For all You've Done with the "Sisters Act"

It was our turn to lead the worship in the church this morning-the Filipino Team. Lovely was the worship leader, Faith was the back up singer, and I played the bass guitar with Bjoy for the guitar and Joseph for the drums. It was only Joy and Karisse who were left to play the tambourine, good thing that Gene (the wife of our drummer, Joseph) and Yvonne (sister of Gene)  joined the group. So glad to see them practicing the dance and decided to join the group in playing the tambourine during the worship.

Yvonne and Gene during the practice last Saturday night- "Sisters Act"

Thanks girls for joining..:)

Here are some poses before the worship this morning.

From the right: Gene, Joy, me, Faith, Karisse & Yvonne

and this? with our Pastor Ajarn Simon. :)

One of the songs that we played during the worship was "For all You've Done" by the Hillsongs and we played it again during the offering. Here's the video of it with the tambourine dancers during the offering time.

Thank You Lord for all You've done...
God bless!

Dance: Trading My Sorrows (Thai lyrics)

Trading My Sorrows

Darrell Evans

 

I'm trading my sorrow
I'm trading my shame
I'm laying it down for the joy of the Lord

I'm trading my sickness
I'm trading my pain
I'm laying it down for the joy of the Lord

Chorus:
And we say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord Amen

I'm pressed but not crushed persecuted not abandoned
Struck down but not destroyed
I'm blessed beyond the curse for his promise will endure
And his joy's gonna be my strength

Though the sorrow may last for the night His joy comes with the morning.

I heard this song a lot since then and sang this many times. But humanly speaking when you are driving on a bumpy road or sailing in a stormy ocean of life, you will find it so difficult to open your mouth and sing this song specially when you are weak. It takes a leap of FAITH to sing this by heart.  

But if we focus our mind to our Great God above and not on the circumstances in front of us, indeed we can have the strength to sing and praise His name in the midst of our adversaries.

As the word of God in James 1:2-4 says,

² My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.(NKJV)

Thank You Lord for your WORD!
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And here's the dance for this song "Trading My Sorrows". Since most of the members of the church are Thais, we prefer to dance this song with Thai lyrics.

 

We use the following patterns in this dance:

-intro

-War (2x)

-Dancing (2x)

-War (2x)

-Dancing (2x)

-The Way (2x)

-Charity (2x)

-War (2x)

-Dancing(2x)

-Declaration (2x)

-Acts(2x)

-The Way(2x)

- Mighty One(2x)

-Choreograph ( turning and kneeling part)

-War(2x)

-Dancing(2x)

-The Way(2x)

-Charity(2x)

-Micah(2x)

-Gospel (2x)

The end

As you could see the patterns are always repeated because we only used the patterns that we had shared to you in my previous post here. Except for the Micah, Charity and the Gospel i think..We just have more formation this time.

There are a lot of mistakes though, sorry for that again..LOL 

Can't avoid the slip-up when you practice only a night before the final performance.(palusot system :).lol..)
 

From the left: Pluem, Lovely, Grace(me), Faith, Karisse, Joy & Wann

 This was taken before we dance this song in the church this morning. 


And here's the demure pose of the gals..:)

God bless!

Tambourine Dance Tutorial: 7 Patterns

As what i had mentioned in my previous post here, i don't have any formal training for the tambourine dancing. I didn't have training from Book 1 to Book #...i wish i had. We learn the patterns from our friends who shared them to us, from just observing the others on how they execute the patterns, and most of the time we made our own.

Here are some of the tambourine patterns that we know. It might not be the same as what you knew, sorry for that..we just want to share these to others specially to those who want to learn. 

1. War

2. Dancing

3. The Way

4. Declaration

5.  Mighty One

6. Arise

7. Acts

These are the patterns that we shared to the Thai dancers last Saturday. We are thinking of using these patterns as we dance "Trading my Sorrows" by Darrell Evans maybe next Sunday. 

So here's the intro part for that...

God bless!

ohhhh...........After the practice, here's Lovely the "kikay" in the group..:) sorry to those who can't understand. we're speaking bisayan here, our very own dialect..

Thank You Lord for the joy together with these friends around me, specially this time. Thanks pipz... 

