Yes!!!!!! YES-Hatyai had its 1st Anniversary already... a year of blessings!
What is YES-Hatyai?
"YES! - Hatyai" is the acronym of Youth Empowerment Service in Hatyai. It is a Youth Ministry under the Cornerstone Chapel Hatyai.
YES!-Hatyai dreams to establish a youth ministry whose members cleave to a strong sense of purpose to serve God and His people through their God given gifts and talents.
It aims to empower the youth and prepare them for the work of service through regular Bible study meetings, discipleship training, mentoring, and in fellowshiping with one another.
We thank God for what He has done in the lives of the youth through this ministry. I am thankful to be part of this.
And yah last February 2 we celebrated its 1st Anniversary. Actually the exact date that it started was January 27, 2013. But since February is a heart month, we decided to join these two events last Sunday. :) so we had this.... "1st YES Anniversary & Heart Day Special Celebration"
Part of the program was the opening salvo by the Eksilah dance Team. and yahhhhh..we presented the dance "Joy Unspeakable" of Mandisa.
if we had the "GOD GIRL" of Jamie Grace last year, now here's the "JOY UNSPEAKABLE" of Mandisa. another memorable dance that we have! :)
LOL! no mastery as usual but still had fun... :))
Some pics..
A pose with our Pastor, Ajarn Simon and his wife Ajarn Liz
after the celebration
eating time!!!
activities during the celebration..
Ajarn Liz- the speaker of the event. Talking about the 4 kinds of LOVE! :)
fixing a broken heart by the ladies!
fixing a broken heart by the gentlemen!
and the winners are the ladies headed by this gorgeous lady, Donna! :)
another game: strings with hearts at the ends....partners are those holding on the same string! :))))
another activity that we had... Dear FUTURE Husband! wherever you are........ :)))) the letter will be given to their future husband or future wife on the night after the wedding! Had a prayer declaration as well that this letter should really reach to the right person that God has prepared for each one.
Ken: Dear Future Wife! ....:))
Joy: Dear FUTURE Husband! :))
Genebei on her testimony on the importance of waiting for the right one, translated by Ajarn Liz in thai.
Wann and Ken, on-the-spot "HEART SKIT" :)))
this is the first part of the fixing-a-broken-heart game... getting each piece of the heart in front :)))
and this... :)) speaks about patience and endurance while waiting..:))
-The invitation- :))
Indeed the celebration was successful and with a lot of learning about waiting for the right partner at the right time!
Happy 1st Anniversary YES! and HAPPY Heart's Day to all! :)
Excited to post this first dance that we have for this year 2014!
Starting with this song of Mandisa, "Joy Unspeakable". This is the other song that I like from her. Actually, I like all of her songs! why? because the messages of the songs are really encouraging.
How i wish to make dances in all of her songs even the "slow" songs like "what scars are for", "the distance" and "Just cry" because...i can relate to each one of it! :)......yeppp maybe next time..
But this time, we have this "Joy Unspeakable" as we will gonna use this dance this coming Sunday, the 2nd of February for the 1st Anniversary of YES-Hatyai (Youth Gathering in our church here in Cornerstone that we usually have it every last Sunday of the month) and the Heart's Day Special celebration for the youth in the church.
We really just started practicing this dance last Saturday with the other members of the team.. others were busy so, we really had this dance tutorial after church before we went home, for them to practice in their house and hopefully we can have our final rehearsal on Saturday afternoon.. :)
Even i, ..........i don't master really this dance yet..hhahah...but we will just try our best to have this on Sunday...
so here it is.... after our "OVERCOMER Dance"...presenting to you our dance tutorial for this song
"Joy Unspeakable".. :) Sorry for the mess up... :( got to do this fast...
and here's the whole dance with the song of Mandisa... mmh..yah sorry others can't view this..i don't really know what to do so this could be viewed by others in their tabs or ipads or phone... mmmhh.. well, just view it on your laptops or desktops ...:)))) i think it will work...
mmhhh... just let me post this... this was my first attempt on this dance last Thursday night after connecting all the dance steps... :))
Hope you will learn this dance as well, but yah feel free to change the actions if you don't like it.
And our prayers that as you learn this dance, may you always declare the unspeakable joy that we have in Christ.. the joy that we have in Him that cannot be compared to anything on this world.
oh yah before i end, let me share this last vid....
before shooting this dance tutorial, we had this "glass clap" which we just learned last Saturday... actually this isn't the original song.. we just use this song "Hungry" co'z we don't know how to sing that original song and we are more comfortable to have this 'hungry" song.. we didn't master this yet too.LOL.;))
but the thing is the fun being together as we practice... :))
I just can't let this night pass without posting my first "post" for 2014.. :)
Surprising indeed this day! as we arrived in the house from our job this afternoon, got this news from a friend that we are featured by Mandisa in her Facebook account because of our dance "Overcomer" which is originally sang by her.
We praise God to that as we didn't really expect that it will be noticed by her and by the other people on the other side of the world. It makes us really happy knowing that many people are blessed on this dance. indeed this song is very inspiring!
With this "unspeakable joy", we always remind ourselves that it is not for our fame but for God's glory alone. We continue to declare that all Praises be unto the King!
