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 […]

Remembering Christ’s Sacrifice – Good Friday Sets

We’ve just finished Easter services this weekend. For me, Good Friday is the most sacred of days on the Christian calendar – on which we remember Christ’s death as an atonement for our sins. Hebrews 13:12-13 says So Jesus also suffered outside the gate to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us […]

Podcast – What is Worship?

In case you missed it, here is the latest episode of my and Lester Sim’s podcast where we talk about the fundamental question for all worship ministers, and in fact, all Christians: What is Worship? I’ve actually found that in churches today, the idea of “worship” is poorly understood – wrongly conflating liturgy, devotion and […]

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 – 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 2

In Part 2 of this series of posts, I continue my report on our 2024 Japan mission trip, detailing our arrival in Fukuoka and our first official day of our missions program. Arrival in Fukuoka Ling and I arrived in Fukuoka on the morning of 4 December 2024. It was brisk, but not as cold […]

Worship Ministry Mission Trips Hit Different – Part 1

I had the privilege of leading our Faith Community Church’s first Worship Team mission trip to Japan in December 2024. Over the next few posts, I share on what took place during the trip and some of my learnings. “Worship ministry mission trips hit different,” so said one of our team members after a time […]