The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir began with only nine members in a small rundown building in a difficult area. Carol Cymbala, ministering alongside her husband, Pastor Jim Cymbala, had no formal training, but growing up as a pastor’s daughter in a musical home, she had absorbed the sounds of many cultures, and the Lord had put into her heart the dream of one day directing a large choir. Today the popular Grammy Award–winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, comprised of men and women of all ethnic and national origins, continues to be used by the Lord to sing the gospel in the inner city of New York as well as domestically and internationally. Central to its ministry is a continual emphasis on prayer and worship of the Lord Jesus Christ.