Catch Team C musos in action. Total of 3 vids. Thanks to Adele for taking the videos :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGndBaktqlI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GLgoOA9r4s&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGLgEtyUFUM&mode=related&search=
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Updates and more social activites planned: Come along if you have the time
Hey band,
Updates to take note.
CHILL OUT . . .
First and foremost, few of us have been chilling out musically recently. I really hope to get more people to come along. Not for the one purpose of gel-ing while taking up precious time. But also it is to spend your time constructively in a musical sense. Personally, I thank God for I have finally found music kakis to go out and watch gigs and chill out. I have lost such social music activities for almost 2 years! It sucks to sit and listen to gigs in a bar alone with unwanted strangers coming along. And thus, resolved to social dancing instead. So yea, let's hang out! So far, we have visited Sentosa Jazz By The Beach, WalaWala, free gigs at esplanade waterfront, Blu Jazz, Regent hotel's jazz bar. We have more to come! Will be putting in St. James PowerHouse Outing soon too!!! Nope, not for the clubbing, but for the latin club – Movida!! (wuahaha!!! Grace wanna dance! tat's why)
** So this Saturday (23rd June), we will chill at Regent Hotel. Music Starts at 930pm. We can actually Dinner first and then get there by 9pm. Gather at church 815pm. Who's ON?
JAMMING!
Musicians, I have decided to pull off a weekly jamming session. A real jamming of secular or sacred songs. Some of us did a try out once to see how effective this is and I think this does help us to listen out to one another and learn to groove tight together and I hope to really stretch our creativity in terms of solo-ing and improvising on either arrangements or your individual instruments. Maybe some stress can help us with the going eh?
** Meet at room 306 this Saturday (23rd June), 6-8p.m. (get your songs ready in your head and fingers!)
DUTY
Team is on for 30th June. So Band prac should be 27th June, (wed) 745pm.
Updates to take note.
CHILL OUT . . .
First and foremost, few of us have been chilling out musically recently. I really hope to get more people to come along. Not for the one purpose of gel-ing while taking up precious time. But also it is to spend your time constructively in a musical sense. Personally, I thank God for I have finally found music kakis to go out and watch gigs and chill out. I have lost such social music activities for almost 2 years! It sucks to sit and listen to gigs in a bar alone with unwanted strangers coming along. And thus, resolved to social dancing instead. So yea, let's hang out! So far, we have visited Sentosa Jazz By The Beach, WalaWala, free gigs at esplanade waterfront, Blu Jazz, Regent hotel's jazz bar. We have more to come! Will be putting in St. James PowerHouse Outing soon too!!! Nope, not for the clubbing, but for the latin club – Movida!! (wuahaha!!! Grace wanna dance! tat's why)
** So this Saturday (23rd June), we will chill at Regent Hotel. Music Starts at 930pm. We can actually Dinner first and then get there by 9pm. Gather at church 815pm. Who's ON?
JAMMING!
Musicians, I have decided to pull off a weekly jamming session. A real jamming of secular or sacred songs. Some of us did a try out once to see how effective this is and I think this does help us to listen out to one another and learn to groove tight together and I hope to really stretch our creativity in terms of solo-ing and improvising on either arrangements or your individual instruments. Maybe some stress can help us with the going eh?
** Meet at room 306 this Saturday (23rd June), 6-8p.m. (get your songs ready in your head and fingers!)
DUTY
Team is on for 30th June. So Band prac should be 27th June, (wed) 745pm.
16th June Service : Scribe : Erica
Check it Out ...
OPENING:-
The team met up in room 306. During a short worship for the opening, Esther shared what she saw- a picture in her mind.
She said, "I see a picture of us kneeling down and Jesus is sitting on the throne. We just can't stop worshipping Him. He is telling us that He is raining down His Grace and Mercy on us, as we bethrone Him in every situation of our lives. He says, 'Enjoy it. Enjoy the Grace and Mercy that He is raining down upon us. Enjoy it, Enjoy it!" (transcribed word for word by Erica)
SHARING:-
Started with some ice-breaking exercise when each one of us wrote a gift / our impression on one another on a slip of paper, with its respective names on it.
Grace shared from John 6:1-15, with the title "HOW MANY OF YOUR LOAFS ARE HIS?"
