Please Pray For Us
Friday, August 31, 2007
Please Pray For Us These are the prayer pointers that mel has emailed to us. I would like to post it up here so that all who have a burden for this ministry would join us in prayer!
Romans 12:11-12 - Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Thanksgiving
- For the many wonderful moments we spent together.
- The choreographers who put in so much effort to think of moves and to patiently teach us and for everyone who has taken up the responsibility to help in every possible way.
- God who made it possible to present this item and to help us along the way
- EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN DANCE(:
PRAYERS:
General
- The Dance Ministry direction
- That we will stand united as one as a body of Christ so that Satan wont have a foot hole in this ministry
- For encouragement to each member coz it seems like all of us are having tough times now
- Pray for this item to be God-focused and it will be a true blessing to our teachers and GOD
- For revelation and cooperation to settle issues within this ministry in the right way
Personal
- Protection over all the dancers(health, safety, heart)
- Each of us a direction to go
- Conviction, so that our passion will grow instead of die down
Thank you everyone, may you be blessed and encouraged even as we unite our hearts in prayer because the power of prayer is indeed amazing. Persevere on guys because the God we serve is MIGHTY TO SAVE!!
Notice for dance prac
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
DANCE PRACTICE!
Saturday 1st Sept :
2pm-4pm - Skit (Dance Room) *youths Only
7pm-10pm-Dance (Dance Rm/Sanctuary)
(7:30pm - 9.15pm : Kids)
Sunday 2nd Sept :
8.30am- 10am
*Worship
*Prayer
*Final Rehearsal
Venue : To be Confirmed
*Youth dancers Please check your email to know what to bring this sat!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Hey HEY hey!Firstly, on behalf of the dance ministry, we want to welcome all who have visited and tagged our blog! We are the dancers from MCI! We will be dancing this coming sunday at the 10:30pm English service. Click on the first tab to know what does MCI stands for and our Service times and address. MCI warmly welcomes all.
To all dancers:
Kimberly, Jane, Rachel, Jovianne, Josephine, Seth, Grace, Lisa, Carene
I appreciate your commitment and your patience week after week. What happened during the weekend has definitely upsetted us all but i hope that you guys will see that we are all in this together for one reason- To serve God and to Bless others. I couldnt have been any happier to have all 9 of you in this dance ministry. Remember that dancing in church for God is different from dancing anywhere else. Dancing well TOGETHER matters more than dancing well individually. People dont look at us individually but they look at us as a ministry- the kids and the youths altogether (to see whether we are united or synchronised.) God doesnt look at our abilities but He looks at our hearts. That's the amazing Father we all serve. This dance isnt about you, it definitely isnt about the youths but it is about what we are going to give together as a ministry to bless others! Keep smiling and i know that if your heart is right and if you are happy, you are going to dance beautifully for the Lord!
Nette, Cand, Cass, Maye, Mel, Pat, Ryan, Sam, Seb, Shuo, Ter
Each of you are so different yet so special to me. Thank you for your understanding. No doubt, you guys have improved so much! well done. I'm so glad that you guys have taken the ownership & responsibility in this ministry... just remember that in all that you do even if you are stressed, do share your burdens with each other.. and always look to the interest of others. There might be someone among us who may be feeling worse than you. so lets be mindful & keep the ministry going! Remember how we all felt each time we dance together on stage! Hold on to that feeling!
THANK YOU:
Seb, Candice, Ter and Shuo for choreoing the various parts -frm chairs to the chorus to the end!
Cass for your effort and contribution in the skit and for your efficiency in doing things!
Sam for your wonderful design of the dance t shirt! For coordinating and printing the tees!
Cass and Pat for the publicty bulletin!
Ter for your patience and for your time in teaching the kids!
Annette for your comfy cushions and the clock!
To all the dancers who have contributed in every possible way!
Wei jie and Jed for being our fans.(haha! jk) for your constant support and helping with the audio!
Jed for helping us to cut the music and edit it so perfectly! it's awesome!
Samuel for helping to carry the 35 shirts from Queensway to Teck Whye and for coming in all sweaty. haha.
Daniel for offering to pray for this ministry during your free time in army (oops!haha) and also for sending back the dancers the other time after practice!
The leaders of Youth Ministry who have constantly asked about the ministry and for your concern and support!!
Thank you to all. oh! and we shld include Uncle Wong too. haha. and for aunty dorothy who always help us to book the rooms!
Here are the pictures we have taken on saturday! Hope it'll put a smile on your face!
Look the hungry piglets gobbling donuts from donut factory after rehearsing for skit!
Our beautiful Sam and Candice!
Unglam shots of seb,ryan, mel, ter and shuo!
