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Dear Kelly,
Anyway, I want you to know how much your songs have meant to me since 1979. It's not just the words, or your voice, but the Spirit of God blowing encouragement and confidence and strength though it. Simple, yet amazing! I have recently downloaded Paga from iTunes and the same Holy Spirit is still "brooding" over the recording. Strange, it's not you (or your daughter) it's JESUS!! So hard to explain what I am trying to say to you, but I hope you get a jolt of real encouragement from me to you... Here are a few thoughts that have meant alot to me recently with all the storms and pain and trials:
Dear Kelly. You have stayed true. It is all about Jesus. He turns trials into gold. Rock of all rocks is He! Sending you my love, your "brother" in Christ Jesus,
Kelly, Praise God for your angel-voice. I have listened to you often since first hearing you on a tape I received while serving in the Air Force in '90-'91 Gulf War. Samaritan's Purse sent out the album under the title of Songs of the Red Letters. The album was released several years later on CD. Praise the Lord for that because I totally wore out the cassette tape. I charted out most of the songs on the album and played/sang them in many churches over the years. Ya just can't beat a song that has the very words of Christ in it! Thank you Kelly - your voice melts my heart and brings me into the very presence of my God.
Dear Kelly, I have received tremendous inspiration and healing over the past 20+ years from your album "Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs"...I never tire of the songs and it is like a balm to my soul in times of spiritual need or dryness. There is a special anointing of the Holy Spirit on those songs which never ceases to amaze me. As a Christian I too have been through the devastation of divorce and the loss of my stepdaughter to suicide in 2003--so my heart really goes out to you. You will be in my thoughts and prayers. Please know that your early music ministry continues to bless me over and over again, and I am looking forward to hearing your new CD!
Dearest Kelly, I must thank you for your amazing music. You have such a beautiful gift from God. My name is Elizabeth, I am 15 years old and I love your music. Since I was born, my mother put on the cassette "Bless my little girl". I listened to it every night- I could not sleep without it! Thank you so much for blessing me with your music. I still know all the lyrics and I often sing them to my younger sister at night time. You are awesome! May God bless you greatly.
Kelly--Thank you for your wonderful music over the years. I cannot begin to tell you how much it has meant to me and my family. We live in northwest Washington State, have been here since 1977 when we moved from northern California, have raised 3 boys, and now are raising a 10 year old girl from China. So many times over the years your music has cut through all the stress and hardness of life and melted my heart. At times during one of your worship melodies, I have truly felt the door of heaven open up, and Jesus right there. Kristi and I have been married 37 years after having come out of the drug culture and being saved in the late 60's. How much we appreciate you. Thanks.
My father introduced me to Psalms, Hymns, & Spiritual songs when I was very young. Our tape was well worn from hours of play on family trips. This music is synonymous with my earliest memories of faith and joy in our Saviour. I've been watching for your site to be developed from my college days. Out of curiosity I checked your site again (as I've done off and on for 5 yrs.) and I was ecstatic to see it up and running today. We are so happy to beable to purchase your cd's, especially your earliest albums, and support Willing Heart Ministries. We look forward to enjoying your newer work as well. God's richest blessings as you pursue your new call to minister in music to the poor and imprisoned.
I'm so excited to have found your website! You have been my inspiration and absolutely favorite singer since I gave my life to Christ back in 1977. I have purchased everyone of your tapes and sung many of your songs at my church. I'm now looking to purchase more of your soundtracks if they are available. Your voice has truly been anointed and has brought me through many trials in my christian walk since the 70's. I'm so excited to see you have just made a new CD. I have no doubt it will be truly anointed and inspiring as all the others. God continue to use you to reach out to others in song.
Kelly, You have no idea how happy I am to find your site up and running. During an extremely difficult time in our family some years ago, we some how came to possess your Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs cassette. Each night as we went to sleep we listened to it as a family. After all this time, I can still hear your godly voice bringing me peace. I am ordering another copy and can't wait to surprise my daughter with it! Thanks for continuing to share the gift God has given you.
Your music has been a big part of my Christian experience since the late '70's. I'm so happy that the old albums are available again! I have prayed for you over the years, as the Father has brought you to my heart and mind. And I have a beautiful red-haired daughter named Kelly (she's 11), after you. Blessings to you and yours, and on all the Father gives you to do.