3 possibilities of thoughts running in the little boys mind when he offered his 5 loaves and 2 fishes.
1) He thought that if he offered Jesus all the food he has, others in the crowd may offer too. (Like a pot-luck session)
2) He thought that Jesus and His disciples were hungry after teaching. So, they may need the food more than he did.
3) He may have believed that Jesus could use the food and feed the hungry crowd.
Question: MANY OF OUR LOAFS ARE HIS?
Point (1) - We can only give to God what we know we have. We can only give to God gifts which we affirm and we know we have and we're gifted with.
Point (2) – We can only give as much as we think is rightfully ours. If you think all the gifts in your life are yours because you trained hard for it, chances are, you will think that you own it and be less willing to give to God.
Point (3) – Maybe when you give to God only as much as you trust Him with.
Think: What are the 5 loafs and 2 fishes in your life and what are you going to do with them? Sometimes we don't give because we do not trust God when God can for sure perform miracles without our 5 loafs and 2 fish, afterall He created the whole earth with ease. In fact, it doesn't matter to God what our 5 loafs and 2 fish are, which God has incidentally given to us in the first place. What matters to Him is that you entrusted Him with Your 5 loafs and 2 fishes. We are meant to live a supernatural life naturally. So taste and see that the Lord is good with your 5 loafs and 2 fish!
Eunice followed up by sharing that it is a matter of how willing you are to be obedient in God. Simply, God wants us to Love Him. The No. 1 thing in our walk with God is to enthrone God in our hearts. Align yourselves to Him and believe that He has created us unique for who we are and what we are to do. Then, we are only truly useful and meaningful when placed in the Master's hands.
Story: Touch Of The Master's Hands. (the story of the old violin).
Place yourself to your Master's hands and you will be free to BE what God wants you to
Be; rather than DO what God or men wants us to be.
The DOING is part and parcel of our BEING. Lift it up so the DOING is not a chore and the BEING is in terms of inherited qualities of talents, gifting, etc. This is what people sees in us.
Eunice reminds everyone again "I have never doubted it one moment of anyone's abilities and talents. Didn't even doubted anyone's commitment to God"
Eunice challenged everyone "Do not think any lesser of yourselves (but do not think too highly of yourselves too, of course) Do not put yourself down unnecessarily. We are uniquely and wonderfully made. Thus, If we perceive ourselves any lesser than what God sees us, we are short changing ourselves.
CONCLUSION:-
Be true and HONOUR God for what He has given us. Do not hide your gifts.
RIGHT Before service... Eunice questioned "think about this, 'what do you wanna see in today's worship'."
(* An instant answer from Adele and Erica, "We want to see ourselves turn into beautiful princesses!!" .... and sure we did ... I guess? or something really wrong happened)
DEBRIEF:-
Started off with Esther leading us in "Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head" (head head head) and followed by Erica's encore on "I……. Give You My Gatsby….Gatsubee!!!"
Erica- insists that we speak faster due to the low battery condition for her MD player!!
Eunice- expected backup singers to prophesy but apparently none did it, probably no one was prepared to do so. Overall, the entire band dropped in dynamics abruptly today.
Jonathan- Free worship was good. Singers are able to sing out with confidence. However, at some points, singers did and did not support worship leader. But Esther and Mark said that it was alright because singers came in after sensing the spirit.
Grace- silenced herself and nods her head necessarily only when she agrees.
Adele- afraid to say much else can't sub anymore! Erica say that Adele gotta look up more for communication purposes. Don't be too 'Tao Jui', please!
Angie- suggests that 'I stand in awe' should be sung as the last song as a response to the awesomeness of God. It was rather a hanging mood to stop at 'Assuredly Yours'. But Erica felt that it should stop there! So in the end Angie said, "it's ok lah…"
Yuyi- Stated that our entire level was too high! We peaked at 108db. He brought down the entire level before the service begins. Erica do not know why Eunice's level went wayyyy down there!. However, Yuyi suggested that he will pull up Eunice's level when she needs to speak while music still goes on.
Chris- said that it is not him for doing that thing. (I can't remember what's the issue)
Aik Lam- suggested to spread out singers to the left of stage, so to help energize and involve the congregation on the left. Yuyi will do the changes the next round – 4 singers on the left and 2 on the right.
