Rebecca St James: The Australian-born, US-based popster in a worldwide chat

Tuesday 7th January 2003

REBECCA ST JAMES recently took part in an international online chat on the internet where she fielded dozens of questions from fans around the world. Here are the highlights.



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When might we expect to see that DVD?

Rebecca St James: The Australian-born, US-based popster in a worldwide chat

It's being edited right now and should be out in a few months. If it doesn't come out internationally, people will be able to order it either through our web page, or through musichristian.com.

I heard you were trying to get a job at McDonalds during your sabbatical. Did you do it and if so, what were your experiences?

Yes, I tried to get a job. I put in an application at McDonalds in Australia, and at a few coffee houses too. But, in the short amount of time I would have been able to work (four or five weeks), I wasn't able to get one! I also realised how hard it is to actually get a job sometimes! It was good to be treated as just a normal person. I didn't put anything about my music on my resume.

When is the next album?

We're having a compilation CD (best of) album coming out in March.

Will there be any new tracks on there?

Yes, two new ones that I have started working on already.

Is it true that you pray before everything you do? I tried that for a few months now, but find it really hard, and often I find myself forgetting it or going my own ways. How about you?

Well, when it comes to my music, I do try to pray before everything. Like today in the studio, we prayed before recording anything. I pray before songwriting and before most of my interviews. So, it is a definite big part of my ministry life. But, also in my personal life, every day I am praying and wanting God to use my life for him.

How long did it take you to write your book Wait For Me?

It took about three months, but not of consistently working on it, because I was on tour at the time. My editor, Dale Reeves, worked on it a lot from his home in Cincinnati. We got together about seven or eight times. We talked a lot over the phone and I sent him a lot of packages of my writing. We used the fax a lot, too. A lot of it was written long distance.

You recently launched Wait For Me. Do you find the waiting hard?

I think it is difficult. I really feel that it is important to protect yourself from being in situations where you have to physically fight impurity, so to be completely honest, I don't find it that hard waiting, because I am very careful about what situations I put myself in where the opposite sex is concerned. I also have to try to live above reproach. Not that I am above temptation, because we are all capable of anything, but I do not put myself in situations where I would be overly tempted. I also am not interested in dating or courting anyone who doesn't share my same morals and values in regards to sexual purity.

Would you ever considering covering any "non-Christian" tracks?

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Reader Comments

Posted by Kalyani in Hyderabad, India. @ 18:48 on Jan 26 2009

Praise The LORD Rebeca, you are doing good work. GOD BLESS YOU.



Posted by jane in british columbia canada @ 08:00 on Dec 31 2008

does anyone out there know the names of the countries that are sung during the last chorus in the background of Rebecca's "Jesus Loves the Little Children"?



Posted by bless in philippines @ 09:37 on Feb 25 2008

hi ,,, .... hope you'll be mah frend... may God bless u with ur career



Posted by Dustin Lang in usa @ 22:08 on Jan 29 2008

I love you SOOOO much!!!!!! and I love your music!!!!!!




Posted by sanaullah khan in pakistan @ 18:35 on Oct 19 2007

what i say but i wants to joins urs chat room



Posted by Jesse Long @ 03:03 on Mar 28 2007

This is not only to Rebecca ST James but all who contemporay christian music. I love christian music and I love the company of good christian morality and I'm always glad to get christian email. Pray for me because I need for God to give me revelation so that I know I'm on course.



Posted by joana in St. James MN @ 18:34 on Feb 2 2007

hey whats up



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