Faith Filled Family Magazine December 2016 | Page 52

MUSIC

SPOTLIGHT

Paul
Baloche

BY MICHELLE C. DANKO

Paul shows a humbleness- a
gentleness of character- that is
Faith Filled Family was privi- warming. He is genuine, and
leged to do an interview with authentic.
renowned Christian artist, Paul
Baloche. While the interview it- Paul and his wife, Rita, recently
self was fascinating, I think get- moved to New York after spendting to know the person behind ing the last twenty-five years in
east Texas. They purged their
the music was really inspiring.
possessions, and moved from a
In doing so, I discovered a per- house, to a one-bedroom apartson who enjoyed helping others, ment. The move sent them on a
was committed to his family, his new journey, which resulted in a
wife, and his marriage. His fam- beautiful new album.
ily does many things together,
and continues to collaborate collectively to this day. The Word
of God is his inspiration, and He
finds inspiration everywhere.

Your bio states that you
purged your possessions and
moved to New York. Was there
a reason for the move? Was it
hard to leave something that

had been part of your life for
so many years?
Let’s see…Well, yes and no.
As you know, change is always
challenging. However, after
twenty five years in the same
neighborhood, at the same
church, etc. change happens.
Our kids grew up, and went
off to University. Two of them
ended up in New York City,
and one is outside of Philadelphia. So my wife and I were,
for the last couple of years,
walking past all of these empty bedrooms and wondering
“What we were doing here?”
Everything was fine. We could

stay here, and it’s not broken.
However, we thought, coming up on our marriage, which
is almost thirty years, that we
could stay here, or we could
set the reset button.
I liken it to getting into your
laptop and having all these
Windows open in tabs. You
just do a hard reset- like you
are going to restart your computer- and that is what we did.
Our house sold pretty quickly.
We were able to just turn over
the reigns of the worship department. As worship pastor, I
was able to hand it over to the
next generation.