"Come Let Us Worship & Bow Down" Tambourine Dance

Yeah! I am back...... :) after half a year of not touching my blog and let it sleep, I am grateful that I able to put this into life again!

Our GOD is GREAT!

A lot of things happened in the past 6 months and whether they were joyful or painful experiences, I thank God for all of it. As the word of God says in Romans 8:28,

" And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."

I always declare that my God knows what is best for me! Whatever He is up to for my life regardless if  I can understand them or not, I trust Him.

Part of growing in life is to accept the changes of the routines we have for our daily living as the time changes. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:1,

"There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:"

The time for me to leave the place, the church, the work, the people, the friends and the Dance Team which i used to be with had come. Leaving the south of Thailand wasn't easy last September 2014 but through it I have seen and experienced more God's power in my life as I surrender to Him. I learned more that pain is really part of growing and His molding on us. Though not all pain are His plans for us (cause we sometimes intend to do things against His will), I realized that all pain make you more stronger in your faith in Him as you seek Him more. 

Truly, after every rain, there is always a rainbow of HOPE!

Now, I am in the North of Thailand. I PRAISE GOD! :)

Though I am far in the team now, I am thankful that God has continually move into each one of us-Eksilah DanceTeam continually dance for His glory!

God has blessed me with a work that is more than what I desire. I am now connected in one of the Universities in the North. Hallelujah! Connected as well with another church the CVC- Christ Vision Church. And as I continue to seek God for His will in my life here in the North, I give Him Praise!

Along the way of my darkest time, I am glad that through this blog and our chanel in youtube, I am blessed to hear feed backs from those who followed us and shared their testimonies on how this group has helped them a bit in their dance team. I give God glory for all of this.. We are grateful to hear from you all..I can't mention you one by one, but to those who messaged us and leave comments in our videos, thank you so much as you are used by God to encourage us as well to go on on this passion that God has given to us.

As the school year ends, I am glad that my sister, Joy and two other members of the team, Karisse & Maureen  visit me here in the North. So happy to see them again and find time to do things we are fond of doing..and yeah one of those is dance! :)

One of our friends out there requested us to show a video of Tambourine Dance and dance tutorial for this song "Come let Us Worship and Bow Down", and yeah we thank God He has given us this time to take this and my heart leaps with joy and im really glad to be back on my passion!

Here it is guys!

That has only 6 strokes!

Here is the Dance Tutorial..:)

Hope this could help a bit... im sorry it is quiet late that we able to respond on this request as we are also doing other stuff while they are here. One of it is joining a REVIVAL CAMP in Chiang Rai under the Christ' Vision Church. And the more we are very blessed through this conference to continue on with the Vision and Passion that God has given unto us!

Oh before I end, here is a dance that they shared to me..we didnt make this dance. Joy just found this in youtube and tried following it but yah it is too far from the original but we had fun so we wanna share it..lol

"WE LOVE YOU JESUS" by Shane & Shane! Let go of the loading moves..hahaha

tried to make a clearer vid which make our mistakes ("MY" mistakes Clearer) lol..:))))

GLORY to God! 

God bless you all ..JESUS LOVES you so much! :)

Some pics in Chiang Rai as we attend the REVIVAL CAMP of CVC and  as we were given time to go around the place too!

A pose on their big tarp

We miss you all so here is our big faces! lol

With our interpreters as all the sessions are in Thais. Grateful for their lives.

With CVC Kamphaeng Phet Members as they gave welcome to the delegates of the camp

With some of the YOUTH of CVC

A pose before going in the session hall featuring some arts at our back 

Time to mingle with this couple who are very active in the ministry of God (Uncle Tao & Aunt Toy)

Grateful for the friendship build with these folks- our group mates! :) in Tea Farm, Chiang Rai

More pics as we had tour around Chiang Rai

Karisse, Maureen & Joy in their highest JUMP-Shoot! hahah

"God's Not Dead" Tambourine Dance

Back to my blog after letting it sleep for a few months!

We are glad to present this tambourine dance to all of you with this song "God's Not Dead"  by the Newsboys.

By the way, .....

Greetings to all our friends in Spain who just sent a message that they saw our vids and blog. Thankful and happy that we able to help a bit in your dance team over there. It is an honor and joy to hear from you.. God bless you all, from all of us here in Eksilah Dance team! :)

So here's another Tambourine Dance guys... "God's Not Dead"

I love this song so much! Have you watched the movie???? mmhh...Seems, im the only one who haven't watched it yet... :) hope to watch that, one of these days...

