Marcello Cordova

“I came to know the Lord in me early twenties. I wasn’t a terrible kid growing up. I was a pretty good one. I didn’t know a whole lot about Jesus. My mom's side of the family were Catholic and my step dad was a non-practicing Christian. My mom made sure I prayed every night, up until I was going into the 6th grade.

 

I lost my stepdad when I was in high school and it sent me into a dark place, something I struggled with off and on for the next several years. I had a coworker, who was a Christian, introduce me to Jesus. I didn’t know you could worship Jesus with drums and guitars! My friend was super funny, I thought being a Christian was boring and going door to door was not my thing, I had them pegged as Jehovas Witness. Calvary Chapel La Mirada was where I came to know the Lord and eventually with little experience was able to join the worship team for a brief period. I relearned to play the guitar and later on took singing lessons (something that I still struggle with).

 

The journey has been a roller coaster ride as you can imagine yours probably has too. I walked away from the church for awhile, married then divorced, had my son during that time. Eventually I came back after realizing I can’t do life without Jesus in my life daily. I remarried, we had a daughter who is now 13 and I am still on that roller coaster ride!

 

I felt the Lord call me back into worship, but in songwriting. So I currently write songs of my life that intertwine with my faith, there’s always a form of scripture in my songs, either paraphrasing or in belief, songs I’ve written to my daughter, songs I’ve written falling on hard times, even one where I was convinced suicide was the best course to take called “You Rescued Me”, well in short it’s not. “Like David” is probably the song that is closer to scripture as it speaks of how like minded we are ‘Like David’; being called Gods friend, victory thru impossible odds, stumbling in sin, chasing Gods heart and ultimately just ‘Singing Psalms and dancing’. “