![]() I felt the Lord tugging on my heart to create a weekend where I took what I learned over the years of writing and worship leading and pack it into one event. Q: How then did you decide to part of SongLab?Ī: When we felt the Lord call us out of the UPPERROOM to help start a media company to change culture through the arts (a story for another time), we landed in a small town in South Georgia. It was out of a desire to steward what the Lord was doing through our worship and prayer times. When I realized we had so many beautiful songs being written from our prayer room, we decided to record them and that is where the UPPERROOM label and publishing started from. We began stewarding songwriting through songwriter intensives (starting in 2013) to help steward the beautiful spontaneous moments coming from the prayer sets and worship times. My husband and I took over as the Worship Leaders/ Directors shortly after (in 2012) where we helped build out the prayer room (morning, noon, and night) and Sunday night worship. It was more of a prayer room than a church at that time but our Sunday night services were so electric with the presence of the Lord. My husband and I actually moved to Houston for 2 years, and when we felt the Lord calling us back, the Millers had been given a building that had an upper room overlooking the city of Dallas (hence the name UPPERROOM). We are good friends with Michael and Lorisa Miller (Leaders and Founders) and started praying together on Sundays in their tiny apartment before UPPERROOM ever had its name. ![]() Q: You were also involved with the founding of UPPERROOM, tell us more about your involvement there. That moment changed everything for me and my husband and I have been on a 16 year journey of learning to truly worship the Lord and what that looks like! It is my greatest joy and passion to be a worshiper of Jesus! In that moment, I felt such a strong presence of the Lord say " I called you to be a worshipper" and all the other dreams seemed so small in comparison to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords asking me to sing and worship Him. I was willing to lay my dreams and career down. After about 6 weeks, a lot of tears and questions later I said YES. In a moment with the Lord, I felt Him ask me to be willing to lay everything down. This meant laying down all the last 8 years of work that I had been building and pursuing. But during that time, we were praying about staying in the middle east to continue to minister. To make a long story short, we ended up doing mission work in the Middle East 6 months after moving to LA. Little did we know, the Lord had other plans. When I met my husband, who was also an actor, (who had just been radically saved-a really incredible testimony), we got married and moved to LA to be lights in the entertainment industry. I had been willing to give my 10 % singing at church but I actually didn't have a desire to sing "Christian music" at all. I toured with a show band and started writing my own songs between gigs and acting jobs. ![]() I started acting professionally right out of high school and started doing voice overs for cartoons, acting in commercials and industrials, and began booking smaller parts in films. My family supported the arts and I started singing professionally in a 16 piece orchestra when I was 16. Tell us a little about yourself and how you felt God's call to be a worship leader.Ī: Thank you for the opportunity to share! My journey to becoming a worship leader is a story I share often! I grew up as a believer in a Christian home and have always loved Jesus from the time I was little. Q: Meredith, thanks for doing this interview with us. ![]() We are honored to catch up with SongLab's founder Meredith Mauldin for this exclusive interview. Later this year, they will release a follow-up EP Simplicity. Last year, they partnered with DREAM Records to release their first album, Live From South Eden. SongLab, which was created by the co-founders of UPPERROOM, is a worship collective seeks to bring revivals cross the country through trheir music.
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