"In Awe of a Great God" Worship Concert Recall

Bonjour tout le monde! So here's what happened yesterday at the "In Awe of a Great God" Worship Concert:

After the Morning Service at SBC-Makati, we had a dry run of the song "Prepare the Way". We practiced that song that we'll be singing for about three times. We then made our way to the concert venue, the iCite building in Eastwood City, Libis. We split in two teams. The first team was composed of Pastor Jeff, Eloisa, Ellaine, Eunice and Clarissa. They all rode in Pastor's car. The second team was composed of Manny, Ric, Ate Sarj, Ate Swelyn and myself. We rode a cab. The first team departed first. We had trouble finding a cab. When we were finally inside the cab, each one of us had our own topics to discuss. We were actually surprised that the first team was actually behind us when in fact, they departed first. We were waiting for about five minutes for a cab when we splitted into two teams and still no sign of the first team. We thought that they took another route. We concluded that a traffic jam might've occurred in the Kalayaan-EDSA U-turn slot at the end of Kalayaaan Avenue. While we were on our way to the venue, we had a nice talk with the cab's driver. Pastor's car sped past us. We followed Pastor's car as we really don't know where the venue is, except for the fact that it is in Eastwood.

We were discussing how "malikot", a driver, our Pastor is. Pastor jeff loves to overtake. He keeps on shifting lanes whenever possible. Overtaking would be a summarizing term. Our cab driver even remarked that he was like a cab driver who loves overtaking. When we told him that the driver of the cab is a Pastor, just chuckled.

Enough of what happened before hand. When we finally arrived at the venue, we set the instruments up and we sat on the front row of the auditorium for a meeting. We had another dry run, this time, of the whole program. We went up first, hence, front act of the concert. When we finished singing "Prepare the Way", I felt so utterly stupid, when, to my dismay, I discovered to my horror that the microphone I was using, was turned off! Mixed emotions. I was laughing and hating myself at the same time. It's just good though, that I commit stupid things once in a blue moon. We had a treat after. Cheeseburger and French Fries from a well-known food chain. Clue: The 13th letter of the Alphabet. I have to walk out of the building to buy facial napkin. I walked almost a kilometer to the nearest convenience store nearby. As I walked, I admired the beautifully crafted buildings in Eastwood. "Very much like Makati," I said to myself.

On to the concert proper. We prayed before starting our front act. Pastor Lance led the prayer. Our act of worship to the Lord went smoothly. Yes, we didn't do that for the attenders of the concert because that'd be called "showing off". We did that for the Lord. It's not about them nor us, but it's all about God. That's how we do it in Christian Ministry.

I made a couple, say three mistakes during the front act. I sang the part wherein Kuya Ted, the lead singer and organizer, was the only one who was supposed to sing. I sung the wrong lyrics and I cut short what was supposed to be a 12-count "Prepare the Way...........".

There still is room for improvement.

Here is the PROGRAMME for "In Awe of a Great God" Worship Concert held yesterday, November 30, 2008 at the iCite building Auditorium, Eastwood City, Libis, Quezon City:

Program Proper

Legacy Project Video as walk-in presentation

National Anthem
Prayer

Front Act ("Prepare the Way") by SBC Makati led by Pastor Jeff Aspacio

Opening Remarks about the Concert’s theme and the beneficiary project, Legacy Project.
(Pastor Lance Gotcher)

Opening Video (Symphony of Praise) (3mins)

Speechless- Ted Amper (5mins)

Host Spiel (2min)

Fast Song by the Shekinah (5mins)

Host Spiel (2min)

Fast Song by Master’s Pedestal (5mins)

Host Spiel (2min)

You Are God Alone by Pastor Lance, Pastor James, Augie, Nyor and Ted (10mins)

Host Spiel (2min)

Indescribable- Nyor with Video (5 mins)

Host Spiel (2min)

Another Time and Another Place –Tita Glen and Oyie (5mins)

Host Spiel (2min)

I Can Only Imagine (I believe this was sung by my good friend Ashley Anclote and Kuya Ted Amper) /A Light of a Million Mornings- Alexis Edralin (10 mins)

Message: Pastor Lance (30mins)

Guitar Solos

Caught Up In Rapture -Jeffrey Ayanco (5mins)

Always with Me Always with You – Alex Tabac (5mins)

Awesome God Human Video - ACTS (10mins)

Everyone stands for congregational singing:

Ted calls ALL the performers on stage to sing:
How Great Thou Art, How great is our God, Generation of Light, God is Great – Praise Team (20 mins)
A King Is Born

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: approx two(2) hours

Program from http://botbydblud.blogspot.com , the blog of Kuya Ted


The concert was great! We were really all left IN AWE OF OUR GREAT GOD! Until next year!
God bless everyone and Merry Christmas