Martyn Layzell

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Martyn Layzell (born 1975) [1] is a British worship leader and Anglican clergyman. Since 2020, he has been Vicar of St Mark's, Battersea Rise, a Church of England church in London. He is also a worship leader and has regularly led worship at major Christian events including Soul Survivor and New Wine. He features on several live albums from those events both as a singer and a songwriter. He has produced three studio albums, Reward; in collaboration with Tim Hughes, and Lost in Wonder and Turn my Face, with Lost in Wonder winning Christian Booksellers Convention Worship Album of the Year 2004.

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Background

Layzell grew up in St Andrew's Chorleywood where Mike Pilavachi was his youth leader. After a psychology degree at Birmingham University, he moved to Soul Survivor Watford, where he latterly worked as a worship pastor. He moved to St Aldate's Church in Oxford, after six years at Soul Survivor, to take up the position of worship director. [2]

He then did a two-year Diploma in Ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college, between 2008 and 2010. He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in by the Bishop of London at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in September 2010, [2] and as a priest in 2011. [3] From 2010 to 2020, he ministered at HTB, first as a curate and then as an associate vicar. In 2020, he was appointed vicar of St Mark's, Battersea Rise in the Diocese of Southwark. [3]

Discography

  1. With all my heart
  2. Sovereign Lord
  3. Lost in wonder
  4. Praise You
  5. Jesus Christ Emmanuel
  6. You opened up my eyes
  7. King Jesus I believe
  8. Devoted
  9. I'll never stop loving You
  10. All of me
  11. I surrender all
  1. Join the Song
  2. For Your glory
  3. Turn my face
  4. Through Your precious blood
  5. I stand in awe
  6. Immortal, Invisible
  7. Holding On
  8. If I should ever falter
  9. More than anything
  10. As Jesus walked

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References

  1. Edgelely, Brian (2003). "Martyn Layzell: The Soul Survivor Worship Leader Is Lost In Wonder". Cross Rhythms. No. 77. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Martyn Layzell to be ordained at HTB". Holy Trinity Brompton. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Martyn Paul Layzell" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 2 July 2023.