hail all.
well, all of those who are serving on 25 may, please take note: practice will be changed to 8pm-10pm on Thursday, due to some complications.
Song list will be released tomorrow, if not during practice itself.
if you can't make it etc. then please post comments to this post, or messages at the c-box to the right, or contact me directly.
sorry for the sudden changes made. there is no other option :)
William
21 May 2008
17 May 2008
"God Of This City" - the story behind the song
Stumbled across this. God Of This City. Remember the song Andrew led in YF previously? It was from Passion's 2008 release - God Of This City. Initially I thought Chris Tomlin wrote the song but... Well, just found out today that it wasn't him. A group by the name of Bluetree wrote the song. And I also stumbled across the story BEHIND the song, so would like to just share it with you folks.
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Nov 2007, Bluetree are heading out to Pattaya Thailand to participate in an event arranged by Belfast missionaries living in Pattaya, Thailand called Pattaya Praise. We’ve no expectation of the event; we were just looking for an opportunity to serve somehow.
We didn’t know much about it before we left, but Pattaya is a dark place. It’s a small seaside town notorious for it’s sex trade. Throughout our time there we heard countless stories of girls who are bought from their parents for a price, sold to the sex industry at ages as young as 5 years old. Arriving in Pattaya the spiritual climate seems to change, it’s hard to define, but there is a very tangible change. On the bus journey in we’d been our usual cheery selves, but entering Pattaya at 10am and turning on to a street lined by girls ready for business, the bus became very quiet. We’re in total shock. It’s a sunny day but it’s incredible how dark it feels.
’Walking street’ we learn is the epicentre of the sex trade in Pattaya, it’s about a mile long and at night springs to life with neon signs. Thai people are generally conservative in their dress sense – it’s generally considered provocative to bare your shoulders. But on their street the girls are wearing very little, and offering anything you can imagine for a price. It’s easy to look around with human eyes, see the depravity and get angry. You see older men walking hand-in-hand with young girls – as a daddy, that’s hard to take in. It’s easy to get angry, it’s easy to judge – but that’s not our job, so we grit our teeth.
We were in Pattaya to be part of a praise event not far from this street, the soul purpose of which was to worship and show God’s light in a dark place. We wanted to play more than the scheduled slots while we were there, so we found out that one of the bar owners would let us play a worship set in her bar on the proviso that we brought as many from the missions team who would buy coke-a-cola all night. We walk in to the bar which is about the middle of walking street, girls are lined up on the stairs waiting for business. We get set up, we’re really nervous and quite uncomfortable but we kick in to a familiar beat of worship and soon it’s ok. God starts to speak and we started to move in to this spontaneous song. The truth is when you worship in a place, you start to see God’s heart for that place. What would God say to a place like this?
Amidst the depravity God say’s, I’m the God of this City, I’m the King of these people and Greater Thing are Yet to Come, Greater Things are Still to be Done HERE. The song wasn’t written before that night, but we came out of the bar having worshipped with the song that is now the title track of our album – God of this City (Greater things). The song isn’t just for Pattaya – it’s for your city, and it’s true. By faith we must expect that greater things are still to be done.
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Nov 2007, Bluetree are heading out to Pattaya Thailand to participate in an event arranged by Belfast missionaries living in Pattaya, Thailand called Pattaya Praise. We’ve no expectation of the event; we were just looking for an opportunity to serve somehow.
We didn’t know much about it before we left, but Pattaya is a dark place. It’s a small seaside town notorious for it’s sex trade. Throughout our time there we heard countless stories of girls who are bought from their parents for a price, sold to the sex industry at ages as young as 5 years old. Arriving in Pattaya the spiritual climate seems to change, it’s hard to define, but there is a very tangible change. On the bus journey in we’d been our usual cheery selves, but entering Pattaya at 10am and turning on to a street lined by girls ready for business, the bus became very quiet. We’re in total shock. It’s a sunny day but it’s incredible how dark it feels.
’Walking street’ we learn is the epicentre of the sex trade in Pattaya, it’s about a mile long and at night springs to life with neon signs. Thai people are generally conservative in their dress sense – it’s generally considered provocative to bare your shoulders. But on their street the girls are wearing very little, and offering anything you can imagine for a price. It’s easy to look around with human eyes, see the depravity and get angry. You see older men walking hand-in-hand with young girls – as a daddy, that’s hard to take in. It’s easy to get angry, it’s easy to judge – but that’s not our job, so we grit our teeth.
We were in Pattaya to be part of a praise event not far from this street, the soul purpose of which was to worship and show God’s light in a dark place. We wanted to play more than the scheduled slots while we were there, so we found out that one of the bar owners would let us play a worship set in her bar on the proviso that we brought as many from the missions team who would buy coke-a-cola all night. We walk in to the bar which is about the middle of walking street, girls are lined up on the stairs waiting for business. We get set up, we’re really nervous and quite uncomfortable but we kick in to a familiar beat of worship and soon it’s ok. God starts to speak and we started to move in to this spontaneous song. The truth is when you worship in a place, you start to see God’s heart for that place. What would God say to a place like this?
