Come Holy Spirit (Album by Steve Kuban) - Church Service Video of Live Recording

Today is the 27th anniversary of the night we recorded this album "Come Holy Spirit" (Aug. 27, 1995) at my home church in Toronto (Crossroads Cathedral) where I had been the worship leader and music director for 7 years. This title song "Come Holy Spirit" is a beautiful worship song by Mal Fletcher that has touched millions of lives around the world.
This was actually a "regular" Sunday night worship service, that God touched mightily with His presence. He had been visiting us powerfully during our summer Sunday night services, taking over our praise and worship times, even leading us to change our planned order of songs often. The presence of the Lord was so powerful that people would often come forward to the altar during the worship to meet with the Lord and experience His delivering power.
This Sunday evening was our final service in the summer of 1995. A day before the service, the Holy Spirit urged me to bring in a 16-track reel-to-reel recorder to capture what He was about to do. Our soundmen rose to the challenge (having never recorded a live worship service with professional equipment before!), and God truly guided all the musicians, singers and soundmen to flow in His purposes. The Holy Spirit moved mightily, and at the end many people came to the altar to meet the Lord. There was even a seven-minute period where the congregation just flowed in waves of open worship. (The open worship actually goes much longer than what is on the CD, plus there are four additional songs that are not included on the CD)
Over the next five months the singers reinforced their vocal tracks, and we added choir and other overdubs. The team who produced "The Lord is My Tower" a year earlier, joined efforts to make this album as sonically perfect as possible, including Roy Oommen (the drummer on this night of worship, who is a great music producer in his own right) and Ken Vandevrie (owner of ADS Studio Productions who recorded and produced "The Lord is My Tower" live album, among others), and for the icing on the cake, George Graves of Lacquer Channel in Toronto mastered the album.
The recording later became a certified Gold record in the Philippines, and was well-received and much loved in many countries of the world. Praise the Lord!
Here is footage from some of the original VHS tapes showing the band and worship singers, and the congregation as they come to the front of the church to meet the Lord and be filled with His Holy Spirit. This is a medley of the title song (written by Mal Fletcher), together with several minutes of spontaneous worship when the congregation came forward to meet the Lord, worship Him, and many to sing in the spirit. It's an amazing atmosphere of worship.
On this video I "added in" some of the original audio from the VHS tapes, which helps capture the "live" feel of the service. (I may do a better video edit with smoother audio transitions later, but I just want to upload it today, in honor of it being exactly 27 years since the Holy Spirit's powerful move during this precious memorable evening.)
"Thank You Lord for Your gracious hand upon us that night 27 years ago. Forever we will remember how You touched us in this service! And Thank You for using this little cassette and CD project to touch people in so many lands. May You continue to use the internet to further Your glorious purposes and bring a powerful sense of Your presence and Holy Spirit to millions worldwide. Amen."
~Steve Kuban (D.Div)
(Worship leader on "Come Holy Spirit")
PS: To see a beautiful lyric video with almost 7 million views, see my comment below.
The album "Come Holy Spirit" can be heard on these music sites (with links to Apple Music, Spotify, etc).
https:/www.linktr.ee/stevekuban
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Worship Leader and Pianist: Steve Kuban
Synthesizer: Sui Sin Wong
Worship Singers: Carlene Lynn, Kimberly Pope, Collette Myers, Jeremy Bellsmith
Drums: Roy Oommen
Bass: Paul McKoy
Guitar: Jason Luscomb
Recorded live at Crossroads Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Woodbridge High School Gymnasium.

[@user-yl8cs2gv6k]

Thank you Lord Jesus this anointed worship service of this church, w/ my beloved brothers and sisters w/ also beloved brother of mine Steve Kuban, wherever he is your blessings be w/ him.. in your mighty name JESUS Amen.

[@samueljacoblemos]

Amo a leveza desses louvores. Adoração rara. Fluir do coração. Não me canso de ouvir. ❤ Do Brasil!

[@SteveKuban]

Please feel free to share this video. It shows a worship service where the people come forward with hungry hearts in response to the Lord's moving, to be filled with more of the Holy Spirit. These were the kinds of worship services we experienced Sunday nights at Crossroads Cathedral. Wonderful memories! I wish for more nights of worship like this.

[@focm888]

Hey Ps. Steve, can you upload the full video. I used to listen to this album so many times years back. Still so fresh as it is worship in the HOLY SPIRIT. Is Crossroads cathedral in Toronto active still?

[@SteveKuban]

Hi @@focm888 , thanks for your comment. Truly the worship is so God-breathed! Yes, I will edit some of the video footage and upload songs as I'm able. The guys with the VHS recorders didn't record every song, just sections within each. There's actually a several songs AFTER "Come Holy Spirit" that we have video for, that I didn't include on the album. They are really sweet and moving. I will do my best to add them as well, though the audio will be less quality than on the album. I'm so glad to finally put this "out there" for the world to see. Please share, all for God's glory.

[@SteveKuban]

Crossroads Cathedral is no longer active, and our senior Pastor Doug Lynn graduated to heaven a few months ago. We miss them both dearly. These were amazing and wonderful days, and we who were members of the church will never forget how graciously and powerfully God visited us!

[@focm888]

@@SteveKuban Yes. Please add them. Looking forward for those songs.

[@cherylstone336]

Ty Jesus for your worship from heaven!🎉❤😂😊

[@zealheals]

Came here from @Steve Kuban suggestion during Awesome and Powerful Worship Premiere (Sat, Nov 19, 2022 10am EST) Impartation of Grace Given♨️

[@samueljoseph777]

Finally we've got the official video. 😃😃✝️🕊️ Amen.

[@SteveKuban]

Hi Samuel, yes, these are actual video clips of the original live recording. Sorry the clips are not high quality, as we only had a couple of VHS cameras, and the service went quite long so camera batteries were depleted and we missed capturing some of the best moments. But I'm so grateful to the Lord for how He moved in this service, and that the 16-track reel-to-reel audio recording went well. With a little (hard) work we were able to make it into a Live Album that has touched millions around the world. Who would have imagined that night, in the gymnasium as we worshiped the Lord, that we would be watching it 25 years later ? God is so good!

[@samueljoseph777]

@@SteveKuban awesome brother. Your songs in Come Holy Spirit Album has touched me and my family alot. Been listening to these songs such my childhood. And now I am 26. My Dad introduced this album's Cassette. We are from India. This Cassette has brought us so much closer to the Lord. God bless the ministry. God bless you and families. 🙂🥰🥰✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️

[@seige1860]

Please upload some live videos of “The Lord Is My Tower” recording. My fave! 💛🔥

[@rocksmusicinstitute]

Glory to Jesus Christ

[@SteveKuban]

When you are finished enjoying this live worship video, here is a link to another lyric video of this beautiful song by Mal Fletcher, that has received almost 7 million views, praise the Lord! It uses the CD audio from this same live recording that you have just viewed; and was created by the Minniecons in Australia, using their own photos, and edited superbly. Be blessed by their beautiful video, and please share it, to touch more lives for God's glory. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3nYhXmho6Z5iq8 (Can you imagine, God has chosen to touch this little worship service, undertaken with sincere hearts in a school gymnasium during a hot summer night in Toronto, in such a powerful way, that it has gone on to be seen and heard by millions of people all over the globe? God uses the simple things we offer Him, to feed multitudes. All glory be to Him alone!)