August Flashback!

For us(Eksilah Dance Team), August is the busiest month so far for this year 2013. Full-packed Sched made us more energetic to dig deeper to our passion.

As i recall,

3 years ago, at the same month, i did a  hulking decision in my life that made me disconnected to this kind of "busyness". That "disconnection" led me to a realization that "I am happy when I am busy"_ busy to give Him glory! Now that I am reconnected by God's grace,  I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to be working again to the pipeline that He really meant for me. Indeed, only by His Grace!

August 2013,

God has really proven how amazingly He holds and loves us that even if how hard we try to let go,  He never gives up on us!

Flashback to the full-packed sched on this month.

1st Sunday ,

We celebrated the 9th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai - a blissful celebration with a theme "Forever Grateful", declaring God's faithfulness and greatness to His people.

Part of this celebration is our dance "Today is the Day" which is originally sung by Lincoln Brewster. But, this time we dance this with the version of thai.

Here's the video of this dance..

we also had the dance for that song "Forever God is Faithful". This is the dance that we never had a general practice for everyone who participated..lol.. so you know already the result but then still it was fun! :)))

2nd Sunday,

Celebrating the Mother's Day here in Thailand.

 And as a tribute to all the mothers, we had this thai dance taught by the thai dancers in our team, Wann & Nafia. I don't understand the lyrics, i was even confused with dance steps and felt awkward in moving, but seriously, I enjoyed this dance and thankful that i able to wear a thai costume at last! :)

Here's the video! 

(psst... we did practice twice only, as in the song was played twice only a night before the final performance..hehehhe..:) 

(okay fine, i admit....i am the Best in Cheating in this dance..... haahahha)

3rd week, 

the team attended thePlan13 in Penang, Malaysia. Certainly soooooo blessed in that conference. God has taught and reminded me a lot of things. Really it was a refreshing... really an awesome gathering... Thankful that God has used people so we can join to that conference!

We were asked to perform a Malay dance which was part of the production or the opening part of the said conference. We were nervous cause it was our first time to have a Malay Dance and the fact that in front of us were mostly Malaysians. But thank God, we did it! :) mmh sorry don't have the video of this though...
but here's during our practice in the house..

(actually this dance tutorial was made for Faith for she was "out of town" again during our rehearsal..:D)

Aside from that Malay Dance, we were asked to give an exposition of Genesis 37:1-23. Honestly, got a hard time of understanding what it is.. :)) another first time for us... to present this passage in the Bible through dance...........the story of Joseph the Dreamer! yeh...i heard this story since i was a kid in our Sunday School with my mom as our teacher!weeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh...... A day and a night of headache... had brainstorming with the girls..til we ended sleeping all in bed and hoping to have an idea on what to do through our dreams! when we woke up on the next day, did try to recall if we dreamed something but nothing ..hahhahh...then we prayed and surely, God is the God of wisdom and He gave this idea to us. 

Here it is...a spontaneous dance presentation of Genesis 37:1-24. 

the music on the last part in this presentation wasn't the correct version of the song, you could see the confusion at the middle of that dance and  that was my fault coz i didn't check it before we performed..another lesson learned.. :)) but i guess it was still okay though coz we managed to finish the dance still!...hehehhh... Praise God!

4th Sunday,

we had our YES-Hatyai August (Youth Empowerment Service-youth gathering in our church). Actually we supposed to dance this- "Hello My Name Is" by Matthew West.

But, since we were busy in our work (our students joined an inter-school competition), so we ran out of time to have a practice... hoping to dance this next time.

Some pics to remember..

9th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai

"Today is the Day" dance costume

"Forever God is Faithful" dance uniform ..:))

Taken after the celebration

Mother's Day Celebration

Thai Costume

From the left: Josephine, Grace, Plew,Wann, Yvonne, Nafia, Joy, Karisse, & Rose

just a pose after we danced..:))

thePlan.... in Penang, Malaysia 

.....all pics---credit to thePlan13 Photographers

Malay Dance Costume

Grateful that the 5 of us had been part on this event. Hoping that the other members of the dance team could join next time.

With Auntie Lilian-the head of the Creative Arts Team and with Ate Janet!  Blessings to these kind and humble women of God! 

Genesis 37:1-23 Exposition

Samantha- the very beautiful and talented daughter of Ate Janet and Kuya Peter, on her split in the ending part of the performance. In such a young age, i see her passion in dancing. so glad that she joined in our dance!

In our Floral pants and Dance Team T-Shirt with Ate Janet our MANAGER...:)) i mean our mentor, supporter, make-up artist, photographer, videographer....etc... :) we are really blessed to know this beautiful lady in red!  

Last Minute Practice

YES-Hatyai August

after the Fellowship in YES

With Luccas- Our Brazilian friend whom we met in thePlan13 and who played the saxophone during the exposition. We are thankful that he shared his time in seeing us here in Hatyai. we are blessed to the life of this man!

AUGUST 2013 is a breakthrough indeed! THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!

Glory and Praise to His name.....

