Baroni Bloggin’

Rita and I spent Friday at a dear friend’s home whose husband was dying of cancer. We watched them say their goodbyes, talked about the funeral plans, and left in the evening to give them their last few hours together.

The phone call came at midnight, Rhonda told Rita that Jerry had just “gone home”.

Yesterday we went to 2 high school graduations, not our own children, but friends of the family. The ritual was familiar (I guess that’s part of what ritual is), and the time was special. Hugs all around, some tears (yes, even macho me.)

Today, my wife and I practiced a song we are singing in a wedding celebration next weekend.

All different events with one major thing in common: this is the stuff of life.

Traveling to the far corners of the world, meeting people that don’t look like me, smelling different smells, watching as other cultures worship God- that’s exciting and rewarding and tiring and wonderful and sometimes lonely.

Today, I celebrate the ordinary. The living, the graduating, the falling in love and marrying, and yes, the sad goodbye of death.
It’s all a part of this incredible gift we have been given by our Creator/Father/God.

The gift of life.

Be it sad and hard sometimes, joyous and exhilarating, peaceful or sometimes just ordinary, today is, in one sense, all we have.

I don’t want to just read or write about life, I won’t be content just to sing or speak or hear about it.

I want to live it!

Celebrating Today,

Godrest and Godspeed,
David Baroni

Columbus, Ga.

As I relax here in the hotel before ministering at Northside Chapel in the morning, I have been thinking about my travels of late.

Since late November, I have been to Austria, Italy, England twice, Greece, Nigeria, Kuwait and Ukraine. I have also re-connected with dear friends in Sonrora, California and had some other stateside adventures.

What a blessing to be with people like the Hopkins, Grays, Mannings and Hoggards in Europe, Gail Stathis and Brian van Deventer with EME in Greece, my friends Wale Adenuga, Kunle Fadahunsi, Pastors Francis, Shola and other new friends in Nigeria, the wonderful folks at Lighthouse church in Kuwait, and Jerry and Lyana Chalk and the dear folks in Ukraine.

I also appreciate the fact that my wife Rita joined me on many of the above-mentioned trips.
I’m also glad I didn’t wreck the dirt bike, riding the trails of the Sierra Nevada with my friend Pastor Craig Andrus. The last time I rode a motorcycle was 18 years ago with the same dude!

As Neil Diamond sang: “The road is long, with many a winding turn…” and it is so nice to be with the people of God along the way.

The International Worship Institute is coming up in Dallas. You can still register for this powerful event- just go to www.worshipinstitute.com.

Coming this July 3-6 at the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel in Dallas TX the International Worship Institute presents:

TRANSCEND 1.0 !!

Featuring such worship leaders as Tim Hughes, Tommy Walker, Martha Munizzi, LaMar Boschman, Darrell Evans and others including yours truly, this is a wonderful week of worship and fellowship, impartation and instruction.

For more info and to register go to and click on Transcend 1.0

Also, check out the Master Classes-Keyboard Improvisation and Flow and Prophetic Song that I will be teaching on July 3rd.

Attention Radio Program Directors,

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Also, 3 songs from the “Fingerpaintings” piano CDs at http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/bands/11698

These are broadcast quality downloads ready for immediate broadcast.
Godrest and Godspeed,
David Baroni

Check out the new song “Holy Abandon” written by my friend Gary Cox and myself. It’s at www.myspace.com/davidbaronimusic

Email me at david@davidbaroni.com if you would like a copy of the lead sheet.

Godrest and Godspeed,

David Baroni

Just returned from a wonderful, fruitful time in Kiev, Ukraine.

Dr. LaMar Boschman led a team of 18 people from the US, Latvia and Texas, (little joke there), in the 2nd annual International Worship Institute in Kiev. I served as the music director and led worship and taught classes on Songwriting for Worship, The Prophetic Song, and The Blessedness of Brokenness: The Release of the Spirit.

Hundreds of worship leaders, pastors and other leaders met for a powerful, Presence-filled three days in Kiev. One dear lady in tears told me through a translateor that she had traveled 14 hours one way to the conference as a gift from her Pastor, and was deeply impacted by the Spirit of God.

There are testimonies of physical healings, people coming to Christ for salvation, people hearing clearly (some for the first time) the Voice of God, and many were encouraged to continue in their calling to be worshippers and lovers of God.

Ukraine has just known “independence” as a nation for about 15 years. There is corruption in government, poverty and the residue of 75 years of an official atheistic policy. However, God has been making Himself known in powerful ways in this nation of passionate, beautiful people.

It is good to be back home, good to have a home to come back to, and especially, good to know the Lord and be energized by His Passion and Presence, and be given a desire to partner with Him to advance the Kingdom. Thank you to those that prayed for us on this trip.

Godrest and Godspeed,
David Baroni

P.S. It is encouraging to see so many people are downloading the Song of the Month for May:
“Fill This Place With Praise”. You can get the free MP3 and Songsheet at www.davidbaroni.com
Just click on the online store, then click on Free Download and follow the instructions. (Don’t forget to RIGHT click on the download button.)

I am here with LaMar Boschman and Viktor Isajev from Latvia for Ascend 07- a wonderful worship conference hosted by Immanuel Church of Kiev.

Excitement is building and we are believing that the Kingdom of God will advance through this conference into a city and a nation that is currently entangled in political battles and corruption, poverty and a struggle to find hope.

There are Ukrainians, Latvians and Americans on our worship team, and the part of the team from the U.S. is honored and humbled to be a part of this event.

Please pray for us to hear the Lord clearly and respond obediently and passionately to His Voice.

Godrest and Godspeed,
David Baroni

P.S. Be looking for the new Song of the Month at www.davidbaroni.com