School of Music hosts Revive Worship Service for CFAW

College for a Weekend visitors and current students attended the Revive Worship Service Sept. 21 in the Center for Worship and the Arts Concert Hall.

The student-led service began with the high-energy, upbeat song “You’ve Already Won.” The audience clapped along and praised the Lord with the performers.

Three large groups of people sang in the back choral-style on the stage.  Four singers stood at the front of the stage alongside the instrumentalists. The next song slowed down with “Worthy of It All.”

After a short video from Michael W. Smith, Stephen Müller, the dean of the School of Music, welcomed the guests to the event. Müller introduced and described the Worship Lifestyle Project scholarship competition.

During the event, two prospective students were awarded the $10,000 Worship Lifestyle Project scholarships: one for a musical performance and another for a speech.

The musical performance scholarship winner, Ethan Brown, played “Be Thou My Vision” on the marimba.

Olivia Drinen then spoke on God’s work in her life.

“True worship is sacrifice,” Drinen said. “I sacrifice every moment and every breath because he is worthy.”

In an interview after the event, Drinen described her testimony.

“I wanted to share what he has done in my life because I know it can help other people,” Drinen said.

Müller brought both winners on stage for a picture with the scholarship checks.

Liberty’s acapella group, Shine, took the stage and sang “The River,” “What A Beautiful Name” and “Agnus Dei.”

Afterwards, LU Praise sang “House of the Lord,” and the audience clapped and praised along with them. Then, two girls from the group led the attendees in “What Mercy Did For Me.”

Müller came out one final time and encouraged the CFAW students to not focus on what they want to major in or where they want to go to school, but instead to listen to God’s calling on their lives.  He talked about how his daughter went through a similar situation.

Müller asked the staff and faculty to stand up. He emphasized that every faculty and staff member is there for the students whether they decide to pursue a major in the School of Music or not, or if they decide to go to Liberty University or somewhere else.

Twitchell is a news reporter for the Liberty Champion.