"FOREVER GOD IS FAITHFUL" Dance Tutorial

Back to my post! :) yeh JULY is almost over... How really time flies so fast! August is about to welcome us... Excited for this next month coz of the coming activities that we will be attending..and most of all, excited for the the things that God wants us to learn and to experience!

First Sunday of August,
....the 9th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai...yeh! and my 4th year in this church.. :)

Second Sunday,
.... Mother's Day Special Celebration...

Third week, specifically, 15th -18th ... will be in Malaysia to attend the ThePlan13...excited to be part of the Creative Arts Team!

Fourth week? don't know yet! but for sure there will be somethin..:)))

So, let start with the first... the Church Anniversary!

Part of this celebration will be a DANCE which will be participated by the people from the different communities. Very much excited to this... For these past two weekends, we indulged more of our time going to the different communities to fellowship with the other believers and to teach this dance.

The theme of this celebration is "FOREVER GRATEFUL". So we decided to go for this song "Forever GOD is Faithful" by Chris Tomlin for the opening of the celebration. Ah yah, we will use the Thai Version on this.

So here's the Dance Tutorial.

Here's the whole dance ..in Thai

Here' the whole dance ...in English

God bless!

Music Night Dance Presentation

For the first time, the Eksilah Dance Team was invited by the other church to perform. This was during the Music Night of the Chinese Christian Church here in Hatyai, Thailand in celebration of their 70th Anniversary.

The said Music Night catered the talents of God's children in singing, dancing and playing musical instruments for His glory. It was really a night of fun! I did really enjoy it. I love the way how the word of God was shared in the middle of every presentation. Another good idea that could be used as a concept when we go out in reaching the people and sharing the love of Christ. 

Yah, we danced the part of the "Desert Song-Thai Version" for the intro and followed by our Tambourine Dance "God is Awesome" by the Hillsongs.

Have i mentioned in my previous post that this was the song that we used when we first had a Tambourine Dance Presentation here in Thailand? :) yeh! that was during the 6th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai last August 2010. 

And yesterday, we used this again with the same strokes that we had on the first presentation. :) but yah, this time with different formation cause we're only 7 unlike the first time we had this, i think we were 10.  

After 3 sessions of rehearsals, we ended up with this performance ....it isn't still perfect though..:) but the point is, we did enjoy the dance as we give praise to the Father!

Enjoy watching! let go of the mistakes..hahah..

Video of the Dance last 2010

 

Some pics of the night! :)

Awesome Night with lots of Fun!

Other performers of the event

From the left: Faith, Joy, Yvonne, Nafia, Grace, Karisse & Wann

a pose before the event started

on the other side..:)))

with the other Filipinos who went with us and with the beautiful wife of our Pastor, Ajarn Liz on her fuchsia pink shirt

At the dressing room..:)))

A pose before we left the Chinese Church

All the Praises and Glory be unto the MOST HIGH GOD!

God bless...

Tambourine Strokes for "God is Awesome in this Place"

Had started practicing the tambourine dance again "God is Awesome in this Place". This is the first tambourine dance that i had here in Thailand. We presented this during the anniversary in the church last 2010. 

We are thinking that this song really fits more in an anniversary celebration of a church. And since, we are invited by the Chinese Church here in Hatyai  in their 70th Church Anniversary, we decided to use this song of the Hillsongs once again. 

Here are the strokes we used in this dance.

war

acts

praise

gospel

Isaiah

banner

triumph A

proclamation

gospel

coronation

Lion of Judah

Arise

walking armor

victory

grace

declaration

Here's the video for these strokes.

We will gonna present this on Saturday, 6th of this month. We did practice this dance twice still and planning to have our final rehearsals on Saturday morning! The event will start @7pm ... so i guess morning is still the best time to finalize this dance.

Costume??? planning to wear somethin redssss...:)) mmmh...we'll see!

God bless us as we dance this on Saturday! 

Simply Gracious on its 1st!

Last Day of June! I only have one post for this month. Sad... :((( but the good news is and i didn't notice it that it's been a year now since i started sharing dances here in this blog site. I have this not because we wanna boast on what we have but to share and help the others who have the passion in dancing as well, not to compete those who are very good and really expert in dancing coz for sure we cannot, but to humbly show the talents that God has given to us and that it could glorify His name, and lastly, we just  want this for some documentations for all the dances that we able to perform already(wish to keep this here forever...:))) for sure when we will be in our old age already, it would be really nice to watch these videos again and reminisce the past where we still have the energy to dance!)

Happy 1st Anniversary for my "SIMPLY GRACIOUS"- Celebrating Life through Dances for God's Glory! I personally wanna thank the people who really encouraged me to do this blog. First and foremost  to Ate Janet of http://www.janetspeaks.com/   who pushed me to do this..heheh... i mean who deeply influenced me to have this blog. And to Lorenzo of http://www.zonetrips.com/ and Kuya Irvin of http://www.thereflectionoflife.com/ and also to Genebei of http://genefaithisawayfromhome.com/ who helped me a lot in starting this blog. :)) Thank you guys for sharing!

There are still a lot that i don't know in this world of blogging and i am excited to learn more about this...

wishing for more years to you Simply Gracious!