Paul Vasile (he/him) is a church musician, consultant, teacher, and composer who finds his greatest joy in collaborative and community-centered ministry. Committed to modeling expansive, imaginative, and hospitable experiences of music making wherever he goes, Paul’s leadership builds trust, invites spaces of creativity, vulnerability, and play, and supports practices of reflection and holistic learning. Recognized nationally as a musician and liturgist, he is helping to strengthen, energize, and liberate faith communities through the ways they worship and sing together.

Paul discerned a call to interim ministry and consulting after 20 years as a full-time church musician in St. Louis and New York City. Over the past decade he has offered transitional leadership, consulting services, and creative resources to congregations in seasons of discernment, challenge, and transformation. This includes coaching clergy, musicians, and musician search teams. Additionally, he has been a guest lecturer and worship leader at seminaries and colleges around the United States, including Baylor University, The Candler School of Theology, Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Princeton Theological Seminary, St. John’s College, Union Theological Seminary (NYC), Vanderbilt Divinity School, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. 

Committed to expressing and exploring faith in new ways, Paul composes sacred music that expands and enriches the church’s language of praise and prayer. His music is represented in Glory to God, All Creation Sings, and Voices Together, as well as The Hymn Society’s resource, Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming The LGBTQIA2S+ Community.

Website: www.paulvasile.com
Instagram: @lovedintobeing