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Hey, come on. Every website since the beginning of time has its list of good things to check out.  But mine is not a reciprocating "back-patting" scheme.  These are links to places I know, people I know and have contact with.  No scammy link trades and google ads here.  Just some places I have worked, music and worship stuff I have connected with and some friends.

  • Churches

    Links to churches that I have connected with over the years
    • The Vineyard Church, Franklin, TN
      A gracious and welcoming church in Franklin, TN. This is our new church home and where we have landed after moving to the Nashville area in 2009. Still getting to know folks, but we are feeling at home quickly.
    • Vineyard Community Church, Gilbert, AZ
      Our old home church back in the AZ! A nice community of folks just trying to follow God and be "naturally supernatural". Check it out if you're in the area!
    • Faith Community Church, Thousand Palms, CA
      A wonderful church. I have worshipped with them a couple times. Great folks!
    • Wonderful Mercy Church, Gilbert AZ
      A cool church that I have been friends with. Worshipped with them several times.
    • St. Croix Vineyard, New Brunswick, Canada
      One of the coolest churches you will ever visit. Amazing spirit of community and love. My good friend Dan Wilt is worship leader there. One of my all time favorite speakers, Peter Fitch, is the pastor. Great times of ministry.
    • Amadeo Church, Higley AZ
      Another cool church in Arizona. I have worshipped with them too. Great bunch of folks!
    • East Valley Vineyard
      A church Carol and I helped plant with Mark & Bonnie Morgan, who were pastors. We started in 1989 and got going with Sunday meetings by 1990. It grew to around 150-200 people, and eventually merged in Gilbert Vineyard in 2003.

  • Worship Stuff

    Sites and content that are pertinant to worship and music in the local church.
    • WorshipMusic.com
      Ya, its here again. It's really the main place to find anything possible regarding resources for worship.
    • the Worship Gathering
      A ministry we are involved in that holds events of worship, including nights of worship and conferences.
    • Worship Training.com
      Amazing training for worship leaders, pastors and creatives. Run by my friend, Dan Wilt. I have been to a lot of stuff on worship, but nothing this life changing and essential to true Christian discipleship and spirituality. Check it out!
    • ION Worship
      One of the coolest new organizations doing worship. Amazing people with great hearts.
    • Worship Resource Center
      An early place I helped develop that connects and resources people regarding worship. All free stuff.

  • Music & Worship Training

    Sites and resources that help develop skills, giftings and freedom in praise, worship and music
    • the guitar praise blog
      Kenny Gohweizhi's amazing guitar praise resource. Truly one of the best musical learning sites on the web.
    • The Guitarpraise Channel @ YouTube.com
      This is simply perfect for electric guitarists (bassists too). Pretty much every song you can imagine wanting to learn the lead guitar part to is online as a demo. Wow!

  • Friends

    A set of links to people/minsitries I personally know. I recommend these sites because I actually know the people behind them.
    • Andy Park
      Andy has been a mentor and friend for many years. He is one of the most prolific and gifted songwriters in the church today. A wonderful guy too!
    • Carl Tuttle
      My friend Carl. One of the true friends who is there for the long haul. This guy is one of the pioneers of worship back in the early 80's. Still one of my favorite friends to call when I need some wisdom.
    • Dan Wilt
      What can I say about Dan? The amazing chameleonic flourisher of all things worship & creative. And I mean that in a totally positive way! Suffice to say that Dan has learned how to be a long termer in creative gifitngs! He helps a lot of us stay sane!
    • Brian Doerksen
      Brian is one of those folks who is unique in the Body of Christ. He follows God even when the crowd seems to be going another direction. I love that about him. He also never stops coming back to the Father's love. A truth we need to have echoed back to us
    • Rita Springer
      A fireball! What can I say, Rita is the warmest, most gentle, unassuming people you will ever meet... until she sits down behind some keyboards to worship God. Then.. all bets are off, and you better head for cover or hit the floor in worship.
    • David Ruis
      One of the most creative people you will ever meet. But has his heart firmly grounded on radical devotion to Christ with a desire to see justice and compassion explode out from the church into the broken and lost who need to know Jesus.
    • Arlen Salte
      One of the unknown folks who has a global ministry of helping see the Body of Christ renewed through the Spirit, by equipping them in worship. Arlen is an amazing Canadian who is a good friend. Hosts the biggest worship conference in North America.
    • Paul Baloche
      I have known Paul for a little while now. One of the coolest guys involved in leading worship- a true equipper who actually cares about helping worshippers and people in local churches.
    • Don Moen
      Don is a friend of several years. I also had the pleasure of working with Don directly for two years in Nashville. He's a great guy with a heart to encourage and bring hope.
    • Matt Frise
      The master of all things visual and spacial. Looking for a worship space architect? Matt is your man.

  • Work Links

    These are links to organizations that I currently work with or have worked with in the past.
    • Worshipteam.com (2003-present)
      The thing I am working on. Pretty fun, and super cool for worship leaders and teams.
    • MediaComplete (2009-2011)
      Worked at MediaComplete for two years, as the CTO, helped them run online sites, oversaw software development and IT.
    • Don Moen Company (2009-2010)
      My companies (Worshipmusic.com, Worshipteam.com and PopularChrisitan.com) were purchased by DMC, which also includes Mediashout. Don was a great guy to work with!
    • WorshipMusic.com (1998-2010)
      One of my favorite places to work so far! My brother and I started this company in 1998. It's been an adventure and a challenge.
    • Intel (1999-2003)
      One of my favorite places to work. I found Intel to have a great environment for most people. If you happen to work in a group at Intel that adhered to the Intel corporate values, it was a pretty encouraging workplace. I learned a lot working here.
    • Computer Guidance Corporation (1998)
      About the worse place to work I can imagine, but God taught me a lot about serving people here.
    • Helix Technologies (1998)
      Worked on Helix development in 1998. It was fun work but it was short lived. I worked for this group when it was owned by Chip Merchant. I did a poor job working here and they (rightly) let me go. A few months later they called and asked me to come back.
    • Motorola (1996)
      Worked for a short while at this company, on DOD government project software.
    • Honeywell (1988-1998)
      My first official job out of college was with Honeywell. I did geeky stuff like programming graphics card software and other device drivers.

  • Cool Stuff

    Just some uber cool stuff that everyone should try out at least once in your internet experience. If you haven't checked these things out before, they are worth waisting and afternoon cruising around.
    • The Wayback Machine
      Neatest thing since sliced-- Internet. Here is the deal. This web site has an archive of all the websites in the world (you yawn, big deal). But get this- it has snap shots of the entire WWW since 1996. You can look back in time at any website.
    • Kim's Old Personal Website in 1996 (Yikes!)
      Just to demonstrate how cool the Wayback Machine is, you can see my lame-a-toid website back in 1996 in all its hideous HTML uglified glory. Makes me cry and laugh at the same time :).
    • A Look at Burnout in Church Leaders - a personal story and teaching by Carl Tuttle
      This is one of the most helpful talks ever given for people who are involved in Christian ministry in regards to burnout. A humbling story of a man who went through burnout and walked through powerful truths of finding identity and love in Christ.
    • Google Translate
      The best online translator on the web. Applying web 2.0 technologies to an ancient problem of natural language translation.
    • Kim Gentes in Spanish! (Kim Gentes en español!)
      Here is a spanish version of KimGentes.com via Google Translate! ( Aquí hay una versión en español de KimGentes.com a través de Google Translate!)