VOB News 2026 September “Enter His Courts”

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Next weekend (October 16-17), Global Tabernacle of David and Voice of the Bride will be holding a worship weekend here in NC.  We have some opportunities to bless the community here, including a special night of worship and intercession at Center City church on Oct 16.  Please be praying that all will go as the Lord desires, and that He will receive the glory due His Name. And if you are local and would like to be involved please reach out to us.

In preparing for the weekend, I, Carol, thought I might share with you a few of my thoughts concerning how I write worship songs, and how you, yourself, can participate more ‘thoroughly’ during times of worship.  So here goes:

When I write, I usually start with a theme that has been touching my heart, almost always derived from the Bible. I love writing songs with words from the Word!  I will get a general theme, or a specific line, then build the song ‘tone’ around that theme. If the song is a joyful song, the chords I choose will be happy and full of life!  If the song is pensive, I will choose more ‘moody’ and thought provoking chords, as well as slow down the tempo of the song.  There are different sounds for writing about faithfulness, hope, intercession, sadness, thankfulness, etc.  One of my absolute favorite subjects to write about, is the holiness of GOD!!!  This requires a very powerful chord progression that somehow conveys the concept of GOD’s holiness and how awesome and magnificent He truly is. Sometimes, I will write lyrics that aren’t from the Bible, but carry Biblical concepts.  More often, I like to utilize verses about a concept, and go from there. 

Sometimes the chorus will be written first, and sometimes the verses will come first. It’s always a little different. I find this initial writing to be easy. But filling out the entire song, beginning to end, and making everything work just right, takes more labor. On rare occasions, I will wake up singing a song phrase. I have  finally learned to quickly sing the phrase into a voice recorder. This actually just happened to me this week, so I’m working on that particular song, as we speak! Sometimes, in my personal time of worship, a theme will emerge, and a phrase or verse along with it, and ‘voila’-we have a good start!  

I bring this up because often, when we are in church or listening to music outside of church, we will find songs that we don’t know, or have never heard. Sometimes people are bothered by this, because they like singing only familiar songs. My word of encouragement to you is this; that song was new to everyone once upon a time….and you have to hear it to learn it. But even more than that, even if you don’t know the song or words, consider looking in your Bible at that very moment, and finding the Scripture that the song is based on. Read the passage while the song is going on. For sure, this will enrich your appreciation of the song. But more importantly, it will enrich your focus on the Lord—which is what worship is all about!  

Lastly, something I frequently tell people, when I’m leading, is that, while you may not know the song initially, you can just look at the words and/or listen to the song, and agree with what it’s saying!  Unknown song about the love of GOD, or the blood of Jesus?  For sure, I can agree in my heart and honor and thank Him, even if I don’t know the song. Finally, you can always pray during the song. Pray for the lyrics of the song to be applied to those who don’t know the Lord, or those who may need comfort or encouragement, or to understand just Who the Lord is!!  

So there ya go!  I hope this encourages you the next time you are in worship, whether you are listening to hymns, or current worship songs. And may your times of worship unto the Lord, be enriched and full of His presence, as you step out and try to add to your own personal participation!

GOD BLESS YOU!!!

Love Wayne and Carol.

We have Carol’s past three albums, “Sovereign Lion”, “The Document”, and “Deep Blue Seed” digitally available online now. You can find them wherever you stream music (Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify, You Tube) under album titles or her name Carol Kiger-Rice. We hope to get her newer songs recorded and distributed in the near future. 

VOB News August 2026 “Fernando’s Memory ❤️”

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Moving back to North Carolina, helped shape our vision of ministry in Tijuana to the poor, in many ways beyond just being there and delivering food and resources several times a week like we did for 17 years. We have mentioned how we support teams who continue that aspect. And we support young people in furthering their education studies and work trades. But over all, the vision became more clear, in particular after we moved, that we are committed to helping the families we supported through life hardships in general for as long as the Lord provides a way for us to do so.The vision and goal was to help change the trajectory of a family caught in a generational cycle of poverty. The action applied, is stepping in when crisis’ arise. 

Sadly one latest crisis was that of Fernando’s death from a senseless shooting last month in Tijuana. So very sad and devastating for any family. But this family in particular has had so many tragic losses. We are dedicating this months update in Fernando’s memory and his remaining families honor. 

We first met Fernando’s mom nearly 20 years ago when we began the weekly night food outreach in Tijuana. She would come to get food with her 4 little children. The teen girl, her daughter Karen, became pregnant at 14. Not long after giving birth to her baby daughter, Karen became sick with a uterine tumor. We started bringing food to the families home when Karen could not make the evening walk to the outreach. One time in particular we found her so weak from the aggressive tumor that we scooped her up and drove her to Tijuana general. She never regained strength. Our VOB News of June 2009, told more of this story and how we not only committed to making sure medical needs brought to our attention would be taken care of for the poor, but we would stand with this family through their needs. 

The mom had some narcotic addictions, her choice of coping with the hardships she was encountering. But with encouragement she went to rehab and got clean. She also got healthier in her relationship with the children’s father. They both started making greater effort to follow the Lord, even getting married in July of 2011. Our partnership and friendship continued as we helped this family with basic needs so that they could have a greater chance in their impoverished circumstances. We celebrated birthdays, quinceañera parties, weekly prayer with their gathered neighbors receiving food off our truck. In May 2015 I received shocking news that the father had been involved in a robbery at work and was shot and killed. The mom and kids were devastated to say the least. It would be the first wake and funeral that I attended in Tijuana hoping to comfort the family best I could.

With your help, we supported this new widow for several years with monthly funds to cover the loss of the fathers income. Hoping that the sons would not quit school to help support the family. Unfortunately they both did quit eventually after struggling in various ways in life without their father, eventually getting into some trouble with drugs, fathering a child, and gang activity. Through it all we were able to help with bouts of rehab and jail expenses as needed. These things are not provided in Mexico systems. All along, we continued loving these boys, and hoping to guide them through difficult stages of development. The remaining 2 daughters, finished high school and started their own families. One daughter is now raising her brothers son, who had birth defects. We have written of Manuel often in the last 5 years, as he has continued to need surgeries, rehab, orthopedic devices etc. This same daughter also experienced a house fire and lost everything, With your help, we built a house in October 2021 that she now raises her family in

Along the way, there has been dental work, eye surgeries, rehabilitation therapy and such. Then, on July 9th, we received word of young Fernando’s death. He was cooking some food, standing in his mothers kitchen, when 2 young men came in and shot him and ran away. His mom ran to him, but was unable to help. Fernando had been clean, and was not involved in any current gang activity. It is suspected that it could have been related to his older brother being in prison. These kind of acts, are often how prison and street gangs handle things. VOB sent out an emergency email and some of you faithfully helped us cover all the funeral expenses. 

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Why share all this tragedy? In summary, though it may seem like a lot of something for nothing, it is not. We know that, with your help, we have helped instill hope, in the many victims of these hardships. And that above all they know they are not overlooked, unseen, or left to fend for themselves. Jesus sees, Jesus cares and Jesus provides through His Body!

p.s. stay tuned next month for a worship event we have coming up.