Media Team and Missions

Four members of our Media team will be in Hope Kuching to conduct audio related workshops from 30 April to 4 May. Do keep Steven, Bernnise, Irene, Wei Zhu and baby Joash in prayer. We hope this will be the beginning of many openings to enhance media teams in our Hope family of churches.

May WAM night

Our coming WAM night is open to all in church. It promises to be a special time of seeking the Lord as with meet Him through praise and worship. Our Intercessory team led by Ps Jo will be ministering together with our Youth worship team.

Here are the details:
Date: Friday May 16
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
Venue: Nexus Auditorium

Thai Worship Camp visit

Tertiary WAM have the privilege and opportunity to join the Thai worship camp in Bangkok last December. It was really a wonderful trip for all of us. During the trip, we have the privilege to be hosted by the leaders of Thai worship team like Chin Chin, Michael and also Simon.

During the trip, we learned a lot about character and loving God as a musician from the leaders, members and the team. Coming together in a place together with 250 people who love God with their life and talents is just amazing. Ps Prayuth took the opportunity to share his vision with us and his burden about worship team. His sharing moved us deeply and cast a huge burden and vision in all of us.

As a band leader, I had my objective for being there. I longed for my members to hear from God and to have a breakthrough. Indeed God did it. Pastor Prayuth shared what is the biblical view of worship team musicians and playing in a outside band. He called for higher commitment for those who serve as stage ministers. Immediately this sharing challenged 2 of my team members - because their own bands are doing very well in the Singapore band arena (their songs are featured in Heeren and they were actually on the way to have their own album made). But in the end, by God's grace, they responded to the challenge to give up their own band and commit fully to the vision of the worship team.

God truly is with our Singapore worship team, Pastor Prayuth challenged the worship team in Singapore to take the calling of a true worship team and do what they (Thai team) are doing now.

Finally, just want to thank God for giving us the opportunity to even stay close to this bunch of anointed people. We truly miss them!!!

Below is the link to some of the photos that we took during the trip!

http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27/Nellybubu/thai%20trip/

Got a Tune? Get them out to us!

We are embarking on our 2^nd album project (to be launched by 2009).

Calling all Hope Church songwriters to submit your songs for the album! Download the powerpoint slides from the E-resources Box for details and song criteria.

Shortlisted songs will be announced by October 2009.

Contact Fenny at hopesongwriters@gmail.com for any further queries.

2008 calendar

Welcome to 2008. Our Worship Arts and Media (WAM) night sessions are resuming this coming Monday. Join us @ Nexus Auditorium at 7.30pm. Ps Lawrence will be sharing the direction for WAM this year and we will be celebrating the contribution of some of our volunteers over last year. Cya there!

You can download our ministry calendar from the E-resources box.

Worship evangelism...my journey

During my preparation for leading worship on 30 Nov (message was on Martha’s response to Lazarus’ death in the book of John), I sensed God wanted to do something special in the lives of the people. It was going to be something birthed out of faith. The words God gave me were “God saves.” I came across a song, Hosanna, by Paul Baloche in his Album “A Greater Song.” I looked up the internet for the meaning of hosanna as I had forgotten. It is the Hebrew word used an exclamation meaning “save, we pray.” With that I started to choose my songs around this theme. The final selection of songs were Hosanna, Overtaken (CFNI), and The Time Has Come (Hillsong) for praise and With All I Am (Hillsong), Here I Am To Worship (Tim Hughes), Call (Hillsong).

As I gathered the team for our first practice, I asked the team whether they knew the meaning of “hosanna.” Most made a guess. Finally, someone came up with the right answer. I invited someone to share their salvation story. After which I through it open to the floor for someone to share a life story of how God had saved them. The stage sound team member then shared how his experience of God saving him a new believer while he was driving on the road after a late night out on the town. It was wonderful to hear real stories of how we had experienced God’s saving power firsthand. I led the people to pray over the seats in Nexus for God’s saving power to touch both pre believers and believers; after which we practiced the songs.

During the first service, I asked the congregation whether they knew the meaning of hosanna, before leading them to repeatedly declare it as an intro to our first praise song. Things went fairly smoothly. After free worship, I shared the gospel message but stopped short of inviting people to respond as I felt the atmosphere of faith was not really there. During second service, things went fairly smoothly again, though we did forget some lyrics here and there. However, I sensed the timing was right to invite the people to respond after sharing the gospel message. After 15 seconds or so, a hand went up in the back of the auditorium. To see that hand going up brought a mixed feeling, joy and at the same time being humbled that God had answered our prayers.

I later spoke with the person beside him and this person had been attending church for some time but never had been responsive when it came to making a first time decision for Christ. That day, was his day of salvation. Hallelujah!

I want to encourage you as well as our other lead worshippers two things:
1) The power of God comes when we align our theme with the Word of God

2) Praying together not only for ourselves but for God’s people to meet Him is so crucial to see God work in worship.

POP 5

Power of Praise (POP), is an annual praise and worship concert organised by Hope Bangkok. This year is the fifth year since Hope Bangkok first started with this major project. POP 2007 was held at Ramkhamheng Indoor Stadium on Sunday, 4 November 2007...(download FULL testimony from E-Resource box and see pics @ http://virtualreview.org/thailand/zoom/384907/jump-around-pop5)