Kelly --I have tried two different times in my life to tell you how much your ministry has helped me. I have been with you from your very first album and play and cherish your music above all other artists. Your voice and piano are so amazing, but your spirit and ability to present praises to the Lord are totally from the Holy Spirit. I admire you and love you as a fellow christian. Thank you for sharing yourself with us all!!
Dear Kelly: I have followed your music career over the years and discovered your site through listening to PBN one day. Claudia and Pat were discussing your soon to be concert in Maryland then. My name is David Russell, similar to you in age, married, 2 adolescents, and am sightless from premature birth. Musically, I played weekends at a piano bar in Washington, D.C., when I lived there in the 1980's. Most requested was Piano Man or American pie! Now, for 10 or so years I have played for our church services where I grew up. Thanks for being a positive encourager to my faith and that of many, I am certain. We may never meet in this life, but it's a pleasure to say thank you!
Dear Kelly,
Thank you for helping me return to my first love Jesus. The past decade found my heart in a dangerously dark place after losing my baby son and two resulting miscarriages. (We are currently adopting three foster children and sense God has given us a precious privilege)
Your heart and desire for the Lord in your lyrics powerfully draw me back to Him whenever I listen to you. When I feel anxious, you minister peace. You restore my hope in the Lord and have given me back a desire to live for Him that I had regretably lost, even after God had saved me and turned my life around so much as a new believer back in 1982- those days when I first listened to your music. I`m excited that you`re available to us once again! I love you SO much in the Lord and am so glad I can actually contact you! You are such a precious sister in the Lord to me. I really hope to meet you someday.
Dearest Kelly, There are probably many more people who read your website and personal comments than you realize, so thank you for keeping us updated and informed of what you're doing.
I personally am so excited to listen to the new CD that I can't see straight. Your voice... there is only one voice in the world like it, and it is yours. It is the voice of such beauty, that it seems like the Heavenly Father Himself stops what He's doing, and the angels as well, and turns to listen when you sing. Because you sing of His beauty, you sing of Him. And we are moved to more deeply love Him.
Hi Kelly
I can't tell you how your music touched me as a teenager swotting for exams, during my darkest hours in the army (all male 18 year-olds serve 2 years in my country), then early adulthood, and up to now. I swear I can sing every song on "Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs" by heart, even though I've worn out the two consecutive magnetic tapes in the 90s! Looking forward to your new CD! All the best and God bless.
God bless you Kelly. You have no idea how much your music has been a blessing to us. Through sickness and loss, it has been a comfort to us. I have recorded it over and over for those in one crisis or another. I am looking forward to your new project. You are one of the most annointed people I have ever heard. I recently did a search on you and found your site, I am grateful to be able to say thankyou Kelly for your ministry.
So glad to see the sight. You are my favorite. It is hard to put into words the impact you have had on me and others. Have an awesome day. I can't wait to hear your new work. Thanks for being real.
Kelly, I still have your second vinyl album "Willing Heart". That song changed my life. It was at a time that I was newly married and in full time sales while being a 'part-time' worship leader at my church. A friend of mine asked if I had heard of anything that you had done lately as far as recordings. I said that I didn't know and the fact that he mentioned your name out of the blue was interesting to me. I had never talked to him about you, even though we speak about worship and our churches all the time. So I looked you up and here you are serving faithfully. Thank you for your contributions to the body of Christ and your pure, simple praise that comes out of your heart to your Daddy that we have an opportunity to listen into. Thanks again & God Speed
Hi Kelly, The CD arrived yesterday. Thanks for your heart and helping me remember why I follow Jesus. Blessings, sam The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
Your music and Keith Greens were the first Jesus music I heard. I was very critical until a friend loaned me his car for a 2 hour trip and told me to listen to the Kelly Willard tape. It didn't take me long for the Holy Spirit to touch my heart and I began to weep the Holy Spirit used you to gently correct me and bless me. From that time on whenever I listened to your music or sang your songs the same tender message has come through.
It is such a blessing to be able to thank you for your ministry in music, though I could never express how much encouagement I have received over the years. Thank you for being a sweet vessel of the Holy Spirit. I look forward revisiting your past work and the new work. I believe as long as He wants to use you, you will touch the hearts of hearts who are dry and empty.
Hello Kelly, Just a quick note to tell you how blessed I have been to listen to your music these past years. You have been instrumental in helping me to stay focused on our Lord. I am away from home many days of the year.I work in the oil fields all over the U.S. I work on my computer every day and listen to your beautiful music. It helps me to stay strong in my walk and makes me happy. Thank you and PBN for such a great blessing. You and your's are in my prayers.