Check out the "bimbos" of our ministry! and cass! the nerdy bimbo! haha.
The happy faces: Mel, Teresa, Annette and Pat!
And for our latest Dance Ministry T shirt Photos!
Meet the designer- Samantha!
Front design of the shirt
Back design of the tshirtI love MCI DANCE MINISTRY! All in favour, say "I" !
With much love,
Shauna
It's Not About You
The time has come
For us to dance together once again.
Looking back, i think we are almost ready for Sunday's dedication item. My dear dancers, i would like to share with you my thoughts on this process and i hope u will take time to read and reflect.
I reckon that you know that the process of preparing for a dance has never been easy. We rush to make sure that details are not overlooked and dance requires practice-that's the only way we can be prepared and be ready for an item. So i thank all of you for your commitment during the past weeks because without the dancers, there is no dance! Although getting everyone to be present for practice has always been so difficult and i hope that this process will be a learning experience for all. Your presence for dance means a lot to me and to every one in the ministry. No one is replaceable and that's the reason why i am constantly asking for your commitment to come because no one can ever take your place in this ministry.
As we get ourselves ready both physically and spiritually for this Sunday's item, i want us to spend some time to reflect about our attitude towards serving in this ministry. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, let us take on the attitude of a servant. In creative arts ministry like dance, it is very easy to miss the whole point of serving and let our human nature get in the way. Over the weekend after witnessing the things that happened, this sentence came especially strong to me and i wish to share with you....
To all youth and kids dancers, regardless of your age and differences, let us always remember this when we serve that it's not about us. it's not about me and it's not about you individually. I believe once we have that mentality in mind, things will be put right again. It's amazing that we are all so different in character and yet, we make up this ministry, simply hoping that God will take us as we are and use it for His glory and yes, He has done that time and time again. In everything that we do, lets learn to look to the interest of others just as we have learnt in the study of Philippians. The only way we can all stay together in unity and harmony is to learn to consider others before self. It's easier said than done, that i know.
At any point, i believe we have all gone through these stages of emotions -be it feeling discontented with the decision of others, feeling frustrated at the speed of things, feeling left out and unimportant with the task or the part of dance given to u, feeling of disappointment towards each other or even yourself and we often let all these emotions get the better of us.
Take a look at all these emotions...the reason why we would feel that way is just because of one word - "ME", isnt it? But that's just human nature and i am guilty of it too. But one thing i ask of us my dear friends is this, that we will attempt to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel, to stand firm in one spirit. i think it is so timely that we are in the midst of our study of the book of Philippians as well. Remember my question to you guys..? Why is it so important to be united with Christians? I believe we know why now. Guard ourselves and do not let the evil one take a foothold on our weaknesses and use to it create disharmony among ourselves.
No imagination of mine would have ever imagined us to come this far to this day, all i had to bring me to this day was just a vision and a small hope of having a group of christ inspired dancers to worship the Lord through the area of dance. I must thank you guys for making this vision into a reality. The last step of this journey before we dance on sunday...is to remember to pray. Unless the Lord builds the house, we labour in vain. We are in this together guys, lets not compromise on the purpose of our every dance just to satisfy ourselves or to meet the deadline.
As we meet again on saturday for our last practice, lets remember how God has brought us together and how he has changed your life through dance. I believe each of us have our own story to tell. i always see ourselves as pieces of jisaw... each piece being so unique and different, yet we fit together... so that the purpose of doing the jigsaw will be fulfilled as the final picture is revealed. Each piece of jigsaw cannot stand alone as it is useless and worthless alone but together with many other pieces, they form a wonderful picture together.
I still believe we have missing pieces, waiting for others to join us to complete this picture. so for us who are in the process of completing this picture, lets keep holding on and extend our invitation to others to join this family!
In the next post i shall update the pictures!
Are you excited to dance again this sunday? You bet i am!
Love
shauna
REMINDER
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Hey Dancers,Please note that there is NO dance prac this coming saturday 11 Aug 07.
Dance prac will resume on Sunday 12 Aug 07 after service as per normal. (:
(for both KIDS & YOUTHS)
Our presentation of item will be on the 2nd of Sept 07.-holy communion Sunday!
Thank you everyone for all your hardwork and contribution! Do recap what you have learnt and if you are not sure about it or have not learnt a particular part, do look for people who know to help you before sunday so that we can proceed on. Pls be reminded about attire as well and shoes.
On behalf of the rest of the dancers, we would like to wish the August babies a very blessed birthday!!!!
so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ryan (12 Aug), Sam (15 Aug) and Shuo (26 Aug)!!!!
May God continue to bless each and everyone of u!!
Till then
Serving you in His love,
shauna