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 […]

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 […]

Intimacy with God

Twenty-twenty was for many, including myself, a difficult year. I think the thing that got to me the most was the sense of anxiety – anxiety because things were unpredictable and fluid; the economy (in Western Australia at least) was stable but always teetering on the edge, as if it could all change in an […]

Hitting the Reset Button

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and […]

Week 5 Chronicles: Hymns Old and New

Week 5 Chronicles is an occasional series on experimental worship formats whenever there is a fifth Sunday in a month. Someone once said that a hymn is theology set to music. Others say that, in contrast to much of modern worship’s being deeply personal, a hymn is an expression of objective praise. That is not […]

The Day I Joined Our Worship Team

As I was going through some old posts, I came across what I wrote below which I am re-posting today. It was just over six years ago when I first joined Faith Community Church’s worship team. Today, our church celebrated its inaugural service in our new 1400-seater facility. The photo is of today’s team resting […]

Week 5 Chronicles: Choir Sunday

Over the past few months, as part of our worship team’s vision to hone and strengthen our craft, our vocalists have been going through group coaching with Mel Crothers, a worship leader, singer and performing artist in our city. To cap it all off, our vocals director, Sunray Zheng, decided to put on a special […]