BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Connected to the Prophets “In 1991, I accepted the pastorate of Lucy and Keeter’s little church. We had the most amazing Holy Ghost meetings. Lucy became my spiritual mother. Through her, I met her twin sister, Lynne Hammond; as well as Billye Brim, Mark Brazee, Patsy Cameneti, Joe Morris and others. “When the Lord released me from that assignment, Mark Brazee asked me to travel to Switzerland, where we ministered at the European Ministers Fellowship. While he preached as a prophet to the nations and I sang with Ray Gene Wilson, there came that hook, pulling me toward their anointing. “I was intoxicated. Following that trip, I moved to Tulsa where I began a 20-year journey ministering with Mark and Janet Brazee. For the first five years, we ministered all over Europe.” Two years later, David played for Ray Gene Wilson during a recording session at Kenneth Copeland Ministries. While there, David got a message that KCM needed a pianist to play that night at the Eagle Mountain Motorcycle Rally. He agreed to play. Toward the end of worship, Brother Copeland went off script and began singing a new song in the Holy Spirit. Not sure what to play, David prayed. “God, if You’ve ever helped me—help me now!” By faith, he played—and Brother Copeland prophesied. “Kenneth Copeland activated the gift I’d been born with,” David says. The next day, Brother Copeland said, “Ask David if he can help with all my meetings. What I’ve been looking for, I found last night in that song.” The divine connection between Kenneth Copeland and David Ellis had been born on a song. From then on, David traveled with Brother Copeland to all his major ministry meetings and to one international meeting a year. He also continued to travel and minister with Mark Brazee. In 1995, Pastor Ed Dufresne asked David if he could introduce him to Wendy Krause, who attended his Bible school. Within a year, David and Wendy were married. In 2000, the Lord directed David and Wendy to plant a church in Murrieta, Calif. After pastoring there for 13 years, David, who had continued to travel with Kenneth Copeland to his major meetings, accepted the position of music director for KCM. In 2015, the Lord spoke to David about helping Brother Copeland even more. So he began traveling with him to not only his large ministry meetings, but also to his smaller personal meetings. The Trumpet Call “I can’t run my race without Kenneth Copeland,” David says. “It’s not about a musical set or a style. It’s what the Lord told my mother while I was in her womb. I carry something that prophets need. “There has always been something significant to me about Brother Copeland’s voice. Not just his singing voice. I’m talking about his speaking voice. It has the same tone and texture as a trumpet. A saxophone has a growl. A violin is airy. A trumpet is a piercing, focused sound. “We were in a recording session once when the engineer said, ‘Look at the equalizer settings on his voice. Those are the same settings I would use for a trumpet. The equipment doesn’t know the difference between a trumpet and his voice.’ “Before my father graduated to glory in August, we realized that when Kenneth Copeland was praying for the sick in Oral Roberts’ last tent meetings, Vep Ellis Sr. was his music director and my father, Leon Ellis, was playing the piano. They were in the same meetings. “It’s interesting to see what God has done in our family. Vep Ellis Sr. was Oral Roberts’ music director. Vep Ellis Jr. was Kenneth Hagin’s music director. I am Kenneth Copeland’s music director. My nephew, Justin Ellis, is John Hagee’s music director.” David and Wendy Ellis have three children, Caleb, Joanna Lee and Benton James. “I flew home from a recent trip with Brother Copeland,” David recalls. “I heard our 14-year-old son, Ben, playing the piano. A chill rippled up my spine. ‘He’s got it,’ I told Wendy. ‘He’s got the call.’” David Ellis understands the divine connection between God, music and miracles. It was a sound from heaven that sparked the outpouring of miraculous power at Pentecost. From the days of King David until now, the right anointed sound has called forth the gift of the prophet. The right sound isn’t what’s most popular. The right sound isn’t defined by its tempos. It isn’t defined by how new or old it is. The right sound is the one an anointed musician hears from heaven and releases on earth. That sound ushers in the glory of God. V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Join David and the rest of our Holy Ghost gang of believers. Partner with KCM today! kcm.org/partnernow 1-800-600-7395 22 : BVOV

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