This post is coming really late, simply because I got back from an awesome trip to Sydney for the Hillsong conference on the 13th of July, but just could not find the time to sit down and blog about it til now.

I had the privilege of travelling with 17 of my youth leaders and members of my church's music team as we roughed it out for a week, braved the Sydney winter, stayed in budget accommodations but soaked in the presence of the LORD for 4 days & nights. It was simply a glimpse of heaven for me, with more than 22,000 people representing more than 50 countries gathering for the sole purpose of worshiping our awesome God.

I remember one of things that I strongly felt during one of the evening worships was that this was what God desired. For HIS church to come together, people from different ethnicities, different denominations, different age groups, different cultures and different lands to worship in one voice. And in that 120 decibel worship environment, I could hear God whispering that BEEP was to do a similar work, of bringing His people from every tribe & tongue together in worship...

And so we continue on our journey of faith. I can't imagine why the churches in our nation and beyond can be bothered with the thoughts, dreams & visions of 5 guys, but by God's grace, a nation can be impacted through lives totally surrendered to HIS plans. I believe we just have to continue to (and I quote Pastor Edmund Chan's philosophy to ministry) "Dream Big, Start Small & Grow Deep". First, supporting the efforts of In-Deep, next serving the church through 'Just Worship'... then continue to produce and avail anointed songs from this nation to the rest of the Church...

the one united Church of Christ.
-kev
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It has been a couple of weeks now since the BEEP team welcomed our second ‘official’ staff member, Mr Irving Koh. For those who know him, he needs no introduction. For those who don’t, you can see a window into his personality by listening to him fronting up our BEEP podcasts.

You’ll be mesmerised by his engaging wit, his charm, his zest for life…well you get the picture, he’s just a cool guy!
More importantly he loves Jesus and has been waiting patiently for such an opportunity as BEEP music to serve the body of Christ in Singapore and beyond.

Woohoo!

In writing this little letter of introduction several things occurred to me that could not remain unsaid…as is often the biblical way of things let me first begin with the natural, then with the spiritual.

The natural:

Since arriving in Singapore with my family over six months ago, the BEEP guys Irv, Merv, Gev, Kev and Jdub, have made our transition into the Singaporean lifestyle that much easier for my family and I (not to mention the various wives aswell). They even let me play in their band, so I became an appendage to a five fingered Starfish, what the?

None of what we have accomplished in the past months could have been achieved without the sacrifice of time and energy from this ‘band of brothers’.
Thanks guys!

The Spiritual

Since beginning this new venture that is Beep, we have come from the place of a bunch of people with a common heart and desire to a functional team that is seeing the amazing hand of God moulding, shaping and stretching these simple vessels, these living stones. The Apostle Peter speaks about this in his first Epistle, no longer individual bricks but living stones being aligned to the Chief Cornerstone, Jesus.

Are we there yet, do we have it all together? Nooo, but this hand or foot or ear, whatever part we are playing in the kingdom is on the way and we’re not looking back!

One thing I do ask you to keep in prayer is that Irving and I resist the temptation to have prata and kopi more than once a week at the little Indian coffee house behind the studio, the climb up the studio stairs seems to get harder with each visit…haha!

Adam
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Recently, after having enjoyed a delicious, albeit expensive cup of coffee, I bumped into a Pastor from our church (in fact I literally bumped into his table and spilt his coffee into his lap). He kind of stands out in any Singaporean crowd due to his ginger locks and moustache, he was hard to miss. We had not yet met and after some introduction and pleasantries we got down to the business of discussing our testimonies.

As we spoke together of missions and of his direct work in the volatile province of Orissa, India, I was reminded of a father and his two sons who were martyred near that region, burned to death in there jeep by Hindu extremists on January 22nd, 1999. You may have seen the headlines as we did in Australia…such headlines as ‘Murder at midnight’ splashed across papers and newscasts alike.

The Staines family had been originally sent from several churches including ours in Brisbane…so the news spread quickly and came thru to our Pastor only several minutes before we were to begin our worship the following day.

As it happened I was leading worship that day. Our Pastor, with great anguish and yet triumphant joy made the announcement to the congregation that the Trumpet had sounded for Graham and his two boys, Timothy and Philip. They were now seeing their Saviour face to face.

Needless to say leading worship was difficult that Sunday morning, moments where words could not be uttered, eyes were filled with tears…and yet incredible hope filled our congregation. Though shocked and bewildered, we all caught a glimpse of eternity that day that I am sure was not be soon forgotten.

In simple terms what we did that day opened our eyes to another tangible dimension of Worship…the reality of life and death, of martyrdom for our Glorious King, what we have often read about became a part of our churches story.

As it happens I did not even know the family personally, but that didn’t diminish my response to the Lord that day. Faith, Love and importantly Hope were the ingredients of thanksgiving, of worship that Sunday morning. My eyes are filled with tears as I write not only for the Staines family, a wife and daughter left behind, but for the glory of the Lord, that the zeal for His house would consume us as we lay our lives, our hearts, our all before Him.

For Graham, Philip and Timothy the fire and zeal of God that consumed them, fueled the flames of hatred that brought them into His presence. An ironic twist of fate…never! Rather, a crown of righteousness as a reward for their ultimate act of worship, ushering them into the presence of Jesus, with arms open wide.

Though sad for those left behind, there is ultimately victory for the Kingdom of God and a testament to the powerful work of the Holy Spirit in this family’s life. Gladys, widow of Graham and their daughter Esther have been back in that very place for several years now continuing what they as a family had begun, all to the glory of God, in praise and worship of their King.

Adam
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