About Jonathan Azzarello

Jonathan is the Worship Pastor at a multisite church in Greensboro called Mercy Hill Church where he’s been for 14 years. Mercy Hill was planted out of the Summit Network in 2012. Jonathan currently leads the Mercy Hill Worship ministry in a culture of authentic, Christ-centered worship. He has written many songs for church including: “Good Shepherd,” “I Surrender (Holy Spirit),” and “Celebration Awaits.”

 Jon is a trusted leader for The Way of Worship, a ministry started by artist and songwriter Aaron Williams. The Way of Worship focuses on raising up leaders to walk in the way of Jesus. Jon has a passion for shaping leaders to be more like Jesus while leading others to do the same.

Jonathan was born and raised into a Baptist preacher’s home in the San Francisco Bay Area. He met his wife Rachel in the Silicon Valley where they both studied music. In 2011, they moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where they now call home as they raise their six beautiful children.

The heart of his ministry is to help people build their lives on the foundation of God’s love. As we behold the love of God, it transforms us and makes us more and more like Jesus (2 Cor. 3:18). He wants people to see that God’s greatest calling for each person is directly connected to the greatest commandment: to love God and love the church. There are countless things we can do in the name of faith, but without love we gain nothing (1 Corinthians 13).

The greatest impact that Christians can make in this world is to love their neighbor the way Jesus loved us. This kind of love will change lives like nothing else can. The love that sent Jesus to die on a cross for his enemies was the most impactful thing in human history. And the most impactful thing we can do in response is to follow in Jesus’ steps of laying down our lives for others… this is worship.

Since 2020, he has written two books, “You Are What You Worship,” and “The Greatest Worship Leader.” He wrote his first book out of an overflow of what God was teaching him about transformational worship; that worship shapes us to become more like the one we are worshiping. Not long after he published “You Are What You Worship,” he wrote a book geared towards worship leaders and teams called “The Greatest Worship Leader.” This book calls worship leaders to greatness while taking cues from the life of Jesus — the greatest worship leader of all time. He teaches that greatness is not about the size of our platform or the number of Spotify streams we have. Jesus taught that the greatest in his kingdom is like a child, and greatness for us is no different.