Hello, I'm Steve

 

I write, speak and sing.

What I’m most passionate about is helping people navigate life with faith in Jesus.  One of the ways I try to do that is with words. Encouraging words, inspiring words, provocative words… they all help, I think. Sometimes I put those words in a song, sometimes in a blog post, and most weekends in a sermon.

I’ve been a Singer/Songwriter and Speaker for 30 years, and I also Pastor a local church. Every so often I release an album (9 so far), and I write about things that help me live a life of faith >here.

Let’s stay in touch. 

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“As a person and performer, Steve brings something authentically unique. You will not be disappointed.”

Dr John Andrews

Author & Teacher

“…a powerful communicator with a down-to-earth approach that makes it so easy for everyone to relate to him” 

Dawn Hocking

Fuel

“Parsons is a songwriter whose work doesn’t seem out of place amidst the pillar-like Christian songs of old.”

Lins Honeyman

Cross Rhythms

BIO

Steve Parsons is a British singer-songwriter, speaker, and pastor. With a soulfully expressive voice, percussive acoustic guitar and piano chops, and a career of original songs, he is now 9 albums and 3 decades into a music and ministry journey which has taken him from his childhood home in Cornwall to venues around the world.

In 1993 he started travelling the roads of the UK, clocking up thousands of miles in his rusty old car, and sharing his songs with audiences often far from the beaten track. To begin with it was church congregations and youth groups – safe ground for a young artist singing about Jesus – but as the miles increased, so did the variety of venues that opened their doors. From little high street coffee shops to the vast London Arena, schools, universities, prisons, theatres, and festivals all provided a platform to bring his own blend of encouragement and challenge to people. Those years provided plenty of opportunities to learn. Learning how to write, learning how to play, and learning how to encourage as well as provoke an audience.

 

“For my money Steve is one of the best songsmiths in the UK, a man who writes with head intelligence yet never fudges the spiritual insights behind layers of oblique metaphor.”

Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms

 

The journeys became international over time, and with more miles came more songs, more albums, and more opportunities for connection. Never one to shy away from sharing his thoughts and telling stories between songs, this natural inclination to talk as well as sing resulted in regular invitations to speak in churches and at conferences, which in turn would eventually lead him down the pathway of pastoral ministry. 

Steve has played and spoken in churches across the denominational spectrum, at events including Spring Harvest, New Wine, and Creationfest, and on radio and television shows, including UCB, Cross Rhythms and Premier. He has also toured throughout the UK, and in the USA, Australia, France, Spain, Malta, Norway, Ireland, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Africa.

In addition to music, writing and speaking, Steve serves as the Lead Pastor of TFW Church in Macclesfield, Cheshire, grounding his creativity in the day-to-day privilege of leading a local church community. He lives with his wife of 25 years, Danae, and their two teenage children, Chloe and Benjamin.