Bethany Wohrle Lost Her Niece and Wrote an Album About the Goodness of God

Bethany Wohrle has been with Bethel Music since she was 17 years old. Her voice is on All Hail King Jesus and Living Hope, songs with tens of millions of streams that have been sung in churches around the world. But when her niece Junie died unexpectedly at 18 months old in February 2023, Bethany nearly didn't show up to the Nashville writing camp she had scheduled for her debut solo album just weeks later. She went anyway, and what happened in those writing rooms was not what she expected.

Grief, hope, and a God who is still good even when nothing makes sense: Bethany shares how the songs on her debut album Reason That I Sing, releasing July 10, were born not from a desire to process sadness but from a determination to write hope-filled music because she had seen too much of God's faithfulness to doubt Him now. She talks about the song So Close, written for her sister and brother-in-law as a declaration that God can bring dead things back to life, what it means to be a worship leader whose goal is to be as invisible as possible, and why walking through the hardest season of her life left her more on fire to lead people into worship than she has ever been.

Highlights

• How her niece Junie's unexpected death three years ago became the grief behind nearly every song on this album
• Why she went to the Nashville writing camp just weeks after the loss and what God did in those rooms
• Why she refused to write a song about sadness and what she chose to write about instead
• So Close, the song she wrote for her sister, and the moment they both wept listening to the mastered version together
• What she believes the role of a worship leader actually is — to be invisible and simply connect the congregation to heaven
• The woman who had never raised her hands in church and what happened when the whole room lifted them together
• All Authority, the song on the new album declaring that every fear and worry bows to the King of Kings
• What she is sensing about the movement of God right now and why she does not want to be left behind what He is doing

Resources / Links / CTA

• 🌐 Bethany Wohrle website: https://bethanywohrle.com
• 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethanywohrle
• 🎵 Album: Reason That I Sing
• 🎵 Single: He Is Here
• 🌐 Bethel Music: https://bethelmusic.com
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