Charismatic

Of course, I'm not referring to THAT soap. I'm talking about a loosely constructed organization called the Fire-makers,  a bunch of Christian artists/musos/hair and makeup stylists etc who are...well, young and restless.  After reflecting on 2012, I realised that the Fire-makers have become community for me in the areas of work and ministry. * I am still involved with my 'normal people/normal life' cell-group. They are 'family' in ways that divert me from the music world, which is very necessary sometimes. And they keep me in touch with the 'normal' world of people who work 9am to 5pm [or 8am - 8pm more likely], who don't play instruments, who are experts in other fields etc.  From October to December, I saw most of the Fire-makers every 1-2 days, mainly due to our involvement in the extravagant evangelistic concerts held in night-clubs every Friday. Then, of course, the organization is fairly well-funded by well-to-do socialites and business people...

Recent pics of some of the projects I've been involved in. This whole year I've been regularly arranging and performing on a worship music program called 寧靜時分 [Quiet Time]. The producer is now in charge of a new program - directed towards a younger audience. So the last few weeks, I've been frantically working on scores for the new worship recording next week. We also used it for the older program yesterday. And recently, I've also been involved with the 101 church and their Fire-makers worship ministry. Enjoy the photos! GOOD TV Quiet Time. I'm at the piano A nice shot of the vibraphonist/drummer at Quiet Time IM  - Inspiring Moment service rehearsals IM evangelistic concert [I'm half-hidden on the right] Crazy Dawson, who was band director that night ChCh and ChCh The worship team shot.  We're going to Shanghai for a concert in Dec

It's like God has been creating all kinds of divine appointments for me lately in the area of ministry. I've been super cautious about volunteering my time because I've been in Hope for 7 years. I KNOW what ministry means. So, I didn't set out to to evangelism. But if your life-group volunteers for seekers counselling after service, you are right in that atmosphere. So, yes, the opportunity came up to draw that gospel illustration and lead someone to Christ. Praise God. I didn't really plan to follow up though I got their contacts.  I was late for service the week after. Who miraculously turns up to sit beside me? You got it, the new believer and her previously-back-slidden-just-returned-to-God companion. So, it falls to me to explain the service, the communion sacrament, and most of the sermon to the new ones. After service, they invite themselves to my life-group[though they were supposed to go to another one].THEY ask me for FB details. THEY add me. Haha.  Of ...

Mentoring is a calling and sometimes an unavoidable responsibility. When one has been blessed to be stuffed with teaching and life examples all your life, you've got to pass it on to people who obviously need it. Today, the youngest gal in life-group was telling us about her current BGR situation. Without going into details, it was plain from her stories that she had never been taught about godly relationships, covenantal love and promises, godly values for marriage and a life-partner, the purpose of dating etc. I was slightly troubled by her description of her current situation and was wondering if saying anything was appropriate because she was quite clueless, and I was not terribly close to her. However, as I pondered, the prompting to teach some basic truths, and share my experiences with her became stronger. I live pretty close to her, so as we were riding on the MRT I briefly gave her a short spiel on how to solve her dilemma following godly principles. She was interested, t...

我十七歲就“離家出走“ 了～自己在外面跑也有8年多了。有時候，一個人的感覺還蛮可怕的。 那種無依無靠的感覺~ 那種只能信任自己，不能完全信任別人的感覺~ 那種“我要自己解決一切的問題”的感覺～ 時常感到很恐惶~ 如果不是因為主的帶領，我會很刻意避開這樣的生活。 雖然是一個人，可是身邊還有主～還有國度里的大家庭。人不可能100％可靠，可是在基督里的家人總是會比一般人樂意幫忙。 I'm already very blessed.

Kairos  ( καιρός ) is an  ancient Greek  word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment). The ancient Greeks had two words for time,  chronos  and kairos. While the former refers to  chronological  or sequential  time , the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of undetermined period of time in which something special happens Timing - 'kairos'  is crucial Being in Taiwan now is 'kairos'. I see this in so many levels. I still have NO idea how things will work out practically in the end. So many unexpected things can happen. But I know that there is a calling to be here NOW, in 2010. And it has to do with music, media, singing, songwriting, witnessing and being a propagator of the Kingdom's causes. And God's going to raise me up. That much I know from God. Other things have to be worked out slowly.  While I was at the youth service today, I was in awe at God's timing. I had been talking to various people around ...

I'm surprised at myself that it has taken this long for me to visit the youth service of the Bread of Life Church in Taipei （台北灵粮堂）. Somehow it just never happened the last month I was here. It's on  Saturday evening, and that's an awkward time for me sometimes. My landlord wants to take us out on Saturdays. I've visited 2 other church services in the past month.So yea, I visited for the first time today because there was a life-group related event after. I haven't posted proper pics in a while. It's all been boring text for the ADD generation. So, here goes. There were thousands there. Bread of Life is one of the largest churches in Taiwan. I've visited 3 of the larger churches in Taiwan. New Life Church, The Home of Christ church, and Bread of Life church. This is a shot of the people on stage minus the musicians. Praise and worship was lively and active. The congregation was heaps responsive too. The message was about authority, a culture of honour, an...

I must say, the Body of Christ in Taipei has been amazing to me. They are really advancing the kingdom, with a rapid increase of believers [3% to 10% of the population in the last few years]. Their churches seem to cooperate a lot in non-denominational events. And their general kindliness and hospitality is really helpful to me at this point in time. I've attended 2 church services and 2 life-groups so far, and also met up with some sisters. And I've been tearing up uncontrollably at most of these meetings. Dunno. Repressed emotion? Unexpressed pressures and fears? God's presence just a release? Love from brothers and sisters touched my heart? All of the above? Producer Chia was right when he said that it's always a lot better for believers who go to foreign countries because they have their 'family' of christians there for community and support. And particularly for artists trying to 'make it'. This is even more important. The difference btw how non-c...