Our Ministry

"From the moment we heard Living Praise we have been moved by their beautiful music. It is inspiring, uplifting, and anointed! I(Patti) play their CD in my car and their voices speed my way to heaven. For yourself and your friends, let Living Praise help you worship God."

-Al & Patti Mansfeild

We are You
The women of Living Praise come from all walks of life - married, single, divorced, annulled, remarried, professionals, stay at home moms, and home-schoolers. We raise children, grandchildren, horses, dogs, gardens and flowers. We lead and serve in other music groups in our churches, Catholic and Protestant, traditional and charismatic. What has brought us together is a desire to serve the body of Christ with the gifts of worship the Lord has given us. We strive not to perform but share a gift of passionate worship, bringing those we minister to into the Lord's presence.

 
Magnificat" sung in New Orleans
with composer Elyse O'Kane (red jacket)

Bio's


Susan Potvin
Living Praise is being led by worship leader Susan Potvin. Susan, guitar and vocal, has led and directed music ministry groups for over 25 years. She works as a guidance counselor and also trains two high school music ministries. She and her husband are involved in Christian renewal and ecumenical work. They have 4 children and 1 grandchild.


Mary Recznik
Mary Recznik, guitar, mandolin, and vocal, is a home-schooling mom of 3. She and her husband are involved in youth ministry, coaching, teaching, and opening their home to many activities. She also serves as a worship leader for a charismatic prayer community.


Anne Recznik
Our keyboard player, Anne Recznik, inspires us by her leaps of faith, returning to music ministry after many years' absence. Her life is a witness that if you say "yes" to the Lord, He will use you in ministry even if you think you have little to offer. She, her husband, and their 4 daughters opened their hearts and home by adopting a child from China in 2001.


Lisa Ledyard
Lisa Ledyard, vocal & percussion, leads an active life raising six children with her husband. She's an all around sports mom, school volunteer, parish cantor, and has been faithfully serving in pro-life ministry for over 20 years.


Karen Jedrzejewski
Karen Jedrzejewski, drummer, experienced a powerful conversion in her life. As a result, she lives a life sold out for God, boldly and joyfully sharing His love with everyone she meets. She and her husband raise their 3 children on a horse farm in the country.


Melissa Hitchcock
Melissa Hitchcock serves in many capacities including flute player and sound technician. Her devotion to ministry touches many areas. She supports her husband, a Methodist minister, as he directs an inner city mission to the poor and homeless.


Karen Herrmann
Karen Herrmann, guitar and vocal, is a prolific song writer and has produced a CD series entitled “The Belize and Beyond Project”. She has a passion to bring renewal to the church through serving on Life in the Spirit teams, parish music ministry, evangelism, and intercession. Her blended family includes 9 children and 30 grandchildren.


Angela Ripley
Angela Ripley is our newest member, who graciously learned to play bass when Kathy Broyard was called to minister to hurricane victims in Florida. Angela, who is married and has two small children, is a junior high band and choir director as well as a concert flutist.

How we Began
"Living Praise" is a Music Ministry Worship Team founded on the call to worship the Lord through song and praise. We strive to bring an inspiring spirit of worship wherever we sing, inviting all to become "living praise" for the Lord with us.

Though some of our members have sung and worshipped together for nearly 25 years, the group's formal ministry began in 2000 providing worship for women's conferences at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Since then, Living Praise has ministered to over 20,000 at churches, revivals, retreats and other Christian conferences and events. We have provided worship music for numerous Diocesan Women's Events including the Dioceses of Steubenville, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Youngstown, Altoona, and the Archdiocese of Detroit. One of the regular groups we serve is "Magnificat: A Ministry to Catholic Women". We provide worship music for the quarterly Magnificat prayer breakfasts for the chapter located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (www.magnificatpittsburgh.org). We also minister with music and worship at the biannual International Magnificat Women's Conference in New Orleans, LA (www.magnificat-ministry.org).

Our CD Ministry - "Take us home with you!"
Our CDs are unique because they are recorded at live worship events. They are filled with genuine, heartfelt, spirit-led praise to our Lord. We are not about performance; we are about worship and creating an atmosphere for others to be able to enter into worship as well. On our CDs, our fellow worshippers can be heard praising, singing and clapping.

We have received so much feed back from those who have our CDs saying, "I worship with you everyday!" "I've worn out my CD praising with you!" "Our prayer group uses your CDs for our worship time every meeting."

We have produced a total of three CDs The first two CDs entitled, "Draw Me, O King" and "Magnify" were created for the "Worship with Steubenville" CD Series. Having sold over 7,000 copies these CDs we reprinted them again under our new label "Living Praise Worship". They are still called "Draw Me, O King" (the gold one) and "Magnify" (the blue one). Our third CD, "My Soul Must Sing" is now available! We were greatly blessed to be able to produce this CD.

Be sure to visit our "Store" for details on placing an order for all three CDs!. They can be ordered online or you can download a form to send with a check.

2009 Living Praise Worship