

In Sydney they attended Hills Christian Life Centre, which at the time had only 100 or so congregants. The next morning in a small church, the guest preacher interrupted his sermon to call out Mark and Darlene prophetically: “I don’t normally do this when I preach, but whatever it is you two prayed last night, God says do it now.” To resolve their conflicting sense of direction they prayed. Mark felt called to Sydney, while Darlene didn’t want to go because she had just rekindled her relationship with her mom.


She met and married Mark, and the couple worked as youth pastors in Brisbane. When her dad returned to church, he took Darlene, who at 15 accepted Christ. Our next generation is definitely going to need answers. “But now, I have got a real compassion for kids in that situation. “It took a long time for that (the wounds from the divorce) to heal,” Darlene says on SWCS Australia. As a result, she fell into bulimia for about four years. Darlene Zschech’s familyĪ television star from childhood, Darlene developed insecurities after her parents divorced when she was 13. It’s just a fact that God doesn’t leave us.”įamous for her 1993 song “Shout to the Lord,” Darlene led worship at Hillsong Church from 1996 to 2007, after which she and her husband founded Hope Unlimited Church in 2011 in New South Wales Australia.Īmazingly, it is estimated that “Shout to the Lord” gets sung by 30 million church-goers every Sunday. “I realized you can only have shadow if there is light. “What I found in my ‘valley of the shadow of death’ is the presence of God,” she says on a CBN video. Hillsong worship leader Darlene Zschech had spent her life lifting spirits, but when breast cancer struck in 2013, she needed her own spirit lifted.
