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01 Feb 2014

The Methodist Prayer Convention Choir - Calling All Singers!

Source/Author: By Moses Teh

Greetings! .. and Blessed New Year to all!

I hope that the year 2014 is off with a great start, with bodies and minds renewed and refreshed, ready to face the year ahead in God’s service!

As you are already aware, The Methodist Churches is organizing a Methodist Prayer Convention at the end of August this year. It will be a joyous time where Christians can come together as one household of God to learn together and pray together. Details on the Prayer Convention will be available soon through the respective Conferences, and we do urge you to encourage your members to register for and attend this Convention.

The Prayer Convention will culminate in a Sunday morning worship service on 31st August at Putra Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. It will be a wonderful experience and occasion for the people of God to come to worship and celebrate together. With that in mind, we want to praise God and enhance the Sunday morning service by giving Him our best. I am excited to share with you that we are going to put together a 1,000+ strong choir, comprising members from all Methodist churches in both West and East Malaysia!

It may seem like a daunting task, but with God, all things are possible. We seek the assistance of yourself as Pastor, as well as your choir directors/conductors to encourage your church members to participate in this glorious event, for it will certainly be a one-of-a-kind experience to be amongst a sea of 1,000 people, singing praises to God in harmony. It is also an act of service for God, and in what better way than to worship in praise and song!

The only criteria required to join the Methodist Prayer Convention Choir is your love for praising God and the ability to carry a tune! Am sure all of us can carry a tune! All are welcome! Males and Females; Young and Old(er) members and friends. It need not matter whether the person is currently singing in a choir or not. It is our hope that many people will come to know the joy of singing in a choir, and will be led and motivated to (subsequently) join a choir group and serve the Lord in this Music ministry!

A summary of details regarding the Methodist
Prayer Convention Choir are as follows:-

• Recruitment to commence immediately and from February onwards. Churches are to advise the number of choir members that will be participating in the choir by March.
• Scores will be prepared and sent out to all churches by February.
• Each church will be responsible to train their own group of singers. Where assistance is required, kindly advise us. Practices can start immediately.
• There will be Regional rehearsals to follow up with the respective Choirs. Regional rehearsals are scheduled to begin in July. We will attempt to have conductors from the subcommittee travel to the relevant regions to have combined rehearsals with the choirs in those designated regions. Dates will be given to you in due course.
• The ‘Final Rehearsal’ will be held on the morning of the 31 August worship service.

Enclosed herewith, please find a Registration
form, that you may use to register the
Choir members.

We need this feedback from all churches.

Effective communication for this upcoming event is key. We would appreciate it if you could elect a contact person (if your church has a choir conductor/director, they would be the right people) so that we have a contact list of the relevant people from all the churches in Malaysia. Please do ask this contact person to email the choir subcommittee (Ms Irene Wong) at mpcchoir.my@gmail.com by March, so that we can continue to stay in touch.

May all praise and glory be to God as the choirs all around Malaysia make their preparations, and may we “Make A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord!”

Thank you.
In Christ and Blessings,

Moses Teh
Chairman
Methodist Prayer Convention Choir