Collin- Sound checks are not properly done. Somehow something goes wrong in the end, don't know izit either too rush or insufficient time. Seems like band is back to the old style of sound check. Erica confirms that the delay for today's sound check was due to tech problems for the drums, however, duration for sound check is actually fine. Erica suggests for Yuyi to inform the band when levels are brought down. This will prepare the band too.
Darryl- Band is not tight in terms of melody and pitching. There seems to be some clash notes between the keys and guitars, kinda outta tune. Thus, he "Tak Boleh Jalan" for 'Assuuredly Yours". Bass levels was too high.
Eunice- probably next round of sound check will allow more time for musicians while singers can chill out. (isn't this what we are already doin?)
On the SPIRITUAL side:-
Aik Lam- It would be useful for band to give more consistent chord progressions for free worship. To allow singers and congregation to latch on tunes especially for prophetic free worship. This will encourage more free flow worship.
Eunice- will use more 'Words' instead of tongues to break into prophetic worship to a higher level.
That's all folks!
-END-
Band ended the day with Jazz music at the bar !!! and here came LongShanks!
Scribbler's Scribber,
Rica!!
OPENING:-
The team met up in room 306. During a short worship for the opening, Esther shared what she saw- a picture in her mind.
She said, "I see a picture of us kneeling down and Jesus is sitting on the throne. We just can't stop worshipping Him. He is telling us that He is raining down His Grace and Mercy on us, as we bethrone Him in every situation of our lives. He says, 'Enjoy it. Enjoy the Grace and Mercy that He is raining down upon us. Enjoy it, Enjoy it!" (transcribed word for word by Erica)
SHARING:-
Started with some ice-breaking exercise when each one of us wrote a gift / our impression on one another on a slip of paper, with its respective names on it.
Grace shared from John 6:1-15, with the title "HOW MANY OF YOUR LOAFS ARE HIS?"
3 possibilities of thoughts running in the little boys mind when he offered his 5 loaves and 2 fishes.
1) He thought that if he offered Jesus all the food he has, others in the crowd may offer too. (Like a pot-luck session)
2) He thought that Jesus and His disciples were hungry after teaching. So, they may need the food more than he did.
3) He may have believed that Jesus could use the food and feed the hungry crowd.
Question: MANY OF OUR LOAFS ARE HIS?
Point (1) - We can only give to God what we know we have. We can only give to God gifts which we affirm and we know we have and we're gifted with.
Point (2) – We can only give as much as we think is rightfully ours. If you think all the gifts in your life are yours because you trained hard for it, chances are, you will think that you own it and be less willing to give to God.
Point (3) – Maybe when you give to God only as much as you trust Him with.
Think: What are the 5 loafs and 2 fishes in your life and what are you going to do with them? Sometimes we don't give because we do not trust God when God can for sure perform miracles without our 5 loafs and 2 fish, afterall He created the whole earth with ease. In fact, it doesn't matter to God what our 5 loafs and 2 fish are, which God has incidentally given to us in the first place. What matters to Him is that you entrusted Him with Your 5 loafs and 2 fishes. We are meant to live a supernatural life naturally. So taste and see that the Lord is good with your 5 loafs and 2 fish!
Eunice followed up by sharing that it is a matter of how willing you are to be obedient in God. Simply, God wants us to Love Him. The No. 1 thing in our walk with God is to enthrone God in our hearts. Align yourselves to Him and believe that He has created us unique for who we are and what we are to do. Then, we are only truly useful and meaningful when placed in the Master's hands.
Story: Touch Of The Master's Hands. (the story of the old violin).
Place yourself to your Master's hands and you will be free to BE what God wants you to
Be; rather than DO what God or men wants us to be.
The DOING is part and parcel of our BEING. Lift it up so the DOING is not a chore and the BEING is in terms of inherited qualities of talents, gifting, etc. This is what people sees in us.
Eunice reminds everyone again "I have never doubted it one moment of anyone's abilities and talents. Didn't even doubted anyone's commitment to God"
Eunice challenged everyone "Do not think any lesser of yourselves (but do not think too highly of yourselves too, of course) Do not put yourself down unnecessarily. We are uniquely and wonderfully made. Thus, If we perceive ourselves any lesser than what God sees us, we are short changing ourselves.
