Combined Service with Pastor Steve Murrell

Ok. This is kinda long overdue but then no excuses... just a teenie weenie bit swamped here in the office ever since APEC... (will post about APEC later) .

This combined service was super special because for the first time in Eaglepoint history, three Eaglepoint churches came together in one combined service!! Talking about that, let me take this opportunity to thank you if you've hosted some or any of the friends and family from Eaglepoint Penang! Thanks Thanks Thanks!

As usual, we kick start with the 1a.m. Youth Band and Kidzone for the first song! This sure got parents hyped up!

Then 1a.m. band took over leading everyone into praise worship!


Then we had Pastor Jonathan Lim from Eaglepoint Penang to collect offering translated by Jia Huey from Eaglepoint Damansara!

Pastor Shawn from Eaglepoint Damansara was the chairman but Pastor Timothy took the stage to welcome the new spiritual family members.

1a.m. Dance team did our own share of welcoming with a dance number with the song "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home". From the first moment I heard the song months earlier when I watched the movie Hannah Montana, I was already set in my head that it will be a good song to dance for the Welcome to the Family celebration. Indeed, Doreen did such an outstanding job with the choreography with dancers from Eaglepoint and Eaglepoint Damansara practicing for more than a month. They were all amazing!! So Proud Of My Team! hehehe... I know... a little hard sell...

After that, the most awaited speaker of the month, Pastor Steve Murrell, the President of Every Nation ministries, shared the word. If you do not know, Eaglepoint is not an independent church but a church that is part of Every Nation worldwide ministries with church planted at more than 50 nations. Pastor Steve and some of the other pastors were here for APEC conference and also made the time to grace our combined service.

Of course, combined service ends with satay party! Even the foreign pastors couldn't resist the smell of barbequed meat and had to have some before they head to "real lunch."

If you've been there at the combined service, you walked in, found a seat, chat with the person on the right, stood up to cheer for your kids or sang a worship song, sat down again and listened to the sermon then excitedly ran out to get satay, had your fill and drove home, let me tell you that behind the scenes, A LOT OF people chipped in to get you that experience and convenience.

More than just a half day's work for the rest of us... the band had practice after practice, the crew all came in in the middle of the night to load equipments to the hall, woke up before dawn to go setup and run rehearsal, ps steven went out real early to get breakfast buns for all the volunteers on duty, the ushers stood for so long with a smile on their faces to welcome people, the dancers had sweat after sweat of practices, the event team ran around like headless chicken early in the morning to prepare the place, the booths, ensuring satays are there for everyone...

nothing just happened... everything was effort. Next time you are at a combined service or just a service, please do remember the volunteers on duty was the effort that made your day! =)