Peter is a Pastor of Worship and the Arts, songwriter, recording artist, and seminar speaker whose life mission is to
 help people find relational intimacy with Jesus Christ. Sometimes this means helping someone who has lived apart from God discover the beauty of allowing Christ to do His redemptive work in the world through him or her (which redeems them in the process). And other times this means helping long-time Christ-followers grow beyond just a cognitive knowledge of Christ to a deep abiding relationship.Peter is active providing worship leadership for Celebrate Recovery, which seeks to allow the love of Christ to heal us of our hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Peter's CD i surrender everything is a testimony to God's unfailing love and healing grace. Another of Peter's passions is to encourage other worship artists to rise to the high calling they have been given by Almighty God. "God has given the church artists: musicians, singers, songwriters, poets, fine artists, dancers, rappers, writers, videographers, actors, technicians, and so on, to put words, pictures and deep meaning to the deepest longings of the human heart and soul. If God has given you one of these extraordinary gifts, he has charged you with nothing less than to express the inexpressible; to show the world the Kingdom of God which is mostly unseen; to cut through years of walls and junk to make space for the Holy Spirit to transform the human heart." Peter's is married to Lori, a live worship artist who paints live during Peter's concerts and worship events. Peter has the privilege of serving as Pastor of Worship and the Arts at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts. Peter & Lori have four kids and live in Massachusetts. |
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"Few worship leaders in America model surrendered leadership as well as Peter Dupre. I have watched Peter move audiences in prisons, churches and civic arenas with a passion for Christ that radiates through his music. Get ready, because when you're listening to Peter, as one of his songs suggests, you can't stay quiet and you can't stand still." |
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Story behind The One Another Song
If you go to Grace Chapel, then you know that we work really hard to create worship experiences that are a single journey. I like to say that the message begins with the opening song. We also work with a theme for the entire year. Last year was the Year of Transformation - getting a vision and making space for God to transform our hearts and minds to be the people he created us to be. This year is the Year of One Another. This make sense because transformation is not for our own sake, but for Jesus' sake and the sake of others. So anyhow, as I approached this year of one another, I discovered that there weren't many songs about how we live with one another. I found a hymn I Love To Hear The Story and I found another hymn I Love To Tell The Story. But there isn't a lot of music out there about I Love To Do The Story. I felt like I needed to write a theme song for the year. The One Another Song is the result. But when I finished it, orchestrated it, and handed it out to the singers and players, I hadn't heard Bryan's vision sermon yet. In his sermon, he said that it was his prayer that we would know each other, care for each other, and serve each other better in June than do today (this was in September). I only had one of those words in the song.
It's hard to get music back once it's out there. So the song was revamped to include know and care (I already had serve - one for three will get you into the hall of fame in baseball). So the final version of the song goes... The One Another Song Verse: Your Kingdom come, You will be done, Here on earth as it is in Heaven. Come soon we prayer, But until that day, May we shine with the light of Your love! Chorus: and be a people who... Love one another, Forgive one another, Accept one another, Care for one another, Serve one another, Defer to one another, Till You make all things new, Till You make all things new. Verse: Chorus: Instrumental: Chorus: and be a people who... Love one another, Forgive one another, Accept one another, Care for one another, Serve one another, Defer to one another, Bear with one another, Confess to one another, Rejoice with one another, Grieve with one another, Build one another, Know one another, Pray for one another, Cherish one another, Till You make all things new, Till You make all things new. So that's the story... New CD Project
The new CD is underway. I am doing preproduction right now. What that entails is recording the songs with me playing everything to get the ideas to the musicians so they can begin to mess around with them. I like to encourage the folks who will be playing on the project to fiddle with my ideas and come up with their own. I have just finished the music for The One Another Song but I keep botching the words on the vocal takes. This happens a lot. When I write a song, I usually have a couple of versions of the lyrics. When it comes time to sing it, it's sometimes hard to remember which words made the cut. Anyhow, I'll put the song up when I get a vocal on it.
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