Name: Cosima Ybarra
Gender: Female
Location: Calvary Chapel, Perris, CA

Cosima Ybarra is a pastors wife, mother, and worship leader and serves along side her husband, Bob, at Calvary Chapel Perris Valley, in Southern California.  Her passion for knowing God through His names has fueled a desire to teach others to meet their God through intimate study and meditation on His attributes, character and His names.

Long answer:  Worship is what consumes me... my thoughts and my life.  It's what makes me tic, so to speak.  Because the Lord has given me the privilege of worshipping Him and then made me able to approach Him boldly I can offer myself that living sacrifice Paul speaks of.  God created me to worship Him and, He also gave me a hunger, a passion to live for Him.  That's worship.. Living for Him!

2. What do you think is the result of worship and/or how can worship be displayed in your life?

3. As a worship leader, what are some of your challenges?
Dealing with the changes on a worship team.  People come and go.  From one month to the next the worship ministry could have a large number of active volunteers and then shrink down to just me.  That's probably the most challenging for me, since it means working with musicians that are rotating in and out of the church.  I love it but, it is a challenge to keep things organized, get musicians to find their groove together and be prepared for events.

On a spiritual note, there is so much that a worship leader is responsible for before the Lord.  To have a pure heart that I should never 'bring strange fire' before Him, my witness and testimony.  What or who people see when they see me.  I want, more than anything that people would see the love and grace of God at work and believe that God is as much 'in love' with them as He is with me or anyone else that they view as a spiritual leader.  I want them to know Him and walk with Him in the truest sense of the word.  Staying close to Jesus is probably my greatest love and my greatest challenge.  So many things are vying for my attentions and affections that it is a must to remain in Christ and in His word in order to overcome.

4. What word of encouragement do you have to share?

Stay in fellowship and in the Word!  I know it sounds a little cliché but it's so true.  I went through a real rough time in my walk with the Lord and the hardest part was keeping faithful to fellowship and the Word.  The flesh is so fickle!  There were so many days I'd wake up and just want to stay in bed all day but, that would mean spiritual deterioration.  Keep your passion for Christ alive with fear and trembling.   That's what keeps us afloat as worship leaders and most of all as believers.

5. Can you share with us a recent song you are using in your congregation that has touched your heart and why?

See His Love

See His love nailed onto a cross

Perfect and blameless life given as sacrifice

See Him there all in the name of love

Broken yet glorious, all for the sake of us

This is Jesus in His glory

King of Heaven dying for me

It is finished, He has done it

Death is beaten, Heaven beckons me

Greater love no one could ever show

Mercy so undeserved, freedom I should not know

All my sin, all of my hidden shame

Died with Him on the cross, eternity won for us

Such love, such love

Such love is this for me

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