Speaking of "Unspeakable Joy", ....... "JOY UNSPEAKABLE" is one of the songs of Mandisa that i was thinking the other night which will be our next project for the upcoming celebration this February. Praying that God would speak to us more through this song and give us wisdom as we make the dance steps for this.
For now, i am settled on this! the excitement of hearing that Mandisa might come here in Thailand is overflowing in the brim of our hearts.... :)
We would really love to see you here Mandisa as you inspire us always with your songs and with your life! May His glory shine upon you as always!
Allow me to posts all our "Overcomer" dance performances here... as we didn't start the "Unspeakable Joy" yet... :)
We dedicate these dances to God and to all our fellowmen in the Philippines who are currently affected by the typhoon Agaton and those who were affected by the typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan....we encouraged you our "kababayans" ....don't give up, don't give in... we will all overcome these trials in our lives and in our country through Christ who strengthens us! God bless you Philippines....praying for you!
Before this year 2013 ends let me post the dances i missed to blog here due to "busyness" as always..weeehhh...on another way around...the truth is because of ..............l.a.z.i.n.e.s.s. :))) laziness! well, at times i am like that...that's me..:))
so what did i miss posting here???
starting with, the ROAD TRIP 2013 with our dance "OVERCOMER" of Mandisa on every place where we stopped. that was really fun! memorable time with friends.. i did try editing it to combine all the videos taken from all the places but yah sorry it isn't good, but...but ...but...just allow me to post..okay? :)))
huahin beach
and this is in the deep south of Thailand...
Next on the row was the dance "Lord You are Good" last November in the church.. we were asked to perform one dance during the advance Christmas Celebration of the 5 churches here in Hatyai and was held also in Cornerstone Church.
December was full-packed with practice and presentations in the different places we went to.
Started with Dec. 7 morning @ Namnoi Community.
Dec. 7 afternoon @ Ranot Community
Dec. 8 afternoon @ Banharn Community
Dec. 13 @ Banpruh Community
Dec. 14 @ Hatyai Convention Center for the Joint Christmas Celebration of 5 Churches here in Hatyai.
we presented 2 dances, "Joy to the World -Tambourine Dance" and "Lord You Are Good Dance"
Lord You are Good, ending part
Lord You Are Good, Tambourine part
Joy To the World Costume- a pose before the event started
They're the guest singers from Bangkok on that event...had a chance to take a pose on their tarp..grateful that we able to perform with them at that night.
had our dinner before the event started and had our pose :)))
the thai dancers: Plew, Nafia, Wann & Plume...so blessed with the life of these young people
A pose with one of the singers after the event
In all the communities that we visited, we all had the same presentations.
1. Joy to the World
2. A skit - My Name is forgiven followed with our dance "Hello My Name Is" by Matthew West
3. Our Dance "Overcomer" by Mandisa
4. Feliznavidad Dance which we taught to the kids
some vidsss... Joy to the world at Ranot
Feliznavidad
"My name is forgiven" & "hello My Name Is" at Banpruh
Dec. 14 @ the same place- Hatyai Convention Center
The Eksilah Dance Team was invited to present a Philippine Folk Dance in a Charity Show for Haiyan Victims. As a Filipino, I am thankful that i had been a part of this event as to extend a little help to our kababayans who suffered from the strongest typhoon-Haiyan/Yolanda. We decided to present Salidumay and ended it with "Kuradang" a famous folk dance in Visayas-the middle part of the Philippines where the typhoon Haiyan occurred.
Salidumay Costume
Kuradang Costume
A pose with the other dancers and with the Emcee of the event
here's the video of all the dances presented on that night...we were the first who presented.
Dec. 22 Christmas Celebration @ Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai
we presented " Mary Did you Know Dance"
Dec. 25 @ one of the schools in Songkhla
with the elementary pupils
talking with the kinder pupils
we only presented one dance in this school, only the Joy to the World..here's the video of it..
Dec. 29 YES CHRISTMAS and New Years Party!
Time to go to church!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Problems and trials are unavoidable part in life. Broken relationship, death of loved ones, losing jobs, natural disaster or any other unpleasant scenario that happen to us are all circumstances in life. We might question God why is it happening. And this line, "why me" may cross to our minds. yep, painful and difficult to face it. We might have negative responses to it.. we may say unfair....and we may say i surrender..i give up.... But the reality is, we have the control to how would we react in all of these to make us a better person...to make us stronger...to turn things which are best for us.. We cannot change the past but we have the chance to make things right for the future.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
It isn't easy i know, but we can overcome all of these circumstances in life as we trust and cooperate to God's plan for us.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
1 Peter 5:7 says, Cast all your cares upon Him for He cares for you!
Yes, He does care for us more than how we do care for ourselves....
So whatever situation you are having right now, have HOPE! You can overcome cause we are always victorious in Jesus name!
Time to dance.... :)) and declare that we are all "overcomers"!
OVERCOMER song of Mandisa sums it up....Don't Quit , Don't give in.... You're an overcomer!
here's the dance tutorial... :))
here's the whole dance with music...
we did have our second practice after the Sunday worship...having fun while practicing..:))