Hi there kelly, I have been a fan for more than 20yrs here in south africa. the willing heart album touched my life in more ways to mention.your music is inspiring uplifting and a blessing.i was touched by the loss of your child as i have a daughter born in 1986, and pray that your husband has a speedy recovery, and remember that
all things work together for the good for those who love him.
Dear Kelly, I am so happy! Thank you so much for sending the CD and the proper one at that! I must have listened to the track Garden literally dozens of time since yesterday tea time...that track ministers to me in the mighty heart rending power of the Holy Spirit. So thank you so much for your ministry and I praise Messiah Jesus for the gifting He has poured into your heart and I thank you for sharing it for the building up of the brothers and sisters. May He cause your light to rise in the darkness and may your night become like the noonday. May He strengthen your frame, may He continue to cause you to be a well-watered garden, a spring of waters bubbling up forever with eternal life! I am so very grateful!
Hi Kelly: My soul yearns to hear you sing the praises of the Lord. No one soothes my soul in song the way you do. No other artist speaks to my heart they way you do. You sing what I feel. I wrote you a letter...I know you receive many...but I wrote you a letter some 20 years ago incorporating all the titles to each song on the Willing Heart album in my letter. Willing Heart is my favorite album EVER! I have sang your songs in churches over the years. I've sang your songs in the shower as tears streamed down my face. Each song means so much to me. I asked God for a "willing heart" when I didn't have one. God has taken me through many trials and your music has stayed in my soul all the way. I praise God that "this butterfly is finally flying happy in her flight." You bless me so. I pray you make it to Sacramento soon. You are my soul sister.
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Dear Kelly, Your song & music gift touched me very deeply in 1982. I was attending college and was a very hurt girl inside. Life had disillusioned me and I did not know what to do. I went to the local music store in my home town of Healdsburg, California called 'Melody Music' and the owner very kindly recommended your album 'Willing Heart'. I will "never forget" just how much that song 'willing heart' helped me to find my way out of what I was in. When I got planted in a local church I would sing that song for others and it helped them too. Kelly, your gift helped me when I really needed it most. It was so pure and so deep that I was able to draw close to the Lord and find his light in the darkness of my own choices. I can never forget that. Dear Kelly....thank you for being willing to keep giving of your gift, thank you very much.
Hi Kelly,
Thank you, Kelly, for being such an unbelievable inspiration in my walk with God. I have listened to your music since the early 80's. God has truly blessed you with not only a wonderful voice but you have the abilility to draw people into the presence of God as well as anybody. I just had to write you and say thank you for being obedient to God. God has trusted you with much including a lot of pain.Yet, even through it all you have kept your eyes on Jesus.What a testimony! I know God will reward you greatly for your persistence, and you will see your lovely daughter again. I will pray for you and your family and ministy.
Hi Kelly, I've been a fan for over 20 years, and your Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs CD was instrumental in drawing me to the Father. I am also a worship vocalist at my home church, and there's nothing like helping others into God's Loving Presence! I must say as well, that I am truly so sorry for the profound losses that you have experienced, and am grateful to hear that the Lord has restored you and is continuing to heal you and your family. I will be praying for you as the Lord leads.
1981 is the first time I heard your music. Thank God for your testimony and even through your hardships He is enhancing the fragrance of His wondeful annointing on your life. My wife Jill faced brain surgery in 1999, and it was your music that gave her strength the night before the surgery! Thank you so much for sharing your life with us!!! I can't wait to meet you someday and tell you how your music has inspired me!
Hi Kelly, We just want to say thanks for taking the time to come and share your voice and message the Lord has given you to the broken. What a true blessings to meet you, you have touch many lives here at the mission.
Kelly has been one of my favorite artists for over 25 years. Her music has an anointing that heals and encourages. There have been many times in my own life when I faced challenges, and her music brought encouragement and expectation out of feelings of defeat and failure. When she sings here at the Chapel, I always hear comments from our congregation about how they are ministered to and touched by the presence of God flowing through her. I am proud to be her pastor and her friend.
Kelly, Your music has been a part of my praising God in hard times & in joyous ones. I have seen your heart through your songs and I thank God for you and your ministry. I too have been looking forward to the release of your new CD, so put me on the list when its ready. Jesus loves you and I do too.
