{"id":11797,"date":"2025-10-04T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:20:37","slug":"retro-canadian-mexican-worship-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2025\/retro-canadian-mexican-worship-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Retro: Canadian\/Mexican Worship Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>Ten years ago today, our friends the Brubachers were here visiting from Canada. Their family came down to help with music at our missionary conference, and also to do some worship music training with the church in Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can see at least two of the family, along with some of the musicians of the church, leading worship on Sunday morning, October 2015. Lee is on guitar and Cheryl on keyboard. 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