Long before Meredith Andrews' "Can Anybody Hear Me" was featured on the radio and congregations across the country, she got her start as so many other young girls do, singing into a makeshift microphone (a.k.a. a hairbrush). As she grew up, her childhood love of music eventually matured into a fervent desire to lead congregations in music.

“The youth group thing we had on Saturday nights was called the Potters House, and it was one of those most influential things in my life,” Meredith shares. “I learned what it really means to worship the Lord…All the kids that would come were just so hungry for the Lord, and we would worship for an hour and then my youth pastor would speak. And then we’d worship for another hour or more. I remember there would be nights that the power of the Lord was so strong that I’d be under my keyboard playing because I just couldn’t stand. It was powerful, and I will never forget that.”

As far as Meredith life’s calling, she thought it would be something pertaining to her chosen major—family and child development. Born an only child, Meredith’s parents provided homes for many foster children, so she thought she’d follow their lead and work in an orphanage as well.

As her time at Liberty University, continued, however, it was clear during her Junior year that God had other plans for Meredith, including leading worship. “While I was looking out at the student body with their hands in the air, you could tell that the presence of the Lord was so sweet in that place,” Meredith recalls. “It was like the Lord just dropped something into my spirit saying ‘This is it. This is it! This is what I called you to do.’ I remember thinking, ‘This is the thing that makes me feel most alive.’ It is also the thing I feel like the Lord takes the most delight in, and I feel closest to Him when I’m doing it.”

While Meredith wasn’t exactly sure if that necessarily meant leading worship publicly, her pathway was confirmed when a pastor from Chicago’s Harvest Bible Chapel heard her and recruited Meredith to join his worship team a month before she graduated from Liberty. Then just as God lead Meredith before, He also opened doors in Nashville that led her to sign her first record deal.

“I wasn’t really looking for a record deal. It just fell in my lap,” Meredith remembers. “I’m so humbled by it all. It’s obvious that it’s the Lord’s hand and not my own.”

In 2008, Meredith released her first album, The Invitation, followed two years later with As Long As It Takes. Congregationally friendly and designed as a springboard for worship, the project included standout tracks “Never Move On,” “Only to be Yours” and the radio single “Can Anybody Hear Me.”

The next chapter of Meredith's life began on September 1st, 2010, with the birth of her first child, Maverick Elijah Sooter. "Micah 6:8 has become the verse most on my heart for my boy," Meredith reflects. "I keep praying that he would act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with his God. I encourage you to pray for your baby by name every day as well!"

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