Update

I know there hasn't been an update here for very long. But I did promise one so here it is.

Here's the official songlist and artists from the concert night. You can go google for them. Some of them (except our own compositions) are on Youtube I think, if you'd like a listen.

1. Shout Your Fame - Hillsongs
2. Beautiful One - By The Tree
3. No One Like You - David Crowder Band
4. Break Free - Hillsong United
5. Join The Song - Vicky Beeching
6. You - Britt Nicole
7. Forever - Planet Shakers
8. All I Need - Bethany Dillon
9. Unspoken - Jaci Velasquez
10. This Man - Jeremy Camp
11. Cry Out to Jesus - Third Day
12. Just a Prayer Away - Adam (homemade song)
13. Word of God Speak - MercyMe (own arrangement)
14. Take You Back - Jeremy Camp
15. Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble - Delirious?
16. Jesus Fan Club (JFC) - KJ (homemade song)
17. Stand - Planet Shakers

And as an added bonus, I'm posting up lyrics of the 2 home grown songs for you to sing along (if those of you who were present for the Concert can remember how they went)

Just a Prayer Away
Away from his light, away from his sight I'm lost again
My life takes a turn to a point of no return
My world crumbles down just like the grains of sand
Without my Jesus, there's nothing left

But I've found that in my weakness
if I just reached out
If I knelt on my knees
and closed my eyes

Chorus:
He is just a prayer away
He loves you more than I can say
He is just a prayer away
Just call and He'll be by your side
Just a prayer away

Now with Him in my life with Him as my guide it's not the same
I'm filled with His awesome grace that fills my heart with praise
No longer bound to sin but free to worship Him
My Jesus, my saviour, my everything

Now I know, that in my weakness
if I just reached out
If I knelt on my knees
and closed my eyes

*Repeat Chorus*

Bridge:
If only people prayed
If only we had faith
We would know
That only when we pray
we move the hands of God
when we pray

*Repeat Chorus*

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Jesus Fan Club
We are in one body
we share a thing here
that you might know

We are in one body
What keeps us together
I'll let you know

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It's a man who died and gave me freedom
He opens up the doors to his kingdom
His love for us reaches to the Heavens
His name is, His name is

Chorus:
(Jesus!) The very name makes me lift my hands up
(Jesus!) It's never too late to join the fan club
(Jesus!) I ain't keeping Him as a secret
(Jesus!) His name is (Jesus!) His name is
(Jesus!)

We are in one body
the love we share here
overflows

We are in one body
the Jesus Fan Club
is free to enroll

**Repeat


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Cheers.

1 more update to come. Stay tuned for it.

Revive Concert - How it came to be (PART3)

PART 3 – A concert? Why?

The concert idea was actually an evolution of the 2006 New Year’s Eve concert on the rooftop. I’ve always known that an evangelistic concert would work. Maybe it didn’t have the large scale results that I was wishfully hoping for, but I know it works. The Australians have proved it thousands of times. People come to Christ through music. It just works. Christian music has that power. Which is why I do believe in buying Christian CDs. You can lend them to a friend and you never know what will happen.

2006’s concert was no evangelistic concert. It was just a concert for fun. To celebrate the new building. To have fun. To just experience playing under the clouds for once. The idea of an evangelistic concert spawned from there when I mentioned it to Uncle Chris. Since we just opened, maybe the idea wasn’t for 2006 but for the near future. And so it slowly started to materialize in 2007.

I didn’t want to do it the moment I came back from church camp. I was debating if I should go on with the plan all the way until November. Questions kept coming in my head – what would I achieve out of it? Who would come? Would it work? Who would we minister to? At the end of it all, would we truly learn anything? Would we truly bring people to Christ? Would this really help the ministry of the future college in any way at all? I just kept asking myself over and over again. I also kept asking ‘How the heck am I supposed to do something like this?’ but that became a much more regular question later on.

I decided on the evangelistic concert in the end. Some of the questions were answered. The main thing that bothered me was the purpose and to what ends we would achieve. But I had my answers. Even if we only brought 1 soul to Christ, that would’ve been enough. AND even if we didn’t do that, this would’ve been an experience so great that we would learn from it so that we could do it again and again in the future. That was the purpose. That purpose would further expand later on, but that is a story for 2008.

So there you have it. That’s how the concert materialized. I know it’s not as majestic as you might have thought. There was no divine blue print faxed from heaven. There was no booming voice that spoke in my dreams. It was just me and God having a one to one chat. Or a debate rather which ended up in one thing – me knowing that I’ve done my very best for Him. It’s the first time I’ve really left everything in His hands and at the end of it all, given Him full credit.