Most Embarassing Moment in Dancing

When I was still 14 or 15 years old, I couldn't forget that moment that I cried for almost the whole night and even didn't show my face on the next day to any one. It was during the National Youth Camp of ECOFI (Evangelical Christian Outreach Foundation, Inc.) in Davao City, when I was one of the dancers from our District who joined in the Interpretative Dance Competition. At that night, i think there were about 10 groups who were very nervous yet very excited while waiting for their time to be on stage. Different styles and colorful costumes worn by the dancers made that night more fascinating. I couldn't help myself at that time in comparing our costumes to the others...honestly, i was envious at that moment, wishing to have a nice one too.:( I could recall I wore a  long sleeve white shirt which was bought from the "second-hand store" and an orange-black stripe-skirt which was borrowed from our neighbor. Don't get me wrong, i love to wear 2nd-hand clothes..lol,,,it's just that, i felt that our costumes weren't that good enough compared to the others. I know, my heart at that time wasn't right.

When it was our turn to be on stage, I was so tensed. At the middle of our dance, I was wondering why were the audience so noisy and were laughing. I thought they just like our dance. Until we reached to the last part of the dance, I was so uneasy and got suspicious on the commotion of the audience. Alas, the dance was over! And when we were out of the stage, I asked the other dancers why were the people laughing??? And even them they were laughing too until someone said, "Hey, YOUR ARMPIT WAS SEEN!" huh????I said to myself, "i'm wearing a long sleeve white shirt how come my armpit was seen?" mmmh...then I looked at my armpit then tears started to fall down from my eyes. I cried a lot co'z of embarrassment. My shirt was torn up while I was dancing in front of almost a thousand young people.

From that point, i felt so dishearten. I got self pity. So embarrassed... I thought I won't dance again.
But, I thank God for He never let me fall to that dread. I was able to recover and had my self-esteem back by His mercy.

I had a lot of embarrassment that I experienced in the world of dancing and there might be more on the road, but i would still say ...I WILL NEVER STOP DANCING....never stop dancing for my GOD...for HIS GLORY! 

A prayer:
              " Lord, check our hearts always when we dance. May your name always be lifted up as we move our feet, as we raise our hands and as we offer our bodies as a living sacrifice to you. Amen."




by the way, before I forget
..........because of that incident of embarrassment, "my mother" said that we will try our best to have new costumes every time we will have the National Youth Convention in Davao City. And Praise God for His provision, since then, we always have new costumes for the dance every year.
Am I right DISTRICT 13? .......:))

Latest costume for the Tambourine Dance - taken last April 2012, NYC in Davao City

Karen, Jing, Karisse, Kat, Sam, Pipoy

i miss the days when i was still like them joining the Youth Camp

Karrise was still here..:) 

Karrise, Pipoy, Jing(my sister), Sam( Faith's Sister), & Katriz... (i wonder where's Karen?)..

:) Praise be unto the LORD!

Dance for the Desert Song w/ Thai Lyrics

Last Saturday, we didn't create any other dances yet. Instead, the group had decided to dance again the "Desert Song"..but..but...but.. the song was in Thai Version now,,:) I like to hear songs in English that I know and are translated in the other languages, just like in Thai language which is very difficult for me yet interesting and very unique.

And guess what? we're now 7! Hope to be 9 this coming Saturday. Thanks to the other 2 Thai dancers, Wan & Pluem, who tried their best and devoted their time in practicing the dance. And of course, to the "Power-PoP-Corn" as they have said it as a joke for the name of the team.....but i think it's right? you're like pop-corn popping!!!...LOL.. Thanks guys for being their even if you didn't have enough sleep a night before because of "somethin", even if someone there had slept 4 A.M. already (let's keep her name "Lovely" as a secret)..:) thanks for your willingness and endurance during the practice!

Here's a glimpse of the "Saturday Practice" when everybody was so tired and sleepy yet, had tried to move their feet while closing their eyes???... *_*

oh yah, I forgot to tell you, the internet connection didn't cooperate with us during the practice (I think it was tired too..lol) so we didn't use the Thai Version of the song here..

And here's the video of the dance during the Sunday Worship..:)

 ... it wasn't the full dance though..it was cut coz of a lot of "advertisement" in the first part.lol...
Thanks to "Madam Principal" I mean.... Ate Ren with her Ipad...:))-the "videogirlpher" for going with us now just to take the video.

God bless you all guys for the efforts!


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Here's the video of this song with lyrics by the hillsongs! :)))) someone has asked this...so here it is...