Nick Kish

Nick Kish serves at Renovation Church—an innovative community  of Christians making a difference on Buffalo’s West Side. We caught up with him recently to chat about music and faith.

As a musician what inspires you?

There are so many things that inspire me everyday. Being a worship leader at a church I am just blown away at how God uses little me to help point people to the greatness of who He is. As a songwriter I try to capture peoples grace stories and figure out how to write songs through their perspective giving a voice to what’s stirring in their hearts.

 What projects are you working on now?

 I am currently in the writing process working towards producing a personal album this upcoming year as well as a collaborative band album.

Your favorite musician?

 Man, there are so many. It’s hard to nail down just one musician as a favorite but I would have to say one person that has my attention recently would be Jonny Lang. I have seen him in concert a couple times and he blew me away with not only his guitar skills but his insane vocal abilities.

What does your life look like in 5 years?

It’s so hard to say where God will take my wife and I over the coarse of 5 years but whatever he has in store I hope it continues to involve leading people into a deeper and more passionate relationship with Him through music.

Your favorite part of living and working in Buffalo?

 For those who know me well would probably say I would pick food as my number one favorite part of living and working in Buffalo but honestly I would have to say the people. I haven’t lived anywhere else so my perspective is limited but I love how everything is so community oriented. Doing life with neighbors and loving people is what it’s all about!

 What is new on the West side and with your work at Renovation?

Where do I start? God is stirring something up in the West side and at Renovation that I have never seen. Being apart of a community of faith that looks and feels anything like this has been amazing. As we launched Renovation Church I have seen things happen from the ground up with marriages being restored, addictions being conquered, growth, and learning of what a life of worship really means and people being completely transformed by the power of the gospel. You name it, it’s happened and I am just pumped to be apart of the greater story that God is telling in the city of Buffalo.!