence too.  I want to meet with the Lord, and people seem to gravitate to that.”

No stranger to the spiritual needs around him, Rex has witnessed the power of God at work from the prisons to the streets through his Sussex-based ministry.  Working with band members Nick Harding and Mikey Randon, who have shared his passion from the beginning, Rex’s desire is to see salvation and renewal in the lives of those he meets.  “We’re seeing lives transformed,” Rex says.  “People are searching for something they haven’t got, and what they’re searching for is absolutely natural: it’s the creator, whom we were born to love.”

God in Reality

Rex’s new album, ‘Jesus Instead’, is a refreshing blend of contemporary influences, with songs ranging from joyful abandon to the face-on-floor intimacy of its title track, an exquisitely simple ballad of God’s grace.  A powerful testament to real-life encounters with miraculous grace, healings and conversions, the album is also honest about the sorrow and suffering we all have to face.  “The songs are weighted in a reality that we want to see God’s kingdom come, but also that we’re praying for things and not seeing them happen.  There are frustrations in life, and in some cases devastation - but that doesn’t change my faith in God.”  He shares about friends who received the record on the day they lost their unborn child, and were comforted by God through the music.  For Rex, this is enough to make the album worthwhile.  “Whatever it does now, it’s already done what I wanted it to do,” he says.  “Maybe it’ll touch other lives - I really hope it does.  I really pray it’s a CD that is soaked in the Father’s love.”

After a six year hiatus, returning to his platform as a recording artist was not Rex’s plan, but God’s.  “I had no intention of signing with another record label,” he says.  “I wasn’t interested in getting involved with the industry again, but it was like God had been preparing stuff for me.  I just spent my time seeking and worshipping Him, and everything fell into place around me.”  Rex’s future is still to be written, but if there is one lesson he’s learned so far, it is to be ready for anything.  “Give up all your ambitions.  Make your ambition to seek after Christ, see what the Father is doing and just join in!  It’s uncomfortable at times ‘cause you just don’t know what’s going to happen, but you keep trusting God, and you realise that it’s all taken care of.”