New Song Drop – Psalm 84

The simply-titled “Psalm 84” by Lester Sim is the last of the three songs recently recorded by our songwriting group. When I challenged the group last year to write a song, both Lester and I sensed that there was a stirring in the collective heart of our church for more of God’s presence. Against the […]

New Song Drop – Song of Ages

Siska Sands is one of our Youth Pastors (our youth ministry at Faith Community Church is called Kinetic). She has not only stewarded Kinetic (along with our other Youth Pastor) to a place of depth and growth, but she is an amazing worship leader in her own right, having led Kinetic Worship until recently. As […]

New Song Drop – Dwelling Place

Get the chord chart here. Last year, our worship ministry began a strategy of song-writing to try to build a base of home-grown songs that reflects the life and journey of our congregation at Faith Community Church. My friend Ben Stafford ran a workshop for our budding songwriters to kick-start the process. After this, our […]

Worship Ministry Mission Trips Hit Different – Part 4

In Part 4 of this series, the work intensifies as half the team breaks off and travels to Kagoshima whilst the rest of the team remains in Fukuoka. In the remaining days of the trip, our team would have traversed the entire length of Kyushu Island. Day 6 (Wednesday 11 December) saw our team split. […]

Launching a New Podcast – I Can’t Believe It’s Worship

I’m going to take a pause from reporting on our recent Japan Worship Mission trip to share something exciting – the launch of a new podcast called “I Can’t Believe It’s Worship”! In some ways, this is a sequel to our mission trip story. As I mentioned in earlier posts, one of the things we […]

Worship Ministry Mission Trips Hit Different – Part 3

In Part 3 of this series of posts, I detail the next few days of our mission program, which involved ministering to the entire gamut of age groups, from children to the elderly. The Orphanage Day 2 (Saturday 7 December) focused on ministry to children. We got up early to load up the cars and […]