by Victor Hafichuk | Oct 27, 2020 | Music
An Album of My Songs? Really? At 74?! What a surprise! Let’s look at my ragtag musical history, perfectly humble: At 7 , a neighbor recruited me to sing at Christmas concerts, a short stint. At 15 , a friend wanted me to sing harmony with him. It didn’t get off the...
by Victor Hafichuk | Aug 29, 2020 | History, Music
Music and lyrics by Victor N. Hafichuk Winnipeg, Manitoba, for Henry Unruh, January 3, 1981 In 1981, we met a Mennonite man trying so hard to live a right life before God. He was failing miserably. His vices overwhelmed him. He was desperate and his conscience...
by Victor Hafichuk | Aug 28, 2020 | Music, The Path of Truth
Music and lyrics by Victor N. Hafichuk Winnipeg, Manitoba, February 27, 1981 There is a difference in outlook and attitude between believers and unbelievers when they hear the words of this song’s title. When unbelievers hear the words, “What will be will be,” they...
by Victor Hafichuk | Aug 27, 2020 | Inspiration, Music
Music and lyrics by Victor N. Hafichuk Winnipeg, Manitoba, for Alan Gilbert, January 27, 1981 A young single fellow from eastern Canada moved into a suite in our building at 152 La Verendrye. Alan Gilbert was recovering from a horrific car collision. His body was...
by Victor Hafichuk | Jun 17, 2020 | Inspiration, Music
Music and lyrics by Victor N. Hafichuk Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 3, 1980 What’s big and what’s small? Do we know? Pleasing God is big and pleasing men is small. In our walk of faith, God has persistently identified us with people and events in the Scriptures via those...
by Victor Hafichuk | May 25, 2020 | History, Memoirs, Music
Music and lyrics by Victor Nicholas Hafichuk Written at Revivim HaNegev, Israel, September 1979 Heading to Israel, Marilyn and I took a Greyhound bus to Winnipeg from Dauphin, Manitoba. We flew from Winnipeg to Montreal, then via El Al to Israel. As we approached the...
by Victor Hafichuk | May 23, 2020 | Inspiration, Memoirs, Music
Music and lyrics by Victor Nicholas Hafichuk Dauphin, Manitoba, 1979, before going to Israel It was April 1979. We were in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. The Lord was about to send us on another mission, one He had notified us of 1½ years earlier in the fall of 1977. On...
by Victor Hafichuk | May 21, 2020 | Inspiration, Music
The human frailty of a novice singer. Finally came the day to do my first ever live stream video at Jonathan’s office in Calgary with him and his assistant, Riley, engineering the virtual performance. The session was a full hour of singing, playing guitar, and talking...
by Victor Hafichuk | Apr 24, 2020 | Music, The Path of Truth
Music and lyrics by Victor Nicholas Hafichuk Dauphin, Manitoba, 1979, before going to Israel It is said truth is stranger than fiction. I can vouch for that! One of the lines from this song about the path of Truth is, “It’s like a dream; it’s like a story of outer...
by Victor Hafichuk | Apr 21, 2020 | Music, The Path of Truth
Music and lyrics by Victor Nicholas Hafichuk Dauphin, Manitoba, 1978-79 What’s true and what isn’t true? You have priests, pastors, bishops, deacons, elders, teachers, evangelists, apostles, prophets, and “lay” people without number teaching many things, some true and...