As a young girl my mom would play praises sung by Kelly. I always wanted to sing that pretty. I am an adult woman now with my own children and am excited to order every CD that you have available to play in my home & car. Thank you Kelly for using your life and your beautiful talent to Praise our wonderful Lord Jesus! God bless you!
I am praying for you Kelly, since I looked you up on the Internet. I thought of you one day recently and typed your name into the search on the Internet. I have loved your music in the past. I first heard you in the 80's. I came back to the Lord in the early 80's after being a prodical daughter for about 10 years. Your music ministered to me so much and helped me and taught me to worship the Lord in spirit and truth. I look forward to more of your anointed music in the future. How are things going with the PAGA CD?
I am SO glad that you have started working on your site. I ventured here several years ago and saw very little details about your albums, but now, it's changed into so much more! Kelly, I grew up listening to your music from birth and everytime I'm feeling a little down or out of touch, I turn to your song and prose and it lifts me up with tears of great joy and happiness that the Lord loves us all very, very much. Your voice has trained my own vocal style as I grew up, and it wouldn't be umcommon to hear or see me recording myself on an old recorder at 5 or 6 singing one of your songs. My mother brought me to your music from when you got your first album release, in 1977, the year I was born -- while we lived in Santa Ana and were attending Calvary Chapel. I look forward to anything new you might produce and will do my best to try and see you live.
dear kelly, thank God for the songs you bring to the body of Christ. when I got saved in 1979 thats when everything came crashing down on me. then I met my husband, he told me have I heard of kelly willard. I said no, he said you sing like her. I feel so humble, thats a big complement. can't wait for the new CD. every chance I get I sing your songs in church.
I am currently in Germany and would desperately want to have a copy of the album willing heart. I would like to know if there is another alternative for me to send the money to you so I can get the CD as soon as possible. Your music has really been a blessing and has ministered not only to me but also to my family. God bless you and I love you Kelly Willard !!!
What a great thing to find your site and be able to say thanks. I first heard your voice on a Maranatha recording about 20 years ago. The song was "Your Steadfast Love" lifted from the Psalm. I've never forgotten it; I've sung it; I've shared it. The soulful genuineness of your voice is a gift I'm glad you share. God has used you in times you'll never know about. Music with your stamp is an inspiration.
Dear Kelly, The worship Music you sing is anointed by God, and I Pray that you continue to enjoy full Favour from God and more Grace for Worship through Music in Spirit and in Truth. God Bless You for He is Good.
I just want to say how blessed I have been by your ministry! There is such an anointing in your singing that encourages anyone to bow down and worship the Lord. There is a particular line in one of your songs that keeps ringing in my heart... "If you don't have a willing heart ask Him to give you one". Keep up the good work, for what you do for Jesus Christ is not in vain!
Your passionate heart always shines through whenever I hear your voice and reached into deep places in my heart that are unaccesible by other means, opening them up to the healing love of our Heavenly Father. Thank you Kelly.
Dear Kelly, I grew up listening to your 1st album Willing Heart casette when I was 12 in 1980. I was greatly blessed by your songs and I've been buying a lot of casettes then when you were singing with the Maranatha Singers. I'm glad till this day, your songs still minister to me and a relative of mine who loves you a lot! She was into drugs in her teens then and I gave your cassette Willing Heart. She was ministered and praise the Lord, she is happily married and till this day she would ask if I have a CD version. Well I tried to convert all my cassettes to CDs but the effect isn't good! I love many of your albums - Willing Heart, Psalms, and Message from a King! Love you always and May the Lord use you for His Work! Amen! Hopefully you would come to Singapore one day as Don Moen and Lenny Leblanc has come before! Awaiting for that day when you would come to Singapore!
I was so thrilled to find this website. I had been searching for your music at Berean to no avail. I just recieved my cd's in the mail the other day and what an enormous blessing!!! I miss the simplicity of the Christian music in those days. The gospel is simple and people often complicate it. I thank God for your ministry and your heart. Keep on doing what you do best!!
Hi Kelly, Just want to send out a warm hearted thank you for such a loving hearted servant that I had the chance to listen to throughout the years of my life. The songs and melodies. Hearing God's voice in the depths of my heart when you would sing. And it still takes me back to the places where I was feeing God in the most child like ways. I still cry for such longings through your music deep in my soul as it plays... "God is near."