CONCLUSION:-
Be true and HONOUR God for what He has given us. Do not hide your gifts.
RIGHT Before service... Eunice questioned "think about this, 'what do you wanna see in today's worship'."
(* An instant answer from Adele and Erica, "We want to see ourselves turn into beautiful princesses!!" .... and sure we did ... I guess? or something really wrong happened)
DEBRIEF:-
Started off with Esther leading us in "Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head" (head head head) and followed by Erica's encore on "I……. Give You My Gatsby….Gatsubee!!!"
Erica- insists that we speak faster due to the low battery condition for her MD player!!
Eunice- expected backup singers to prophesy but apparently none did it, probably no one was prepared to do so. Overall, the entire band dropped in dynamics abruptly today.
Jonathan- Free worship was good. Singers are able to sing out with confidence. However, at some points, singers did and did not support worship leader. But Esther and Mark said that it was alright because singers came in after sensing the spirit.
Grace- silenced herself and nods her head necessarily only when she agrees.
Adele- afraid to say much else can't sub anymore! Erica say that Adele gotta look up more for communication purposes. Don't be too 'Tao Jui', please!
Angie- suggests that 'I stand in awe' should be sung as the last song as a response to the awesomeness of God. It was rather a hanging mood to stop at 'Assuredly Yours'. But Erica felt that it should stop there! So in the end Angie said, "it's ok lah…"
Yuyi- Stated that our entire level was too high! We peaked at 108db. He brought down the entire level before the service begins. Erica do not know why Eunice's level went wayyyy down there!. However, Yuyi suggested that he will pull up Eunice's level when she needs to speak while music still goes on.
Chris- said that it is not him for doing that thing. (I can't remember what's the issue)
Aik Lam- suggested to spread out singers to the left of stage, so to help energize and involve the congregation on the left. Yuyi will do the changes the next round – 4 singers on the left and 2 on the right.
Collin- Sound checks are not properly done. Somehow something goes wrong in the end, don't know izit either too rush or insufficient time. Seems like band is back to the old style of sound check. Erica confirms that the delay for today's sound check was due to tech problems for the drums, however, duration for sound check is actually fine. Erica suggests for Yuyi to inform the band when levels are brought down. This will prepare the band too.
Darryl- Band is not tight in terms of melody and pitching. There seems to be some clash notes between the keys and guitars, kinda outta tune. Thus, he "Tak Boleh Jalan" for 'Assuuredly Yours". Bass levels was too high.
Eunice- probably next round of sound check will allow more time for musicians while singers can chill out. (isn't this what we are already doin?)
On the SPIRITUAL side:-
Aik Lam- It would be useful for band to give more consistent chord progressions for free worship. To allow singers and congregation to latch on tunes especially for prophetic free worship. This will encourage more free flow worship.
Eunice- will use more 'Words' instead of tongues to break into prophetic worship to a higher level.
That's all folks!
-END-
Band ended the day with Jazz music at the bar !!! and here came LongShanks!
Scribbler's Scribber,
Rica!!
Monday, 18 June 2007
Youth Worship Ministry Blog
Hi Team Coolers,
Great to see you guys set this up. OK I know you probably don't want this post in this actual blog, but thought I'd let you guys know that the youth worship ministry also has a blog and it's at http://chill-lax.blogspot.com. Please swing by and add a comment or two if you want.
I don't know who the moderator of Team Cool blog is, but you can delete this post if you think you can just add a quick link.
thanks!
jenn
Great to see you guys set this up. OK I know you probably don't want this post in this actual blog, but thought I'd let you guys know that the youth worship ministry also has a blog and it's at http://chill-lax.blogspot.com. Please swing by and add a comment or two if you want.
I don't know who the moderator of Team Cool blog is, but you can delete this post if you think you can just add a quick link.
thanks!
jenn
5th May 2007 Service : Scribe : Colin
Debrief:
Eunice kicked off with the comment that the band was tight. The Team was locked-in & not rushed, even with the change of song in the first segment. Word to the congregation during worship was "Step out of our SELF, and step into God. Step out of our perceptions of ourselves and step into who we are in God/the person God wants us to be. There are no greater or lesser citizens in the Kingdom of God." At this point the worship experience deepened, as it was a time to mediate on God’s word and respond. Thus a midway change in song list – sang "With all I am" instead so that the people had an expression in response.
