Easter in Cheras Baptist Church

I'm appointed to join the worship band for this Sunday in Cheras Baptist Church (CBC), so I went there on Saturday morning for practice. Thanks Wilson for picking me up at Bandar Tasik Selatan KTM station. It's actually a very challenging worship session because Lydia, a very good and capable worship leader will be leading this time (I think she's the best in CBC), as well as Bryan and Chritopher the super talented guitarist/bassist. We practiced 7 songs and among all of those I only knew 2 songs! Never in my life I played so many hymns.

Arrived CBC and preparing for practice in the morning:

It was a long day, I joined the youth to prepare for the Easter event where we are setting up stations to demonstrate what happened to Jesus and what it means of crucification and dying on the cross to the Sunday School kids (minus the violent part of coz). Then we had choir practice and dinner. I was quite worried for the next day's service, a very high possibility that I would screw the whole team up (again...). We stayed overnight at Robert's house, woke up around 6.30 a.m to prepare for Easter! Thanks so much Robert, always come Cheras also kacau you so much :P

The view from Robert's balcony when we wope up:


Haha, we messed up Robert's house again, but I'm ready for the day:

OK, I'll be handling the first station together with Bryan, Sammy and Ivy. Bryan will take the place of Jesus, and I'll be Simon Peter (one of Jesus' disciple). It was during the last supper, where Jesus humbled himself and washed the feet of all his disciples, the main thing is to tell the kids we must also humble ourselves and don't think we're better than someone (Bryan washed my feet 5 times ^_^).

Bryan as Jesus and me as Simon Peter (but I'm wearing formal inside =.=):


Bryan washing my leg, don't worry, I'm healthy:

Bryan: Come, Peter... let me wash your feet.
Me: What !? Wash my feet? No LORD! You shall never do that, I'm not worthy.
Bryan: Come, Peter (took my feet, put it into the water and wash).
Me: Oh Jesus...

We got a kid volunteer to wash his father's leg, cute lo:

Maybe because I never experience how childhood is as a christian, watching all these small kids in church somehow stirred up something inside me... Anyway, I'm fine with my life. Once we're done doing the same thing for 5 batch of kids, we walked around to have a look at the other stations.

This is the station of the Lord's trial and climbing up to Golgotha:

I found Ivan and Shan Berg's station quite interesting, the kids are given a card writen "My Sins" earlier. At this station, they have to nail the card onto the cross. This signifies that Jesus dies on the cross and our sins are washed away.

Another good one is Wilson and Joel's station, about the ressurection of Jesus on Easter. They placed a body on the table (it's actually all cloth inside), and started explaining why Jesus needed to be crucified. Then they turn off the lights when the topic proceeds to the world is filled with sin. After that, they turned on the light, and the body on the table is gone. Just like how the bible stated, the disciples couldn't see Jesus in his tomb (which means he rose from the dead). *Great job, Wilson and Joel*

Here it comes, it's Sunday service! We did OK for the worship session, but situation changed. Since there's gonna be a baptism ceremony, we are supposed to play another song =.=", and Pastor requested us to play another additional song that is very meaningful for revival of Jesus Christ. What the... 7 songs already overloaded me... and I need to play another 2 songs that I never heard before immediately! I started praying... hope that holy spirits will guide me through the situation.

Worship leader and backup singers:


The baptism candidates:

Well... I did my best, to avoid too much clashes with the team... I did "free-style". Just like what the worship tutorials in youtube said, tied your left hand, and it turned out to be very good (at least that's what I think)! Anyway, the reason I wanted to join this Sunday worship is to improve myself in worship, and I think... this is a very precious experience. Thanks Lydia for leading and Bryan for guiding~

Being another tired day, it rained heavily when we got down the bus. No point running back home, as we're already chicken soup wet. This actually reminds me of my previous post Rain Down On Me. Unlucky or whatever? Think it in a better way, it might be a sign of god's blessings over us. Praise The LORD for all that He has done for us!

Ezekiel 4:17 "Food and water will be so scarce that the people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment." Jesus baring all our sins and died on the cross, he roses from the grave and to heaven, preparing a place for us, so that we will have eternal life. I'm kinda stressed up because of my busy study life, I prayed before going to CBC, that LORD would show me the decision I made is right. Thank you LORD, for blessing me this precious experience and chance of fellowship. Also pray for all University of Nottingham students who are rushing to complete assignments and preparing for exams. May The LORD's mercy be with us, in Jesus most precious name, Amen.