HELLO LADY, IT IS GOOD SEEING YOU AGAIN. IT IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. I PRAY THE LORD BLESSES US IN ALLOWING YOU TO SING TO US AND LEAD US TO A HIGHER PLACE AND DEEPER DEPTH IN OUR JESUS. A WILLING HEART HAS BEEN SUCH A INFLUENCE IN MY LIFE. I HAVE SUNG IT SINCE I FIRST HEARD IT AND IT HAS ALLOWED ME TO REALIZE IF I DON'T DO RIGHT ALL I NEED TO HAVE IS A WILLING HEART AND EVEN IF I CAN'T PUT IT IN WORDS AND COME BEFORE MY LORD HE WILL KNOW... AND I WILL CHANGE.
Dear Kelly Willard, Thank you for blessing me with all of the songs that you have written and sung. Your songs are my favorite, and I have been listening to them regularly for the past 25 years. You don't know how much they have ministered to and encouraged me when my spirit needed lifting. Thank you for this website, so I can send in for some CDs today.
Dearest Kelly, I have listened to you and have been ministered to by your worshipful music and soulful voice over the years. So I have found myself wondering lately what on earth you are doing! Thus I visited your website this evening. How wonderful and refreshing to see a life of steady service to the Lord, and of sharing sharing sharing God's goodness with others. This blesses me. Thank you!
Dear Kelly, I have listened to Contemporary Christian music since my early teens, but nothing is more reminiscent of quiet Sunday afternoons awash in warm light than God's gentle assurance beaming through the comfort of your voice. You have defined "Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs" for me. God must be palpably present in personal worship, inspiring our minds and moving our hearts. I remember the tears as I listened to your rendition of Psalm 139 again and again. You've made that my favourite Psalm ever since. The sincerity of your faith permeates every song. Your rendition of Follow Me is a touching, humble departure from all the torched and gut-wrenched emotion with which many singers imbue that song. You have gone beyond the music and the beauty of your voice to communicate with your spirit. And it touches us, your listeners, who quietly listen for God and His Truth amidst the distraction of a polished performance.
Dear Kelly, I am so very happy that you have your website and this blog.God has used your music to be a tremendous blessing to me over the years and I know He has so much more for you to do in His Kingdom! I have to share a testimony of how God sovereignly used one of your songs to bring a huge breakthrough in my life. Long story short, I was going through a time of tremendous oppression and condemnation from the enemy, just feeling so low. I went to turn on my tape player and "accidentally" turned on the radio, and your song "Message from a King" came on the radio and God used it to directly speak to me His love and brought a real breakthrough. I had never heard the song, and after that, I had to find the song and that was my first introduction to your music. I bless you in Jesus' name, much love in Christ,
Hello Kelly, I can't wait until your new projects come out!!!!!!!! You have been a blessing over the years to millions of people. I am sure that when we hear you again you will know that you have not been forgotten. I am now a middle aged black man (Christian) who had to educate my friends about your sound and ministry years ago. When I played keyboard, I would sing your songs in an all black church. The people just loved it. I would tell my wife every time I heard your voice on another artists project. Your clear crisp voice, perfect pitch and your soulful licks were awesome to me. I am a minister now and because of your work, and the inspiration it brought me, I really became a Willing Heart. We had struggles, and I say we because I heard about what you went through in your marriage, but we are still here. God is still in control and shows us His love, kindness and mercy every single day. May God continue to bless you.
Hello Kelly, I sent you an email. I will try to catch you here when I can. I put your site in my favorites. I'm so glad you are who you are. God has blessed you with a great gift. Be encouraged. God is not through with you. Your spirit is ready to speak to our spirits, and we want to hear what you have to say.
Hi Kelly!
You may not remember me, but that's ok. ha! Today I'm pulling out all of my oldie worship CDs finding songs on the Blood of Jesus and found a treasure! THE SERVANT KING with the old Maranatha group, and you are the one singing the flowing river sound (milk and honey). So I'm creating a personal Blood of Jesus emphasis CD for soaking times. You don't know how much you sowed into me as a new believer and worshipper! I soaked over and over again in your devotional heart. You have great treasure in heaven!!! I'm forever grateful for your life!!! You've got the goods and don't you ever forget it. What God deposits He does not withdraw - what He gives He will not take away. . .
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Hello Kelly. Because of your ministry I became a Christian in 1979. My favorite song was "..."because who I am in Christ/Yes, I know He is my life/And when I get to know Him, I get to know myself." That spoke so hard to me then I got on my knees and confessed my sin, and received the Lord Jesus. Thank you, Kelly!