Dave Betts

I’ve made it. 365 days of blogging. 18,550 reads (about 18,200 more than I expected). Written from England, Estonia, Albania and Italy. Read by people in 109 countries (see this handy map below, courtesy of ‘WordPress Stats’): When I started this challenge, I had no…

I’m grateful that Revolution, the Kerith Community Church youth worship team, have given me a reason to write about them on this penultimate day of the challenge. As usual, we gathered for our time together as a team before splitting into our three separate bands…

There are two albums currently circulating my playlist at the moment. Enough that I can do nothing today but thoroughly, thoroughly recommend them: Hillsong United’s latest album, ‘Zion’, is nothing short of spectacular. It dwarfs every other album around at the moment (including the one…

Today I finished my assignment far quicker than I planned, leaving a whole Monday afternoon wide open to play with the new keyboard sounds I bought a little while ago. From a composing point of view, there’s a whole new possibility of orchestral sounds that…

Let’s be honest. I’m doing a 365 days of blogging challenge…it was inevitable that one of those was going to be on my birthday! I’m 24 today. 24 on the 24th February. That will never happen again. I’m so grateful to everyone in my world…

Last night, I was extremely blessed by two of my favourite people in the world who took me out to dinner for my birthday (which is tomorrow, by the way!). I am so grateful for them both, but if I’m completely honest, I was a…

This is my thinking time. The air stewardess has just collected my miniature can of orange juice. Today’s flight is accompanied by ‘Nothing is Wasted’, the latest album from Elevation Worship. Jo Owen’s book, entitled ‘How to Lead’ rests open on my tray, heavily weighted…

It’s been an amazing day. Leaving from Tallinn at a little after 7am, we drove down to Riga and while Virge worked, three Englishmen and a baby explored Latvia’s capital. To summarise – it was fun. But I don’t want to talk about that. I…

When I first met Mike, he was new to Kerith and looking to join the worship team. I would never have predicted that I would end up in field laden with over a foot of fresh snow, fingers numbing as they wrapped around the trigger…