So there you go. This website will be immortalized in webspace for all time, so that whoever stumbles upon it shall know that God is truly alive and will see how He has worked in this small little concert group of 2007. Cheers.

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That's the end of my story. Now, there are still more updates to come - Concert Songlist and lyrics of the 2 original compositions. And perhaps some snippets from the other concert crew.

Revive Concert - How it came to be (PART2)

PART 2 – So now what?

So what was I going to do next? I knew that I had a job to do while I was still around, and I knew that somehow or other God had planted the idea of Taylor’s in my head from the very beginning. The thing that I had to work out was what I could do in my time now that would somehow contribute to the future college ministry with the idea that I might not be around when it opens.

I figured that it was time to start moving. I’ve always said this in my heart – I believe young people are the feet in the body of Christ. Not because we stink more than others, or that we collect dirt more often, but because the feet always have to move first before anything gets done. If you have to go to get some cold water from the fridge you would first need to open the fridge. But even before that, you’d need to WALK to the fridge. Interesting concept eh? So I had to start moving. I had to do something. I didn’t know if anyone was doing anything, I didn’t know what preparations were being done for this great harvest. All I knew is that I had to do something to contribute to it. And I knew it had to involve the ‘feet’ of the Body.

The young people are the link to the other young people. Who knows? Maybe some of our own CBC youths will be attending that very college? We would have insiders, ready to minister to all those young people there. I estimated maybe 6000 students there. Maybe less. I don’t know, but even 10% of that is 600 people! Think of the numbers! 600 young people ready to just barge into our church just like that. And who’s going to minister to them? And in what ways are we going to minister to them?

I had to hatch a plan. I had to help in as many ways as I could to train and teach our insiders. I don’t claim to be an expert on the matter of evangelism. Trust me, I barely know anything about it. I don’t claim to have the expertise to teach anyone anything. I just knew that someone had to start. Maybe we’d get others to help in but I had to start something. So I turned then to the only thing I was sure about – music.

Final part is on it's way. Stay tuned.

Revive Concert - How it came to be (PART1)

PART 1 – In the beginning…

So where did the idea spring up from you ask? Where on earth did KJ come to conceive such a gigantic plan? Where on earth did KJ get the drive and the sudden urge to do something that has never been done before in CBC history?

Well, I’d love to point the finger at the Boss up there in heaven and say it was all his idea. It actually is, but how he came to let me know the idea wasn’t that simple at all.

Where should I start? Well, it starts, if you can believe it, from the day that I heard about the Taylor’s University College (my brother refuses to call it a University) building landing right smack in front of our church. I don’t even remember when that was or who told it to me or how I found out about it if no one told me. I can’t even remember storing the information in my head. Normally information that doesn’t seem important at that immediate time gets thrown into my recycle bin in my brain. But this one stuck there for some reason and I can only blame God for that. He’s let that thought brew in my head for as long as it has and the concert is first and foremost a result of that singular thought.

The next phase of God’s great instruction to do the concert really drove home on the night of this year’s church camp. It was the second night I think. And there was just something amazing that happened during that night. I remember having to move a large stone and placing it at the foot of a cross to signify leaving my burdens at the foot of the cross. Which I did and that’s when God decided to really pull a big one on me. The way I see it, the less God strikes your mind, the harder it hits when it does. I’ve been idling quite a bit in early Christian life and I guess now is the time the Boss really wants me to do something. So He gave me quite a bash on the head that day. At that time, I had not yet truly known if I would be leaving for the U.S next year. That was the original plan (which I think didn’t go well with my heavenly Boss. Not what he wanted I suppose) and I thought I had a couple of months left in 2007 in Malaysia. I was already thinking ahead of the many things I’d do for him WHEN I got there. I was thinking of the 1001 ways I could serve him in the States. I was looking into Churches in Boston, about to contact a friend of mine to get some info out of him (anyone know Ps Rodney Duncan?). I was all prepared for the great things He was going to do for me and through me WHEN I went overseas. But that didn’t happen. But firstly he drilled home a very big point. It went something like this –

“KJ, you’ve got 5 months here to go. And do you think I’m not going to do anything with you these 5 months? (Which turned out to be longer than that because my plan to leave has been postponed. But that’s a story for another day)”

So it really hit me. Sure I was prepared to leave, but that didn’t mean I could take a break just yet. I wasn’t on a 5 month spiritual holiday break and could just wait for time to pass until I was in another country. God told me very plainly and it’s one of the clearest things I’ve ever heard from him – You’re still here, so you STILL SERVE!

And that was it. I decided one thing which would then grow into a larger and larger decision – I was going to serve in the church up until the day He would let me leave. And that was Genesis really. That was the beginning of the great plan. I think.

Stay tuned for part 2.