Erica smsed to say that the song selected was simple and that was good. She felt that the simplicity of the songs helped the band to focus on arrangement/flow and to "gel". The worship was brought to a high towards the end of communion when we sang How Great Is Our God.
Grace commented that often singers entered next song/verse late due to slow projection of lyrics, and the apparent reliance on it.
Jeff suggested that it could be IT dept not wanting to pre-empt the WL’s direction hence choose to err on the side of caution. Eunice will find out from IT dept’s re their rationale on this.
Chris and Esther commented that they experienced slight confusion over hand signals from Eunice. Sound mix was good. Compliments to sound man MR Yuyi. Yay!
In terms of band specifics, Gerald felt the guitars and keyboard were playing in the same bandwidth. From the house, the sound had no distinction besides the drums. He suggested that the guitars and keyboard should take note of creating space for each other.
Angie closed with prayer. 6.15pm
P.S. The speaker‘s (Dan Sneed) message spoke about our Identity in Christ - in line with Esther’s sharing and the word given during worship. The Holy Spirit seamlessly orchestrated the happenings of the whole day. Praise God!
From "My utmost for His highest" - 29 April (sent in by Esther)
Our natural inclination is to be so precise - trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next - that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life - gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises. When we simply become a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies. That is not believing God - it is only believing our belief about Him (Head knowledge - Matthew 13:18 - 23)
We are not certain of God, just uncertain of what He is going to do next. If our certainty is only in our beliefs, we develop a sense of self-righteousness, become overly critical, and are limited by the view that our beliefs are complete and settled. But when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous and joyful uncertainty and expectancy (oxymoron - joyful uncertainty??)
Jesus said in John 14:1 to believe in Him, not "Believe certains things about Me".
(From 27 Jan passage)
"I say to you, do not worry about your life..." Our Lord says to be careful only about one thing - our relationship to HIm. But our common sense shouts loudly and says, "That is absurd, I must consider how I am going to live, and I must consider what I am going to eat and drink." Jesus says you must not. Beware of allowing yourself to think that He says this while not understanding your circumstances. Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things to the point where they become the primary concern of our life. Whenever there are competing concerns in your life, be sure you always put your relationship to God first.
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Scribed by Collin
Edited by Eunice
Eunice kicked off with the comment that the band was tight. The Team was locked-in & not rushed, even with the change of song in the first segment. Word to the congregation during worship was "Step out of our SELF, and step into God. Step out of our perceptions of ourselves and step into who we are in God/the person God wants us to be. There are no greater or lesser citizens in the Kingdom of God." At this point the worship experience deepened, as it was a time to mediate on God’s word and respond. Thus a midway change in song list – sang "With all I am" instead so that the people had an expression in response.
Erica smsed to say that the song selected was simple and that was good. She felt that the simplicity of the songs helped the band to focus on arrangement/flow and to "gel". The worship was brought to a high towards the end of communion when we sang How Great Is Our God.
Grace commented that often singers entered next song/verse late due to slow projection of lyrics, and the apparent reliance on it.
Jeff suggested that it could be IT dept not wanting to pre-empt the WL’s direction hence choose to err on the side of caution. Eunice will find out from IT dept’s re their rationale on this.
Chris and Esther commented that they experienced slight confusion over hand signals from Eunice. Sound mix was good. Compliments to sound man MR Yuyi. Yay!
In terms of band specifics, Gerald felt the guitars and keyboard were playing in the same bandwidth. From the house, the sound had no distinction besides the drums. He suggested that the guitars and keyboard should take note of creating space for each other.
Angie closed with prayer. 6.15pm
P.S. The speaker‘s (Dan Sneed) message spoke about our Identity in Christ - in line with Esther’s sharing and the word given during worship. The Holy Spirit seamlessly orchestrated the happenings of the whole day. Praise God!
From "My utmost for His highest" - 29 April (sent in by Esther)
Our natural inclination is to be so precise - trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next - that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life - gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises. When we simply become a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies. That is not believing God - it is only believing our belief about Him (Head knowledge - Matthew 13:18 - 23)
We are not certain of God, just uncertain of what He is going to do next. If our certainty is only in our beliefs, we develop a sense of self-righteousness, become overly critical, and are limited by the view that our beliefs are complete and settled. But when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous and joyful uncertainty and expectancy (oxymoron - joyful uncertainty??)
