About Carl and Sarita

Psalm 33:2-4 “Play the guitar as you lift your praises loaded with thanksgiving. Sing and make joyous music with all you’ve got inside. Compose new melodies that release new praises to the Lord. Play his praises on instruments with the anointing and skill he gives you. Sing and shout with passion; make a spectacular sound of joy— For God’s Word is something to sing about! He is true to his promises, his word can be trusted, and everything he does is reliable and right.” - (The Passion Translation)

Carl and Sarita Howard met in 1979 and were high school sweethearts. They married in 1984 and immediately started their first Christian Rock Band (at a time and in a region where it was not popular to do so). They played in coffee houses, youth group lock ins, parks, and even ice skating rinks.

They moved to Lexington, ,KY and took their first church staff position as Worship Leaders in 1991 at Lighthouse Church in Owenton, KY where they drove an hour and a half one way for each service.

After one year in Owenton, KY, Carl and Sarita relocated to Nashville, TN to focus on their songwriting, and led worship in several churches in the Nashville area.

In 1997, Carl and Sarita moved back to Northern KY and led worship in several churches in the greater Cincinnati and West Indiana area. Their most recent staff position was on the west side of Cincinnati, where they were Worship Arts Pastors for almost fifteen years in one church (between August 2006 - December 2020).

Their desire is to raise up the next generations as worship leaders to have an encounter in the presence of God, and to lead congregations in that presence. Carl and Sarita love to write worship songs and have a desire to write songs that impact churches around the world and to encourage and train other songwriters.

Sarita holds a Doctorate of Ministry from White Horse School of Ministries, which she studied for many years to receive while simultaneously homeschooling their three children (now all adults.) In this current season, they feel it is time to move forward with teaching the younger generations in worship.

In January 2021, Carl and Sarita returned to their roots and once again, began attending Lighthouse Church in Owenton, KY - thirty years after accepting their first worship leader position in that church. They have come full circle and have accepted the position of Worship Arts Pastors in April of 2021, in the same place they started in 1991. This time, Carl and Sarita have thirty years of experience under their belts, and have found themselves coming in, not just as worship leaders, but as a Worship Father and a Worship Mother, with a heart to raise up the next generations and to teach and train them in worship .

Carl and Sarita have a publishing and distribution agreement with Watershed Music, and are currently on staff at Lighthouse Church in Owenton, KY, where they serve as Worship Arts Pastors.

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