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Steve Fee remembers standing on a stage before his high-school peers with little musical ability and even less worship leading experience. How times change. Since the early days, he’s been featured at Passion and Catalyst conferences, at 7:22, and also as worship leader at North Point Community Church in Atlanta, one of the nation’s fastest growing churches. Steve is also the frontman for new INO Records signing, rock-worship band Fee, which releases its debut album We Shine this fall.
Joined by fellow worship leaders Matt Adkins (guitar), Heath Balltzglier (bass) and Brandon Coker (drums), all members of North Point, Fee the band not only serves North Point and 7:22 (the Tuesday night single adult ministry) but travels the country leading worship at student camps and conferences.
“North Point is extremely valuable to us as a church-home. When we go on the road, we see Fee as an exportation of what God is doing in our lives, homes, church and songwriting,” says Steve. “Our platform before college students is important to us because we believe that the college experience is a pivotal time where students are deciding their futures and targeting their calling. We want to make it known to them that Jesus is the thing in life most worth living for – Jesus is the greatest thing.”
A pivotal moment with a college student in 1999 is where the story of Fee begins. “I read somewhere, ‘Steve Fee, one of the people behind the Passion movement,’ which is amusing because we’ve always viewed God as the driving force behind the passion movement. Plus, when I was asked by Louie Giglio to lead a nine month, 120 date, vision casting, worship-driven, college campus tour, culminating at a 20,000 student worship gathering called OneDay, I felt drastically unqualified,” says Steve. The tour kicked off with Giglio, Chris Tomlin, Candi Pearson and Steve, and after a few dates, narrowed down to Pearson and Fee.
“Back then not many folks even knew Chris, so even fewer knew Candi or me. But Passion has always been about drawing attention to the movement of God and us deciding to move with Him, to do whatever He desires. The names involved have always come second. So as Louie and Chris popped in and out, Candi and I led this tour. We were casting vision for Passion, leading worship, connecting with pastors and calling students to Memphis for OneDay.”
“During that journey, God seared into my heart a passion for leading worship. I just wanted to do something with my life that really mattered for The Kingdom and God began to open these massive doors for me to go through. I began to see each opportunity as another way to draw attention to God. I was singing about something worth living for. Being part of the Passion journey with Louie and the worship leaders, Tomlin, David Crowder, Matt Redman and Charlie Hall, has been the single most shaping thing for me as a worship leader.”
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