Jesus said in John 14:1 to believe in Him, not "Believe certains things about Me".
(From 27 Jan passage)
"I say to you, do not worry about your life..." Our Lord says to be careful only about one thing - our relationship to HIm. But our common sense shouts loudly and says, "That is absurd, I must consider how I am going to live, and I must consider what I am going to eat and drink." Jesus says you must not. Beware of allowing yourself to think that He says this while not understanding your circumstances. Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things to the point where they become the primary concern of our life. Whenever there are competing concerns in your life, be sure you always put your relationship to God first.
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Scribed by Collin
Edited by Eunice
Transformers - GV Vivocity - 29th June 2007
Here is an update w.e.f. 180607.
Targetted Movie: TRANSFORMERS
Confirmed Venue: GV – VIVOCITY
Confirmed Date: 29th June (Friday)
Suggest Time: most likely around 9pm as with the group last movie outing – subjected to confirmation
Targetted Movie: TRANSFORMERS
Confirmed Venue: GV – VIVOCITY
Confirmed Date: 29th June (Friday)
Suggest Time: most likely around 9pm as with the group last movie outing – subjected to confirmation
2nd June 2007 Service : Scribe : Gabriel
The scribe sayeth:
[Pre-Service]
The team started Saturday duty with free worship. Eunice remarked that every now and then, she would like to encourage the band (i.e. both singers and musicians) to take a Saturday session for just worship. While going thru the word was important, she said that as ministers and leaders, we ourselves needed to be in tune with the Holy Spirit if we were to usher the congregation into God’s presence. Consequently, the band used practice time for worship.
[Debrief]
Two main technical issues surfaced. First, some of us felt the pre-service sound check was a little rushed, resulting in a slightly imbalanced mix. For example, Colin said he couldn’t hear the keyboards for the most part. But Yue Yi was responsive, ironing out the kinks on the fly. Yue Yi explained why it was a bit of a balancing act trying to accommodate everyone at one go. The way around it was to try and factor in more time for sound check.
Second, stage and overall volume. Gerald said we were too loud for the 1600h service. We registered a little more than 90 decibels, which apparently was a little more than what the 4PM congregation could handle, he said. The band agreed both stage and house levels were largely out of its control but that it would work with the sound crew to see what could be done.
Spiritually, Eunice explained that the moaning, groaning and travailing should not spook us as emotions can become raw when the Holy Spirit ministered to people. In times like that, the Team should intercede for the congregation. It should also hear from God what He wants to do. Eunice also mentioned that her themes of having hunger and passion for God were in sync with the speaker’s.
Summing up, the band felt this was one of the better worship experiences we’ve had spiritually and technically.
- Gabriel
[Pre-Service]
The team started Saturday duty with free worship. Eunice remarked that every now and then, she would like to encourage the band (i.e. both singers and musicians) to take a Saturday session for just worship. While going thru the word was important, she said that as ministers and leaders, we ourselves needed to be in tune with the Holy Spirit if we were to usher the congregation into God’s presence. Consequently, the band used practice time for worship.
[Debrief]
Two main technical issues surfaced. First, some of us felt the pre-service sound check was a little rushed, resulting in a slightly imbalanced mix. For example, Colin said he couldn’t hear the keyboards for the most part. But Yue Yi was responsive, ironing out the kinks on the fly. Yue Yi explained why it was a bit of a balancing act trying to accommodate everyone at one go. The way around it was to try and factor in more time for sound check.
Second, stage and overall volume. Gerald said we were too loud for the 1600h service. We registered a little more than 90 decibels, which apparently was a little more than what the 4PM congregation could handle, he said. The band agreed both stage and house levels were largely out of its control but that it would work with the sound crew to see what could be done.
Spiritually, Eunice explained that the moaning, groaning and travailing should not spook us as emotions can become raw when the Holy Spirit ministered to people. In times like that, the Team should intercede for the congregation. It should also hear from God what He wants to do. Eunice also mentioned that her themes of having hunger and passion for God were in sync with the speaker’s.
Summing up, the band felt this was one of the better worship experiences we’ve had spiritually and technically.
- Gabriel
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