This dance was choreographed by my sister Joy when we were in the Philippines last April. This is the dance that was used as an entry for the Tambourine Dance Competition during the National Youth Camp of ECOFI in Davao City..and our youth in our local church won as champion in this competition..Glory to God! .....i think i mentioned that in my other post. Yah...? :)) so, im just repeating it..lol..

We decided to use this dance as well as the opening salvo of the 10th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai last August 3. Actually it is just a part of the opening salvo...we used 3 different music in that dance..part of our "Prepare ye the way" dance for the intro, "God's not Dead", and the "Rise Up Dance".

here's the video of it..:))

:))) yeh, we have a lot of mistakes! hahah..as always...but im proud of these guys as we just had a few hours to practice on this. actually started practicing Friday night.. here's the video of that..

yes, the 4 of us started our practice at about 12 mid night??? :))) from 4 hour travel, prayer meeting then dance practice...that's our energy at about 2 a.m. LOL... since, we are far now from Hatyai, we need to do that...:)) well, it was fun! Then, had our last practice on Saturday night with the other girls in the team.

We tried to make our dance tutorial to share this in case someone would like to use these strokes of ours. we are sorry that some of the counting in our strokes are confusing and not consistent. We just had it fast without any other takes coz of the tight schedules that we always have during weekends when we are in Hatyai.

We showed the whole dance with the music as well in the last part that might help you understand our crazy confusing countings...lol...:D

Oh lastly, beware of the video-bomber in this tutorial! hahahah

so here it is!

 
Strokes:
intro:
-everlasting (2x)

1st stanza:
-overflowing
-shelter 
-more than enough
-overflowing
-shelter 

-victory1
-victory2

Chorus:
-alive (2x)
-angel's wings 

2nd stanza:
-boundless(2x)

-victory
-victory2

chorus:
-alive(2x)
-angel's wings
-declaration (half only)

bridge: 
-revive
-revive2

-forbearance
-reverence

-alive (4x)

-shaking round (6x)
-theway 2

Here's the video again of our youth in Davao City who bagged as champion in tambourine dance last April.

 

some pics...

i stole this pic from Genebei to show our costume..:) Blue square pants & white shirt with "God's not Dead" print on our neck-line..(that is just printed in paper and we used double-sided tape.. ..isn't it clear? that's what u call resourcefulness during 11th-hour) LOL....

with Rose and Hayren

a pose after the celebration

with Ajarn Liz and the other folks in the church

mmh this our latest pic which we had it last Sunday with Ajarn Simon, our Pastor.

just a closer view! from the left: Rhoda, Zizah, Karisse, Yvonne, Grace, Faith, Maureen, Josephine, Rose & Joy :) sorry Nafia and Wann aren't here.. next time...

thanks for dropping by... God bless... :)

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RISE UP Dance in the Philippines and in Thailand

"Rise Up.... People of the Lord RISE UP!"

A declaration for us-"God's children" that we need to RISE up now. Do something, make a difference in this perilous time and be part in the body of Christ in expanding God's kingdom. Time to rise up and never give an inch to the enemy of winning in our daily lives. It is not any more the time to stay in the corner and do nothing but it is the time to step out from our comfort zone and have that boldness in spreading the gospel that Jesus is the Saviour.. time to be bold in sharing the Good news that He wants to save everyone from hell, that He loves us all and wants us to be with Him in heaven for eternity. 

Friends as we share this dance, may you be blessed and be encouraged that whatever situation you are in today, God is telling you to RISE up! :) 

So, here's another dance that we wanna share. It is called "Rise Up" sung by Lauren James Camey. 

Oh, we didn't make this dance. I saw this in youtube and i was blessed. so i shared it to our friends in the  Philippines and also here in Thailand. Had the chance to share this dance during our National Youth Camp in ECOFI (Evangelical Christian Outreach Foundation, Inc.) last April and what God did during that camp was amazing,,,..really amazing!

Here are the videos. :)

During the Camp

We took video as well with our local church dancers.. this is the front view of our church.. :)

And had another one with our house and the main highway as the background...

And here is our team here in Thailand during our practice....:) 

we presented this dance during the YES for the month of July and here is the video with Ajarn Simon our Pastor, trying to join in even if his foot wasn't feeling better yet...that was fun! :D

We might present again this dance during the anniversary in the church this coming August! looking forward to it.

