I'm still beatboxing at shows around the UK.  You can catch me this summer judging the finals of the UK Beatboxing Champs in London.

I'm working on a top secret hip-hop gospel project - it's gonna be huge.

Heaps of Peace

Gavz

I have just released a booklet called Co-Missional Church.  It came about after a good friend of mine asked me, quite rightly, “Can you identify what God is doing in your community and join in?”

Co-Missional Church is designed to be an easy-to-read, non-academic book for those who, like me, struggle, think and reflect about church and mission.  Hopefully, it will be food for thought, inspire, encourage and open up a wealth of possibilities.

Available to purchase or as a free download from lulu.com.

Go to the Co-Missional Church page on this site.

I have recently been involved in producing a demo for Chip K (thebandwithnoname) and The Bible Society.  Find out more...

Making Waves is a electronica/synth pop album of original songs all written and produced by me - Gavin Tyte. Inspired by artists such as Depeche Mode, Erasure and Massive Attack, the album expresses my heart for God (and his mission) as well as my love for analog(ue) synths and drum machines.

The album is available on this site for playing or download. Go check it out!

My Worship EP 2009 is now available!  This EP is a collection of worship in a synth pop style.  You can listen to or download the following tracks or backing tracks.

So go and check it out!

Last night, Lucy had a dream. She was eating in a beautifully set bistro, white linen tablecloths, silver cutlery, and she was sipping a delicate glass of perfectly chilled delicious white wine. She looked up and Clare Birch, the cook at Rose Cottage, came out of the kitchen. It was a good reminder to me that at Rose Cottage, we are not cooking food because we want to cook food, no, we are cooking food because we want to treat ordinary people like royalty.

Here is a little piano ditty I wrote called Meta...

We have a moving date - 2nd December 2009.

We have a licensing date - 20th December 2009 at 10am, Uplyme Parish Church.

I will be talking at the 4pm Crib Service at Axmouth Church on Christmas Eve, and speaking at the 10am Christmas Morning service at Uplyme. Then it'll be a week spent with family before hitting the ground at a gentle jog in January.

After another week of jury service (two more trials), we finally got away for our week in the Scottish Highlands. Talk about contrast. One day I am sitting on the X39 bus between Bath and Bristol and the next I am walking with my daughter Gemma up in the mountains to a special valley called Coire Lair. Stunning.

On the fishing front, I've tried to catch a salmon without much success. I hooked and lost a smallish sea trout on Sunday and an absolute monster followed my fly yesterday. I have caught several small finnock - 0.5lb of iridescent blue/green and silver as well as a bunch of small brown trout.

It can be eerie standing waist deep in water surrounded by such lofty mountain grandeur. The spooky honks of rutting deer echo across the polished surface of the loch. A salmon leaps just a few feet away making me jump. Beauty and wilderness.

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