Artist Biography

Debbie Sewell
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Deb's work combining her music with patient care began as a result of walking through cancer and AIDS with so many friends and family. Her work has been endorsed by Dr. Harold Koenig's with Duke University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, Driscoll Children's Hospital, The Christus Spohn Hospital System, hospitals in the Methodist Healthcare system, as well as many churches, hospice organizations, and hospitals throughout Texas. She has directed music for many retreats and conferences including The Day Apart/Grief Training for 9-11 with Paula D'Arcy, The Listening Heart, (United Methodist Churches) and Richard Foster's Renovare'. She has been instrumental in leading worship for the Annual Conference for the Southwest Conference of Methodist Churches. Deb operates under the belief that through the door of music and worship, one is invited to experience renewal and healing, as we begin to see our losses and disappointments through the light of God's unchanging love and compassion.

Following the deaths of both of her brothers to AIDS, Debbie began working in grief support. She facilitated the first support group in the Coastal Bend for persons living with AIDS as well as their care givers in 1987. She then became an STD/HIV educator for the Nueces County Health Department and the Texas Interfaith Council in 1991. She has also facilitated grief and bereavement groups for Christus Spohn Hospice, and was on the founding board of the Passage Hospice (a hospice facility for those in the final stages of AIDS). She served on the board of The Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation, and helped to establish the South Texas Commission on AIDS.

Debbie completed her undergraduate work at Texas A&M University, graduating with honors in Psychology. Debbie began Post Graduate Counseling training in clinical pastoral care at Christi Spohn Hospital and Healthcare systems, where she worked in trauma and critical care. It was while doing short course work in theology and chaplaincy training that she began incorporating music into her hospital ministry. Since that time she has created, produced and recorded 3 CDs and is in the process of filming a DVD for grief recovery.

She relocated to the north Texas area in 2005 with her husband, Andy Sewell, a pediatric dentist. They now make their home in Fort Worth, Texas and are members of Arborlawn United Methodist Church.

Deb believes that through the door of music and worship, we are invited to experience renewal and healing as we begin to see our losses and disappointments through the light of God's unchanging love and compassion. Weaving scripture and worship through music has become her passion and ministry. To God Be the Glory!