Praise His name!

"Happy Day" Dance Tutorial

Yes, Happy Day! :)

You are right, i am talking about the Happy  Day song of Jesus Culture! I heard this song before but got into it only just last month when I heard it during the worship in the conferences that i attended in the Philippines.

I love the message of this song so much! Let me share the lyrics of it...:)

Happy Day

The greatest day in history, death is beaten

You have rescued me

Sing it out, Jesus is alive

The empty cross, the empty grave

Life eternal, You have won the day

Shout it all, Jesus is alive

He's alive

[Chorus:]

Oh happy day, happy day

You washed my sin away

Oh happy day, happy day

I'll never be the same

Forever I am changed

When I stand, in that place

Free at last, meeting face to face

I am Yours, Jesus You are mine

Endless joy and perfect peace

Earthly pain finally will cease

Celebrate Jesus is alive

He's alive

[Bridge:]

Oh what a glorious day

What a glorious way

That You have saved me

Oh what a glorious day

What a glorious name

Jesus!

We used this song as part of the flash mob in the  Youth Camp of ECOFI last April 14-18. Then had this as the finale dance during the wedding of my sister, Jing.

Then,mwhen i came back here in Thailand, eksilah dance team had this as one of the presentations during the wedding of our friends Nutch and K but used the Thai Version of this song...

So we decided to make a dance tutorial on this even if the actions are very simple because maybe this could help to others. Actually, the choreography of the chorus part on this is mostly from our friends in Davao City coz, as what i've said, we used this as part of the flash mob there. But, there are some actions that we found it very confusing, so we tried to modify them so we can get it since we are not really into hip-hop movements even how hard we tried! hehehehe :))))

so here it is!

then, here is the dance but this is in Thai Version since we had this during our practice

but let me share our dance in our house coz this is in English... :)

mmmhhhh..one more...hahah...we took this outside our new house! :D somekind of creepy though!

here's our final performance of this dance during the wedding celebration of Nutch and K! :)

:) hope this could still help a bit even if these actions are very simple! God bless...

Dances in a Wedding Celebration

After one and half month of having a vacation in the Philippines, we are glad to be back here in Thailand!

Have i mentioned that I, Karisse  & Joy have moved in a new place? This is about 4 hour-drive from Hatyai.

With our new surroundings, new school, new students & co-workers, new house and new challenges & experiences in life, in Him we give Praise and in Him we put our Trust!

Though our place is quite far from our church now, i am thankful that we could still manage to be there once in a while. And last Friday, after having our last period in school, Joy, Karisse and I took a van going to Hatyai because the Eksilah team was invited to dance in a wedding celebration of Nutch & K.They are members of the church and we have seen their relationship growing as time pass by. We are happy and we do celebrate with them as they take another step to this next level in their lives as one.

By the way, this is my first time to witness a wedding celebration here in Thailand. I am amazed how extravagant they celebrate this occasion compared to ours in the Philippines.

We supposed to dance in the ceremony which was held in the church but since that was Friday and we are working teachers, we sadly declined the invitation. But, thankfully they had 3 celebrations.  First in the church til lunch then at the groom's house for their dinner and then finally, whole day of Saturday was in the Bride's house! wowww..just wow! can't imagine how much the groom spent for this... coz i heard, it was the groom who spent..mhh not sure though.. :))) so much for that...

So we had accepted the invitation to dance in the Bride's house since we didn't have class during Saturdays.

Here are the videos of our two dances! :))) Had Practice on this last Friday night and for a short time in Saturday morning then presented these in the afternoon! :D i wanna make excuses again for our mistakes..hahahah... :) but yah, am glad we did these two dances in spite of our very limited time in making the steps and memorizing them... :) Glory to God!

I could sing of Your love forever in Thai lyrics

and this...

Happy Day by the Jesus Culture but this is in Thai Version..

So much fun! yeh we did have fun and very grateful for the opportunity in sharing the gospel in many people through these songs because for sure people understood the message since it was in Thai. Praise God!

Some pics we had.

a pose before going to the venue: Nafia, Whan, Maureen, Karisse, Mimi, Faith, Joy & I

BY the way, we have two new members in our team, Maureen & Mimi. They are new teachers here in Thailand. Glad to have them in our group!

A farther view

A pose with the couple!

A pose with the couple and with our Pastor, Ajarn Simon in Yellow shirt and with the other members of the church.

Congratulations to K and Nutch!

God bless everyone..