FCC Worship Ministry in Japan 2026 – Part 2

Day 5: Sunday 4 October In the morning, we ministered at Hope Church Kagoshima. Lester Sim led worship, again incorporating two singers from the local team. I preached on Psalm 121. As I closed, I sensed that many were moved. One woman asked for prayer and cried throughout the time I prayed for her. (Little […]

FCC Worship Ministry in Japan 2026 – Part 1

This was the third year that the Faith Community Church’s Worship Ministry has served in Japan. Our ministry took place in Fukuoka, Kagoshima and Miyazaki. We served alongside local worship teams, encouraged missionaries and believers, and shared the gospel through music in churches, schools and other community settings. The trip reinforced the importance of continuing […]

Living Out Your Faith in the Marketplace

At certain points in my life, I’ve thought it’d be fun to become a worship pastor. I’ve always felt called to worship ministry as a primary passion. On the other hand, it is not that there are a lot of jobs out there for worship pastors and I was very much on a pathway to […]

Seeing Generations Raised in Japan

As our team sets out for Japan shortly, one of our main focus areas is to raise the next generation of worshippers in Japan. One of the things Pastor Matsumoto told us the last time we there was that there was a real succession issue in the church – as pastors got older, there was […]

Japanese/English Worship Songs 2026

After coming back from our first ministry trip to Japan in December 2024, the Faith Community Church Japan worship team was tasked with putting together bilingual Japanese/English worship videos, ostensibly for use by a connect group that was meeting in our mission house in Fukuoka. When the first batch of songs came out on Youtube […]

Worship Hot Takes – Part 1

I Can’t Believe It’s Worship is starting a new series today, called “Worship Hot Takes“. After a pretty esoteric and theologically deep study of the Tabernacle (you can listen to my 4-part Equip course here), Lester Sim and I decided to do some episodes which were (perhaps) less intellectually rigorous. So Lester S found some […]

Blessed are the Flexible

This post is based on an informal talk I gave to a group of tertiary–campus leaders in my church. I became a Christian on 20 July 1990 – so it’s been over 35 years. But as I’ve been reflecting on my journey as a Christian over that time, I began to land on a few […]

Reflections on 2025

Psalm 65:11-13: You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing. These last 12 months have been full and fulfilling. […]

Dwelling Place – worship video

Here is the live worship video recording of “Dwelling Place“, produced by FCC’s media team. This version was recorded during a Sunday worship service, led by Ps Dave Wong. I quite like the alternate chords that the musos used in the bridge.

Dwelling Place – Live Version

Get the chord chart here: It’s been about 3 weeks since we launched the song “Dwelling Place” for use in our Sunday services at Faith Community Church. Over that time, we’ve let the song evolve a bit. This version was recorded live during the second service on 1 June 2025, with Lester Sim leading. The […]