Amidst the depravity God say’s, I’m the God of this City, I’m the King of these people and Greater Thing are Yet to Come, Greater Things are Still to be Done HERE. The song wasn’t written before that night, but we came out of the bar having worshipped with the song that is now the title track of our album – God of this City (Greater things). The song isn’t just for Pattaya – it’s for your city, and it’s true. By faith we must expect that greater things are still to be done.
16 May 2008
FWD: farrah's e-mail
hi there !
I will be replacing Andrew for this Sunday's worship. Here are the songs :
1. One Way
2. Reflector
3. Betapa hatiku ..
4. My greatest love is you - (every new day, your glory unfolds) song 483
Practise this Saturday, 17th May from 1-3pm.
Remember to be punctual ya !
Hope you'll have a great week!
=) Farrah
12 May 2008
HILLSONG UNITED TICKETS
Hi guys & gals,
Currently we still have LOTS of Hillsong United Tickets on sale.If you have forgotten the details of the concert...Here it is:
Date: 28th May 2008 (Wednesday)
Venue: Glad Tidings,PJ
Time: Be there at 7.30pm???
Price: RM50
IF you want the tickets...PLEASE PLEASE prepare the cash.Pastor Michael's instructions is that NO reservations are allowed =).
IF you want the tickets....Please contact either Pastor Michael or Andrew Chow for the tickets.
Currently we still have LOTS of Hillsong United Tickets on sale.If you have forgotten the details of the concert...Here it is:
Date: 28th May 2008 (Wednesday)
Venue: Glad Tidings,PJ
Time: Be there at 7.30pm???
Price: RM50
IF you want the tickets...PLEASE PLEASE prepare the cash.Pastor Michael's instructions is that NO reservations are allowed =).
IF you want the tickets....Please contact either Pastor Michael or Andrew Chow for the tickets.
Switchfoot - This Is Home
Check out this new song by Switchfoot off the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian soundtrack.
10 May 2008
The Introduction Tutorial
The Introduction sounds good? How do they actually do it? How do we get the sound? See it out from the composer himself, Michael Guy Chislett. Enjoy~
08 May 2008
Project R
No, this is not THAT Project R ;)
OK, we will be rebuilding our score archives. Yes, as most of you probably know (or have at least heard of), our files and scores are in terrible condition. A lot of scores are MISSING. For example, the whole set of "Hosanna" scores (with several copies of the score) went missing and well I had to go get another set. I wonder what happened to the one which went missing... Either someone TOOK it, or the sheets embarked on a journey back to Australia in search of their beloved Brooke Fraser... Oh well. Only God knows. And SO....
*Oh... We're the regeneration... Oh... Rebuild, rebuild...*
So we'll start off THIS week...
Time: 9.00a.m. - 12.00p.m. on Saturdays (kicks off this Saturday - 10 May 2008)
Venue: Youth Hall, of course.
All are strongly encouraged to help out in this. Well, for those who are interested but can't make it for the full 3 hours, here's the good news -- you don't have to come for the full 3 hours. Anyone is welcome to help out anytime during the 3 hours.
Everyone is welcome to help out, to all members of YF - come if you are able to, help is needed and I would greatly appreciate all help given.
But please, let me know lah, via SMS ke.. MSN ke..
Alrite, hope to see you all there! Take care, God bless, all... :)
William
OK, we will be rebuilding our score archives. Yes, as most of you probably know (or have at least heard of), our files and scores are in terrible condition. A lot of scores are MISSING. For example, the whole set of "Hosanna" scores (with several copies of the score) went missing and well I had to go get another set. I wonder what happened to the one which went missing... Either someone TOOK it, or the sheets embarked on a journey back to Australia in search of their beloved Brooke Fraser... Oh well. Only God knows. And SO....
*Oh... We're the regeneration... Oh... Rebuild, rebuild...*
So we'll start off THIS week...
Time: 9.00a.m. - 12.00p.m. on Saturdays (kicks off this Saturday - 10 May 2008)
Venue: Youth Hall, of course.
All are strongly encouraged to help out in this. Well, for those who are interested but can't make it for the full 3 hours, here's the good news -- you don't have to come for the full 3 hours. Anyone is welcome to help out anytime during the 3 hours.
Everyone is welcome to help out, to all members of YF - come if you are able to, help is needed and I would greatly appreciate all help given.
But please, let me know lah, via SMS ke.. MSN ke..
Alrite, hope to see you all there! Take care, God bless, all... :)
William
02 May 2008
Paul Baloche's Testimony
Here's a video of a brief testimony from Paul Baloche; a renowned song writer, worship leader & music producer of Integrity Music, of how he & his band views practicing & improving in their musical skills as a requirement from the scriptures & some encouragements on worship from Paul himself. Everyone of us in this area of His service should watch it.
Be blessed.
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