As 26-year-old Byron Remeyer picked up his guitar and looked at his audience, he quickly estimated that a thousand people had their eyes on him as he prepared to perform. Though it was early in his music career, large crowds didn’t make him nervous.
It was the closing ceremony of the 2013 class of The Calvary Chapel School of Worship, where he was about to graduate with a college degree, and he was set to sing a rendition of Hillsong United’s “God is Able.”