From the backstage to the stage crew, everyone was so passionate and did their parts so that it would be a memorable night to some of us. The hall was packed with an approximate number of 400 people. It all started with our 2 MCs
Andrew &
Josephine introducing and made the opening of our event. It was then followed by a video clip that
Jonathan, our CF president, made and the crowd roared with scream and applause. It was time to praise and worship God. At first some people was not used to it but I invited them to rise up and participate. The presence of God was so filled as we were all worshiping Him.
After an awesome time in praise and worship, here it goes for the performance crew to be on stage. Andrew, the MC, introducing the performance and brief the crowd what it is all about, while the dancing, mime and drama team are getting ready at the backstage. While they were on stage, everyone was amazed by the performances especially the amazing mime glowing in the dark by the fluorescent light! A great cheer and applause was heard after the performances.
Altered Frequency
Next we had a very special band that we invited as being one of our guests.
Altered Frequency, a band that not so many people knew, but as they came on stage and did their first song, the whole crowd cheered with joy! They might not be so famous, but now they are in UCSI. The band is formed of Andy (the lead vocalist/acoustic), Kysern (guitarist), David (on the bass), and Agnel (on the drums).
Terry was invited to join them to play along. Indeed it was a great concert!
Rev. Kenneth Chin
At last, the special guest that we invited for this big event, he's young, dynamic, funny and he can rock the stage with laughter! He is no other than Rev. Kenneth Chin. The song Break Free was the background music as he walked in the stage, still introduced by Andrew. A lot of people in the hall were not very comfortable at first to see that there would be a preacher in the end, but the discomfort didn't last long. Rev. Kenneth Chin told his life story in a way that every single of us will laugh. Indeed his stories are all funny as he acted every single thing out. The greatest laughter was when he shared the story of his grandmother and himself. He then ended his story with his elder sister who would protect him every time when his grandmother would hit him with the huge wooden stick. His sister accepted to take the punishment that was upon him and get all the hits and all the pain. Although that his sister and himself hated each other, he didn't understand why she did this for him. In the end he shared that Jesus did the same for us all. He would take all our punishment that is due to us and paid the price instead.
As the rally was ending, he called out every people to rise up and stand up to give their lives to Jesus. To make their life to be written. As he invited the crowd to come in the front, he started to sing Jesus Loves Me, a song that most Christian learned in Sunday School as a kid. The presence of God filled this place again as the worship team joined all along with him singing. We kept singing it again and again. The song was just a song sang in Sunday School but this song became so powerful that we could see a lot of people coming and taking the stand to move in the front so that pastor will pray for them. With the help of the ushers and counselors, the people came to the front.
Lastly we all ended the rally with a background music played by Wei Zhong. There were people who were still coming for prayer so in the end, we didn't do our final song "I Am Free". But I believe that God did His part so the best is that we don't interrupt the work of His hands. Meanwhile there was CDs for sales from Altered Frequency and Pastor Kenneth's sermon CD. A lot of people went to take pictures with Altered Frequency and asked for their autographs.
Well to end this post, I would like to thank everyone who was involved in this rally to make it a success. I would like to thank the worship team especially, because I was part of the team, for your great effort. It's a blessing for me to work with you all although that sometimes during our practices we did have some clashes. But as a result, our fruits bear forth! Even Pastor Kenneth came to me and congratulate me and said that it's a good worship team! On his behalf, he's proud of all of you and so do I. I hope that in future we can do much greater things than this! :)
